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Dick Trauma posted:
Time to reinstall Flash and/or Java!
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We hired a networking/support guy for our New York office, after our old networking guy quit abruptly due to family issues. New guy isn't really working out so well. Today he had to install a new EMC shelf, which was already racked by the datacenter techs, and all he had to do was literally plug tab A into slot A, and he had someone on the phone with him to walk him through the process, and somehow he still hosed it up, so now one of the storage processors wants to be rebooted. I don't think he's going to last through his probation.
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Sep 9, 2016 00:29
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:That talk is actually related to a problem I'm having which leads to a question I have for you guys. At my work, the official communication method is an informal conversation and then not telling anyone else anything about it.
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Sep 9, 2016 01:26
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Colonial Air Force posted:At my work, the official communication method is an informal conversation and then not telling anyone else anything about it. Luxury! We dream of an informal conversation.
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Sep 9, 2016 07:53
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Our official communication is not saying anything and just expecting other people to know what you want.
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Sep 9, 2016 08:44
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Now you want me to also communicate at work? Jesus Christ gently caress you guys with all your requirements!
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Sep 9, 2016 08:53
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This is affecting production!  wait gently caress this IS affecting production!
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Sep 9, 2016 13:52
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anthonypants posted:We hired a networking/support guy for our New York office, after our old networking guy quit abruptly due to family issues. New guy isn't really working out so well. Today he had to install a new EMC shelf, which was already racked by the datacenter techs, and all he had to do was literally plug tab A into slot A, and he had someone on the phone with him to walk him through the process, and somehow he still hosed it up, so now one of the storage processors wants to be rebooted. I don't think he's going to last through his probation. "I'm a network guy, not a storage guy!" (Yes, I've dealt with this attitude. He was quickly an unemployed guy.)
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Sep 9, 2016 13:56
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Lord Dudeguy posted:"I'm a network guy, not a storage guy!"
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Sep 9, 2016 16:38
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Confidence is a great tool..in the right hands
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Sep 9, 2016 16:57
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anthonypants posted:Unfortunately, he's confident he can deal with these sort of things but he's shown repeatedly that we should not trust him. Dunning Kruger strikes again.
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Sep 9, 2016 17:57
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Sepist posted:Confidence is a great tool..in the right hands I once had a boss ask me which was worse: a lazy smart person, or a hardworking, dedicated moron. Most people get it wrong on the first guess.
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Sep 9, 2016 18:22
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Lazy smart people make the best automation tools
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Sep 9, 2016 18:24
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I know I've automated several things to take 10% of the normal time because I don't want to spend two-3 hours on a repetitive task.
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Sep 9, 2016 18:26
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I asked my boss a simple Yes/No question. "Do you want me to come in early tomorrow to complete %URGENTtask% before %meeting% because my work start time is the same meeting. He responded that I can, I should not have to, then went on some half hour diatribe about how I need to collaborate better, and focus, and communicate better. Communicate better? Motherfucker, I just asked you a simple yes or no question and you took a half answer to give me a non-answer.
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Sep 9, 2016 18:31
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Sounds like your boss didn't want a question at all, but rather an answer of "hey boss I'll be in early tomorrow to do $urgent_task before $meeting."
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Sep 9, 2016 18:37
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I asked my boss a simple Yes/No question. "Do you want me to come in early tomorrow to complete %URGENTtask% before %meeting% because my work start time is the same meeting.
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Sep 9, 2016 18:38
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Sepist posted:Lazy smart people make the best automation tools
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Sep 9, 2016 18:39
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Sounds like your boss didn't want a question at all, but rather an answer of "hey boss I'll be in early tomorrow to do $urgent_task before $meeting." I did, and got a face full of poo poo for coming in early.
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Sep 9, 2016 18:43
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Dell shipped us the new OptiPlex 3040s with Windows 10 on them and I can't get Windows 7 to install on them. The Win7 installer doesn't see the drive because it needs drivers installed but the ones provided by Dell do not work (the installer errors out after you select the driver). I moved the drive to a different chassis, got Win7 installed and bootable on the drive, moved it back to the OptiPlex 3040, and it doesn't see the drive at all. I've asked our Dell rep about this and she hasn't gotten back to me, but Windows 10 on these machines is completely worthless to us. I loving hate wrestling with this kind of poo poo.
