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Cthulhuite
Mar 22, 2007

Shwmae!
I worked at a place that had this crazy custom fire alarm system I had to set up, it was on a mobile network just in case power/lines were out and would send a text and call up a list of people with a pre-recorded message stating there's a fire. I was the one that recorded the message.

It's disconcerting to wake up at 3am to a phone call from the office, where you can hear your own voice telling you there's a fire. :psyduck:

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eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Cthulhuite posted:

I worked at a place that had this crazy custom fire alarm system I had to set up, it was on a mobile network just in case power/lines were out and would send a text and call up a list of people with a pre-recorded message stating there's a fire. I was the one that recorded the message.

It's disconcerting to wake up at 3am to a phone call from the office, where you can hear your own voice telling you there's a fire. :psyduck:

stay safe Cthulhu ghost

MF_James
May 8, 2008
I CANNOT HANDLE BEING CALLED OUT ON MY DUMBASS OPINIONS ABOUT ANTI-VIRUS AND SECURITY. I REALLY LIKE TO THINK THAT I KNOW THINGS HERE

INSTEAD I AM GOING TO WHINE ABOUT IT IN OTHER THREADS SO MY OPINION CAN FEEL VALIDATED IN AN ECHO CHAMBER I LIKE

Cthulhuite posted:

I worked at a place that had this crazy custom fire alarm system I had to set up, it was on a mobile network just in case power/lines were out and would send a text and call up a list of people with a pre-recorded message stating there's a fire. I was the one that recorded the message.

It's disconcerting to wake up at 3am to a phone call from the office, where you can hear your own voice telling you there's a fire. :psyduck:

So, did you scream fire like a scared little girl, or did you calmly, almost like a robot, state "there is a fire at cthulhuite LLC"

Hughmoris
Apr 21, 2007
Let's go to the abyss!

Cthulhuite posted:

It's disconcerting to wake up at 3am to a phone call from the office, where you can hear your own voice telling you there's a fire. :psyduck:

Is that you, Cthulhuite? Is this me?

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


MF_James posted:

So, did you scream fire like a scared little girl, or did you calmly, almost like a robot, state "there is a fire at cthulhuite LLC"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3H8A5CgHZE

Cthulhuite
Mar 22, 2007

Shwmae!

MF_James posted:

So, did you scream fire like a scared little girl, or did you calmly, almost like a robot, state "there is a fire at cthulhuite LLC"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uesx85EHRTo

Daylen Drazzi
Mar 10, 2007

Why do I root for Notre Dame? Because I like pain, and disappointment, and anguish. Notre Dame Football has destroyed more dreams than the Irish Potato Famine, and that is the kind of suffering I can get behind.
I forgot that this morning the new commander from our parent unit was going to be paying us a visit to do a meet-and-greet. The VP of my company also came to say hi. The PM took one look at me, looked at the piece of paper in my hand, and just face-desked after saying "poo poo". He accepted my resignation with reluctance, but warned me to not be surprised if the VP came around and slapped me in the back of the head. She didn't, so I will be officially saying goodbye to everyone Friday after next, and two weeks from now stumbling into my new position on the other side of the base.

Should be fun.

Docjowles
Apr 9, 2009

SaltLick posted:

Oh nvm it was just some remodeling dust and that got 8 firetrucks to come lol

lol

When I worked for a WISP in Colorado, one of our head ends was actually inside a hospital since they had some of the best power and fiber connectivity in the region. Got some weird high temp alerts one day so I drove over to the site to check it out.

Building maintenance had sawed a loving gigantic hole in the roof directly over our gear for ~reasons~ but didn't bother to tell us or anything. There was dust and crap all over everything (what hadn't already been sucked inside of device fans), but the biggest issue was said gaping hole. If it had rained, we'd have lost 6 figures worth of gear and knocked thousands of users offline.

Got a tarp over the hole. closeenough.gif

Vulture Culture
Jul 14, 2003

I was never enjoying it. I only eat it for the nutrients.

SaltLick posted:

Oh nvm it was just some remodeling dust and that got 8 firetrucks to come lol
Don't forget to bill building maintenance for the FM200 recharge!

