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I've found that the standalone client from supermicro works best. It's a java client, no browser and it comes with its own JRE so no loving around with installing old lovely java versions
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Potato Alley posted:Also anyone who doesn't have a DRAC Enterprise equivalent in their server is literally a moron, I'm sorry but the $300 cost of that or whatever the equivalent iLO license is is a rounding error versus "poo poo I have to drive to the datacenter/office at 11 PM because I done hosed up" and I learned that the very first time I encountered a server that I thought had a DRAC but didn't. It's peace of mind and it's the second thing on my priority list for servers after redundant power. Look at Mr. Fancy pants over here who can get his org to actually spend money. I can't even convince my work to pay for an enterprise agreement with Microsoft. They are %100 OK with paying OEM prices and and paying some helpdesk guy to deal with the headache. And no they have never been audited yet....
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Got passed up for the QA position. God damnit.
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pixaal posted:Also most people think Geek Squad is actually good. I get comments from the distant family that tell me I should apply for Geek Squad, they make so much! Yes they might charge you $200/hr but that guy isn't making that. It's seriously treated like the gold standard by a good number of non technical people. lol, these same people are shocked when I say "If I see a resume from a geek squad employee I just shuck it in the trash." That place gives negative experience. Like you could go in as a talented sysadmin and come out as a HR person.
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pixaal posted:Also most people think Geek Squad is actually good. I get comments from the distant family that tell me I should apply for Geek Squad, they make so much! Yes they might charge you $200/hr but that guy isn't making that. It's seriously treated like the gold standard by a good number of non technical people. When I first started looking in earnest for a job in NYC, more than one person asked if I had applied to work at TekServe.
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Inspector_666 posted:When I first started looking in earnest for a job in NYC, more than one person asked if I had applied to work at TekServe. Ah yes....TekServe. I've heard many an interesting story from clients about them (and their consulting branch T2) And fun fact they did the ISIS install at my old company. I'm doing an SAN expansion tonight and some people didn't get the "log out of your machine when you leave" message. Like for fucks sake people, every goddamn time. pr0digal fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Dec 4, 2015 |
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Dec 4, 2015 23:11
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pr0digal posted:Ah yes....TekServe. I've heard many an interesting story from clients about them (and their consulting branch T2) This always ends in poo poo getting force rebooted and then people complaining MY IMPORTANT WORK THAT WAS LEFT OPEN WASNT SAVED WHERE IS IT and we go find their manager and let them explain why VASTLY IMPORTANT THINGS arent being saved.
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Inspector_666 posted:How in the hell did somebody create a 30GB QB file? Run 7 years of accounting for a growing-currently-medium voip provider. I know, because our QB server has been screaming, putting in disk space tickets this whole week. Thankfully, 1) It's not my department's problem. 2) I'm on vacation. (Thank god for foodler password resets or I wouldn't have even logged into my corporate email at all!) 3) gently caress Quickbooks.
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Dec 5, 2015 01:10
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uPen posted:Sony's out of warranty repair vendor is Geek Squad, what the gently caress? Well swung on down to the Best Buy to get a quote on having them/Sony/whoever it is I'm dealing with replace the hard drive in this stupid all-in-one so I don't have to spend all my life disassembling it. Apparently Sony needs to give the Geek Squad written permission for each computer they repair on a case by case basis whether it's under warranty or not. I called Sony and asked and they said yes that's correct and it will take a week to get it to me. There was no mention of this from Sony during the initial call when they said gently caress you call best buy. I'm so glad this is the only Vaio any of our clients has.
