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GoatShaver posted:Not sure what you mean - two are logged in currently on that particular box. There are other ways to connect to a box besides RDP. For example, if you open up services.msc and right click the root node of the tree in the left pane, you can hit Connect to Another Computer and log into the other server to see services without actually RDPing or kicking anyone off. Since this is a new page, time for some content: I've been at my job 6 months, and I've been assigned nothing to do, despite asking for a project. I've been ignored by my other team members, and talked over in meetings because they know more, being 20 years older than me. They rarely say anything other than "hi" or "bye". I sit in a tiny fabric box staring at grey walls and a grey ceiling. Why is it, now that I've given my notice to  out to somewhere (hopefully) better, do they all suddenly want my help completing their work? Is it because they want someone to blame when I'm gone? I can only assume so.
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GoatShaver posted:Not sure what you mean - two are logged in currently on that particular box. From your own workstation, ->Control panel, administrative tools, computer management. -> action menu -> connect to another computer -> Services. You don't need an RDP session to handle services. Pretty crucial bit of info if you plan to manage a windows environment.
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May 23, 2014 19:22
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2012's Server Manager makes all of this a lot more apparent, I think, and that's a good thing.
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May 23, 2014 19:42
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Urit posted:There are other ways to connect to a box besides RDP. For example, if you open up services.msc and right click the root node of the tree in the left pane, you can hit Connect to Another Computer and log into the other server to see services without actually RDPing or kicking anyone off. Sickening posted:From your own workstation, ->Control panel, administrative tools, computer management. -> action menu -> connect to another computer -> Services. Oh oh oh oh, I forgot all about that. Lack of sleep/surplus of studying other stuff is taking its toll. Thanks for the reminder! Turns out, though, that two datastores have some corrupt data in there which was causing it. More migrating...
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May 23, 2014 20:01
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AlternateAccount posted:2012's Server Manager makes all of this a lot more apparent, I think, and that's a good thing. Except for the $150 question: Why do I need to buy individual CALS for remote desktop  They are not included in my volume licensing which makes it a pain to explain
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May 23, 2014 22:01
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gently caress CALs forever. You've paid for the server software and you've paid for the client software.
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May 23, 2014 22:17
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Sickening posted:From your own workstation, ->Control panel, administrative tools, computer management. -> action menu -> connect to another computer -> Services. psexec \\computername sc start whateverfuckingservice I really enjoy pstools.
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May 23, 2014 22:21
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Caged posted:gently caress CALs forever. You've paid for the server software and you've paid for the client software. Amen. Very expensive sheets of paper.
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May 23, 2014 22:46
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Pissing me off today: having to watch an awesome person walk because there was no room for advancement.
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May 23, 2014 22:46
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Moey posted:Congrats! Going from a part time job chucking furniture to a T1/T2 combined support job. I've been told that I can get into a Jr. Sys. Admin job when I get the certs and work with the admin group there. So I'm pretty happy right now as I've been wanting to move beyond Help desk and now I have a pretty good opportunity.
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May 24, 2014 05:10
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Gratz that sounds p sweet I hope it stays that way! Don't forego any opportunities to learn something new and assist people doing things that scare you, pretty soon you'll be the guy explaining it to someone else.
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May 24, 2014 18:04
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Lysandus posted:None of you can hold a candle to Fizz Buzz Enterprise Edition There's always 2fast2fizzbuzz.  sfwarlock posted:Pissing me off today: having to watch an awesome person walk because there was no room for advancement. I've been considering doing this for a long time because my current workplace is a mismanaged mess and there's been no real progression in my work for over a year, but I'm not sure where to go or what to do next, so I've mostly just been stagnating and getting burned out. 
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sfwarlock posted:Pissing me off today: having to watch an awesome person walk because there was no room for advancement. That's been us recently. Couple of IT people, even our admin/secretary person left because they kept adding responsibilities for accounting, but didn't want to pay beyond someone to answer the phone and watch a door. When they asked for more money, they were told that the position didn't have room for advancement because no one thought about it before, and told the person to wait until they do the end of year review. Zamujasa posted:I've been considering doing this for a long time because my current workplace is a mismanaged mess and there's been no real progression in my work for over a year, but I'm not sure where to go or what to do next, so I've mostly just been stagnating and getting burned out. If my department wasn't me and 2 other people, I'd think we work for the same place.   CitizenKain fucked around with this message at 21:10 on May 24, 2014 |
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May 24, 2014 21:04
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CitizenKain posted:When they asked for more money, they were told that the position didn't have room for advancement because no one thought about it before, and told the person to wait until they do the end of year review. Ugh, "We only do raises at the end of the year/during performance reviews" is the most cowardly excuse to be a cheap shithead.
