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Ynglaur posted:Can I quote you on this? Please? I've been annoyed by this by a particular vendor for the last 8 years. Their app literally examines the JRE version at launch, and if it doesn't match exactly, just immediately fails. (Actually, it's worse: it directs you to Java.com, which of course...only has the latest JRE version.) What's probably happening is that they certified the behavior against one specific major/minor, and do not want to support issues with any other versions, since in addition to security fixes, there might be bugfixes, or new bugs introduced. Doing a full regression test against a new minor version every week is expensive, and they don't want to constantly escalate issues to engineers on the off chance that it's actually a JVM specific issue. It's bad behavior on their part, though, since the message that they're giving you is "we care more about our support costs than your internal security." You should try to find another vendor if possible.
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Bob Morales posted:Some CDN's like CacheFly have 100mb files you can try (which won't take long at all on 20mb)
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demonachizer posted:I think he wants a test for his upload not download. Not sure I see an upload test of a large size on those sites. He can still blast away at a VPS or dedicated server.
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Galler posted:You could always seed a bunch of linux isos or something. This. I brought my 100mbps server to its knees once by forgetting to limit the traffic of the Debian ISOs. I just wanted to use up SOME of my bandwidth but it maxed it within seconds.
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Ynglaur posted:Can I quote you on this? Please? I've been annoyed by this by a particular vendor for the last 8 years. Their app literally examines the JRE version at launch, and if it doesn't match exactly, just immediately fails. (Actually, it's worse: it directs you to Java.com, which of course...only has the latest JRE version.) Here you go. I had to find that a while back as we also have a poo poo program that requires a specific version of Java (1.6.0_21-b07).
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So I had to do some setup for a new workstation at work today. The guy before me labeled all of the wall jacks to (in theory) correspond to a jack on a patch panel. Today I come across a jack labeled "15-6" and until I did some trace work did not realize that it is instead "14". So I checked the rest of the building and nothing is labeled correctly. Also, the patch panel looks something like this http://imgur.com/38ZjVPF
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Simpleboo posted:So I had to do some setup for a new workstation at work today. The guy before me labeled all of the wall jacks to (in theory) correspond to a jack on a patch panel. Today I come across a jack labeled "15-6" and until I did some trace work did not realize that it is instead "14". So I checked the rest of the building and nothing is labeled correctly. Also, the patch panel looks something like this http://imgur.com/38ZjVPF Close to the thing of nightmares... but not really. I deal with this on a daily basis at 2300 different sites that some wiring schmuck went out and labeled in some abstract way that made sense to him BUT NO OTHER loving PERSON ON EARTH. God why can't people just label things 1, 2, 3 etc till infinity! Or at the very least, label the same at BOTH ENDS. This is seriously what pisses me off daily and induces a mass amount of rage.
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Swink posted:Are there services out there for testing the upload speed of a link? I need to verify the capacity of our newly installed internet link. Everything Google turns up like speedtest.net is a tiny upload file which is usually finished in 5 seconds. Seconding/Thirding the torrent route. Seed a bunch of different Linux distros and you'll clobber a 20mbit link easy. MF_James posted:God why can't people just label things 1, 2, 3 etc till infinity! Or at the very least, label the same at BOTH ENDS. Wait, what? Who the hell decides the ends of a drop don't need to be named the same? I get that people come up with bizarre drop labeling schemes, but to not label the endpoints the same thing makes for all kinds of crazy. I once ran into a scheme where some guy somewhere took a floorplan with the drops indicated and scrolled down it with a straight edge, labeling each drop as he moved the ruler down the page. So drop 1 was at the top left of the paper, drop 2 was at the top center of the page and drop 3 was at the top right, etc. It made sense in theory, but the problem was that the floor was broken up into suites that led to different wiring closets. So each closet had a seemingly random number sequence. Agrikk fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Dec 4, 2013 |
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This morning I got an email, one of the ones where there's no text in the body and the entire message is in the subject line. The guy wanted to know the status of his computer, which I took for diagnosis last week. I'll do quick repairs, including ordering parts, if it's something obvious, but I don't keep stuff like a multimeter on hand. So if it could be one of a few things I'll send it to our repair shop for a proper diagnosis, so I don't run the risk of ordering parts that won't solve the problem. This machine is in the shop. It went in right before Thanksgiving. It's Tuesday. We were closed Thursday and Friday, so they've had it for less than two business days and he knows it. Have some patience, motherfucker, or at least write a more polite email if you're going to badger us about it.