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Welp, this is the last time I agree to upgrading an aluminum-unibody iMac to an SSD when they also want to keep their BootCamp partition. This office is too loving dusty; there's no way I'll be able to make sure the inside of the glass is clean enough. [edit] I took out the HDD, hooked it up to my own computer alongside the SSD, booted into Clonezilla and did a straight-up disk-to-disk clone. I (finally) figured out the correct orientation of the mounting bracket, then put everything back together. It booted into OS X no problem, and I checked Disk Utility and saw both partitions. However, holding down the Option key on startup only shows "Macintosh" and "Recovery", no Windows. I mean, if all else fails I can now image the BootCamp side using WinClone or whatever and restore it, but is there any easier way that anybody here can think of? Maybe something to do with the UUID? I've still got the original HDD that's otherwise untouched, for what it's worth, and here's a screenshot as well: 
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Dec 5, 2015 01:51
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Use the Disk Utility to clone it
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uPen posted:Well swung on down to the Best Buy to get a quote on having them/Sony/whoever it is I'm dealing with replace the hard drive in this stupid all-in-one so I don't have to spend all my life disassembling it. Apparently Sony needs to give the Geek Squad written permission for each computer they repair on a case by case basis whether it's under warranty or not. I called Sony and asked and they said yes that's correct and it will take a week to get it to me. There was no mention of this from Sony during the initial call when they said gently caress you call best buy. I'm so glad this is the only Vaio any of our clients has. See, that's the point at which I'd throw it in a dumpster and replace it, since that'd be faster. This got posted in gbs but it's the kind of story this thread should love: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/04/sysadmins_100000_revenge_after_sudden_sacking/ quote:This week, reader "James" has shared a story “from my days as a Sysadmin, at the dawn of the broadband area, when I worked for a very well known company supplying fantasy wargaming products.”
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Put the old hard disk in an enclosure, boot to the recovery partition, open Disk Utility, and copy the old drive to the new one. Basically any time you touch a Mac you are unfamiliar with, you should image the drive with Disk Image, since doing that makes it bootable.
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Check out DeployStudio to take images of each part of the drive and push them back down to the new one. It is what I used when Imaging our Macs. You can even restore each part seperately. It'll even run on a mac server and supports network booting to it. I just ran it off OSX installed on a usb stick.
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larchesdanrew posted:I'll never escape my legacy. Speaking of - any more crazy news from your insider at the old place? Has the station gone off air at random, or burned to the ground yet?
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pixaal posted:Also most people think Geek Squad is actually good. I get comments from the distant family that tell me I should apply for Geek Squad, they make so much! Yes they might charge you $200/hr but that guy isn't making that. It's seriously treated like the gold standard by a good number of non technical people. The terribleness that is consumer level computer service providers has almost convinced me to try and start up a non-profit organization to do computer repair work at cost. It's pretty absurd what gets charged for swapping a laptop screen or transferring files from one PC to another. RFC2324 posted:FTFY   "A ticket came in: servers literally down."
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Mo_Steel posted:The terribleness that is consumer level computer service providers has almost convinced me to try and start up a non-profit organization to do computer repair work at cost. It's pretty absurd what gets charged for swapping a laptop screen or transferring files from one PC to another. People would still think GS was better because it's more expensive.
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Do they still drive around those goofy little Beetles?
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Do they still drive around those goofy little Beetles? Yes, I saw one at my neighbor's place the week before thanksgiving.
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Do they still drive around those goofy little Beetles? They got normal panel vans around me, I haven't seen one of those beetles in a long time
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Mo_Steel posted:The terribleness that is consumer level computer service providers has almost convinced me to try and start up a non-profit organization to do computer repair work at cost. It's pretty absurd what gets charged for swapping a laptop screen or transferring files from one PC to another. My local shop is cheaper than most alternatives but we still have to charge for labor and stuff. There's just not a whole lot of money in it, and it's hard competing against Geek Squad.
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Fun fact, Geek Squad does Best Buy's corporate IT. I did some consulting work with them about a year ago, they've got a very visible presence at their offices. Got a problem with your laptop? Call Geek Squad's extension!
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Javid posted:
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MrMojok posted:I've read this several times now and I cannot stop
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How common is it for employers to enact a white list VPN? drat thing seriously sucks right now, most vendor sights won't load, or they have <vendor>.<support>.com which links to <vendor>.<not on your white list so gently caress off>.com. This also sucks because of how Chrome's address bar will often use a google search so even typing in the exact address as it is on the white list still fucks up most of the time and I have to resort to 10,000 bookmarks to do my job. Is it like this everywhere or does my company just hate employees?
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spankmeister posted:Dude, supermicro's IPMI is terrible, like completely awful. Seriously? Because this spankmeister posted:I've found that the standalone client from supermicro works best. It's a java client, no browser and it comes with its own JRE so no loving around with installing old lovely java versions coupled with this make it awesome
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Make sure you have no sharp objects nearby and aren't generally predisposed to self-harm if you try to run that on a Mac.
