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pr0digal: Sep 12, 2008; Alan Rickman Overdrive

One of our clients has their video equipment on a separate network from the rest of the company. Which would be fine if they had any wireless routers hooked up to it...but they don't. I've been stealing the network cable from a spare machine to do my work but pretty soon they're not going to have any spare machines.

Time to start carrying a wireless router and a little dumb switch in my bag.

# ? Oct 20, 2015 19:35

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RyuHimora: Feb 22, 2009

pr0digal posted:

One of our clients has their video equipment on a separate network from the rest of the company. Which would be fine if they had any wireless routers hooked up to it...but they don't. I've been stealing the network cable from a spare machine to do my work but pretty soon they're not going to have any spare machines.

Time to start carrying a wireless router and a little dumb switch in my bag.

Consider an access point instead of a router. Rouge DHCP servers are a bitch. If you don't have an access point, make double-triple sure that the router you bring doesn't re-enable DHCP on a power cycle (gently caress linksys forever).

# ? Oct 20, 2015 19:50

deimos: Nov 30, 2006; Forget it man this bat is whack, it's got poobrain!

pr0digal posted:

One of our clients has their video equipment on a separate network from the rest of the company. Which would be fine if they had any wireless routers hooked up to it...but they don't. I've been stealing the network cable from a spare machine to do my work but pretty soon they're not going to have any spare machines.

Time to start carrying a wireless router and a little dumb switch in my bag.

Get a wifi bridge and set it up to pair with your laptop's ad hoc network. The one I have automatically reconnects so you'd just have plug it in (it's a Netgear WNCE3001).

I use it as a third leg of a load balanced router just in case the other 2 connections fail (flooding in the area tends to knock down poo poo), it connects to a LTE Hotspot and it's fairly stable.

deimos fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Oct 20, 2015

# ? Oct 20, 2015 19:51

pr0digal: Sep 12, 2008; Alan Rickman Overdrive

RyuHimora posted:

Consider an access point instead of a router. Rouge DHCP servers are a bitch. If you don't have an access point, make double-triple sure that the router you bring doesn't re-enable DHCP on a power cycle (gently caress linksys forever).

Pretty sure my Meraki plays nice with existing DHCP, I'm 90% sure I can put it in bridge mode and it will not interfere with anything.

pr0digal fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Oct 20, 2015

# ? Oct 20, 2015 19:55

Zorak of Michigan: Jun 10, 2006

alg posted:

Wizgonzin is a terrible frozen wasteland 6 months a year. As a former Michigoon it would be a tough sell moving there.

This is funny to me because WI is one of the few places I could easily imagine going. Milwaukee's a great town and while Madison is too small a job market for my comfort, I head good things about the quality of life there.

# ? Oct 20, 2015 20:27

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

If you have some Cisco certs, there are various Madison companies that would pay you bank.

# ? Oct 20, 2015 20:32

alg: Mar 14, 2007; A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.

Zorak of Michigan posted:

This is funny to me because WI is one of the few places I could easily imagine going. Milwaukee's a great town and while Madison is too small a job market for my comfort, I head good things about the quality of life there.

Once you live with sunshine it's a really tough sell going back to the midwest.

# ? Oct 20, 2015 20:34

pr0digal: Sep 12, 2008; Alan Rickman Overdrive

alg posted:

Once you live with sunshine it's a really tough sell going back to the midwest.

Northeast for life :c00lbert:

# ? Oct 20, 2015 20:36

SyNack Sassimov: May 4, 2006; Let the robot win.
��--Captain James T. Vader

RyuHimora posted:

Rouge DHCP servers are a bitch.

Mascara DHCP servers are a lot worse, getting IP addresses all in your eyes and poo poo.

# ? Oct 20, 2015 20:47

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Potato Alley posted:

Mascara DHCP servers are a lot worse, getting IP addresses all in your eyes and poo poo.

It's usually DNS mascara issues more than DHCP though.

