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15 years, 0 certs, 0 degrees. Started at my current company right out of high school basically and still here. Don't see why I couldn't retire here too.
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Sure I'll toss my hat in. 6 years, 1 cert, 1.75 degrees (bachelor of applied information systems technologies, 3 years comp sci)
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We're on page 999 of this thread. By rights, we should now discover that the page number counter only has 3 digits on it and a few more posts will crash the forums. It would be appropriate.
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Oct 5, 2016 20:25
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spog posted:We're on page 999 of this thread. Base 0, it's page 1000. 
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spog posted:We're on page 999 of this thread. And on the third day radium spoke and said "thou shalt not have more than 999 pages in a single thread" and thus was established one of his holy laws of the forums. Praise be to radium, forever may his databases leak.
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larchesdanrew posted:16/f/FL Ah, an FBI agent.
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pr0digal posted:And on the third day radium spoke and said "thou shalt not have more than 999 pages in a single thread" and thus was established one of his holy laws of the forums. Simple fix re: Re: RE: fwd: u gotta see this it thrred!!!
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spog posted:We're on page 999 of this thread. Last thread was over 1000 pages, so worries. I'm worried about post 2147483647 which will be on page 42949672.94
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Oct 5, 2016 20:42
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How long was the last one? Around 1200 pages?
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I love when planned downtime at a client has been on the books for weeks with a hard start time and then the client decides at the last minute to push it back. Not like the commuter rail stops running at a certain point or anything. I hope I won't have to get a hotel in the city 
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Oct 5, 2016 21:06
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pr0digal posted:I love when planned downtime at a client has been on the books for weeks with a hard start time and then the client decides at the last minute to push it back. They just put out the reminder notice and someone high up went HOLY poo poo THAT'S TODAY?! I'm running important report!
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pixaal posted:They just put out the reminder notice and someone high up went HOLY poo poo THAT'S TODAY?! I'm running important report! Also one of the client engineers likes to reply-all with "Bueller?" if his question is not answered within 30 seconds and his e-mail signature (comprised of 5 different colors and fonts) ends with this. With the last line in red. kill me posted:Disclaimer: The Internet is running in debug mode. Also co-worker did a remote check of the site on the 30th and I just got forwarded an StorNext error from the 29th. Co-worker says the error "didn't ring any bells" even though it's in PLAIN loving SIGHT if you log onto the metadata controller. One would think that if you're doing a remote check then you should check any alerts on the controllers. But no, why would you do that. 
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Oct 5, 2016 21:19
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Oh hello my old taglines.txt from the WWIV BBS that I was on in high school.
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9 years, 2 certs, 2 degrees (bach. of science (computer science), bach. of science (philosophy)). literally nobody I've ever met believed me that my 2nd degree was a real thing
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Man, this thread's been going on 3 years? drat, time flies
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I see a ticket go through the general queue. A tower bluescreens at login but can boot in Safe Mode. Cool. Desk side tech will probably just re-image the thing. The ticket gets assigned to me. I check the notes and when desk side got there apparently there's no video output and there's something rattling inside the case. Welp. It's a hardware problem now.
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Currently in the process of handing an incredibly complicated system back to the client as they've decided to go for in-house management. We've managed it for at least 10 years and have senior engineers dedicated to specific sections - system management, policy, patching, etc. There's hundreds of appliances across multiple DCs and 100 years of combined experience with this product in my team and we have it running loving excellently. Handover is to one bloke, over the span of a month, with twice weekly remote sessions. THIS WILL GO WELL
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nm, bad at catching up
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2 years, 1 cert, 0 degrees. If I'm honest, the 2 years has been worlds more important than the A+ cert. Studying for Network+ now to build on it.
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iRend posted:Currently in the process of handing an incredibly complicated system back to the client as they've decided to go for in-house management. We've managed it for at least 10 years and have senior engineers dedicated to specific sections - system management, policy, patching, etc. There's hundreds of appliances across multiple DCs and 100 years of combined experience with this product in my team and we have it running loving excellently. Ya'll will get it back in 2 years after the dude burns it to the ground from lack of ...well everything.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Ya'll will get it back in 2 years after the dude burns it to the ground from lack of ...well everything. I really feel this kind of situation is the malevolent force of every business person slash C-level in the world's subconscious wills going "hold the loving phone, you managed to get something actually nailed down, running well, completely understood, and consistently managed? Haha no no no what the gently caress do you think this is, loving Best Practice World? Let's just go ahead and gently caress that up for you a bit - after all, can't have you thinking you'll ever truly be able to reach IT nirvana can we". I may be a bit bitter at the moment as last week was the second time a client has called a printer tech out to fix "something" and he somehow managed to erase all the settings, which thanks to Toshiba copiers being a clown show (I suppose "Toshiba" can be replaced by "all") mean a whole lot of clicking to restore scan to folder templates etc. It was loving working jackass we have enough to do without fixing what wasn't broke.