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Sep 9, 2016 20:02
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scuz posted:Dell shipped us the new OptiPlex 3040s with Windows 10 on them and I can't get Windows 7 to install on them. The Win7 installer doesn't see the drive because it needs drivers installed but the ones provided by Dell do not work (the installer errors out after you select the driver). I moved the drive to a different chassis, got Win7 installed and bootable on the drive, moved it back to the OptiPlex 3040, and it doesn't see the drive at all. I've asked our Dell rep about this and she hasn't gotten back to me, but Windows 10 on these machines is completely worthless to us. I loving hate wrestling with this kind of poo poo.
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Sep 9, 2016 20:26
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anthonypants posted:Change it in the BIOS from like RAID to AHCI or something? Turn off secure boot? SATA operating mode has two options: disabled or AHCI, neither of which work, secure boot is off. I'm on the phone with Dell and they dunno what's going on either. gently caress.
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Sep 9, 2016 20:45
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I did, and got a face full of poo poo for coming in early. Sounding like they're doing everything to say "we want you to be a clock-puncher, initiative and ownership are not welcome here" without just coming right out and saying it.
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Sep 9, 2016 20:53
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Che Delilas posted:Sounding like they're doing everything to say "we want you to be a clock-puncher, initiative and ownership are not welcome here" without just coming right out and saying it. Dude are you spying on me? I literally just talked to him about this and his exact words were "we don't want you to just come in, and punch the clock..." Everything is mixed signals. "I need this done ASAP. But don't do it right now. Day is over? I want you to finish this before you come in tomorrow, but don't stay late, or come in early, or work on it at home." GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Sep 9, 2016 |
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Sep 9, 2016 21:01
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scuz posted:SATA operating mode has two options: disabled or AHCI, neither of which work, secure boot is off. I'm on the phone with Dell and they dunno what's going on either. gently caress. We were having the same problem when I started here, I'm not sure how they fixed it. We even requested Windows 7. I know it sounds conspiracy-ey, but I think Microsoft might be encouraging manufacturers to "accidentally" send out Windows 10 machines regardless of what is ordered.
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Sep 9, 2016 21:09
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scuz posted:Dell shipped us the new OptiPlex 3040s with Windows 10 on them and I can't get Windows 7 to install on them. The Win7 installer doesn't see the drive because it needs drivers installed but the ones provided by Dell do not work (the installer errors out after you select the driver). I moved the drive to a different chassis, got Win7 installed and bootable on the drive, moved it back to the OptiPlex 3040, and it doesn't see the drive at all. I've asked our Dell rep about this and she hasn't gotten back to me, but Windows 10 on these machines is completely worthless to us. I loving hate wrestling with this kind of poo poo. I've never setup a 3040, but this is what I did in the BIOS Setup to get Win7 to install on newer Dell machines: Go to Secure Boot and set it to disabled, Then General > Advanced Boot Options and check "Enable Legacy Option ROMs", Save and reboot, enter Bios Setup again and change the Boot Sequence from UEFI to Legacy. That works for the OptiPlex 7040 and 9020, as well as the new Latitudes.
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Sep 9, 2016 21:25
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Thanks for the tips, but I tried all that already. I tried it again during a 45 minute support call with Dell talking with a lady who muttered "what's 'integrated NIC?'" She couldn't solve it, I've stopped trying, so they're sending out a dude with a new motherboard! If it works, they get to do it NINE MORE TIMES! 
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Sep 9, 2016 21:39
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Ouch. That makes me happy that we decided to move to Windows 10 starting this semester. Any new machines that do not absolutely need 7 go to 10, and I spent the summer upgrading a bunch of labs. My boss doesn't want a repeat of XP, which we still haven't completely gotten rid of. We only have a few XP machines left, and they're kinda useless because they can no longer connect to SMB or Exchange. Those people just don't want to give them up, and have enough political clout to override IT policies. The worst part? They only use those PCs to run the VMware horizon view client, which connects them to a Windows 7 VM. But even that's going to stop working for them with the next VMware Horizon update...