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Agrikk posted:Wait, what? Who the hell decides the ends of a drop don't need to be named the same? You know, if I could tell you who does it, they would be dead already and I'd be in jail, but it happens daily. I'll also end up with half good half terrible number schemes where they started with 1, 2, 3, but then switch to frontoffice1 or something dumb, guess what the patch is always labeled? 1-24! Time to play magical cables and checking the switch (hopefully the guy I am talking to understands link lights) so I can figure out what goes where, god forbid if they have a bunch of extra cables running from patch to switch so like 10 things have no link lights.
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MF_James posted:Close to the thing of nightmares... but not really. I deal with this on a daily basis at 2300 different sites that some wiring schmuck went out and labeled in some abstract way that made sense to him BUT NO OTHER loving PERSON ON EARTH. In addition to this, why the hell do people cut cables at the end of the jack, then slap the plate back on the wall with the jacks still in it? I spent a good 30mins going from closet to closet trying to tone out a drop, only to take the plate off of the wall and found that they've been cut. Put a drat blank plate for fucks sake. And in addition to labeling the port, they need to label which closet it goes to. All of our closets have a label above the door (1.1 - 1.x for first floor, 2.1 - 2.x for second floor). Not fun trying to figure out where a drop goes when it's in a spot where it could go to any of 5 different closets.
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Simpleboo posted:Also, the patch panel looks something like this http://imgur.com/38ZjVPF You can tell what everything is because the cables are color coded 
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We had one loving legacy single LOB web application that is used by approximately 50 people. It is/was preventing us from upgrading to the latest version of Java 7 Update 45 on ~7800 computers because it breaks this one application. Higher ups were concerned if these users happened to switch computers, never mind the loving security implementations of running ancient versions of Java. There was no technical reason why I couldn't upgrade all other computers and exclude those users but internal policies and bureaucracy prevented it. Today I finally got go ahead to approve Java 7 Update 45 in Patch Management and created an exclusion group for those 50 people...
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macado posted:We had one loving legacy single LOB web application that is used by approximately 50 people. It is/was preventing us from upgrading to the latest version of Java 7 Update 45 on ~7800 computers because it breaks this one application. Higher ups were concerned if these users happened to switch computers, never mind the loving security implementations of running ancient versions of Java. Sometimes I think it would be simpler to just provision a VM for these types of applications. Windows licenses aren't all that bad...heck, it's Java. It should work on Linux. Right? 
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Simpleboo posted:So I had to do some setup for a new workstation at work today. The guy before me labeled all of the wall jacks to (in theory) correspond to a jack on a patch panel. Today I come across a jack labeled "15-6" and until I did some trace work did not realize that it is instead "14". So I checked the rest of the building and nothing is labeled correctly. Also, the patch panel looks something like this http://imgur.com/38ZjVPF Almost the only thing done right at the place I just took over is that the jack <-> switch port mappings are very well documented. Not perfect mind you, but good enough to rely on. Oh. And the phone number spreadsheet. That's very nice, but my boss did that.
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mllaneza posted:Almost the only thing done right at the place I just took over is that the jack <-> switch port mappings are very well documented. I haven't taken over, thank god, but I am replacing one of the TWO IT staff that my work employs. The guy that I replaced was a moron who's only real claim to being in the department is that our programmer was his mother. In general since switching into this department I've had to deal with all of the stuff that he "took care of" during his employment. The jack <> switch mapping that he's done is all over the place so I am going to have to re-trace every jack and cable. Luckily my supervisor never left so I'm not completely in the dark.
