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Methanar posted:
I'm truly loving your posts, seeing you stretch and learn and explore. It's so god drat cool to watch and I want replace my unmotivated minions who will never progress beyond "monkey see light, monkey press button" with people just like you. Keep approaching everything as a challenge and opportunity to learn and you're going to go far.
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indeed. wanting to solve a problem by thinking is a great trait that many need to pick up.
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Aug 26, 2015 04:04
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Yeah, it's a nice thing to see. A good thing to always remember is that there are often multiple solutions to a problem. The real skill is identifying the best one.
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Aug 26, 2015 04:14
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I was looking at job postings before heading to bed when my wife was in the room, and said "wait, what?" out loud in response to one that I saw. She knows enough about the certifications I've done/worked on that even she laughed when I told her there was a job posting that wanted someone with A+ or CCNA certification. Like, these are two equivalent certifications and are interchangeable. 
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Aug 26, 2015 04:18
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Started my new job Monday, still going through company training and haven't seen my desk yet, but an interesting tidbit came up in the email security section. The cloud spam filtering service quarantines nothing and just appends *Spam* to the subject. I think I inherited a network with your service and just finished ripping it our and switching to Mimecast...? Life has been much nicer since.
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Aug 26, 2015 04:57
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 I threw outlook into offline mode somehow and am now convinced someone is actively trying to sabotage me
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Aug 26, 2015 13:21
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flosofl posted:I'm truly loving your posts, seeing you stretch and learn and explore. It's so god drat cool to watch and I want replace my unmotivated minions who will never progress beyond "monkey see light, monkey press button" with people just like you. I beat up our desktop rep all the time because of this. He wanted to know how to make more money and I answered "Show actual interest in the field, stop passing bucks, look into the things you don't now how to fix so you can be more qualified. If you only push the buttons I taught you to push, then you aren't advancing. I don't have time to be your personal IT tutor." He still hasn't "Got it" yet.
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Aug 26, 2015 17:41
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Rhymenoserous posted:I beat up our desktop rep all the time because of this. He wanted to know how to make more money and I answered "Show actual interest in the field, stop passing bucks, look into the things you don't now how to fix so you can be more qualified. If you only push the buttons I taught you to push, then you aren't advancing. I don't have time to be your personal IT tutor." 
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Aug 26, 2015 18:02
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So I'm still pretty new in IT, learning things and whatnot. I just had I think my first ever "what the gently caress" moment at work, though. On a scale of bad-very bad how bad is it that I just discovered that two of our Windows 2012r2 servers haven't been updated ever and apparently have over 100 updates pending/missing? But in WSUS they're both reporting as being fully updated with nothing missing, which is why I'm kinda confused. edit: to reflect reality FaintlyQuaint fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 18:07
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Rhymenoserous posted:I beat up our desktop rep all the time because of this. He wanted to know how to make more money and I answered "Show actual interest in the field, stop passing bucks, look into the things you don't now how to fix so you can be more qualified. If you only push the buttons I taught you to push, then you aren't advancing. I don't have time to be your personal IT tutor." Alternatively, learn to bullshit
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Aug 26, 2015 18:07
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FaintlyQuaint posted:So I'm still pretty new in IT, learning things and whatnot. I just had I think my first ever "what the gently caress" moment at work, though.
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Aug 26, 2015 18:11
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Comedy option: recruit
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Aug 26, 2015 18:12
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FaintlyQuaint posted:So I'm still pretty new in IT, learning things and whatnot. I just had I think my first ever "what the gently caress" moment at work, though. That probably means no one is approving updates.
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Aug 26, 2015 18:13
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adorai posted:I'm not sure 2012r2 has had 1000 updates released. Oh, I'm dumb. 131 with 10 optional. Not 1310 with 10 optional. 
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Aug 26, 2015 18:16
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FaintlyQuaint posted:So I'm still pretty new in IT, learning things and whatnot. I just had I think my first ever "what the gently caress" moment at work, though. We don't have the WSUS Group Policy applied to the servers OU, only workstations. Might be the same at your shop.
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Aug 26, 2015 18:33
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Dark Helmut posted:Comedy option: recruit  FaintlyQuaint posted:Oh, I'm dumb. 131 with 10 optional. Not 1310 with 10 optional. I had that picture expanded, got up to do something else, sat down, and instinctively tried to click on "Install Updates." Japanese Dating Sim fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 18:38
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How is it spergy that I refuse to teach every bit of knowledge I gained in 10 years to a person who can't even be bothered to open google up and give it a go? I'm not a teacher, this isn't a classroom.
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Aug 26, 2015 20:12
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I'm with you. I'm all for showing Jr. guys how to do things but some of the "went to school for IT" guys I run into now a days just want everything fed to them. At some point you have to figure something out on your own. There won't always be someone there with knowledge to bail you out.
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Aug 26, 2015 21:05
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Knowing Tab812638123 that probably isn't what he meant.
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Aug 26, 2015 21:08
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Here is Robert Half's which I've found to be laughably high based on all of their ridiculous modifiers: Interestingly, I had the opposite reaction - the salaries listed there are incredibly low for the Bay Area, so I guess you need to have a modifier for the area of the world you live in.
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Aug 26, 2015 21:16
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aaronp posted:Interestingly, I had the opposite reaction - the salaries listed there are incredibly low for the Bay Area, so I guess you need to have a modifier for the area of the world you live in. There are regional modifiers in there by state. Looking up San Francisco's it's value is 138. So that may have skewed the numbers a bit low for you if you didnt adjust for that. Still overall I think it aims high for every job description. As someone else had mentioned they have an incentive to get wages hire for placements. Still it works as a rough guide or starting point for people.
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Aug 26, 2015 21:19
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BaseballPCHiker posted:There are regional modifiers in there by state. Looking up San Francisco's it's value is 138. So that may have skewed the numbers a bit low for you if you didnt adjust for that. Still overall I think it aims high for every job description. As someone else had mentioned they have an incentive to get wages hire for placements. Still it works as a rough guide or starting point for people. Ah that makes more sense, closer when you add in the modifier.
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Aug 26, 2015 21:21
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Rhymenoserous posted:How is it spergy that I refuse to teach every bit of knowledge I gained in 10 years to a person who can't even be bothered to open google up and give it a go? I'm not a teacher, this isn't a classroom. It's not a classroom and you're not a teacher but "I beat up my coworker who asks too many questions" sounds abrasive. EDIT: This sort of attitude reminds me of previous gigs where questions where answered with ltmgtfy. There's no need to be passive-aggressive or a dick. Gucci Loafers fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 21:45
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Tab8715 posted:EDIT: This sort of attitude reminds me of previous gigs where questions where answered with ltmgtfy. There's no need to be passive-aggressive or a dick. I responded with lmgtfy when a coworker asked me "What percentage of 2.2 GB is 1.7 GB?" It was justified.
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Aug 26, 2015 21:57
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captkirk posted:I responded with lmgtfy when a coworker asked me "What percentage of 2.2 GB is 1.7 GB?" It was justified.
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Aug 26, 2015 22:02
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captkirk posted:I responded with lmgtfy when a coworker asked me "What percentage of 2.2 GB is 1.7 GB?" It was justified. Personally, I don't think it's funny unless you can type their exact question and get an answer. For example: What is 1.7 GB / 2.2 GB in percent?
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I'm in the process of researching certificate services for our environment; googling is a mixed bag of decent stuff, and stuff in comments filled with "this article is NOT best practices" which is a red flag. Is there a good book or resource that anyone can recommend for Windows PKI best practices and planning? I always like to have a reference guide anyways - so its worth it to shell out. This is a long-game implementation that I'm just beginning to review; not a rushed "push it out" thing. Walked fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 22:20
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Tab8715 posted:It's not a classroom and you're not a teacher but "I beat up my coworker who asks too many questions" sounds abrasive. Yeah I give him poo poo because he doesn't care enough about his job to learn on his own, yet constantly whines about his payscale, and he requires constant micromanagement. We won't even delve far into the fact that he views being told to google something and research an answer as some kind of wild insult. Big dumb babies that require hand holding through literally every aspect of their professional lives should just work retail as god intended. And no I don't yell at him for wanting to know how some widget in active directory works, I yell at him for the constant stream of low effort troubleshooting that clog up my queue when I'm supposed to be working on poo poo like firewalls/exchange migrations/etc. The number of times I've fixed a "Major printer issue" by just walking over to the dumb thing and rebooting it, deleting/readding the drivers, or just killing a corrupted print queue are basically uncountable. Yet when I review his browser history at no point do I see google searches on the subject, but plenty of facebook. Dr. Arbitrary posted:Personally, I don't think it's funny unless you can type their exact question and get an answer. Calc.exe Rhymenoserous fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 22:37
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Does anyone have any experience with Super Anti Spyware? I had a user today who swore IT installed it on his computer. I don't think he's lying, I don't think he's computer literate enough to install something. Someone else probably decided to do it. He was unable to open links in his email, do you think that's a setting in there? I wanted to just uninstall it, but I guess that's for T2.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Does anyone have any experience with Super Anti Spyware? I had a user today who swore IT installed it on his computer. I don't think he's lying, I don't think he's computer literate enough to install something. Someone else probably decided to do it. It's fine - as good as MBAM in my opinion. Legitimate at least.
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Aug 26, 2015 23:18
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Sounds like malware to me. He probably got a call from Microsoft to install it. Edit: Nevermind
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Aug 26, 2015 23:18
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:It's fine - as good as MBAM in my opinion. Legitimate at least. Ah, okay. From what I read it is really lovely, I obviously never used it. We get a lot of users who decide they need to install their own antivirus or anti-malware software, and since we give everyone local admin nobody finds out until something breaks.
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Aug 26, 2015 23:30
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I found super anti spy ware useless and time consuming compared to mbam + adw cleaner.
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Aug 27, 2015 00:48
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Personally, I don't think it's funny unless you can type their exact question and get an answer. You pretty much can: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=1.7+%2F+2.2+*100&l=1
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Personally, I don't think it's funny unless you can type their exact question and get an answer.  Wow it works.
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LMGTFY is funny, but Wolfram Alpha gives them pretty pictures to look at. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+is+1.7+GB+%2F+2.2+GB+in+percent%3F
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LMWATFY? Meh, I like giving out LMGTFY links to coworkers occasionally. We have a good working environment and are chill with each other, so it's not a condescending thing.
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CloFan posted:LMWATFY? Meh, I like giving out LMGTFY links to coworkers occasionally. We have a good working environment and are chill with each other, so it's not a condescending thing. It exists. Kind of. http://lmwatfy.com/index.html Someone took a stock website template, shoved a WA widget in there and called it a day.
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KillHour posted:LMGTFY is funny, but Wolfram Alpha gives them pretty pictures to look at. Wolfram alpha is nice for weird hypothetical questions, like the nutritional value of a Cheeto the mass of the moon: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mass+of+the+moon+in+cheetos
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Wolfram alpha is nice for weird hypothetical questions, like the nutritional value of a Cheeto the mass of the moon: This part legit made me laugh. quote:Assuming baked Cheetos
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