Sepist
Dec 26, 2005

FUCK BITCHES, ROUTE PACKETS

Gravy Boat 2k
Cleaning up the mess previous engineer at this VAR left behind - configuring ISE for a client, previous engineer wrote up an as built for the client and said "all you need to do is enable the interfaces for ISE it's already been tested". Probably the furthest thing from true. Half configured, no testing, even told the client some things just "won't work for some reason" like EAP-TLS :wtf:

Cant wait until I'm not playing cleanup with these junk installations. The networking side was such a chop shop, I don't know how they do so well in revenue.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Sepist posted:

Cant wait until I'm not playing cleanup with these junk installations.

:allears:

Sepist
Dec 26, 2005

FUCK BITCHES, ROUTE PACKETS

Gravy Boat 2k
Just let me wear my rose tinted glasses for a few hours :(

Smoke
Mar 12, 2005

I am NOT a red Bumblebee for god's sake!

Gun Saliva

Cthulhuite posted:

I worked at a place that had this crazy custom fire alarm system I had to set up, it was on a mobile network just in case power/lines were out and would send a text and call up a list of people with a pre-recorded message stating there's a fire. I was the one that recorded the message.

It's disconcerting to wake up at 3am to a phone call from the office, where you can hear your own voice telling you there's a fire. :psyduck:

Many years ago, a (now former, for other E/N reasons) friend of mine decided it would be a great idea to rent a small internet cafe/phonehouse and try to make money off of it. He asked me to wire up the consumer-level alarm system(complete with outside loud siren/strobe and everything) and configure it completely, including programming an outbound call to his and my numbers with a prerecorded message in case the alarm went off. Set it up, wired it with cat5 and some documentation. Things went south after about a month, and he cut his losses and ran(it wasn't really profitable in any way) The alarm system was still in place though, and apparently disabled.

Quite a few months later while I was working an internship I came back to my phone with a bunch of missed calls and voicemails, all containing a recording of my own voice informing me the alarm had been set off. They probably cut the wires for the sensors, siren and everything, but the calls still came through for some time after that, and it was weird hearing my own voice informing me about an alarm at a location I hadn't been in months.

Said friend still had the occasional badly-researched business plan("We'll start a security company!" "We'll start our own VoIP operator service!") after that every once in a while, looking solely at profits rather than operational costs. No idea if he's still at it these days.

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost
Someone keeps referring to telnet as telanet.

They won't stop.

Vulture Culture
Jul 14, 2003

I was never enjoying it. I only eat it for the nutrients.

Methanar posted:

Someone keeps referring to telnet as telanet.

They won't stop.
Pokeman Go

e: it took two years of solid, concerted effort to make my wife's uncle stop saying "wee-fi"

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Methanar posted:

Someone keeps referring to telnet as telanet.

They won't stop.

Well the real problem here is someone still needing to use telnet...

MC Fruit Stripe
Nov 26, 2002

around and around we go
Still my go to if I need to check if a port is open, a thank ya very much

ptier
Jul 2, 2007

Back off man, I'm a scientist.
Pillbug

MC Fruit Stripe posted:

Still my go to if I need to check if a port is open, a thank ya very much

Vulture Culture
Jul 14, 2003

I was never enjoying it. I only eat it for the nutrients.
Use netcat, jabronis

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




Telnet is built into Windows, netcat is not

MF_James
May 8, 2008
I CANNOT HANDLE BEING CALLED OUT ON MY DUMBASS OPINIONS ABOUT ANTI-VIRUS AND SECURITY. I REALLY LIKE TO THINK THAT I KNOW THINGS HERE

INSTEAD I AM GOING TO WHINE ABOUT IT IN OTHER THREADS SO MY OPINION CAN FEEL VALIDATED IN AN ECHO CHAMBER I LIKE

CLAM DOWN posted:

Telnet is built into Windows, netcat is not

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost
We use telnet to access our AS400.

This doesn't make it better

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


CLAM DOWN posted:

Telnet is built into Windows, netcat is not

Telnet hasn't been installed by default in Windows since XP.

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.

Methanar posted:

We use telnet to access our AS400.