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You think you got cable run problems? This thing from Sweden in 1890 turned up on IRC the other day. It carries phone calls. The cables probably aren't insulated.  Full set: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/tekniskamuseet/sets/72157629589461917/
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So my  situation is getting interesting.Everything is all good for new job, I know where to go, what to wear while uniforms are being tailored, and the start time...after nearly 2 weeks of no communication! Old work are being absolute cunts though. FAKE EDIT: I had a huge wall of text typed about whats going on but I'll just leave it as 'old work have screwed the pooch in multiple ways'
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Lum posted:You think you got cable run problems? You remember the pictures from the Verizon cable vaults after Hurricane Sandy, right? Right?
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I don't think you could pay me enough to repair that mess. Rip it out, start again.
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Welp. I just got out of a meeting with the ops manager and I had to tell him that inbetween last Wednesday and today, it appears that 10 laptops appeared to have walked off the premesis. I have a feeling that this is going to end poorly
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:Welp. I just got out of a meeting with the ops manager and I had to tell him that inbetween last Wednesday and today, it appears that 10 laptops appeared to have walked off the premesis. I have a feeling that this is going to end poorly Are they not issued to specific people or did you just have a table full of laptops that were waiting for something?
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Bob Morales posted:Are they not issued to specific people or did you just have a table full of laptops that were waiting for something? Decommissioned, belonging to a client. I left for thanksgiving break and found that my pile of accounted and audited devices slightly smaller than when I left and somewhat scattered about. I reported it as soon as I took down all the tag info of the ones that I had left. The client has recently requested that they be shipped back.
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Why do you leave things like "Big piles of laptops" in an unsecured area? I mean I'm about to deploy ~150 tablets, and I don't leave them by my desk because I know they will walk away.
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Rhymenoserous posted:Why do you leave things like "Big piles of laptops" in an unsecured area? I mean I'm about to deploy ~150 tablets, and I don't leave them by my desk because I know they will walk away. Exactly. Locked storage room with video camera coverage.
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Things not pissing me off today: Shiny new boards to bring up!  Things REALLY pissing me off today: They aren't debug boards, and the client doesn't want to pay for debug boards, and my boss told me to just deal with it. 
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Rhymenoserous posted:Why do you leave things like "Big piles of laptops" in an unsecured area? I mean I'm about to deploy ~150 tablets, and I don't leave them by my desk because I know they will walk away. Because I work in what passes for our secured workarea which has a camera monitoring the door. Unfortunately, I was just informed that it doesn't work  . I CMOA and fully disclosed what I knew to the ops manager as soon as I had a definitive list of devices that were unaccounted for.
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Some chucklef... moro... misguided person in corporate IT has pushed out a policy to all laptop users which changes the lid close action to "Hibernate".
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:Because I work in what passes for our secured workarea which has a camera monitoring the door. Unfortunately, I was just informed that it doesn't work
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I moved to a new office several months ago, which was much bigger than my old one. On the other side of my wall is a kids' play room that hasn't been used at least since I started here over a year ago. Last month, they started using it 8 hours a day. Now there are constantly kids yelling and running and stomping all over the place. I had to stabilize my monitors because they keep shaking. I'll probably bring in some earbuds this week because I can't hear myself think sometimes. 
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Amazon is working on the greatest year round secret santa program ever (drone delivery). What's Microsoft working on?
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rolleyes posted:Some chucklef... moro... misguided person in corporate IT has pushed out a policy to all laptop users which changes the lid close action to "Hibernate". This tempts me to change the lid close action to Shutdown. 
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Amazon is working on the greatest year round secret santa program ever (drone delivery). What's Microsoft working on? Ahahaha. Uh, wow. Will it let me know if I'm being too hysterical because it's 'that time of the month', too?
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Sirotan posted:Ahahaha. Uh, wow. