RE: A ticket came in: Did they take the printer into the shitters with them?

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rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

KoRMaK posted:

Ughhh, stop assuming things!

Just say the problem. "My poo poo looks funny, here look!" loving X Y problem poo poo

Just in case anyone here hasn't seen this before. Read it, memorize it, internalize it. http://xyproblem.info/

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 00:56

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 00:39

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

We got that stuff for our conference room that lets you flip a switch and the glass becomes opaque or transparent because blinds weren't cool enough I guess. Except they didn't want to pay for the actual glass so we got some lovely film, and they also didn't want to pay for a professional to install it so... yeah.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 02:08

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

Wibla posted:

I remember some CSI Miami episode with glass like that, going when I first saw it. I need that for my office door... (glass wall with a slide glass door basically)

It's actually really cool when it's the actual glass. This film probably works decently too, but when you have a couple of guys in the office installing it instead of a professional...

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 15:11

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

I've got a 6P that occasionally prompts me to enter my PIN. I find the argument that having to enter your PIN every once in a while completely negates any convenience created every single other time it doesn't ask you to a little silly.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2017 05:37

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

angry armadillo posted:

My boss invited all our 1st line guys to a central meeting, mainly as a team building thing really but to meet some of our central guys, put faces to names etc.
We all work at various places across the country so he put them up in a hotel for a night to cover travel and took them out for food.

It reminds me of when I started this job - within 30 mins of meeting the other managers I had been asked what my salary was. Obviously, my answer was 'enough thanks' (which he didn't like )

Anyway, back to my story of all the helpdesk guys meeting up, as they all spent an evening in a hotel making the most of the money the company give you for staying away, they drank that and discussed salary, which left a number of them disappointed - although we did find out the highest earner exaggerated his pay to wind up the rest of them, but they took it seriously

Either way - my boss has a number of business cases heading his way as the first line guys now all want more money I said to my boss what did you expect getting them all in 1 room, you wont do that again any time soon eh.

If they're from all over the country, are they getting paid differently due to regional cost of living variations?

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 14:54

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

I believe you mean the time when a janitor helped you tested your redundancy and DR preparations.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2017 02:19

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

Judge Schnoopy posted:

Screenconnect is good and cheap, I don't think any firewall rules are necessary because the connection is opened from the inside of the target network.

Well, that depends on how locked down outgoing connections are.

# ¿ May 3, 2017 15:53

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

Sickening posted:

Looks like they are wanting to lay people off but are instead hoping they resign.

That is exactly what the article says.

# ¿ May 19, 2017 21:54

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

Actuarial Fables posted:

Faculty all across campus have been having issues printing to network printers over the past few days. Printers showing as offline, documents stuck in queue, printing blank pages.

This was resolved by unplugging a TV.

I am impressed. Was unplugging the TV a happy coincidence, or did some troubleshooting actually lead someone to realize that would help?

# ¿ Jun 14, 2017 03:53

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

A Pinball Wizard posted:

I'm not sure when my answers to those questions ould ever be different, tbf.

Something like "I smelled something electrical burning for a few weeks before it died last week" but yeah, I don't know if it's all that useful.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 17:42

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

For those that don't get it, please distribute this as far as possible. http://xyproblem.info/

# ¿ Jul 29, 2017 19:19

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

Sickening posted:

Anybody here have any palo alto experience that can help me with something incredibly simple that I don't understand? I have a firewall static route that doesn't make any sense to me but somehow loving works.

Try a "test routing fib-lookup" from the cli with your vrouter and see if that helps clear it up.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2017 15:47

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

is the security breach that someone ran a vulnerability scanner against their public ip

# ¿ Oct 1, 2017 14:40

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

I'm in as well.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 16:13

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

Can someone put a goddamn trigger warning in the thread title until all of this is sorted. I honestly think I might be having a panic attack.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2017 01:30

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 00:39

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

And revert back.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2017 16:15

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