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scuz posted:Dell shipped us the new OptiPlex 3040s with Windows 10 on them and I can't get Windows 7 to install on them. The Win7 installer doesn't see the drive because it needs drivers installed but the ones provided by Dell do not work (the installer errors out after you select the driver). I moved the drive to a different chassis, got Win7 installed and bootable on the drive, moved it back to the OptiPlex 3040, and it doesn't see the drive at all. I've asked our Dell rep about this and she hasn't gotten back to me, but Windows 10 on these machines is completely worthless to us. I loving hate wrestling with this kind of poo poo. We did a lab or two full of 5040's earlier this year with Win7: - Grab NTLite, a stock W7 ISO, Dell's WinPE .CAB, and the W7 driver .CAB from Dell's site for the 3040. - Extract ISO (ideally to an SSD) and the two .CAB's all to individual folders. - Load extracted ISO folder in NTLite. - Load the W7 boot setup .WIM and slipstream the Dell WinPE drivers. - Load the main W7 .WIM and slipstream the Dell 3040 drivers. - Create new ISO. - Throw on USB drive with your choice of ISO install burner, I recommend Rufus. Install with that drive and let driver catalog magic happen. Do NOT under any circumstance run any of the Intel USB 3 installers manually, they will brick your USB ports until you reinstall. If you still have issues PM me and I can throw up a pre-slipstreamed ISO somewhere.
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Sepist posted:Lazy smart people make the best automation tools
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Everything is mixed signals. "I need this done ASAP. But don't do it right now. Day is over? I want you to finish this before you come in tomorrow, but don't stay late, or come in early, or work on it at home." This is the kind of garbage that makes me completely disengage, because nothing I do will be right. Everything turns into, "how can I solve this problem in a way that will look the best on my resume/help move my career in a direction I want to go?" while I look for a new job. Takes twice as long to do a task but you learn something you want to learn? gently caress urgency, gently caress downtime, gently caress customer complaints. I'm going to get bitched at anyway so I might as well get something out of it.
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You may be better off asking in https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2430375 - it's not limited to just Cisco chat.
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Chickenwalker posted:Can anyone recommend a good core switch and router combo that's not some insane chassis deal that's going to cost 8 billion dollars? I've been getting by for about a year and a half with Ubiquiti gear. Their "Pro" router has served me well in terms of being able to easily configure some more complex networking setups. Today our "core" switch (which is really just their biggest managed POE switch) crapped the bed and decided it didn't recognize 24 of its 48 ports. I managed to get the son of a bitch back up and working again, but I'm starting to sweat here considering how bad their support is and the general crapiness of their build quality.
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adorai posted:Do you have a budget? He's using Ubiquiti gear. He obviously has a budget in the low 4 figures while somehow still expecting that the equipment runs at line rate. Which makes sense, because Ubiquiti gear actually does run near line rate.
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psydude posted:He's using Ubiquiti gear. He obviously has a budget in the low 4 figures while somehow still expecting that the equipment runs at line rate. Which makes sense, because Ubiquiti gear actually does run near line rate. *edgerouters for branch security appliances, instead of ASAs, Unifi for client wireless, nanostations for ptp links. edit: I mean, my core switches are a pair of nexus 5548UP switches and I use VyOS for my core routing. I am definitely frugal. adorai fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Sep 11, 2016 |
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Sep 11, 2016 04:59
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Ubiquiti gear is amazing and better than drat near every other enterprise networking gear.
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ratbert90 posted:Ubiquiti gear is amazing and better than drat near every other enterprise networking gear.
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scuz posted:Dell shipped us the new OptiPlex 3040s with Windows 10 on them and I can't get Windows 7 to install on them. The Win7 installer doesn't see the drive because it needs drivers installed but the ones provided by Dell do not work (the installer errors out after you select the driver). I moved the drive to a different chassis, got Win7 installed and bootable on the drive, moved it back to the OptiPlex 3040, and it doesn't see the drive at all. I've asked our Dell rep about this and she hasn't gotten back to me, but Windows 10 on these machines is completely worthless to us. I loving hate wrestling with this kind of poo poo. If it has the new Skylake chipset you're in for a lot of hacky workarounds. Skylake shuts down USB 2.0 ports to prevent you from installing Windows 7, basically. Plus the disks don't tend to come with 3.0 drivers.
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adorai posted:It is amazing and it does beat out some enterprise kit, but the support is limited. Running Ubiquiti and Mikrotik kit requires you to take some of the many thousands that you saved over purchasing something else and have at least one spare sitting around ready to go, and requires a time investment to fully test new software releases to ensure that they haven't horribly broken a feature that you rely on without mentioning it in the release notes. You will likely still come out ahead, and I'd argue that running less well supported gear with a team of people who know it intimately, vs. running 'best practises' Cisco equipment with a team of people who cost you less because they only know how open TAC cases is a better position to get yourself into.
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