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ChubbyThePhat posted:Why there was a 5 month old hyper-v snapshot I will never know. Finally drive over, connect into ESXi and find that the datastore had run out of space. Some how a snapshot had been run 2.5 years prior and had never been deleted and had since eaten up all the available disk space. That was fun trying consolidate 500GB of snapshot. Took like 12 hours if I remember correctly.
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So today I was working on straightening out a horrible mess of a fiber setup at one of the larger facilities. There's large amounts of OM2 strung all over nearly at random, looped through various patch panels, also seemingly at random. Example patch panel: Note the excellent labeling. The minimal labels that at least tell you which loving building they go to were recently added by me as when I started this there was no labeling and no documentation whatsoever. Also lots of those cables come out of the patch panel and are patched right back in. So I figure first thing I am going to do is build the mythical VEE LAN on an aggregation switch in the worst congested distribution point so that we can consolidate our retarded sprawling parallel connections to free up some fibers. First candidate is traced out through no less than four fiber patch panels. It's a low impact connection (internet for a facility in the complex, which can be down for up to a few hours without affecting production) and once I free it up, it will be easy to pull all of the other connections back into the aggregation switch which will be handling all of the internet connectivity, which by the way is already shared but runs separately on different pairs in parallel eating tons of fiber. The freed fibers will be used for some etherchannel and redundant connectivity (did I mention that there is zero redundancy whatsoever in the current setup?) Pulled the cable, and corporate data goes out for half of the mile or so long facility which isn't part of the network I manage. I'm just trying to clean up the manufacturing networks that serve the robutts and things which I support. Once guy on the other end tells me that people are asking him why all of their ERP and email connectivity died I immediately reverted the change since it was obvious this fiber was not what we thought it was. Some of the network comes back but other pieces stay dead. Now I don't officially support this network since that's another team's responsibility but I broke the loving thing so I figure I should help fix it. Their network guy is on a plane and can't look at it and there is no backup. Helpdesk doesn't have a NOC screen or can tell me anything beyond "So and so in office 491 in Building 3 can't work" etc etc  . After walking around and looking for a while I figure out the resulting broadcast shitstorm on their beautiful single /16 broadcast domain err-disabled a couple ports on a few random switches which were not set to autorecover. I eventually track the offenders down throughout the facility and reset them, guided by a map and a panicky helpdesk guy on the phone pinging poo poo and guiding me around.2 hours later, it's all working thank god. I go back and retrace our fiber and locate the fifth patch panel which the local guy forgot existed. 1 connection down, god knows how many to go. Going back tomorrow with the labeller and going ham on the place.
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I dare you to run an OTDR through it to see how long that nightmare runs.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I dare you to run an OTDR through it to see how long that nightmare runs. The first one is about 1100 meters 1000base-lx over OM2 without mode conditioning but that wasn't tested just measuring on a CAD drawing. They didn't know what mode conditioning was when I asked and I'm frankly impressed these links come up at all. Nuclearmonkee fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Oct 12, 2016 |
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A flat /16? I'm surprised it didn't cause them trouble before. Why yes I would like my broadcasts to go to 65k other machines! Also I commiserate with you on the fibre. I love tracking down what port a certain machine is on in this rats nest of a patch panel with no labeling 
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pr0digal posted:A flat /16? I'm surprised it didn't cause them trouble before. Why yes I would like my broadcasts to go to 65k other machines! It causes trouble all the time but welp that's not my side of the house I'm just trying to fix the dumpster fire on my side of the fence which is just as bad.
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Neito posted:The agency's not allowed to say, but it's "A large educational institution near Cambridge, MA and Allston". So possibly? That narrows it down to pretty much Harvar. (MIT doesn't have any positions that require A+, and isn't near allston, I guess you could say BU, but that's not really "near cambridge", and Tufts is over next to sommervile). Enjoy your free master's degree, though from what I hear from people who've worked there recently, IT is a bit more of a shitshow (in the unfun "we want to be trendy with the latest technologies haflassed, CLOUD!" sort of way) than what I remember it to be. I'm not bitter about them scrapping their perfectly functional unix infrastructure and moving email over to hosted exchange, no, not at all OWLS! fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Oct 12, 2016 |
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Oct 12, 2016 05:32
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Internet Explorer posted:They're lucky it only took that long. Tell me about it. On the flip side, we now have a monthly policy for every contracted client to confirm there are no outstanding snapshots that need to be deleted, so that's good I guess.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Welp I just tried to expand a Hyper-V disk that had a snapshot childed to it. Good learning experience as to that poo poo don't work. Repaired the VHD and now merging that poo poo so I can properly expand it. Why there was a 5 month old hyper-v snapshot I will never know. Living the MSP dream boys. Are you running 2008? I'm 99% sure 2012 won't allow you to do that.
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Oct 12, 2016 06:18
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Collateral Damage posted:Can't we just unilaterally decide to stop using loving VGA? It's literally the worst connector possible for something that gets plugged and unplugged a lot, and still everyone insists on using it in conference rooms. whoa what happens when my computer can get DPed?
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glowstick party tonight posted:whoa what happens when my computer can get DPed? High speed interfacing, baby!
