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Bob Morales posted:Only 10% diskspace remaining on on FS1 Wipe it all, say nothing. See what happens  .Also you should totally check the "ping pong" videos to see how much of that is actually hardcore pornography first.
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The Claptain posted:A friend was working as sysasmin for local government office some yars ago. Someone, i think from IT, put a bunch of movies on a file share, and informed the users that they can watch them. He also told them they should not open them from there, but rather copy them to their own machine before watching. In Army Basic Training I was the idiot who put my hand out when the Section Commander asked 'who here knows a bit about computers?' That turned into being the guy to rip images and videos off rotten.com etc to use for 'desensitisation nights'. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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Humphreys posted:In Army Basic Training I was the idiot who put my hand out when the Section Commander asked 'who here knows a bit about computers?' Never raise your hand to that question, not even in the most dire of circumstances. "Thanks for fixing the computer, your quick thinking saved the lives of hundreds of hostages! Before you go what do you know about printers?" gently caress. That. Noise.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Never raise your hand to that question, not even in the most dire of circumstances. "Thanks for fixing the computer, your quick thinking saved the lives of hundreds of hostages! Before you go what do you know about printers?"
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anthonypants posted:It's one of the most important lessons they'll teach you in basic. I learned from my dad of the 3 most important lessons you learn in the army. Don't be first, don't be last, and never volunteer.
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CitizenKain posted:I learned from my dad of the 3 most important lessons you learn in the army. Don't be first, don't be last, and never volunteer. And NEVER EVER say you were in Cadets or whatever it's called in the USA. ESPECIALLY never mention it was Air-Cadets.
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anthonypants posted:It's one of the most important lessons they'll teach you in basic. One of my drill sergeants barely knew my name. I won basic in my company. They barely even registered I was there. It was the best of times, truly.
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Humphreys posted:In Army Basic Training I was the idiot who put my hand out when the Section Commander asked 'who here knows a bit about computers?' Woah when did rotten.com go away? Such a staple of internet culture, lost forever.
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Mar 10, 2018 13:36
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You can find it all at zombo.com
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Mar 10, 2018 15:36
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Please don’t use windirstat in 2018.
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Mar 10, 2018 15:43
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brb running spacemonger on all my servers
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SEKCobra posted:Woah when did rotten.com go away? Such a staple of internet culture, lost forever. Holy poo poo! I threw that out there as the 'popular' site people would know for shock sites back maybe 20 years ago. I don't know how I feel about it not being around anymore:/
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Humphreys posted:Holy poo poo! I threw that out there as the 'popular' site people would know for shock sites back maybe 20 years ago. I don't know how I feel about it not being around anymore:/ Sounds like it had one last shock to give you  .
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Sickening posted:Please don’t use windirstat in 2018. Why not? What's wrong with it and/or what's better? I'm not particularly tied to it, but it works well as far as I see and is in Ninite's list so I consider it part of my default install package.
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Jaded Burnout posted:brb running spacemonger on all my servers 
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CitizenKain posted:I learned from my dad of the 3 most important lessons you learn in the army. Don't be first, don't be last, and never volunteer. That's common military knowledge in any military around the world.
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Shitey web apps are pissing me off. Trying to sort out one i particular that only works in IE, in compatibility mode, added to trusted sites, when Jupiter is in ascension etc etc Almost every computer I've tested on just throws an error saying the acivex objects couldn't be created and I can't figure out what is different between those that work and those that don't I got it working on a VM and now I'm seriously considering getting the users to just RDP to that. There's only like three of them sharing the same account anyway.  This if for an EU government agency. The last shitey web app to piss me off was also a major government agency (in the US) that required a very specific and completely obsolete version of Java.
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Having no budget to maintain my personal IT poo poo is currently pissing me off. I've been keeping my tape backup server limping along over the years (in addition to offsite backups to Glacier) but for some reason my install of BackupExec 2010 started throwing E0008821 errors and crashing the BackupExec service. And for some reason, maybe it being the fact that the program is seven years old. Google says that the E0008821 error means that services aren't started which is the biggest no poo poo moment ever, but there are no clues as to why the service is unexpectedly halting in the first place when it ran fine for months after the initial install. Anyone have any good recommendations for a free or cheap backup solution that'll backup to LTO3 tape? Bonus if it has virtual tape library capability.
