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Thanks Ants posted:Meraki? He said controllers so no, not Meraki
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Sickening posted:So apparently the production wireless network at my previous workplace has been down since tuesday. My previous boss, who I feel I had a great relationship with, finally reached out to me by text as a last resort. The details were every ap/controller is online, but not functioning with clients. About 30 spanning 3 IDF's. All went down the same day. This sounds like the true Meraki experience. e: ^ drat you're right
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Dec 7, 2017 22:57
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You also can't click on a single Meraki page and not see the massive red banner at the top clearly explaining that your APs are down because your license expired. They make it painfully obvious what's happening, to the point where a non-IT person can understand why it's not working. There wouldn't be a mystery if they were on Meraki. vvv maybe they were on trial licenses that needed to be purchased before X date? Judge Schnoopy fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Dec 7, 2017 |
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Dec 7, 2017 23:01
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I'm drawing a blank with which other wireless vendor kill-switches the product if you don't renew licenses.
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Dec 7, 2017 23:01
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Judge Schnoopy posted:You also can't click on a single Meraki page and not see the massive red banner at the top clearly explaining that your APs are down because your license expired. They make it painfully obvious what's happening, to the point where a non-IT person can understand why it's not working. There wouldn't be a mystery if they were on Meraki. Bingo. These are all cisco ap's on controllers all using the trial licenses. Some licenses for the controllers were purchased by my boss but I think the count was only 4 total and we needed at least 30. These were all new ap's and controllers as we did a massive overhaul and like a lot of things I expected him to shuffle his feet on buying them since they are expensive. I suspect there was some other changes that were made to the network as the controller based ap's would keep their configs, or should. I asked him if the ap's were showing up in the list of the controllers and he answer "no" so there is no doubt the licenses expired. Doing some googling, it looks like they are only good for 3 months. I am sure waiting on CDW to get them licenses is going to be a fun wait.
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Dec 7, 2017 23:12
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I can't get my head around the thinking that is happy to pay for that much hardware, the site surveys, the physical install of the equipment and then not just put the licenses on the initial purchase. It's not like after three months you'd go "nah this isn't for us".
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Dec 7, 2017 23:17
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Thanks Ants posted:I can't get my head around the thinking that is happy to pay for that much hardware, the site surveys, the physical install of the equipment and then not just put the licenses on the initial purchase. It's not like after three months you'd go "nah this isn't for us". Because you didn't need them day 1, order them later! I was already on my notice period and had checked out. We had gone through a roller coaster of ap's not coming with antennae despite CDW listing them on the product and poe injectors not coming with power supplies. Normally I wouldn't even ask for approval and just buy them, but at that point I had already handed in my credit card. The only thing we did right during that rollout was the site servey and third party installation of the ap's. My previous boss was also totally devoting his time to crypto currencies when I left and probably is consumed by it now. Its not very surprising.
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Dec 7, 2017 23:28
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This is the kind of story that reinforces my inclination to half-rear end my notice period documentation and cleanup as much as possible. If they're not even going to glance at it, why am I wasting my energy?
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Dec 8, 2017 00:19
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So, on licensing. We have a big customer. $700k per box, yearly license renewals for support and firmware updates etc. Customer's renewals are paid for through their contract with us. Upstairs refuses to provide license renewals because their budget is too tight. The customer who has PAID for license renewals is not getting a license renewal because someone in another country decided they wouldn't be providing a GODDAMN TEXT FILE THAT DOESN'T COST THEM ANY MONEY for someone who has already paid 6 figures. Instead, they have been cutting 30-day trial license every month for the last 5 months. For a customer we've had for at least 7 years. Trial licenses do not include hardware support....
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Dec 8, 2017 01:17
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That sounds like you HAD a big customer because I couldn't see any company putting up with that.
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Dec 8, 2017 01:27
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iRend posted:So, on licensing. Uhhhhhhhhhhh................ wargames posted:That sounds like you HAD a big customer because I couldn't see any company putting up with that. Yeah that.
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Dec 8, 2017 01:29
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Let me tell you about nVidia M60 licensing for the GRID drivers... hoo boy.
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Dec 8, 2017 15:46
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Malek posted:Let me tell you about nVidia M60 licensing for the GRID drivers... hoo boy. That would be great actually. We are getting ready to start using a few. Are there some hangups I need to watch out for?
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Dec 8, 2017 19:18
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Gealar posted:That would be great actually. We are getting ready to start using a few. Are there some hangups I need to watch out for? You will bleed money. The hardware isn't expensive... by comparison.
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Dec 8, 2017 22:27
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Student e-mailed his professor and CC'd support for some reason?quote:I am having an issue with my grade
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Dec 11, 2017 20:53
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He's being pretty reasonable about it. I've seen some students go apeshit over the same thing in the past. I also didn't realize 55% was considered a passing grade. A TA from when I was in school had the mantra "C's make degrees"
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Dec 11, 2017 20:59
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Danyull posted:Student e-mailed his professor and CC'd support for some reason? Maybe he's hoping IT can "fix" the computer to round to the next nearest whole number?
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Dec 11, 2017 21:14
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The Fool posted:He's being pretty reasonable about it. I've seen some students go apeshit over the same thing in the past. "D is for Done" was mine.
