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This new hire has set off a shitstorm. I mentioned it to the HR person and for once instead of her usual fake sunshine & roses she was genuinely pissed off. It turns out the CEO spontaneously hired him without first speaking with the consultant or general counsel, the two people who have been trying to fashion themselves as operations gatekeepers. So now HR is pissed, the consultant is pissed, the department head this new guy works for is pissed. Everyone involved is angry, except me. This pleases me. 
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Brief interlude from DT's more interesting story. Is it acceptable to unmute on a confererence call, yell "Shut up. Shut up. Shut your loving mouth. Stop talking. Shut. Up." and then go back on mute? Answer quickly please. For those of you who live and die by my posts, you know that I adore one of the PMs I work with, and the other one is useless. I've been on three calls with the useless one so far today and I'm just completely done with this guy. For anyone who might be heading to a position of leadership in their career, whether with direct reports or as a PM, please know this. Talking isn't leading. Talking is talking. If you're holding the floor for 3 and 5 minutes at a time during a conversation, you are ineffective.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Brief interlude from DT's more interesting story. Is it acceptable to unmute on a confererence call, yell "Shut up. Shut up. Shut your loving mouth. Stop talking. Shut. Up." and then go back on mute? Answer quickly please. I really wish it was but, short of being the owner/CEO of the company or someone of equal importance, probably not? I guess it could be one of those magical "saying what everyone was thinking" moments but since you seem to mostly like your job...  Actually, I guess I should ask first: what sort of conference call is this? Is there some possibility that such an outburst would be met with "Who was that?" and a bunch of silence?
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Sep 5, 2017 20:02
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Unfortunately, whether it's 2 people or 200 people, when Stripe talks, you know Stripe talked.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Unfortunately, whether it's 2 people or 200 people, when Stripe talks, you know Stripe talked. Soundboard?
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Sep 5, 2017 20:46
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If you run a mac, pipe your speech through the 'say' command.
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Sep 5, 2017 20:48
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Soundboard? This. It's easy enough to get a clip of someone saying shut up. I prefer Dr. Evil from Austin Powers.
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Sep 5, 2017 21:07
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I would have a hard time resisting a Duke Nukem soundboard.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:I would have a hard time resisting a Duke Nukem soundboard. Excuse me who the heck is this? Balls of steel, what is that?
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:For anyone who might be heading to a position of leadership in their career, whether with direct reports or as a PM, please know this. Talking isn't leading. Talking is talking. If you're holding the floor for 3 and 5 minutes at a time during a conversation, you are ineffective. So you're saying unhinged 30 minute rally speeches aren't an effective use of people's time? Oh dear
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Sep 5, 2017 22:21
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Fuuuuuck keychain and AD. In other news I just spent literally an hour with a user to install a printer and change her password. The printer took five minutes.
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The Iron Rose posted:Fuuuuuck keychain and AD. So much this.
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We have a new PM in the building. I have no idea what she does or what projects she is assigned to. But when I walked by her desk, she had something work-related on her monitor, which is more than I can say for the other PM, who as far as I can tell has done basically nothing at all in the year+ he's worked here.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:So much this. Have a look at https://macmule.com/projects/adpassmon/ In shut the gently caress up news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6PuC6Tis1E
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Thanks Ants posted:Have a look at https://macmule.com/projects/adpassmon/ Bookmarking this, thanks Thanks Ants.
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The guy who made it hangs out in https://macadmins.herokuapp.com/ and people in there usually know what's going on. Look for the Jamf or Casper suite channel.
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Our CFO's email showed up in the Onliner Spambot (https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#OnlinerSpambot) list. MFA can't get turned on fast enough.
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TheParadigm posted:Time to ask for a raise. Heck, start going Iago and see how fast you can make the place crash into the ground. Volmarias fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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guppy posted:We have a new PM in the building. I have no idea what she does or what projects she is assigned to. But when I walked by her desk, she had something work-related on her monitor, which is more than I can say for the other PM, who as far as I can tell has done basically nothing at all in the year+ he's worked here. Sounds like Other PM is one of the most effective PMs ever.
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devmd01 posted:The follow up email from the vendor today when I specifically requested documentation on setting up SSL. Ah yes, the incredible overhead of certificates and port 443. How will we overcome?
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Ah yes, the incredible overhead of certificates and port 443. How will we overcome? Oh, it can happen. I am the local network specialist for my company that manufactures and services copiers, and sometimes I have to go into the field to deal with bizarre issues. One of which was a software program which was installed onto a PC and hooked up to a copier that was supposed to be used for people that were sight and hearing disabled so they could operate the copier. It was pretty cool, except that it was a beta that was never fully released and nobody at corporate had ever heard of it before. Oh, and it didn't work. Even though we had sold it to a national organization that helped people with disabilities. If you used this program to do anything it would either timeout and crash the copier, or it would work after an absurd delay of around 30 seconds. Since the only documentation was Google Translated from Japanese and didn't have any information other than 'install this', I started digging into the configuration files. After a few hours of fruitless testing, I saw that the software was connecting to the copier over port 443 and was set to communicate via SSL. I decided to disable SSL and try port 80. Suddenly it was speedy and worked perfectly. The lesson I learnt that day was 'Never underestimate how poorly software can be coded'.
