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stevewm posted:Earlier this morning the primary ISP serving our "datacenter" (small closet, lolol) had their main and only trunk line coming into town severed. While we do have a emergency backup connection, it is Frontier DSL at 3/768.... Our users are having one hell of a day trying to squeeze everything through 768Kbps connection! I've had to restrict our stores to running only a handful of registers to keep from saturating the connection. What do you want to bet they cheaped out when laying the fibre and there was no slack in the cable?
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Neddy Seagoon posted:What do you want to bet they cheaped out when laying the fibre and there was no slack in the cable? Highly likely.... The area where the break is at is currently closed to traffic due to the road sliding off the hill side. They have had it closed for over a month now trying to repair it. One of the state contractors apparently broke the line in multiple places when they started digging and also pulled on it. Leading them to have to replace a large section of it and re-route it at the same time. We'll be lucky if its working by tomorrow.
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DigitalMocking posted:Need a bunch of systems for a test build we're doing. Desktop support tells me we have 8 dell 9020s available, and I haul them to my workbench to start loading linux and docker and all that dev poo poo they need. Power the first one on, beep beep beep. Open the case, no memory or HDD. They had all been stripped, no one knows where the memory or SSDs went. Maybe someone had the bright idea of setting up replacement computers with the old drive in there too so the user can move their files over when it's convenient for them! This turns into stuff being on both drives and you now need 3 bays if the old drive survives. Most often the drive will die before you need a 4th, but there is always someone that needs a 5th. It is the worst and laziest migration plan. I've done it for family before because they bought an SSD and didn't have enough room for everything and just couldn't decide. There are reasons to do it, being lazy isn't one. Hopefully in a business you did had the foresight to go oh 256GB SSDs will work for everyone but 2 users and either get them a larger SSD or you do a mechanical secondary or a hybrid depending on their use case.
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stevewm posted:Earlier this morning the primary ISP serving our "datacenter" (small closet, lolol) had their main and only trunk line coming into town severed. While we do have a emergency backup connection, it is Frontier DSL at 3/768.... Our users are having one hell of a day trying to squeeze everything through 768Kbps connection! I've had to restrict our stores to running only a handful of registers to keep from saturating the connection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers 
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Oct 24, 2016 21:07
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That would probably be faster than the "3Mbit" DSL...
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pixaal posted:Maybe someone had the bright idea of setting up replacement computers with the old drive in there too so the user can move their files over when it's convenient for them! This turns into stuff being on both drives and you now need 3 bays if the old drive survives. Most often the drive will die before you need a 4th, but there is always someone that needs a 5th. That's possible, but I'm going to bet the desktop support manager who had sticky fingers and is no longer here might have appropriated the memory and SSDs.
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stevewm posted:That would probably be faster than the "3Mbit" DSL... Pretty rad latency tho, but actual throughput with the newer micro SD cards would be pretty sweet.
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Wibla posted:Pretty rad latency tho, but actual throughput with the newer micro SD cards would be pretty sweet. You can establish the control connection for FTP over the DSL line, and then run data connections on a private IPoAC network.
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Ugh, latest ETA is now 8PM... If only Frontier wasn't using 20 year old DSL technology in this area, it wouldn't be nearly as big of a issue. Of course, I guess using 20+ year old DSL tech is not that far fetched for a town that mostly only had party lines (remember those?!) available up until 1994 or so. At my parents house in that town, we didn't get a private line until 1995, because it simply was not available. stevewm fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Oct 24, 2016 |
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poo poo PISSING ME OFF: Dumb grumblings from the rest of the IT guys about how we need to get rid of the Macs in our environment because they're too much trouble to support and integrate with other things. Uhhhh... stop buying garbage product/system after garbage product/system. But no, let's do that, let's go around and collect all the MacBooks, which are heavily favored with our executives and tell them that we can't handle it because they're just too tough to manage. Let's see how far that goes. In all the time I have been here, of all the difficult things we've had to work with and over come, this is the thing that's triggered the loudest crying from my team.
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AlternateAccount posted:poo poo PISSING ME OFF: That seems like a resume generating event for someone in the future. I can get not having an environment with macs and being asked to support them, but if they are already there then its too late.
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Got sucked into a 4 day Lean event that has nothing to do with technology. 
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AlternateAccount posted:poo poo PISSING ME OFF: Being more incompetent than IBM Consulting is quite a shameful achievement.
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AlternateAccount posted:poo poo PISSING ME OFF: I mean generally I'd be a dumb grumbler when it comes to this situation, simply because unless you mean these people literally spec'ed out the systems themselves and brought them into an environment that was already Mac-heavy, they really DO tend to be a pain in the rear end to deal with from a central management perspective. Even with Casper/Munki or something, there's still a lot of annoying things to make them work with a on-premises software heavy Windows-centric environment (you want a private AD PKI? Enjoy importing that root cert by script on all Macs if you can get the script to work!), and it's not helped by Apple's uncaring development tactics, i.e. "we decided we're changing to this new hot thing and also by the way all this old poo poo you depended on in the OS to help manage the things is just now completely gone enjoy oh and also DFS still doesn't loving work 15 years later". Actually I haven't had to deal with DFS on Sierra so maybe they finally got it to work after recovering from sleep and all the other fun things that didn't work on Yosemite and prior. If it's cloud-systems based use i.e. all webapps all the time then sure, go nuts, but as I think I just said a few days ago in one of the threads, it's about the right tool for the right job, and generally speaking if you have a traditional AD environment with traditional enterprise software, Macs are not the right tool. Edit: shows how much I've been paying attention, apparently Sierra is the newest version of OS X
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I've finally been broken as a professional and as a man. An hour ago I was asked "Stripe are you into the cloud?" I did not understand this question so I asked a few times for clarification. None was forthcoming. I still don't know what he was asking. I probably won't sleep tonight.
