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 No one technically inclined that I interact with at work seems to understand what the VPN does. Even when I called a tech support for a networking related issue with one of their products, they didn't get what the VPN is.This is mostly apparent to me when an issue comes up and they say something along the lines of "Do we need to forward ports or something?"  no.. no we don't.
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"What are you working on?" as my boss approaches me apprehensively. I pause a moment, soaking in the complex network of terms and understanding he has and doesn't have. I click some things, stalling for time as I attempt to explain how I've been reworking how some view scripts work in Django, into simple words. "I'm making the site better! See you can click this thing and it makes it easy to do this!" "Oh good." He clearly just doesn't actually care/understand.  Forced interaction/conversation
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Comcast: we "upgraded" to the business tier Comcast service at our small office, the service-guy came out and put in a big ugly router/modem combo which came with the service. Except this modem/router combo didn't allow for any sort of VPN passthrough (or configuration!) so I had to call the guy and explain that we need a dumb modem and that we already have a router that does everything we need. He didn't believe me and thought it was a configuration problem on our end so I had to go through the official tech support and got elevated a few times till I could finally talk to someone who understand what "your poo poo doesn't have any passthrough" meant and they understood right away and scheduled for a switchout the next day. loving Comcast.
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| # ¿ Sep 15, 2010 14:56 |
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Bob Morales posted:Non-Mac trackpads on laptops This is the complaint of dainty men. When I first got my netbook I was frustrated with the 1" x 2" track pad, the scroll infuriated me. After a year of using it, I appreciate the minimal amount of effort required to use it once you understand exactly how much pressure is required to use it and get a sense of the scroll zone. I had a MBP at work for 4 months and when I didn't have a mouse it gave me the worst loving RSI feeling. 
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I work at a public access TV station, I'm only IT guy where I work, I guess you could also say I'm a broadcast technician of sorts, since I'm the only one that understands the broadcasting equipment. I'm the only one who knows how the network is set up, let alone what a network is and how to fix it. I'm also a programmer at heart and I remade our terrible website into a database-driven flower that runs on Django for their convenience (the automated backend which looks and works great), that they refuse to go near. I'm underpaid, my title doesn't really match any responsibilities I actually feel responsible for, I don't have enough hours in the week to do all the things that are important. But even with all the things I do for so, so, so very little, it's always my fault when I can't read minds.  "Hey Mido, I forgot what I was going to ask you... What was I going to ask you?... ... ..." "... ... I don't read minds! ha ha!" "ha ha" "... ..." I guess I'll go back to working then... *type type type* "Oh, right, apparently... the website... I was talking to the chair of the board and she was rather irate about not being able to find the member's meeting information. I'm a little confused why it's so difficult to keep the site up to date, and the front page only has old information! Well I gotta go, check your email" "uhh alright, have a nice day"(I did my best to emulate the actual flow of conversation) The email is a very slightly scathing, passive-aggressive last attempt to make me magically aware of what everyone's complaints are before they are an "issue" Included is a quote from the board chair: Chair posted:I'm feeling like my requests to have the website updated weekly are being ignored.... what is it going to take to have a functioning website for [our business]? Right now, there are announcements for August up.... this is not okay. What is it that we need to do to accomplish this simple task? I'm becoming very frustrated with this issue. It's pretty lame for me to complain, but the gist is: Don't work for nonprofits. Don't loving do it. You can be a goddamn wizard, do everything that everyone before you never did at 1/16th the pay scale and hours (no joke), you can turn water into wine, solve computer problems that have plagued them for years with the wave of a hand. You can make this business perform like it never, ever has with your own graces alone. You could be loving Jesus. Annnd everything isn't working well enough, it's all your fault and we're concerned about your inability to get it all done. Mido fucked around with this message at Sep 29, 2010 around 20:23 |
