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Mr. Fix It posted:Yeah, that seems to be difference:
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wingding welcome screen lookin good.
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Oct 19, 2017 17:19
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Looks like everything is working ngrmadly.
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Oct 19, 2017 18:04
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The COO has asked us to report on the industry best practices for "evaluating the fitness of backup tapes." When presented with evidence that no such best practice exists, he insulted my team and demanded a "more competently done" report. He also clarified that he wants to know the industry best practices for evaluating the fitness of individual backup tapes. You throw them away when they start having too many errors, you loving lunatic. They cost like twenty bucks.
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Oct 19, 2017 18:12
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Fortis posted:The COO has asked us to report on the industry best practices for "evaluating the fitness of backup tapes." When presented with evidence that no such best practice exists, he insulted my team and demanded a "more competently done" report. He also clarified that he wants to know the industry best practices for evaluating the fitness of individual backup tapes. That's 20 bucks too much, don't you know?
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Oct 19, 2017 18:22
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Compare the price of buying a few tapes per year to the amount of money spent on man-hours researching and writing the report.
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Oct 19, 2017 18:54
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Staff at my organization are constantly vying to be at the end of the tech support line. They know I'm busy and are so loving cool and laid back about it, nearly 80% of requests come in with a note of "This is absolutely not important please don't interrupt anything you're doing, we're cool if you want to address this in a week or two whenever you have time." I had to struggle when I first started to get people to tell me that stuff was broken, because they were so worried about burdening IT with low-priority problems. It's not a 'cool' or 'hip' environment for sure (government) but this is by far the best staff I've ever worked with.
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Oct 19, 2017 19:38
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Fortis posted:The COO has asked us to report on the industry best practices for "evaluating the fitness of backup tapes." When presented with evidence that no such best practice exists, he insulted my team and demanded a "more competently done" report. He also clarified that he wants to know the industry best practices for evaluating the fitness of individual backup tapes. Give him the same evidence, but every sentence a bullet point. Include pie charts and line graphs (make sure you put at least three lines on the latter), doesn't matter what they're graphing.
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Oct 19, 2017 19:44
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I wonder if it's because your predecessor was a demon who threw a fit about being interrupted from playing Halo at work, or if he was incompetent and you've fixed problems that were previously declared to be unfixable and they consider you to be some sort of fixit wizard who must be appeased with volcano sacrifice.
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Oct 19, 2017 20:01
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I wonder if it's because your predecessor was a demon who threw a fit about being interrupted from playing Halo at work, or if he was incompetent and you've fixed problems that were previously declared to be unfixable and they consider you to be some sort of fixit wizard who must be appeased with volcano sacrifice. 100% of both. He was extremely incompetent and hired a very bad MSP, and together they built a hissy-fit wall that nobody wanted to approach. Easy poo poo would take months to resolve, and when people made a second request he would go off about how insanely busy he was and had so much on his plate and was overwhelmed, guilting them into not making a third request. The MSP would declare easily fixable stuff to be unfixable, or would provide some poo poo-rear end solution that handcuffed their own options of expansion. The last guy taught staff to be weary of making IT requests because it's alllll just soooo unmanageable booohoooo. My boss made specific mention on my yearly review that I quickly resolved requests and projects that had been open for literal years, within the first few months of starting. e; the 40 year old guy before him played WOW all day every day at work and was run out by the horde of unhappy staff when the infrastructure fell apart. Last I saw on linkedIn he's a support tech in another state. My predecessor quit IT altogether. To staff, I'm a wizard.
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Oct 19, 2017 20:17
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Fortis posted:The COO has asked us to report on the industry best practices for "evaluating the fitness of backup tapes." When presented with evidence that no such best practice exists, he insulted my team and demanded a "more competently done" report. He also clarified that he wants to know the industry best practices for evaluating the fitness of individual backup tapes. Industry best practices guide from Doofenschmitz Et. Al. suggests that a tape should be immediately retired as soon as the number of read or write errors on any given tape is large enough to fault the backup job. At this point, the tape should be moved to the retired media collection in your media management system, and decommissioned to be used as door stops, desk level risers, or taken apart to be used as festive ribbons for IT events. At no point is the cost of certifying the fitness of an individual tape worth the risk of a failed restore job, or the time lost by an IT employee in validating a tape. Methylethylaldehyde fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Oct 19, 2017 |
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Oct 19, 2017 20:18
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Mr. Fix It posted:Yeah, that seems to be difference: Not by much. I have a 1Tb Blue from last year, and it's model number is WD10EZEX-00WN4A0.