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You need to install the cloud to butt extension.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:An hour ago I was asked "Stripe are you into my butt?"
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I don't know how you guys can laugh at a time like this, what with this cloud out there apparently just roaming the countryside.
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quote:from: Google Apps <apps-noreply@google.com> At least someone is having a worse Tuesday morning than me.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:An hour ago I was asked "Stripe are you into the cloud?" I'm curious what would happen if you called their bluff just by stating; "Yes" EDIT: Oh and minor stuff pissing me off: A messy file server share Minor stuff not pissing me off: A tidied up file server share, with write access removed from the root directory  Of course followed up by an URGENT USER MAILBOX STORAGE FULL URGENT RESOLVE NOW Super Slash fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I've finally been broken as a professional and as a man. The person asking doesn't get that the cloud is someone else's computer. They are asking if you have "cloud skills", if the company has anything "in the cloud" if the company is "part of the cloud" or if you think the company should "move more stuff into the cloud". I use quotes because everything but the last one makes no sense if you know what the cloud is, and might as well go for broke! Depending on the person I would have attempted to explain it, or said that question is too vague to properly answer narrow it down and email me.
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Our company loves putting out free fruit for the tech department, except half the time it's browning and rotten. I suspect it's leftovers from executive meetings or something. Just opened up a nice, ripe, brown orange. Uh, wait. 
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I don't know how you guys can laugh at a time like this, what with this cloud out there apparently just roaming the countryside.
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totalnewbie posted:You need to install the cloud to butt extension. Someone needs to write a corresponding Cloud From Butt one.
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DizzyBum posted:Our company loves putting out free fruit for the tech department, except half the time it's browning and rotten. I suspect it's leftovers from executive meetings or something. 
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My level3 line is showing 23% packet loss in the last 6 hours. THANKS
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BLOOD (orange) FOR THE (citrus) BLOOD GOD
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Sickening posted:My level3 line is showing 23% packet loss in the last 6 hours. THANKS Sounds like an improvement to me.
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Oh, so it appears the group policy password exploits were across all objects? Now the option to save a password for any feature in active directory is removed? I don't want to script local admin password updates. Then I would have to manually run them or go back to draconian logon scripts. Ugh.
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Thanks cisco, for putting a different cpu model in that replacement UCS blade. Not like I wanted to be able to migrate VMs to it or anything. Thanks citrix, for having no documentation on your pool cpu feature set flattening. Nice to know you have to fully power down your VMs to pick up the changes, and not just reboot.
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Thanks friend. While neither of those specific cases apply to me currently; I learned something today.
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Sickening posted:Oh, so it appears the group policy password exploits were across all objects? Now the option to save a password for any feature in active directory is removed? I don't want to script local admin password updates. Then I would have to manually run them or go back to draconian logon scripts. Ugh. Does this thing help https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/mt227395.aspx
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thebigcow posted:Does this thing help https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/mt227395.aspx It probably does, I will check it out. I however did laugh at the drawing it had...  
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Sickening posted:My level3 line is showing 23% packet loss in the last 6 hours. THANKS 77% is a passing grade!
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pixaal posted:The person asking doesn't get that the cloud is someone else's computer. They are asking if you have "cloud skills", if the company has anything "in the cloud" if the company is "part of the cloud" or if you think the company should "move more stuff into the cloud".
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instability at my job is pissing me off. I've complained about this a few times, but god drat, my "role" has changed probably 10 times in the last 6 months. I understand the need to adapt and update processes etc to make things run smoother, but there's something to be said for giving people stability. I'm so checked out at this job now because of this poo poo, all the fucks are gone, there are no more to be given.
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Super Soaker Party! posted:I mean generally I'd be a dumb grumbler when it comes to this situation, simply because unless you mean these people literally spec'ed out the systems themselves and brought them into an environment that was already Mac-heavy, they really DO tend to be a pain in the rear end to deal with from a central management perspective. Even with Casper/Munki or something, there's still a lot of annoying things to make them work with a on-premises software heavy Windows-centric environment (you want a private AD PKI? Enjoy importing that root cert by script on all Macs if you can get the script to work!), and it's not helped by Apple's uncaring development tactics, i.e. "we decided we're changing to this new hot thing and also by the way all this old poo poo you depended on in the OS to help manage the things is just now completely gone enjoy oh and also DFS still doesn't loving work 15 years later". I agree with a lot of this. It wasn't done right in the first place, and somehow they want to blame the platform for the lack of proper and thought out integration beyond buying a new MacBook and firing it up. The AD PKI thing is part of the issue, which is a big PIA. DFS seems fine? Being generally understaffed across the board, I understand that it's frustrating when you have to make accommodations and do "extra" work to get things running, but you've gotta get around thinking of it as EXTRA work. It's part of the job, so budget/plan/schedule for it. And hire people who know how to do it. A bunch of grumbly PC guys who have very thin MacOS knowledge are not going to be enough.
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Pissing me off today: Budget cycles. I wonder if Admin Arsenal would give me a 60 day trial if I can guarantee that I would buy 2 enterprise licenses on the new year.
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The Fool posted:Pissing me off today: Budget cycles. If you aren't already using their software, the free versions are extremely robust and should give you a really good idea of what to expect before buying. Edit: when I think about how many posts I've made of this forum over the years about PDQ Inventory/Deploy, I really shoulda worked a sales commission deal with Admin Arsenal or something 
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