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Zamujasa posted:There's always 2fast2fizzbuzz. I can usually sort of understand code if it's logically structured, obviously there's something else going on with this guy. What's it doing? Something like trying to simultaneously do all the numbers at once?
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I can usually sort of understand code if it's logically structured, obviously there's something else going on with this guy. What's it doing? Something like trying to simultaneously do all the numbers at once? Yes, through threads, then each thread is printing it out character by character then yielding, with 100 threads running concurrently, they all overlap (you'd normally handle this with a mutex each would lock so only one at a time was writing). It then waits for then all to finish and exits. Without waiting for join, it would invoke them all and exit before they calculated/finished, after some (but not others) may print some characters, or maybe none, leading to totally undefined behavior evol262 fucked around with this message at 00:30 on May 25, 2014 |
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May 25, 2014 00:23
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Zamujasa posted:There's always 2fast2fizzbuzz. This is magical 
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evobatman posted:Pissing me off: Two work weekends this month, one in the north sea, one in Scotland, where I think I'm going to be just carrying carboard boxes. Since these boxes contain desktop computers, it's an IT job. Back from Scotland, and in addition to carrying boxes, I was over and under desks all day plugging and unplugging computers. My feet, knees, hips, back, neck and clothes are all ruined. I bought this, don't give me any poo poo for it:  Edit, just to clarify: My company paid for all the costs for me to go to Scotland from Friday to Sunday to unplug computers at one desk and then have someone else carry (most) of them to another building where I then plug them in again. And my work is done at weekend rate, which is 100%. I don't mind, because it's going into my house fund, but they couldn't hire a couple of kids from a temp agency for whatever they pay you in Scotland? evobatman fucked around with this message at 15:55 on May 25, 2014 |
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Urit posted:Since this is a new page, time for some content: So you literally had to do nothing? I'd be pretty drat cool with that, gives you more time to study up on things.
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I've been in similar situations, and while you do learn to make the best of it, it's boring, makes work unfulfilling, and makes you wonder if you're going to have a job soon. I don't recommend it.
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May 27, 2014 11:41
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dogstile posted:So you literally had to do nothing? I'd be pretty drat cool with that, gives you more time to study up on things. The only time I would be okay with this situation is if it had a clear end in sight. "You're done with your part and can't start on anything else until team 2 gets their part finished" or something. Even then I would be looking for ways to help team 2 or starting a new branch on my "completed" part and trying to squeeze in one more "wouldn't it be cool if" feature if I had the freedom to do so. Having nothing to do for an undefined amount of time would have me looking for new jobs because you drat well know as soon as the bosses figure poo poo out, they're going to give me approximately 5 seconds to get out of the building.
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evobatman posted:And my work is done at weekend rate, which is 100%. Great so you get paid the same as weekdays 
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Jerry Cotton posted:Great so you get paid the same as weekdays You know what I meant 
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guppy posted:I've been in similar situations, and while you do learn to make the best of it, it's boring, makes work unfulfilling, and makes you wonder if you're going to have a job soon. I don't recommend it.
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Zamujasa posted:I've been considering doing this for a long time because my current workplace is a mismanaged mess and there's been no real progression in my work for over a year, but I'm not sure where to go or what to do next, so I've mostly just been stagnating and getting burned out. I'm right there with you. The job market where I live is atrocious which doesn't help the situation. I've been considering a career change but can't decide on a new path.