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Oct 19, 2017 20:23
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Judge Schnoopy posted:100% of both. He was extremely incompetent and hired a very bad MSP, and together they built a hissy-fit wall that nobody wanted to approach. Easy poo poo would take months to resolve, and when people made a second request he would go off about how insanely busy he was and had so much on his plate and was overwhelmed, guilting them into not making a third request. The MSP would declare easily fixable stuff to be unfixable, or would provide some poo poo-rear end solution that handcuffed their own options of expansion. I want to be these people but read a book instead of play games. Anyone want a soft working goon employee???
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Oct 19, 2017 20:31
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:I want to be these people but read a book instead of play games. Anyone want a soft working goon employee??? I read The Phoenix Project first, and learned how to clear my work queue to improve efficiency. Now I get everything done AND I have time to read whatever I want at work. You CAN have it all!
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Oct 19, 2017 20:39
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Judge Schnoopy posted:I read The Phoenix Project first, and learned how to clear my work queue to improve efficiency. Now I get everything done AND I have time to read whatever I want at work. You CAN have it all! clear your work queue, aka just close tickets you don't like, got it. 
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Oct 19, 2017 20:39
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Staff at my organization are constantly vying to be at the end of the tech support line. They know I'm busy and are so loving cool and laid back about it, nearly 80% of requests come in with a note of "This is absolutely not important please don't interrupt anything you're doing, we're cool if you want to address this in a week or two whenever you have time." I'm a server. One of my biggest pet peeves is people complaining about drinks being low when I'm running around like mad. I'd love to have customers regularly who were "When you have a moment" when I'm running around because I'm the only server and the place is packed.
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Oct 19, 2017 20:52
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iospace posted:I'm a server. One of my biggest pet peeves is people complaining about drinks being low when I'm running around like mad. The only person that matters in the world is me and I want everything now. v-- Lol yeah, at first I was thinking it was going to be an amusing soliloquy from a servers point of view. MF_James fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Oct 19, 2017 |
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Oct 19, 2017 20:57
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iospace posted:I'm a server. This has a totally different context in this thread.
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Oct 19, 2017 20:58
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Judge Schnoopy posted:This has a totally different context in this thread. i was confused for a moment
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MF_James posted:v-- Lol yeah, at first I was thinking it was going to be an amusing soliloquy from a servers point of view.
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MF_James posted:clear your work queue, aka just close tickets you don't like, got it. queue's so large this would be at least a day long project
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Oct 19, 2017 21:04
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Judge Schnoopy posted:This has a totally different context in this thread. I do have 100% uptime! Haven't missed a day yet.
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Oct 19, 2017 21:05
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HELLO SMITHERS YOU'RE QUITE GOOD AT TURNING ME ON
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Oct 19, 2017 21:07
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RFC2324 posted:i was confused for a moment Marvelous advances in AI and machine learning you see, now they talk back to you!
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Oct 19, 2017 21:16
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Judge Schnoopy posted:This has a totally different context in this thread. Not always, if you were a fan of the cartoon reBoot. 
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Oct 19, 2017 21:19
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Samizdata posted:Not always, if you were a fan of the cartoon reBoot. The number of puns made the show.
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Oct 19, 2017 21:35
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Hot or not
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freeedr posted:Hot or not I keep seeing something new and interesting every time I look at it. Why bother with Velcro when it look like that? Its used in no consistent way. I love the cables that are coupled together. Quality stuff. I am the dangling patch cable in the middle. I like the phone with cables dangling over it. The switch hanging vertically is a nice touch.
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Oct 19, 2017 22:27
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freeedr posted:Hot or not This is what I'm used to, and I love cleaning it up. YOU WILL BE SORTED, BUNDLED, ROUTED, AND LABELED! 
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Oct 19, 2017 22:36
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freeedr posted:Hot or not Oh for real homie
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Oct 19, 2017 22:49
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freeedr posted:Hot or knot Fixed that for you.
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Oct 19, 2017 23:20
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freeedr posted:Hot or not Not, at first, but hot when the fire happens.
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18 Character Limit posted:The number of puns made the show. Yup. Like the frequently seen downtown billboard for "Merrimac Monitors". EDIT: loving homophones! Samizdata fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Oct 20, 2017 |
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Oct 20, 2017 03:07
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Dick Trauma posted:This is what I'm used to, and I love cleaning it up. Go on...
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Oct 20, 2017 03:34
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Samizdata posted:Not always, if you were a fan of the cartoon reBoot. After the devastation the first time they lost a game, I imagined what a gaming rig must be like, the bombed out remnants of civilization, with listless shambling corpses that wish they could finally die, as game after game falls from the sky.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:After the devastation the first time they lost a game, I imagined what a gaming rig must be like, the bombed out remnants of civilization, with listless shambling corpses that wish they could finally die, as game after game falls from the sky. Yeah, that happens in the series to some places.
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Oct 20, 2017 06:52
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18 Character Limit posted:Yeah, that happens in the series to some places. I need to get the DVDs and watch that again.
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freeedr posted:Hot or not Looks much like the "network closet" at the store we just acquired.
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