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Had a weird one come across my desk that is starting to piss me off. A 2TB Samsung HDD that seems healty, no issues copying files to another drive. Tests fine in Data Lifeguard Diagnostics. But will NOT format, even doing a compelete format which took 13 hours ended with the exact same file structure (and the files are there and not corrupted). I can delete files manually through explorer but once I power cycle the drive - they all come back with old Volume name and all files. It's an NTFS Partitioned drive that was just for data - not the boot disk.
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Humphreys posted:Had a weird one come across my desk that is starting to piss me off. DBAN and DoD wipe, then reimage? Unless I'm missing something.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:
Dear God, this. As much as I love my new boss, I hate her for this. We have had two hour-long meetings to decide what will go into the training we deliver to support regarding the new version of our software, which is longer than it would take to actually compile training material for every change being made in the new version of our software. And after all that, she decided she would go through the release notes herself and decide - and guess what, it's almost identical to the list we compiled earlier! At least she is good about the meetings themselves- if they are scheduled for an hour, they end after an hour, no matter what.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:This. It's easy enough to get a clip of someone saying shut up. I prefer Dr. Evil from Austin Powers. Found a clip for Stripe, in case he's on the phone and needs to put it up against a speaker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgsEdU4l8XQ
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The Iron Rose posted:DBAN and DoD wipe, then reimage? Unless I'm missing something. Trying DBAN with the full DoD wipe now with a spare system so I can't accidentally gently caress anything up. 36 hours to go until I know if it worked! Thanks for the tip. I've known OF DBAN for a long time but never used it and it wasn't top of mind. Cheers. The drive at this stage disposable as we have the data, but this is more of an outside of work project now just for the sake of learning.
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Humphreys posted:Trying DBAN with the full DoD wipe now with a spare system so I can't accidentally gently caress anything up. 36 hours to go until I know if it worked! Thanks for the tip. I've known OF DBAN for a long time but never used it and it wasn't top of mind. Cheers. Is it a hybrid drive? Is the sata controller intel?
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The Fool posted:Is it a hybrid drive? Is the sata controller intel? It's just a regular platter drive: Samsung HD204UI The SATA Controller is Intel on the test machine from what I can gather, motherboard: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H87M%20Pro4/
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VMWare upgrade from 5.0 to 6.0 on Cisco UCS. VAR sees it only has a single SD card, want to upgrade to 2 cards. Maintenance window started at 9 PM, SD cards won't build a raid, sync utility wastes an hour and then fails at 1 AM. Maintenance window is now stretching into 3 AM. Yaaaay! edit for the sleeping people; still camping out at 4:20. Services are starting to come back online, finally. SD cards never RAIDed and we're running off a single card. Boy I love working 11AM to 4PM, then 9PM to 5AM. What a wonderful schedule. E2: everything was working, then the doofus who was too tired tried to make a few improvements. Now critical systems are down and the guy can't figure out how to unfuck it. Welcome to 6 AM everybody. Judge Schnoopy fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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I had a gig like that and I learned just to do all that stuff myself. You're going to get stuck in IT Director-but-not-really hell if you keep letting the vendors do all the work for you.
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Yeah no, the project scope is upgrading call manager from 8.6 to 11.5 including migrating from a 2821 router to a 4331, with an underlying ESXi upgrade from 5.0 to 6.0. Not only do I not possess the knowledge to do the upgrade, I think it would be wholly irresponsible to just "do it myself" without contracting professional services.
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Irritated Goat posted:Please stop putting your entire god drat request in the subject This is why I thanked god the day that our head of Marketing set email standards across the entire business, without exception, and with clear punishments for non-compliance. And helpfully included a secondary signature that you can use for just replies that is cut down, so reply chains aren't lolhuge. Doesn't stop idiots from somehow inserting an eye-bleeding textured background on their email. Or requesting read receipts on literally everything they send..
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Every email and SfB reply in sparkling fonts that are so close to background color, it is completely unable to be read except by highlighting text. It's like spoiler text for stupid people.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:VMWare upgrade from 5.0 to 6.0 on Cisco UCS. VAR sees it only has a single SD card, want to upgrade to 2 cards. Did you guys not use the right esxi image?
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Yeah no, the project scope is upgrading call manager from 8.6 to 11.5 including migrating from a 2821 router to a 4331, with an underlying ESXi upgrade from 5.0 to 6.0. Not only do I not possess the knowledge to do the upgrade, I think it would be wholly irresponsible to just "do it myself" without contracting professional services. None of that is difficult. You'd also be saving money and that's all someone in your role should be shooting for. I'd be kicking all of those companies out of there and building a staff. You might find yourself in a really weird career purgatory. People who aren't doing all their own work as the only IT person on staff wind up being kinda worthless - they've never managed anyone and they're light years behind technically because they've spent their time 'supporting the business'. So when the time comes to look for a new position your options are limited to roles that basically boil down to vendor management, which at large companies might not even strictly be an IT concern.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:VMWare upgrade from 5.0 to 6.0 on Cisco UCS. VAR sees it only has a single SD card, want to upgrade to 2 cards. Never upgrade anything ever. 
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Well, this just happened: Found out my NAS A/C plug melted... What's the cheapest way to run a plex server these days? Super-NintendoUser fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Judge Schnoopy posted:VMWare upgrade from 5.0 to 6.0 on Cisco UCS. VAR sees it only has a single SD card, want to upgrade to 2 cards. Yeah right after a disaster upgrade situation is maybe not the best time to "make a few improvements."
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