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pimpedlightsaber posted:There's still an administrative assistant doing everything by hand w/Publisher because "it was too hard and our ISP won't support it." loving I can have a $5/mo host support all that, I'm sure yours will too. Fun fact for anyone dealing with non-profits. Dreamhost offers free hosting for non-profits. I don't know the details, just that the non-profit I slave for happens to have free hosting on dreamhost because we are a non-profit. People make fun of it, but so far the support has been pretty good. We were on an old server which didn't have Django or Passenger WSGI. Their support told me exactly what to do to request a move to a newer server, I put in the ticket, whammo, 20 minutes later I'm sshing into a new server and setting things up. EDIT: though there was that time they updated Django on me without warning and some little things broke... EDIT 2: I've been meaning to ask: The non profit I work for is a place of ~7 people, currently I get various types of information from 6 of these people, and all in very exciting ways; in person only making me write things down, on vague post-it notes left on my desk/monitor edge, in vague emails I have to follow up sometimes, through other coworkers who don't remember things well and I have to follow up anyway. I was thinking a solution to my "too much lovely request data" was to establish a ticketing system, I've set up Spiceworks just as a test, but I can't shake the feeling that asking 6 people to use a ticketing system could be overkill. Has anyone else implemented/effectively used ticketing in small groups? It is just madenning to keep track of all the spam mail I get vs the staff emails vs emails that don't matter. I can't keep track of tasks very well, the only solution I can come up with is ticketing, but I don't want to burden everyone else. Mido fucked around with this message at Sep 30, 2010 around 08:34 |
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Stonefish posted:gently caress everyone else. Ticketing is the right way to do anything. I can't argue with 'dem words! But surely you understand my predicament. Suddenly everyone needs to send everything to support@[company].com internally instead of just mido@[company].com, I can't help but feel they are just going to do it wrong over and over and I'm going to have to explain it to them over and over, then get suggestions during meetings that "The ticketing system isn't working! you're not a team playa!" V V I over think things. I'll give it a shot. I'm basically going to quit if this ticketing system goes over poorly, it's the final straw. As I described above, I turned this whole place up side down and cleaned it up technically, but now I almost regret it. When everything sucked balls and was broken (ie: before I had touched it), no one blamed me if something wasn't working.
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thelightguy posted:Write a program about two characters writing a program about two characters writing a program[...] Take it a step further and make an inception trailer but instead using recursion. Grab the trailer music and go hogwild.
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All the broadcasting equipment my coworker and I are responsible for is in a building we can only access between 8am and 5pm Monday through Thursday. Thursday at 7:00pm  "Hey Mido, Channel 26 doesn't have audio, can we run over there and fix it?" "No. And we can't get in there till Tuesday actually, because they are closed for Columbus day." "  " "Yep."My coworker was doing some maintenance at the last minute and missed a spot. Any Given Friday "Hey Mido, I can't remote into the server to update the TV schedule. I checked the router and apparently the VPN is down. So I power cycled the router and the modem a few times" "I'll check the normal port forward."... ... ... "Nope. The vpn router is frozen again." " " "Yep."SOHO VPN routers. Never again. The Cisco RVS 4000, if anyone can recommend a cheap VPN router that doesn't freeze randomly, I'm all ears. I'm considering finding two junky computers and installing pfSense on both and using OpenVPN, has anyone tried this?
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My daily poo poo: Comcast. Is there a codeword for "I am not a retard. Please take my proposed explanation more seriously." with Comcast tech support? Every time I have to explain; no, it can't be the modem, no it's not the router, yes I have tried plugging my computer directly into the modem, no power cycling doesn't fix it. For a month now our internet literally resets if the upload passes ~50kbps. The modem log suggests that the ISP is actually sending a cold-restart message to the modem infact. We replaced the modem, the router, replaced a switch in the network, we have had TWO technicians come out and test our cabling in the house. One even climbed the telephone poll and couldn't figure it out. Now the tech who gave me his phone # isn't returning my calls and is not picking up. gently caress Comcast
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| # ¿ Oct 19, 2010 04:15 |
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Citizen Z posted:You know what pisses me off?  By the gods...
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From my limited experience, it seems more important to decide if someone is good at IT based on... whether or not they are good at IT. Shocking, I know. edit: That is to say that there is no magic code, and depending on one could potentially rule out a perfect fit. That's not to say I don't understand why people use degrees, it cuts out half the work of actually looking at all your applicants. Know what I'm sayin? Mido fucked around with this message at Nov 7, 2010 around 12:28 |
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Stiffie-Hellman posted:Chinese language packs. Some of our software can become corrupted by these being installed, and we have multiple warnings stating this. As a policy we fix it for free the first time and charge for our time on each time thereafter as they've been verbally warned to uninstall the language packs. However try explaining this to someone with terrible English who is just demanding that you "unlock his file now", for the 5th time in the past 6 months. And God forbid you try to assist them in uninstalling the drat things.  Is this out of some kind of failure to use unicode/long strings?
