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mewse posted:Those things are really poor at containing human waste What kinds of poo poo are they printing?
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Renegret posted:I heard a story that one of our janitors caused a major outage because they unplugged a router so they could plug in their vacuum. This allegedly happened before I got hired and I can't say I really believe it but it wouldn't surprise me if it were true. Let me tell you about a data center outage that started when a janitor noticed that a fire sensor "looked dusty" and decided to spray it with cleanser and swipe it with a cloth, breaking it. The resulting failure cascade took out a wing of the DC for a few exciting hours.
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I believe you mean the time when a janitor helped you tested your redundancy and DR preparations.
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rafikki posted:I believe you mean the time when a janitor helped you tested your redundancy and DR preparations. I've had fun in the past being that chaos monkey....DR looks good, never tested? Well, let's test now!
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CommieGIR posted:Or clean agents like FM-200 or Novatec 1230  )Hungry Computer posted:Today someone asked for a new waste toner cartridge, because the one in their printer is empty. Aunt Beth fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:My analysis is that if a janitor has access to unplug critical infrastructure, you're already hosed. *looks for article about that urban legend where people kept dying in a hospital ICU, due to a cleaner turning their life support off, so they could use the power socket for their vacuum cleaner* *finds real articles about life support equipment in hospitals getting turned off*
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An email came in from a co-worker who is stuck in the late 1970s:quote:Does anyone know who's taken down the VT220 load monitor in the IT office Despite being called a "load monitor", it wasn't able to actually report the load for 1/3rd of the machines. We have a full monitoring stack, with dashboards and up-to-date info on several screens around the office. It is a VT220 in TYOOL 2017 I want to find out who trashed it and buy them beer.
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spog posted:*looks for article about that urban legend where people kept dying in a hospital ICU, due to a cleaner turning their life support off, so they could use the power socket for their vacuum cleaner* Do you have a link? I'm wondering if it's a variation the old Cape Times story Snopes says keeps getting reported off and on by legit news outlets.
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MJP posted:Bad: the city of Newark, NJ (I live in the suburb of Union, right next door kinda) has had its computers get cryptowalled: http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2017/04/hackers_reportedly_disable_newark_computers_and_de.html#incart_river_home Oh my god the comments I can't stop laughing
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Apr 26, 2017 12:59
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A coworker went onsite to a client, and sent me the photo of a PC. Someone told them it has to be in that orientation and won't work otherwise. E: spelling
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Apr 26, 2017 13:08
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The Claptain posted:A coworker went onsite to a client, and sent me the photo of a PC. I hope you had them move it just to see what'd happen.
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Apr 26, 2017 13:10
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I hope you had them move it just to see what'd happen. Depends on the billing type, it's an experiment I wouldn't always want to try.
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Apr 26, 2017 13:13
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God-drat, it finally happened. 3 months in and someone sent us a ticket to fix a building problem.security dope posted:Room has a very loose door handle, needs to be tightened. Sent them a terse reply of "That's a facilities issue, not IT."
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I hope you had them move it just to see what'd happen. Hi did turn it around, but didn't check whether it will work because it was being decommissioned. He is going to that same site tomorrow, I'll ask him to check.
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A ticket came in, "We need a new SharePoint site for this committee. We want apps for x, y, and z. Access should be delegated to a, b, and c. C will be the primary contact for site administration." gently caress yes, most competent ticket I've ever received! Followed by, "C mentioned she's never used SharePoint, can you set up a time for one on one training so you can show her how to run the site?" 
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Apr 26, 2017 16:18
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Look what's gonna be going in the trash!
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Judge Schnoopy posted:A ticket came in, If C can pick it up quickly enough, she should be able to fake it til she makes it without anyone knowing. I've always felt the ability to do that is one of the cores of being good at IT unless you are going to buy into a specific technology and just dedicate your career to that.