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Che Delilas posted:The only time I would be okay with this situation is if it had a clear end in sight. "You're done with your part and can't start on anything else until team 2 gets their part finished" or something. Even then I would be looking for ways to help team 2 or starting a new branch on my "completed" part and trying to squeeze in one more "wouldn't it be cool if" feature if I had the freedom to do so. Having nothing to do for an undefined amount of time would have me looking for new jobs because you drat well know as soon as the bosses figure poo poo out, they're going to give me approximately 5 seconds to get out of the building. Depending on what they hired you for, they might want someone in reserve. poo poo that's pissing me off tonight? Customers who want me to set up their stupid loving PC's but keep kicking me off every other PC in the practice so I can't grab the printer settings/ports to set them up and the place has its phones turned off so I can't just call them and tell them to cut that poo poo out. The place was meant to be closed half an hour ago, I shouldn't be wrestling with them so I can use a PC for five seconds. Its weird too, I looked at a blank desktop for a couple minutes to see if it was in use, nothing moved until I moved the mouse and opened a window. Once I did that, they instantly close the window. Let me work dammit! Quickedit: Oh, nevermind, i can just use the print server to grab the settings. Whoops, lot of anger for nothing.
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dogstile posted:Depending on what they hired you for, they might want someone in reserve. Yep, been there. We use running documentation via OneNote at our company now for poo poo like this, that way we never even have to touch a server or workstation. All printer information and addresses go into the notebook, if for some reason it doesn't work then take a look at the server Any new client (ie: past 6 months) just has an automated setup. Printers mapped, shared drives attached, etc and it rules. We're rolling it out slowly to older clients, but I don't get to touch it at all. I just look like a wizard when I create an account in AD and the person logs on and already had every relevant printer, network drive, and web app shortcut on their computer. "WOW death .cab that's awesome thanks!  "
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So someone finally took a look into why all the backups are failing since Friday. Well now we know that our ESX liscences on our servers have expired 
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:So someone finally took a look into why all the backups are failing since Friday. Well now we know that our ESX liscences on our servers have expired Huh? Were you running them in trial mode?
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Apparently the story is that we'd worked with VMware to temporarily upgrade to perform a VMotion transfer when one of our Hosts failed or was failing. I'm not sure of the particulars or the technical just that it was done to enable VMotion. That upgrade license has expired at the end of last Friday.
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today is my last day and I am really not sure why people think saying "I'm going to call you when we need help" is a compliment, but well
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Departing users who express sentiments about how they don't believe anyone else on the team can do what they do or take over their work. You don't know what we're all capable of, and hey, YOU figured it out. Maybe I am reading too much into it, but it just stinks of someone finding themselves too exceptional to replace.
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:Apparently the story is that we'd worked with VMware to temporarily upgrade to perform a VMotion transfer when one of our Hosts failed or was failing. I'm not sure of the particulars or the technical just that it was done to enable VMotion. That upgrade license has expired at the end of last Friday. I did the temporary trial on a handful of hosts at an old job to get some SvMotion (before that was available in standard).
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:today is my last day and I am really not sure why people think saying "I'm going to call you when we need help" is a compliment, but well It's a compliment as long as they don't actually plan on doing it.
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Che Delilas posted:It's a compliment as long as they don't actually plan on doing it. And if they do plan on doing it, it's a great opportunity for work on the side.
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Ticket came into our Remedy queue after level one took a look at it: INC00000000045045 Monitor not working (Reported by client) 0918:00 RPD into client computer. Desktop looks fine. Issue resolved. 0945:00 Client called back to indicate that the monitor was still broken. 1000:00 RDP confirms computer is working fine. Transferring to level 2 for follow up. 1005:00 Called the client and confirmed that, yes, the monitor was not getting any power at all, I tested and replaced it. (Issue loving resolved.) (Holy poo poo, how the gently caress can RDP test if a monitor is working or not? loving idiots.)
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Often we get told that the monitor is not working, when in fact the whole PC is powered off. Or we get told the computer is broken and nothing ever works etc and all that happened is someone bumped the power button on the monitor.
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Varkk posted:Often we get told that the monitor is not working, when in fact the whole PC is powered off. Yeah, I know. The client often gets the monitor and the desktop confused. But it was kind of fun to vent a little.
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tango alpha delta posted:Yeah, I know. The client often gets the monitor and the desktop confused. But it was kind of fun to vent a little.
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anthonypants posted:Or it could be they tried to call the user while remoting in, but since the computer at the user's desk doesn't work they're at someone else's desk and calling from another phone. But even then, you shouldn't resolve a ticket when you can't get confirmation from the user that the issue's really been resolved. You know what else I just can't get enough of? When clients walk up to my desk and say "Are you busy? This'll just take a minute..." Cut a ticket or gently caress OFF.
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