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rscott posted:I literally did a  Jesus. Did he have anything to say? Or did he just kinda shrug and walk off like I imagine a slightly disturbed person would.
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Horrible laziness and communication of what should be internally known and accessible information. Example: I wanted a few dates/times for some classes we're teaching. He links me to a press release on another website which has the brochure in this magical flash thing where I have to click next page 20 times or w/e, and then because it's a flash viewer I can't copy/paste the information and just uuggghhh why don't you know this you're the one organizing this in the first place gently caress.
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Puck42 posted:Today is my last day on this contract. It's amazing what upper management considers trainable skills. Why yes, I can transfer all my technical knowledge and intuition to a complete dingbat in just 3 weeks or less! The other week at a staff meeting, The Boss was suggesting that we train someone on doing our live broadcasting setup as a backup person (no pay, all volunteer), he had someone in mind, someone with zero audio/video/technical understanding. "Can't you just make the broadcasting setup fool-proof?" No, no matter what I do, I can't fully prepare them for if something goes wrong, and I can't do much for them when they call me at 9:00pm in a panic because they forgot some trivial thing or don't know how to fix some vague error they can't describe. Forgive me for being cautious about how I'll let you waste my time.
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Bob Morales posted:Fancy college degree. Academically I am the least qualified person here. Skill wise I am dramatically overqualified and overshadow everyone here (not saying much, not gonna lie). A girl here has a degree in Multimedia, but doesn't even know what a codec is.
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| # ¿ Dec 30, 2010 21:30 |
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Bob Morales posted:Cool empty quote but I'm confused. Is the poo poo you come across: how I spelled something, bullshit degrees (like a degree in the broad field of "multimedia"), or people like me? All of the above?
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Sweevo posted:I really love it when you're trying to find a manual or some technical document, and the 80MB PDF you just downloaded turns out to be a two-page glossy flyer with zero content. $company + $modelyou'relookingfor + $somerandomnumbers + "_Manual.pdf" "Yes!" ... "No!"
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"Mido! Make a slide out of this and get it on the air ASAP!" I look at the email, it's a 2 page press release from some local non-profit that is relevant for another 2 months (why the rush??). I'm expected to make a single 720x480 slide that is easily readable on NTSC televisions, out of all that information. Attached are a bunch of really low resolution or unusable graphics that they add "try to throw these in there somehow" to.
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On the topic of hold music. Sonic.net up here in the north bay plays Cake. Best hold of my life 
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captkirk posted:This whole not responding thing is not the fault of the OS and all the fault of the application. If there is a good chance of some task taking a long time the application should run the task in another thread and give some indication that work is happening rather than running in the same thread (which should be doing things like handling user input and all that jazz). Yup. It's hardly a problem, glitch, bug or even design flaw. It's quite truthful really. the OS has no idea of knowing whether or not the lack of input handling is because the program is actually doing something worthwhile or if it froze. It says it's not responding because it isn't responding 
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rscott posted:Unofficial duties include the aforementioned IT work I do when the IT Guy isn't around and the office DJ (I hope you like 90's/stoner/classic rock). For all of this I get the measly sum of $10/hr. Being in this kind of position is hell. I make $13 (after some small raises) an hour doing way too loving much.I started work at this community access station right as the former programming director (who made $40k salary I believe) died of 5 strokes 2 days into my trial/internship. No one was trained on our broadcasting equipment or knew how anything was wired. Everything would have been hosed if I wasn't around, because I immediately volunteered to go figure it out. Which I did, with no support or help, I got the station moving again, and even revised our entire method of getting new material processed and put onto the air. I did this for a few months, working only 20 hours a week (with an angry boss if I went above this), while the previous guy who died of 5 strokes in a weekend was easily working about 45 hours a week barely putting together schedules. Regardless, I