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A ticket came in: "We can receive mail from initech.com but when we try to send it gets blocked by our spam filter!" So I have her forward me the bounceback - "initech.com loops back to myself". Hmmm. I check initech.com's IP, and it resolves to 127.0.0.1. HMM, I bet a lot of people are having similar problems! I called her and let her know what I found, and her response was "So you're saying it's on their end? Oh, good!" Best part? This lady's job description, according to her email sig, was "Database and System Administrator."
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cert chat: 18ish years, 1 cert (that I got this year) 0 degree (went to uni, but this was in 1995 when the web was just getting started, so I spend the majority of my time dicking about on Mozilla 0.9 and playing XPilot with people in other universities, rather than attending lectures, so I was 'not asked back' for the third year of the course...)
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Dick Trauma posted:What is it about History that has drawn so many of us to her loving, ancient bosom and then dumped us out onto the cruel broken glass shards of Technology? 10 years, 4 certs, 1 degree (Secondary Education, Social Studies (it includes not only History, but Sociology, Psychology, and Political Science)). As for why, I jokingly said in an interview when asked why I left teaching for IT that the servers didn't whine when I gave them a task, just the fans. Added in that I also didn't have parents yelling at me and threatening to sue if I smacked a server. The interviewers thought it was hilarious.
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ratbert90 posted:Base 0, it's page 1000. and the new millennium started in 2001. 
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It's been about a month since I started this new job, and I get to redo our ticketing system. Anyone have experience with Kaseya? I'm going to make some changes to an existing service desk and add a new one.
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Ugh. So, earlier this year, someone hosed up colossally (let's just say certain DNS zones are important) and pretty much shut us down for several hours. Since then, the higher-ups have been on a crusade to wedge technology issues in to address the absolutely 100% policy issue (newbie was given too much access). So now I just had to try to reboot a VM in vcenter, but none of the 6 (literally) accounts I have to do so are able to get to the loving reboot button because after all of this shuffling, the particular VM wasn't added to the right group. And, of course, the leader who caused the issue in the first place is still leading that team and likes to bitch when things don't get done in a timely manner.
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You know, certs is really subjective if you ask me. I've got a CCNA. Exploration 1.
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Eh I think the cert thread is a better place to air out exactly what certs we have, if any. The year / cert / degree chat was pretty insightful in that those who got in the industry 10+ years ago didn't have to play the cert game, whereas those under 5 years have a bunch because I think it's much more common and expected these days.
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SEKCobra posted:You know, certs is really subjective if you ask me. I've got a CCNA. Exploration 1. If you mean they aren't really a objective measure of mastery, I agree. There are some certs I have because the they are EXPECTED as must have in my field, but are pretty worthless as a measure of ability or knowledge: see ISC2 certs like CISSP, etc... Others show a good foundational understanding of a particular topic: See CWNA/CW*Ps, certain GIAC certs. But I've never come across a situation where having a certification has hurt anyone. My advice is that if your company will pay for certifications then get them. Even if they won't, it may be worth your while for your professional development in general to pay for your own.
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flosofl posted:If you mean they aren't really a objective measure of mastery, I agree. I wouldn't really count my Exploration cert as a real cert tho, would you?
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SEKCobra posted:Exploration 1. Wait does this mean you're a spelunker or something? I picture you rappelling into a ravine with a server strapped to your back.
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Dick Trauma posted:Wait does this mean you're a spelunker or something? I picture you rappelling into a ravine with a server strapped to your back. Data mining. Equip your pickaxe and server
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Migishu posted:Data mining. Equip your pickaxe and server You need to bring an animal with you to detect noxious gases. 
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Dick Trauma posted:You need to bring an animal with you to
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Dick Trauma posted:You need to bring an animal with you to detect noxious gases.
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Speaking of noxious gasses, did I ever tell you guys how the basement of the television station would routinely start emitting carbon monoxide throughout the building?
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Trying to get FTP uploads via curl working on a super locked down server. I mention we need FTP opened up outbound to get it working. The ~Senior Systems Engineer~ proceeds to inform me they can't open up the servers to the whole internet (!!!) and asked me to specify what ports I needed
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larchesdanrew posted:Speaking of noxious gasses, did I ever tell you guys how the basement of the television station would routinely start emitting carbon monoxide throughout the building? This could explain a lot about the CE's braindead and erratic behavior.
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