# ? Oct 20, 2015 21:00

BaseballPCHiker: Jan 16, 2006

GreenNight posted:

If you have some Cisco certs, there are various Madison companies that would pay you bank.

Which certs and what companies?

# ? Oct 20, 2015 21:53

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

BaseballPCHiker posted:

Which certs and what companies?

I know for a fact that Netech, Paragon Development Systems and Core are hiring Cisco engineers. I couldn't tell you which certs since I don't work for any of those companies, but they are definitely hiring. We have a relationship with each and hear about it through our sales rep.

# ? Oct 20, 2015 22:04

vibur: Apr 23, 2004

larchesdanrew posted:

I stared at him as the elevator doors began to close. Before they totally shut, I announced, "You're an rear end in a top hat, [supervisor]."

His eyes widening was the last thing I saw.

Be sure you tell us what came of this later.

Also, if you're still there when the install starts, make sure you can't help because you don't know anything about it. After all, it doesn't concern you.

# ? Oct 20, 2015 22:20

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

vibur posted:

Be sure you tell us what came of this later.

Also, if you're still there when the install starts, make sure you can't help because you don't know anything about it. After all, it doesn't concern you.

Yes, but does he have this in writing. The supervisor could just lie and say he knew all about it and should be able to fix any issues that come up.

# ? Oct 20, 2015 22:22

BOOTY-ADE: Aug 30, 2006; BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

larchesdanrew posted:

"I'll be in a meeting for a while."
"With who?"
"The company putting in our VOIP system."
"We're getting a VOIP system?"
"Yeah."
"You think I ought to be a part of the meeting?"
"No."
"Let me guess, it doesn't concern me?"
"No, it doesn't."
"It doesn't concern me, the IT department, the guy who will be installing all these things. I have absolutely nothing to glean from these talks?"
"Pretty much."

I stared at him as the elevator doors began to close. Before they totally shut, I announced, "You're an rear end in a top hat, [supervisor]."

His eyes widening was the last thing I saw.

Did I mention that in the next month, we're apparently going to have nine employees putting in their resignations due to the attitudes of the GM and CE?

I'm the ninth

So take
Your broken wings
And learn to fly again, away from your CE...

# ? Oct 20, 2015 23:40

Agrikk: Oct 17, 2003; Take care with that! We have not fully ascertained its function, and the ticking is accelerating.

larchesdanrew posted:

I'm the ninth

I didn't even have to use my AK. I got to say it was a good day.

# ? Oct 20, 2015 23:50

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp, and it read larchesdanrew's a pimp

# ? Oct 20, 2015 23:56

BOOTY-ADE: Aug 30, 2006; BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Put in his notice and he's coastin'
SA postin', gonna watch CE and GM get roasted

# ? Oct 21, 2015 00:05

Slanderer: May 6, 2007

larchesdanrew posted:

I'm the ninth

I don't believe it

No, really, I actually do not believe you.

# ? Oct 21, 2015 00:18

KoRMaK: Jul 31, 2012

Slanderer posted:

I don't believe it

No, really, I actually do not believe you.

C'mon, let him have it. Delusional or not, it doesn't mean you get to be rude

# ? Oct 21, 2015 00:23

Proteus Jones: Feb 28, 2013

Slanderer posted:

I don't believe it

No, really, I actually do not believe you.

I'm just curious as whether CE tried to take larches out back for a talkin' to, or if he's just taking the chicken-poo poo route and pretending it didn't happen all the while plotting his passive-aggressive revenge.

And larches, by "I'm the ninth" does that mean you actually gave notice or are planning to?

# ? Oct 21, 2015 00:25

Potato Salad: Oct 23, 2014; nobody cares

Larches, I thought there was no other gig in town?

# ? Oct 21, 2015 01:07

A Frosty Witch: Apr 21, 2005; I was just looking at it and I suddenly got this urge to get inside. No, not just an urge - more than that. It was my destiny to be here; in the box.

flosofl posted:

And larches, by "I'm the ninth" does that mean you actually gave notice or are planning to?