figured that poo poo out, got it squared away, I trained three seperate loving idiots who all dropped because it was kinda complicated and they knew nothing about computers for the most part (super duper, training people less qualified to me to make more money than me!). One guy finally stuck, though he's still kinda clueless. I was an impromptu programming director, broadcast technician, graphic designer (making brief ads or PSA bulletins for airing), small-office IT guy, for 5 months. All on 20-25 hours a week at $10 (eventually $13) an hour. After that I decided our hilariously bad website that we paid someone $4000 dollars to make was terrible and I made a new one for scratch, which makes all other access station websites look like a joke, for no extra money, all while receiving a pretty goddamn negative review from my boss about 7 months in. My boss is... Understanding on some level and gave me a $3 raise over time, but I don't think it's getting any higher than this. But he has said some illegal things to my coworker who is my same age, he said verbatim "I would pay you more if you were older." This applies to me as well, but he hasn't said it to me, so I can't get in on any hot legal action, and my coworker is a pussy and just doesn't want to rock the boat. Someone please save me. I live in the north bay and I want a real job 
Mido fucked around with this message at Jan 18, 2011 around 16:09 |
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Internet Explorer posted:Some of you are loving masochists, Jesus Christ. The market up here is also chock full of academically qualified, practically helpless candidates, I don't have lot's of ins or networking in terms of IT departments anywhere. I just have my modest resume which seems to get ignored a lot. I want to apologize for my whiny-as-gently caress post, but reading about your $10/hr situation made me froth at the mouth. The Fool posted:No one is stopping you from sending out a bunch of resumes while you're still working. From what I've heard around the area I live. Whenever a tech related opening pops up, they easily have 90+ (sometimes 200+) resumes to sort through. Which goes back to what I said above.
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J posted:This phenomenon has never made any sense to me. I'm trying to break down the lovely management / lovely HR line of thought on it but I can't come up with anything other than "Well we don't HAVE to give Mido a raise, so we won't." It just seems like a great way to insult your employees who actually know poo poo well enough to train others on it. What was frustrating at the time was that I was telling my boss; I can do this Programming Director job, but I need more hours or I can't do all this IT stuff on top of it. But they went ahead and hired someone else entirely (saying I wasn't dedicated enough to the details of the job  ).God drat just give me 35 to 40 hours a week, give me $15 an hour even, you'll be saving money and I'll be doing a hell of a job. Docjowles posted:wait wat
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The guy responsible for the entire company's IT infrastructure is making $16/hour? Both of you need to quit, those wages are criminally low for skilled labor.
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I didn't get my paycheck 2 working days after timesheets were due. Which is sort of normal, sometimes there's an extra day or two for whatever accountancy magic happens. Except day 5 rolls around (a Friday) and I'm thinking about some bills coming up. I call the bossman. "Huh, weird, you don't have a receipt in your email from addsup?" "Uhh nope." "Hmm okay, I'll check it out on Monday" Monday, "Hey boss, still no paycheck, any news?" "I was waiting on you to check your email for the receipt, still not in your bank account?" "Uhh nope."  Apparently my timesheet got lost in the fax cloud, twice. Technology!
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  Perhaps this relates to our heating problems? It wasn't covering or insulating anything significant (some resistors and some unused solder points). It is the size of the chip that heatsink covers, approximately. Except I couldn't safely pry that loving heatsink off. I tugged and pulled but there was some kind of glue, and I wasn't about to pull off a glued heatsink and be unable to glue it back on. Are there special thermalpaste + glues I can order online or something? I don't want to take it off without a way to put it back on. For those who don't know, this is a Cisco RVS 4000 that has been causing me all sorts of problems ever since we bought it. Mainly it just... Stops working sometimes. The problem seems environment-based, as we have 2 of these and which ever one we put in Site B exhibits the same problems, which makes me think heat. I took the casing off the router I had in Site B and it seemed to last an extra few days before randomly stopping and refusing to work until a reboot.
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rscott posted:Overall a pretty productive day! Isn't this the IT guy's job? Or are you also the IT guy, I thought it was just your roommate/friend.
