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Kurieg posted:They got rid of our desk phones and gave us all software phones. They couldn’t spring for a buzzer? We had one. It got used maybe 70% of the time and the rest was people walking in and saying hello? I need help with some nonsense
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I got the dreaded time-sensitive complicated problem on a Friday afternoon right before my shift ends.
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Our health insurance changed and mine went from $76/month to $184/month. Work bumped up my pay $50/month to cover this, apparently. IDGI
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Our HR department sent out a company wide email stating that we're moving away from one pay solution to another pay solution thing, think ADP, and we all need to sign up for it. Oh and there's a brand new HR app that we can sign up for, yes it's only an app, no there's no website login. ALL AT FOUR O'CLOCK today. The most obvious of dumping poo poo out and potentially not dealing with poo poo till Monday..... possibly.
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Arquinsiel posted:Sticky notes get unfairly maligned in this work from home era TBH. Go ahead and make things convenient for yourself. If someone gets to the sticky note you'll probably care more about your TV than you will work's problems. Unfortunately, about half the time my workspace is separated from the highly intoxicated public by nothing more than a ship's ladder and a couple geriatric volunteers. If my job was full remote I could see where that would make sense. As it is I programmed a yubikey to spit it out on a long press, but still memorized it just because.
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GreenNight posted:Our health insurance changed and mine went from $76/month to $184/month. Allow me to interpret. *checks notes* "gently caress you."
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Jan 20, 2024 04:29
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$1,600 dollar paycut.
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Jan 21, 2024 04:15
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Yeah and we were told Dec 27th. One of the folks in IT was on vacation that week and he had $2500 in an FSA. Old insurance was re-done every April. This was changed starting Jan 1. Guess who lost his FSA? What a company.
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Jan 21, 2024 04:35
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Thanks Ants posted:Onboarding is not an IT task, it is a line manager task. Line manager gets the laptop and the credentials (temporary access pass if you're on board with all that) and gives them to the new hire when they turn up. Thanks Ants posted:I spent half a day working with an external company on some Teams stuff, and my hot take is that Teams as a phone system is passable in a world where everybody is using headsets, doesn't really make or receive actual phone calls all that often, and you just want someone to have a number they can use to give out to tech support or whatever. If you want a telephone on a desk then it's complete poo poo, run away. Awful platform. They just reassigned all the people that used to handle voice line stuff to managing Teams at my place. Surely that's the same skill set, right? It's all phones.
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That’s what we did and it worked out fine, especially since we went remote-only in 2020. The telecom guys spend most of their time dealing with Five9 and the call centers anyways.
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Hello old friend
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20 years old and looks every bit of it
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It's quite literally old enough to drink. Is it still in use 
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A Frosty Witch posted:It's quite literally old enough to drink. Is it still in use It was until yesterday until the equally old 8 port netgear 10/100 switch feeding it died. I was honestly surprised a switch that old had POE ports.
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Entropic posted:It was until yesterday until the equally old 8 port netgear 10/100 switch feeding it died. I was honestly surprised a switch that old had POE ports.
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Jan 24, 2024 22:48
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Very little has changed on wired networks for about two decades, you could buy a gigabit PoE switch in 2004 and that's still the standard option now.
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Thanks Ants posted:Very little has changed on wired networks for about two decades, you could buy a gigabit PoE switch in 2004 and that's still the standard option now. Well, passive PoE was a bit of a mess, the newer varieties are much better. And just because you could get a gigabit PoE switch in 2004, it was hardly the “standard”. It’d be more comparable to 10 gig stuff now.
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We still have some HP 2610 switches in prod. They are long-lived bastards.... We're replacing them this year.
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Welp, no  at least this time around.They can't afford what I need at the moment. Can't win 'em all. And in all honesty, I've got a pretty good gig right now. Management leaves me the gently caress alone. I can pretty much work on whatever I want. I've got tons of flexibility in scheduling. And the pay ain't half bad, either. But that interview experience definitely reinforced my thought that they will be a good place to look when I need somewhere to land. Definitely won't be here long term mainly because my poo poo is going away, eventually.
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minusX posted:TIL that PoE was first standardized in 2003. (Along with 2009 PoE+ and 2018 PoE++/4PPoE). That's a long while of magic with two things in one wire. PoE has come a long way. I worked with some PoE gear (Motorola Canopy, cool stuff) in the early days, and it was wild. Switch had 8 ports, 4 powered and 4 not - the 4 powered were for the incredibly powerful outdoor antennas, and the other 4 were for the local network, a laptop to configure the things, devices that had power injection down the line, etc. The ports were not auto sensing. Had quite a few people standing on top of a mountain that were super mad at us because they plugged their laptop into a port without checking and released a tiny bit of magic smoke. I'm much happier with modern PoE standards.