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luminalflux posted:Make sure you have no sharp objects nearby and aren't generally predisposed to self-harm if you try to run that on a Mac. If you try to do anything sys-admin-y on a Mac, be prepared to budget additional 'I-hate-this-poo poo-and-I-want-to-forgot' bottles, on an as needed or weekly basis. Half the poo poo barely runs as is on windows, special snowflake management tools on something that sees maybe 1/5th the development time? Ahahaha. No thanks.
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Crotch Fruit posted:How common is it for employers to enact a white list VPN? Many years ago I used to sometimes work at a client who were (by a long way) the largest DSL provider in the country, and the internet in their HQ only worked with whitelisted sites - and almost none of the links on their internal portal were whitelisted. Nor were any technical sites, so if you ever needed to google a problem you had to pull out your phone and go outside for a few minutes (the building was lead lined or something, poor network reachability on all 3 of the main mobile phone networks)
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Crotch Fruit posted:How common is it for employers to enact a white list VPN? drat thing seriously sucks right now, most vendor sights won't load, or they have <vendor>.<support>.com which links to <vendor>.<not on your white list so gently caress off>.com. This also sucks because of how Chrome's address bar will often use a google search so even typing in the exact address as it is on the white list still fucks up most of the time and I have to resort to 10,000 bookmarks to do my job. Is it like this everywhere or does my company just hate employees?
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Agrikk posted:Seriously? Because this No it made it slightly better but I stll had issues with losing connection, slow connections, attaching iso not working etc. And no it wasn't due to network issues. And the bmc on the servers themselves needed to be reset too a lot of the time because they'd simply stop working and often times in combination with kernel panicked servers so that meant logging into the PDU and power cycling the machine. No, I have no love for supermicro's ipmi
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Crotch Fruit posted:This also sucks because of how Chrome's address bar will often use a google search so even typing in the exact address as it is on the white list still fucks up most of the time and I have to resort to 10,000 bookmarks to do my job. If you put a trailing forward slash ( / ) behind a url it doesn't do that.
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Javid posted:See, that's the point at which I'd throw it in a dumpster and replace it, since that'd be faster. Mo_Steel posted:The terribleness that is consumer level computer service providers has almost convinced me to try and start up a non-profit organization to do computer repair work at cost. It's pretty absurd what gets charged for swapping a laptop screen or transferring files from one PC to another. I'm guessing to land in that position they literally fell out of the ceiling?
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It looks like some cheap or poorly-installed raised flooring collapsed under it.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:If you try to do anything sys-admin-y on a Mac, be prepared to budget additional 'I-hate-this-poo poo-and-I-want-to-forgot' bottles, on an as needed or weekly basis. Half the poo poo barely runs as is on windows, special snowflake management tools on something that sees maybe 1/5th the development time? Ahahaha. No thanks. This hasn't been my experience on the operations side. The only thing I've used the Windows VM I keep hanging around for is NetApp configuration, and that's because I didn't bother trying it on OSX. DRACs, NFS, Cisco ASDM, MySQL Workbench, SQLDeveloper, puppet, it all works. (Well, SQLDeveloper is hot dogshit, but it's platform-agnostic hot dogshit.) Granted, there may be selection bias, because one of the things that goes into a purchasing decision here is "can a Mac user do things with it?" and I don't administer Windows servers.
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Mo_Steel posted:The terribleness that is consumer level computer service providers has almost convinced me to try and start up a non-profit organization to do computer repair work at cost. It's pretty absurd what gets charged for swapping a laptop screen or transferring files from one PC to another.  HOW?
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:If you try to do anything sys-admin-y on a Mac, be prepared to budget additional 'I-hate-this-poo poo-and-I-want-to-forgot' bottles, on an as needed or weekly basis. Half the poo poo barely runs as is on windows, special snowflake management tools on something that sees maybe 1/5th the development time? Ahahaha. No thanks. Like, 99% of my tools work great on Mac for sysadmining a large Linux setup (4k+ servers). It's just this one that was terrible. Coincidentally it was needed at a time when we had reimaged all our Macs and needed IPMIView (instead of the normal IPMI tools) so nobody actually had remembered which rubber chickens were needed to sacrifice to get that working.
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