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I said "gently caress it" to our small business lovely VPN router and decided to set up the RRAS/VPN role in Windows Server 2003. Except when I try to do it, this amazing thing happens. Every time I go to add the RRAS/VPN role it whines that WP/ICS is enabled. WF/ICS is disabled you piece of poo poo. I've turned it on/off, rebooted, on, rebooted, off, rebooted, just for shits and giggles since googling the error is just giving me people who are too dumb to follow the instructions. I went to each NIC and made sure that the ICS options were turned off (they all were), and if I try to go to Control Panel > Windows Firewall, it errors out that WF/ICS isn't enabled. Any ideas? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnO9Jyz82Ps This is me, I'm the Warden. edit1: as the poster below pointed out. I don't have eyes or a brain. edit2: poo poo I come across daily: myself Mido fucked around with this message at Feb 3, 2011 around 05:03 |
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A friend of mine makes about $43k a year doing a decent IT job. That's easily 4x what I make, which I'd be fine with if he actually had any idea what he was doing. I'm currently in the middle with a Server 2003 tussle where the RRAS/VPN wizard didn't "just work" and I can't establish a VPN to my server after lots, and lots, and lots of goofing with configuration options (and making them match a friend's 2k3 server who I can VPN into). So I come to this guy who works with windows server daily apparently, I explain my issues, all the things I've tried. His first, serious suggestion is "I dunno, reinstall windows I guess" I laugh it off and ask him "no really" and he just seriously re-suggests "I just reinstall windows, it should just work from the wizard". "What the gently caress" I think, how do you work with this stuff professionally and totally rely on the wizards for everything? I go to another guy who I generally consider windows-apt, "You could reinstall windows I guess" loving christ! My poo poo that I come across daily are IT people who don't have a troubleshooting process beyond 'Take it all out and put it back in I guess'
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mono posted:Is this box also running ISA? Yes, it's doing NAT so there's a WAN NIC and a LAN NIC I haven't tried, I'll do that first thing. I've been trying to configure this remotely for the most part so I hesitate to do things that might cut off my ability to RDP to the server, where I don't have physical access 24/7. afflictionwisp posted:lovely consumer router not passing GRE? Derpes Simplex posted:Crowley posted:Christ man! I make twice that, plus pensions.  I enter a phase of depression every month or so and send out resumes, but the market in the north bay is saturated with people who had the financial wherewithal to get through colleges and have stacks of certificates/credentials (who I find myself continually cleaning up after). I'm nearing the end of my patience for the IT field, but mostly this job. I'd really just like a place to notice me and I could start out at a Junior position and afford school, go to paid-for certification courses etc. I don't really have any "ins" into a better IT job. For now I float by on about $900 a month, trying to get a game development portfolio together and enter an even more volatile career path. I sound more bitter than I am. I'm 20 and just trying to make ends meet. With the latest tax cycle I should qualify for FAFSA and every financial waiver the local junior college offers, so I have that going for me. I'd love it if anyone could glance at my resume and tell me if there's anything I should change or reword that might help my chances in the market. I've been doing this kind of IT stuff since I was about age 16 being paid contract ($40/hr or so for quick jobs, pretty weak but I was accepting given the risk they take). So I feel like that gives me '4 years experience' but who knows. I'll stop all this rambly poo poo as soon as the 2011 good-job gods smile upon me, I swear. edit: VVVVV Bob Morales posted:You could be 35 and have a mortgage and kids and a wife (or a divorce). Mido fucked around with this message at Feb 22, 2011 around 15:32 |
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boo_radley posted:Mido. Seriously. Mido. I did some webdev work for a small "sweatshop" and they were snooty/prideful about their use of just text editors, and the general sentiment I've gathered from web developers is that dreamweaver is kind of a waste of effort  You're right though, my resume is hilarious now that you people put it in perspective.Factory Factory posted:I am a real bastard of an editor, but I don't want to poo poo up the thread too much with that, so here's the short list:  quote:On the CCNA at the bottom, do not say "Taken where," say "Awarded/renewed on <date>". I don't believe where you took it is really relevant; what is is that you have the cert. rolleyes posted:DustingDuvet is a resume genius, so I'm going to pimp his thread if only for Mido's benefit: click here to continue the year of the job. I'm going to hit this guy up right now. This is why I posted my lovely resume, thanks guys. ( funny enough, the aforementioned well-paid IT friend said my resume looked great  )edit: loving christ $95 - $120 is a lot right now. edit 2: G'drat these posts of mine are huge, I'll be slim from now on I promise VVVV: sent an email, time's not a huge issue, I want out but I'm not in a rush. Mido fucked around with this message at Feb 23, 2011 around 03:48 |
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TheBandOffice posted:It's a good amount of cash, but tons cheaper than most resume-writing services. If you can get the money somehow, it may be the best I've got the money, I just try to be smart and keep a $500 buffer at all times for any emergencies (which has been a very good thing so far ), but I'm inevitably going to use this service because if a $100 can get me even a meager $30k a year job...