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Mar 12, 2018 16:07
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Veeam is the only option worth considering.
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Veeam is king if your system is compatible and you're OK with the options they give you. If you want full configurability, Amanda Community lets you do anything. But it is command-line-only and is somewhat obtuse even for that antiquated design ethos. http://www.zmanda.com/amanda-community-edition.html (There's a paid Amanda version with a UI but at that point you probably want Veeam.)
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Mar 12, 2018 16:28
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The Fool posted:Veeam is the only option worth considering. This, Veeam is loving king, I think it has issues really scaling up, though I've never run into problems, we back up ~60 VMs with it. We don't do tape so I'm not sure if there are pitfalls there. You can also download a 30 day free trial of Veeam so you can see if it works for you.
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And honestly if you are backing up physical servers for whatever dumb reason you have them, the veeam endpoint is pretty solid too. Its even free!
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Agrikk posted:I've been keeping my tape backup server limping along over the years (in addition to offsite backups to Glacier) but for some reason my install of BackupExec 2010 started throwing E0008821 errors and crashing the BackupExec service. And for some reason, maybe it being the fact that the program is seven years old. My personal hell (or if I'm lucky, my next job) will consist of hunting down Backup Exec errors, never resolving any of them.
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Echoing as above, Veeam. My company moved away from it and I have never been able to figure out why.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Echoing as above, Veeam. My company moved away from it and I have never been able to figure out why. The people that wanted to move away (and make the decisions) have never used it, they thought something else was shinier.
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The best answer I ever got as to why would you do this thing, was "we didn't like it." I now use something called Altaro and it's.... well it's okay. I want Veeam back though.
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Can confirm Veeam works pretty sweet with tapes too. I've only used direct file to tape, but it does a pretty nice job of things.
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I'm never worried with Veeam. I still do quarterly tests but I've used Veeam at several places and Veeam has always let me know if it ran into an issue backing up. If it says a backup is good I've never had it not be good. (Always test your backups!) It's just the peace of mind knowing it's doing what it's saying and I don't have to worry about it. Veeam will sometimes throw a warning about a single VM not being accessible but it makes it into the next backup, never multiple backups straight in my experience unless something is actually wrong. You can use Veeam ONE to monitor last good backup and alert you of all of this before it's a problem. Veeam ONE is also a great tool in general. I really like the overview of my entire infrastructure and quickly seeing which hosts are near capacity (or over).
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We had a fairly wide-spread issue with our wireless access today. Due to the nature of service desk work, we got 5 or 6 different reports which all ended up being about the same issue. So, the guy actually handling it closed all the duplicates and kept one master ticket, because our ticketing system doesn't allow linking tickets. The part that pisses me off is our tech guy dedicated to one building on the other side of town says "Hey, you closed this but we still have the issue." Us: Sorry, mate. We're tracking it through a master ticket because it turns out it's not just you guys. Him: We’re advised not to close tickets if the issues still persist. Motherfucker, you know how this system works, it's not even me who chooses to close tickets, the ticket handler marks it as resolved. The part that super pissed me off is he sent his first email to me and the guy handling the ticket. The "don't close tickets" email was only sent to me. So I smacked him down with a "It was a duplicate ticket, and those should always be closed immediately." No response to that.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Can confirm Veeam works pretty sweet with tapes too. I've only used direct file to tape, but it does a pretty nice job of things. Is this licensed or the free edition? From this link I see that Veeam Backup Free Edition apparently has tape support, but I've downloaded the Veeam B&R v9.5 and I cannot seem to find the tab where I create a new backup files-to-tape job. I click on Tape Infrastructure and then File to Tape. I select my target, select Full Backup. When I click on Add New for the Media Pool, It takes me to a space where I'm to add a Tape Library, and the "Add Tape Library" list is blank. This server has a pair of IBM ULTRIUM LTO3 SCSI drives direct attached. What am I missing?