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Dec 11, 2017 21:16
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MisterZimbu posted:"D is for Done" was mine. D is for Doctor no it isnt
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Dec 11, 2017 21:29
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The Fool posted:He's being pretty reasonable about it. I've seen some students go apeshit over the same thing in the past. This can fluctuate from program/institution. Good on the engineer for seeming at least sort of reasonable. Odd he'd include the helpdesk on it. That prof can bump up that grade but it sure won't really help him down the road.
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Dec 11, 2017 22:12
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Some places also have different scores for passing in major vs out of major classes, where you pretty much have to just be conscious to pass an out of major class but in major classes require actually decent scores.
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Dec 11, 2017 22:28
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The Fool posted:A TA from when I was in school had the mantra "C's make degrees" What I heard was "A's get paid, B's get degrees"
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Dec 11, 2017 22:37
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lol the part that gets me is quote:I am also a bit concerned about how I could get a 54.49999% if grades are graded by absolute numbers and not such small decimals. You can get all kinds of decimals when calculating an average! Try getting a percentage for your 1923 points out of 2501 possible for the semester. (the answer has a shitload of decimal places) Engineering student doesn't get basic math, I guess?
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Dec 11, 2017 22:58
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ConfusedUs posted:lol the part that gets me is The professor should give him an extra credit problem to explain the math used to arrive at that score, and make it worth just enough to push it to 55%
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Dec 11, 2017 23:02
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People come up with all sorts of crazy poo poo to get out of cheating/failing at school. My fiancee got her master's in psychology, in either her last semester or the semester before that she was in a group project, one of the guys in the group was a lazy POS and was essentially going to tank the group. I told my fiancee to bring this up to the professor, which she did (guy didn't meet any of the group goals for having parts of the project done by X, Y and Z dates etc), come the final turn in, he turned in something alright. He plagiarized a fuckton of stuff from different articles/journals and poo poo, when he got called out on it he claimed he wrote a program in C++ that gathered data from a bunch of sources, did :something: and out came a paper, I can't remember everything because as soon as she said "he wrote a program in C++" I kind of glazed over and knew everything afterwards was going to be bullshit, and she knew it too. He "got away" with it, didn't get expelled, just got a really lovely grade on that project, he still passed the class and probably still graduated, he might even be YOUR therapist!~!
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Dec 11, 2017 23:09
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Well honestly, if 55 % is what he needs and he has 54,49999 % I don't see any good reason not to round even just the last digit, I mean come on.
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Dec 11, 2017 23:19
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SEKCobra posted:Well honestly, if 55 % is what he needs and he has 54,49999 % I don't see any good reason not to round even just the last digit, I mean come on. If he did poorly enough to earn a 54.999%, he maybe pissed off the teacher to the point where they felt he didn't pass the class, regardless of the grade.
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Dec 11, 2017 23:33
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Anyone looking for SysAdmin positions in the SF Bay area? We just lost one at a critical time, and we are looking to hire another in 6-ish weeks if we find a good one.
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Dec 12, 2017 00:46
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What size cardboard box will be provided as housing? Will it be recycled or made from virgin wood pulp?
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Dec 12, 2017 00:49
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Dick Trauma posted:What size cardboard box will be provided as housing? Will it be recycled or made from virgin wood pulp? Recycled of course, this is California. We like to be eco-friendly now that we have pressed all the water out of the mountains.
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Dec 12, 2017 00:51
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chin up everything sucks posted:Recycled of course, this is California. We like to be eco-friendly now that we have pressed all the water out of the mountains. Do you guys atleast add a flame retardant to the recycled cardboard? prob not a good thing for your workers to burn up.
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Dec 12, 2017 00:55
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Starkk posted:Do you guys atleast add a flame retardant to the recycled cardboard? prob not a good thing for your workers to burn up. Please, do you think the entire state would be on fire constantly if we used fire retardant?
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Dec 12, 2017 01:03
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He raises a valid point.
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Dec 12, 2017 01:05
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Starkk posted:Do you guys atleast add a flame retardant to the recycled cardboard? prob not a good thing for your workers to burn up. How do you think they lost the last one? Maybe you should pay more than $200k so the next guy can afford to sublet a 400sq ft apartment with 4 other people instead of living like a savage.
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Dec 12, 2017 01:09
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AlexDeGruven posted:How do you think they lost the last one? Hmm you make a good point.
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Dec 12, 2017 01:10
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chin up everything sucks posted:Please, do you think the entire state would be on fire constantly if we used fire retardant? Fire retardants contain matter, a substance known to the state of California to cause cancer.
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Dec 12, 2017 01:11
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ConfusedUs posted:lol the part that gets me is
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Dec 12, 2017 01:18
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chin up everything sucks posted:Anyone looking for SysAdmin positions in the SF Bay area? We just lost one at a critical time, and we are looking to hire another in 6-ish weeks if we find a good one. I'd be interested if the position is right. Would you mind sending some info to username at Gmail?
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Dec 12, 2017 01:23
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I'll send info to people as soon as the IT Manager gets the job description written up again.
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I still don't get how a passing grade less than 80% on anything is a thing. 55% pass grade? Well you did just barely better than flipping a coin, so you're obviously deserving of this certification!
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