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boo_radley posted:To be clear, I'm not suggesting that you not mention Notepad++. Just do it in a way that's clean and professional. Yeah I got that, you just asked "Why the gently caress would you write that" and I told you, and have conceded that it was a stupid thing to write.
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Midelne posted:If you've already taken the material and it was relatively natural for you, do some review then take the exam. It's the start of a lot of fun. Joiiiin usssss... I really should. I have the last 2 books of the 4 for the original CCNA curriculum, along with a buddy who works at a halted supply retailer, who has snagged some Cisco routers for his own enjoyment (  ).
Mido fucked around with this message at Feb 23, 2011 around 15:47 |
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mono posted:Can you VPN to it via its internal IP? Just wanted to give some credit here. I finally had a good chance to "focus" on the VPN problems today, and it looks like this was the winning advice. I tried to make a vpn to 127.0.0.1 on the RRAS server, it spat out error 913, one quick google later: go to compmgmt.msc -> rras -> ports -> right click, properties -> pptp -> configure -> check the "enable incoming connections" box. 
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So last week, around Wednesday, one of our PEG channels audio became very fuzzy, make-the-channel-inaudible fuzzy. Just as my coworker who is able to troubleshoot these things as well as I am became very ill and has been out sick. I don't get around to it till today ontop of my stack of poo poo I have to do already. I go to our broadcasting equipment, do some tests, figure out that it's definitely not our equipment, it has to be Comcast's end. I go to call the phone numbers of the regional head-end cable-tv routing guys, all the numbers we have written down are disconnected. I wade through level 1 tech support, get a manager, get another guy, eventually get the guy we need (1 hour of holds later), I tell him I need his help with this issue. He says he'll call me back. 5 hours later I get a phone call, he says he's going to look at it on his end, call me, and come in first thing tomorrow. 3 hours after that (jesus how long does this guy work?) he gives me a call and says he figured out that they recently migrated our signal to some new equipment on their end, and the new equipment was garbage and loving our poo poo up, so he said he replaced it and it's all good now.  Why don't people test these things!!
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Roving Reporter posted:How some of you aren't raging alcoholics [yet] is beyond me though. Not 21 yet. 
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GargleBlaster posted:The other thing is having success in the first place. I think inspirational quote of the day for me (oh noes I'm turning into my management!) would be "If you chase 2 rabbits both will escape" meaning that if the worst comes to the worst and you're struggling to do 2 projects on time, pick one and concentrate on that. Failures are bad, but 1 success and 1 failure is still better than 2 failures. What do you do if you're chasing 12 rabbits? 1 success 11 failures?
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edit: holy poo poo just as I was typing up this angry self hating post it about my 2k3 vpn issues, it succeeded and works now. I can finally make a VPN into our Site B from Site A. It was a pretty good plethora of little things but in the end I feel like one of the bigger issues was that the WAN NIC was on a small network (192.168.1.0/24) between itself and the modem, which by default was configured to not share the actual WAN address. I didn't consider this an issue since all my port forwards worked so how could it be a problem. Well for shits and giggles I made it share the WAN address with the server so the WAN NIC got a class A address, along with RRAS > ports > pptp > enable incoming connections, and a small list of other things also contributed but those were the big 2. It's the little things in life  edit: I'm very glad that I didn't just "reinstall windows" as 2 people suggested to me at one point, because it required me to get really dirty with all the troubleshooting I was doing, running port queries and fudging with the ip tables in windows, not to mention poring over every single option in RRAS
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