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RFC2324 posted:If C can pick it up quickly enough, she should be able to fake it til she makes it without anyone knowing. I was going to say, "fake it til you make it" is basically "learning things as you go" wrapped in a catchy phrase and probably literally part of the job description for most IT jobs. (Now, if it's "learn as you go for the sole purpose of teaching someone else who doesn't know it either" I'd be more inclined to send them a link to a sharepoint seminar instead)
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:I was going to say, "fake it til you make it" is basically "learning things as you go" wrapped in a catchy phrase and probably literally part of the job description for most IT jobs. (Now, if it's "learn as you go for the sole purpose of teaching someone else who doesn't know it either" I'd be more inclined to send them a link to a sharepoint seminar instead) The first part is 100% true, but I've known far too many who learned what they know at school, and that is the One True Way as far as they are concerned. This seems to be particularly true of specialists, tho. The second part is also true, but I assume any IT guy given such a task will see it as a chance to kick back and watch a video with the person. Certainly anyone in this thread.
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Sorry, should clarify that C is in no way connected to IT and is an operations manager for a pool.
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Apr 26, 2017 21:18
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GreenNight posted:Look what's gonna be going in the trash! That carpet?
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Apr 26, 2017 21:31
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We've been offered the opportunity to get that carpet replaced, we said no. Be a huge pain in the rear end to move everything.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Sorry, should clarify that C is in no way connected to IT and is an operations manager for a pool. Sign her up for 10 free days of Lynda.com and tell her good luck!
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Renegret posted:Oh my god the comments I can't stop laughing Jdiamon posted:I have to laugh because I'll bet anything the NSA did this. Our own federal government has the most destructive forces in cyber crime and actually work against everyone's best interest. Just ask Cisco about that after release of vault 7. Us federal government has the most malicious cyber criminals out there. It's basically NSA vs the rest of us including all us corporations. Don't forget they have the technology in place to finger other countries for their own attacks. Your tax dollars are funding this crime. So, voters and citizens have themselves to blame for letting it get this far in the first place. They'll make it appear some other state actors were responsible but this is part of a pretext or operation.  mike91163pt2 posted:@fromtheright17mw Scary part is that a $100 portable hard drive is all they would've needed to avoid such problems... I'll bet you $1 that this guy is the CIO of something.
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Apr 26, 2017 22:59
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GreenNight posted:We've been offered the opportunity to get that carpet replaced, we said no. Be a huge pain in the rear end to move everything. Cut around the equipment
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'll bet you $1 that this guy is the CIO of something. Later in that thread: intrafinesse posted:If you have a business, then having lets say six to twelve $50 external 500 GigaByte drives that you rotate for a weekly back up, should not be that big a deal. If you have more data you can get 1TB drives. SOMEONE GET THAT MAN A BUFFALO!
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100% guarantee those external drives all get plugged in to a USB hub to avoid having to swap them, and then mapped to the server because iscsi is hard. Then they all get wiped out when crypto knocks.
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One of our hardware engineers today complained in a ticket that he should have more storage "because you can go down to costco and get 2TB drives for $99.00"
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DigitalMocking posted:One of our hardware engineers today complained in a ticket that he should have more storage "because you can go down to costco and get 2TB drives for $99.00" Fire him
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DigitalMocking posted:One of our hardware engineers today complained in a ticket that he should have more storage "because you can go down to costco and get 2TB drives for $99.00" I left a job over this exact statement, expressed by a director of product development.
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Apr 28, 2017 06:24
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DigitalRaven posted:An email came in from a co-worker who is stuck in the late 1970s: We just emulate VT400 in our lab system  This is why I turned down becoming involved in the lab further. No I don't want to work in a department with the worst turnover in the facility, the worst employees, babysitting ancient technology and working around actual for-real rotting diseased flesh.
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An old terminal showing some stats would be a neat ornament and conversation piece so I don't see the problem if a few guys or gals would keep and maintain that as a fun project. But it should never be relied upon in production lol.
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The Claptain posted:A coworker went onsite to a client, and sent me the photo of a PC. is that referring to the slight angle away from the desk, the computer being upside down, or both at the same time? 
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DigitalMocking posted:One of our hardware engineers today complained in a ticket that he should have more storage "because you can go down to costco and get 2TB drives for $99.00" He meant on his local computer, right?
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angry armadillo posted:is that referring to the slight angle away from the desk, the computer being upside down, or both at the same time? I wouldn't be surprised if it was both. Unsurprisingly, it still works right side up. Or upside down, idk.
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GreenNight posted:He meant on his local computer, right? ha ha ha, no. One of the server guys explained the cost per GB of our SAN environment. That ticket was the result.
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