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Agrikk posted:Having no budget to maintain my personal IT poo poo is currently pissing me off. I just realized I have this problem myself. My desktop has had one piece or another exchanged in a constant state of upgrades since the mid-90s. It's literally the same computer but everything has been replaced a few times. I suspect I'm not alone here. Anyways I decided to look up my hardware and found that I'm using an 11 year old processor and a 7 year old video card. Time flies.
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Agrikk posted:Is this licensed or the free edition? I think you have to put the tapes in and name them to populate the list and then add the tapes to the pool then you can pick the pool when you set up a job. I know there's some extra stuff you can instal for powershell too, maybe that's the part you need for automating the tape jobs? It's on the Veeam page somewhere and it's pretty simple to set up.
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Agrikk posted:Is this licensed or the free edition? Afterwards you need to create a new copy job to mirror the local disk copy to a tape media set. Otherwise the tape library will sit idle. You can execute a copy job on a repository or on a specific backup job. Also you must use the same type of tapes supported by all the drives on the library as you cannot force a drive to use lto4 and another one to run lto5. SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 12:19 on Mar 13, 2018 |
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I just wonder if everyone needs one? Some salespeople are on the road all the time and could sign into one computer to search for info or put in their sales contacts. Okay, CEO. Let's save money on the 4 sales people we have by not spending $700/user for a license on each of them. That makes sense.
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Bob Morales posted:I just wonder if everyone needs one? Some salespeople are on the road all the time and could sign into one computer to search for info or put in their sales contacts. "Hey CEO, I'm just wondering if every exec needs a desktop outlook licence? Some execs are in meetings all the time and could sign into one computer to read and send emails"
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Jaded Burnout posted:"Hey CEO, I'm just wondering if every exec needs a desktop outlook licence? Some execs are in meetings all the time and could sign into one computer to read and send emails" Never float a suggestion like that, even as a joke, unless you're prepared for them to say yes to it.
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Jaded Burnout posted:"Hey CEO, I'm just wondering if every exec needs a desktop outlook licence? Some execs are in meetings all the time and could sign into one computer to read and send emails" I mentioned that people can access it from their laptops and phones, so it's not like they only use it while in the office. She then starts on "I don't like people having remote access" Whatever
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Bob Morales posted:I mentioned that people can access it from their laptops and phones, so it's not like they only use it while in the office. She then starts on "I don't like people having remote access" Waahhh why is the business so expensive and hard to run when I won't accommodate modern technology and efficient business practices boo hoo
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I'm not sure I'd try to change the mind of an exec who had a tendency towards restricting remote access. That's actually a pretty good trait to have, you just gotta mold them carefully.. like get them to sign off on remote email, but keep the database with all the customer data buried deep inside the lan.
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xzzy posted:I'm not sure I'd try to change the mind of an exec who had a tendency towards restricting remote access. That's actually a pretty good trait to have, you just gotta mold them carefully.. like get them to sign off on remote email, but keep the database with all the customer data buried deep inside the lan. She thinks you'll only steal all our customers if you're on VPN at home. I said you can export a customer list and save it to a USB drive in 5 minutes. What's the difference? The silly part is we have a very small sales team. So you're looking at saving $700/year for 4 users...$2,800 a year. Meanwhile, the main reason our costs are going up is that we're opening service centers. Each one has 1 if not 2 technicians, and they need an access license (they fill out service orders on iPads). We do 150 incidents a day, we used to have a girl here enter them all (and have the techs submit them on paper) but it makes more sense to do it this way. 17 techs now and we're going to have 7 more. 25 * 700 = $17,500 a year So when the owners said "Why did our software costs jump from $80,000 to $97,000 last year? We were quoted originally at $70,000? Why does it keep going up? Who picked this software package? Blah blah." Let's see. Business is growing. You opened a location in another state and put 10 people out there. You opened a service division and added a poo poo ton of service guys. More people are using the software and they price it by the user. On the other hand, if we closed a location or laid people off, the software cost would go DOWN. "But our old software wasn't charging us per user" Sorry. Subscription models are the norm today and that's how it goes. Besides, the old software couldn't do 1/10th of what this stuff could do. Do you want to go back to how we did it before where remote techs couldn't look at tickets, enter sales orders for service, etc? Because we can do that...
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