This doesn't make it better

Not the 5250 client access?

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




The Fool posted:

Telnet hasn't been installed by default in Windows since XP.

I didn't say it was installed by default, I said it was built-in to Windows :confused:

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost

GreenNight posted:

Not the 5250 client access?

We use the access client for workstations but some of our embedded stuff needs to go through telanet.

madmatt112
Jul 11, 2016

Is that a cat in your pants, or are you just a lonely excuse for an adult?

Methanar posted:

Someone keeps referring to telnet as telanet.

They won't stop.

Dude, telnet sucks. Say it with me.

Also what are they telnetting into?
poo poo, this is why you read to the end of the page before posting.

mayodreams
Jul 4, 2003


Hello darkness,
my old friend
A had a coworker that could go and set a "TICK IP" address on a computer, which was his way of saying TCP/IP.

He would also get a DHCP lease and then take that IP and manually set it on that computer. Frustrated the poo poo of out me until i got him to understand that DHCP doesn't know if he takes an address out of the pool if he does that and that causes conflicts.

Sepist
Dec 26, 2005

FUCK BITCHES, ROUTE PACKETS

Gravy Boat 2k
My coworker calls Wireless Controllers "Willsies" (WLC), drives me mad.

Arsten
Feb 18, 2003

An older lady I used to work with at a school system in an elementary library called TCP/IP "Cutsey Patootsie".


The first time I dealt with her, the conversation was:
:v: "Hey, I think we don't have our cutesy patootsies configured. Can you come down here and set it?"
:confused: "Your.....what?"
:v: "Cutsey patootsies!"

After several goings around trying to figure out wtf she was asking, I went down to the school and finally ended up seting the DHCP checkbox on her TCPIP properties. 90 minutes for a 2 minute fix!

Mr. Fix It
Oct 26, 2000

💀ayyy💀


Motion to pronounce DHCP "dickchop"

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
People here always say "wack wack" for a \\company.com address, as in "wack wack company dot com"

I don't care for that at all

Sepist
Dec 26, 2005

FUCK BITCHES, ROUTE PACKETS

Gravy Boat 2k
That's only acceptable if you work for pornhub

Male Man
Aug 16, 2008

Im, too sexy for your teatime
Too sexy for your teatime
That tea that you're just driiinkiing
They also pronounce * as "splat".

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof

Male Man posted:

They also pronounce * as "splat".

I thought that was butthole (or starfish)


Whole else here calls ! "bang"

SeaborneClink
Aug 27, 2010

MAWP... MAWP!

ElGroucho posted:

People here always say "wack wack" for a \\company.com address, as in "wack wack company dot com"

I don't care for that at all

we must work together :smith:

jaegerx
Sep 10, 2012

Maybe this post will get me on your ignore list!


I telnet into http and mail servers. Why wouldn't you use telnet for that?

Tigren
Oct 3, 2003

ElGroucho posted:

People here always say "wack wack" for a \\company.com address, as in "wack wack company dot com"

I don't care for that at all

wack wack is just as bad as tack tack as in 'dig tack x ip address' instead of "dig -x"

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Mr. Fix It posted:

Motion to pronounce DHCP "dickchop"

Can we also change VLSM to VSLM because vee-slam is a way cooler name.

ElGroucho posted:

People here always say "wack wack" for a \\company.com address, as in "wack wack company dot com"

I don't care for that at all

I used to work with a guy who did that, where does it come from?

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MF_James
May 8, 2008
I CANNOT HANDLE BEING CALLED OUT ON MY DUMBASS OPINIONS ABOUT ANTI-VIRUS AND SECURITY. I REALLY LIKE TO THINK THAT I KNOW THINGS HERE

INSTEAD I AM GOING TO WHINE ABOUT IT IN OTHER THREADS SO MY OPINION CAN FEEL VALIDATED IN AN ECHO CHAMBER I LIKE

ElGroucho posted:

People here always say "wack wack" for a \\company.com address, as in "wack wack company dot com"

I don't care for that at all

yeah I've heard this a bit before, can't recall where, but doesn't seem to be all that uncommon.

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