I don't want to jinx it. But I do plan on giving my notice within the month. In the meantime, I gotta figure out a memorable way to do it. I'm thinking something with a buffalo.

# ? Oct 21, 2015 01:09

Potato Salad: Oct 23, 2014; nobody cares

larchesdanrew posted:

I don't want to jinx it. But I do plan on giving my notice within the month. In the meantime, I gotta figure out a memorable way to do it. I'm thinking something with a buffalo.

Someone with photoshop skills: make a fake advertisement for Buffalo VOIP devices.

# ? Oct 21, 2015 01:10

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

larchesdanrew posted:

I don't want to jinx it. But I do plan on giving my notice within the month. In the meantime, I gotta figure out a memorable way to do it. I'm thinking something with a buffalo.

Eh it would be better just to get a new job and stop showing up. gently caress 'em.

# ? Oct 21, 2015 01:11

A Frosty Witch: Apr 21, 2005; I was just looking at it and I suddenly got this urge to get inside. No, not just an urge - more than that. It was my destiny to be here; in the box.

Potato Salad posted:

Larches, I thought there was no other gig in town?

I seemed to have forgotten that businesses here rarely advertise openings. I spent over a week calling every business in town.

# ? Oct 21, 2015 01:12

RFC2324: Jun 7, 2012; http 418

larchesdanrew posted:

I don't want to jinx it. But I do plan on giving my notice within the month. In the meantime, I gotta figure out a memorable way to do it. I'm thinking something with a buffalo.

Put a pile of Buffalo turds in a NAS box?

# ? Oct 21, 2015 01:14

BOOTY-ADE: Aug 30, 2006; BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

RFC2324 posted:

Put a pile of Buffalo turds in a NAS box?

Fill all his ancient, decrepit basement equipment with buffalo poo poo and liberally sprinkle deer piss all over it

# ? Oct 21, 2015 01:49

Tambaloneus: Feb 5, 2007; I miss my cat someone buy me a kitten.

But the thread needs a guy on the inside to document the inevitable spectacular collapse! Or at the very least after you've gone, tell us which youtubes of News Fails to watch.

# ? Oct 21, 2015 01:58

BOOTY-ADE: Aug 30, 2006; BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Potato Salad posted:

Someone with photoshop skills: make a fake advertisement for Buffalo VOIP devices.

Ask and ye shall receive! (not my best work but hey)

# ? Oct 21, 2015 02:16

RFC2324: Jun 7, 2012; http 418

Ozz81 posted:

Ask and ye shall receive! (not my best work but hey)

I think this may be too high of quality to be believable.

# ? Oct 21, 2015 02:17

oTHi: Feb 28, 2011; This post is brought to you by Molten Boron.
Nobody doesn't like Molten Boron!.; Lipstick Apathy

It amuses me that the image implies that only one of those phones is saving data to that database. Is this par for the course for Buffalo products?

# ? Oct 21, 2015 02:31

BOOTY-ADE: Aug 30, 2006; BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

I forgot about Larches CE having the whole "recycle EVERYTHING" mentality

# ? Oct 21, 2015 02:36

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Today my old Account Manager messaged me to tell me a story about one of the problem clients from the old company and boy howdy did it remind me why I left!

oTHi posted:

It amuses me that the image implies that only one of those phones is saving data to that database. Is this par for the course for Buffalo products?

I took it to mean the phone was handling the backup for the server.

# ? Oct 21, 2015 02:37

BOOTY-ADE: Aug 30, 2006; BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Inspector_666 posted:

I took it to mean the phone was handling the backup for the server.

Dial "B" for Buffalo

# ? Oct 21, 2015 02:40

porktree: Mar 23, 2002; You just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

Ozz81 posted:

Ask and ye shall receive! (not my best work but hey)

This is spectacular.

# ? Oct 21, 2015 02:43

A Frosty Witch: Apr 21, 2005; I was just looking at it and I suddenly got this urge to get inside. No, not just an urge - more than that. It was my destiny to be here; in the box.

This thread never lets me down. I love you guys.

# ? Oct 21, 2015 02:49