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Collateral Damage posted:Can't we just unilaterally decide to stop using loving VGA? It's literally the worst connector possible for something that gets plugged and unplugged a lot, and still everyone insists on using it in conference rooms. I have a different problem, outdated projectors without any modern connection and modern expensive laptops that do not play nice with them. Granted, whenever a person high enough starts complaining it'll get budgeted.
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IndustrialApe posted:I have a different problem, outdated projectors without any modern connection and modern expensive laptops that do not play nice with them. Whenever a person high enough throws a shitfit because they didn't scope the conference room before their super important presentation, they show up 2 minutes before starting and can't get it to connect, and why the gently caress hasn't IT fixed this before right this second and what do we pay IT all that money for if they can't fix it now I NEED TO DO THIS PRESENTATION OR OUR BUSINESS CAN'T MAKE MONEY YOU FUCKS
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Conversation of the day: "What does Infotainment Telekinetics do?" "Uh...Advertise with their mind? What are you talking about?" "It's on this guys' signature." "It says System Administrator, IT......." "Isn't that what IT stands for?"
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Oct 12, 2016 17:38
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Arsten posted:
A new VR game where you punch news reporters in the face
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Oct 12, 2016 17:46
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Frustration of the day (week/month/year): my coworkers being completely unable to do any simple troubleshooting or critical thinking. Permissions issues on a SAN due to a Windows server creating files that are owned by nobody/nobody on the Mac? Did you stop and think about UID/GID translation? Did you check ACLs? Did you even look at the Windows box and do any testing? Nope, you decided to just send me the output of an ls and do the digital equivalent of cocking your head like a confused dog.
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Arsten posted:Conversation of the day: The CEO here still refers to my department as "MIS" and sometimes "data processing." 
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larchesdanrew posted:I've technically been off for four days now. I'd rather come in on an actual off day to avoid the shitstorm of backlog coming in tomorrow This. When my family had to
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Arsten posted:Conversation of the day: Gesture-controlled (telekinetics) modern news media (infotainment).
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Lord Dudeguy posted:Hyper-V allows you to do that? ESX/vCenter just grays out the option to expand (without telling you why) until you commit/delete the snapshots. 2008r2 box. Let's you blow up the world without so much as a peep. DigitalMocking posted:Are you running 2008? I'm 99% sure 2012 won't allow you to do that. Yes and it certainly won't.
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totalnewbie posted:Gesture-controlled (telekinetics) modern news media (infotainment). Judge Schnoopy posted:A new VR game where you punch news reporters in the face Dick Trauma posted:The CEO here still refers to my department as "MIS" and sometimes "data processing." Process that data! Do it! By hand on a loom!
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Oct 12, 2016 18:14
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Arsten posted:Process that data! Do it! By hand on a loom! Only works with string data.
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Arsten posted:I'm with the Schnoodle on this one:  
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Judge Schnoopy posted:A new VR game where you punch news reporters in the face Also called "Mass Effect"
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I had one of those.  nullfunction posted:Only works with string data. 
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Arsten posted:I had one of those. Good trick, given it wasn't actually released, just prototyped and demoed.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Whenever a person high enough throws a shitfit because they didn't scope the conference room before their super important presentation, they show up 2 minutes before starting and can't get it to connect, and why the gently caress hasn't IT fixed this before right this second and what do we pay IT all that money for if they can't fix it now I NEED TO DO THIS PRESENTATION OR OUR BUSINESS CAN'T MAKE MONEY YOU FUCKS "How did it work in rehearsal ?" That got me out from under a $5 million bus once.
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Prism posted:Good trick, given it wasn't actually released. They've had computer-based knitter looms for awhile. Edit: Oh. I should click the timg and notice that it's a Nintendo loom. 
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Prism posted:Good trick, given it wasn't actually released. They tried to keep the release all sewn up, but a few loose ends got out.
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Arsten posted:They've had computer-based knitter looms for awhile. Not the Nintendo one. So nobody had that one. I stand by this pedantry.  edit: Dr. Arbitrary posted:They tried to keep the release all sewn up, but a few loose ends got out. Delightful.
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Prism posted:Not the Nintendo one. So nobody had that one. I stand by this pedantry. I did not notice it was a Nintendo. I squinted at the thumbnail and just thought it was a loom connected to a generic 80s computer.
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Arsten posted:I did not notice it was a Nintendo. I squinted at the thumbnail and just thought it was a loom connected to a generic 80s computer. Fair enough. The story is that they prototyped one, showed it off at the 1987 Winter Consumer Electronics Show to retailers, and then pretended it had never happened (until an employee of that era scanned in the brochure and posted it to Facebook).
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Judge Schnoopy posted:A new VR game where you punch news reporters in the face Ticket opened: screen has cash embedded in it (Can we mod it for other targets? I have a big-rear end list...)
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How about this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02h74L1PmaU
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:They tried to keep the release all sewn up, but a few loose ends got out.
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Elizabethan Error posted:can you stop weaving such terrible puns? I feel them looming over me somehow I'm calling for a blanket ban.
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Please do the needle.
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Maybe we can stop fabricating all these puns so we can all get back into the loop.
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knit one PERL two
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