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Wasn't ubiquiti originally spun off from Motorola a long time ago? I vaguely remember there being a reason that their gear used a different wattage than everyone else. I know I've been guilty of frying some wireless bridges in the past by not checking the PoE settings. That's a mistake you only make once or twice.
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Silly Newbie posted:PoE has come a long way. I worked with some PoE gear (Motorola Canopy, cool stuff) in the early days, and it was wild. Switch had 8 ports, 4 powered and 4 not - the 4 powered were for the incredibly powerful outdoor antennas, and the other 4 were for the local network, a laptop to configure the things, devices that had power injection down the line, etc. Nothing wrong with backwards compatibility for updating old installs and even supporting that style long-term for specific applications that want it, but when there have been appropriate standards with significant benefits for literally decades at this point there's no excuse to not support and use them by default.
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Exciting career opportunity here: https://twitter.com/en4rab/status/1751302219700269448?s=46&t=dQl6Iu6Wmq7antcZ30Prgw
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Gulp indeed.
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Entropic posted:Exciting career opportunity here: The link might be dead, but it lives on thanks to the almighty power of archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20240128011135/https://www.gulp.de/gulp2/g/projekte/agentur/C00929028 Windows 3.11 used for the operational displays in a train cab. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Wasn't ubiquiti originally spun off from Motorola a long time ago? I vaguely remember there being a reason that their gear used a different wattage than everyone else. No, it was started by some radio engineers who did a lot of work for Apple and some other silicon valley companies. I did tech support for them for a short period. Company was run by engineers, and that results in a LOT of very odd priorities.
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"Hello we wanted the cheapest solution possible so we bought a webcam and it's not picking up the sound very well in a meeting room that seats eight people, what can we do?" Stop being tight, buy the right stuff would be my suggestion.
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Thanks Ants posted:"Hello we wanted the cheapest solution possible so we bought a webcam and it's not picking up the sound very well in a meeting room that seats eight people, what can we do?" By seven more webcams, problem solved.
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If it doesn't adequately solve the problem, it's not really "a solution", is it?
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Thanks Ants posted:"Hello we wanted the cheapest solution possible so we bought a webcam and it's not picking up the sound very well in a meeting room that seats eight people, what can we do?" Ugh I'm about to do just this. I have to be remote for an in-office meeting and the mic for the conference room is the Logitech webcam on top of the television. Every meeting sounds like I'm listening to a butt-dial
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nielsm posted:A strong password written on a safely kept note is better than a weak password you don't need to write down (because it's so simple). what about when your large enterprise (250,000 people give or take) requires everyone to use an 8 character password
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Thanks Ants posted:"Hello we wanted the cheapest solution possible so we bought a webcam and it's not picking up the sound very well in a meeting room that seats eight people, what can we do?" We have all these super expensive Cisco systems at work, I try to order systems based on the room, and get extra mics if necessary. Still had someone move a system from a small 10x10 room and into this giant conference space. Then they sat on the far end of the table. Yeah no poo poo the camera can’t see or hear you, people with you in the room can barely hear you.
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:what about when your large enterprise (250,000 people give or take) requires everyone to use an 8 character password Tell them that AS/400 is old.
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Thanks Ants posted:"Hello we wanted the cheapest solution possible so we bought a webcam and it's not picking up the sound very well in a meeting room that seats eight people, what can we do?" Had a ticket today for a business customer with packet loss. After some digging we found that it was a medium sized company that was running their entire business off of a single cable modem. Surprise, they were being rate limited due to the absolutely insane amount of bandwidth they were consuming. The company is an MSP.
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wolrah posted:The WISP folks really love passive PoE (the kind that fries poo poo) because they can just wire things straight to a battery and have it work, which I guess makes some sense, but I find it endlessly frustrating that multiple vendors still to this day are releasing new hardware that doesn't support modern standards at all and only does the passive garbage. Wait, people still build devices with passive PoE? My story was from like 2005, I figured everyone would have figured out just sending the bit that has the power. Wild. Re: cowboy engineer based wireless products, in that same early 2000s time period we did support for a customer who built and sold WRT-54g style home routers with a 1W antenna. They meant it for use on ranches or other places where you might need an acre of wireless coverage or whatever. Based out of Utah. It was great until someone put one in like a city apartment and set it to channel 6, just blanked out everyone in the rest of the building. I heard they got in trouble with the FCC because the wattage control was a physical dial on the board in the case and went over 1000mw if you turned it, but I was never able to corroborate it.
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Our current "remodel a whole floor to the new standard" standard has the lights powered by PoE. I think that makes sense versus running that many more actual power runs, but my hat's off to whoever thought of it.
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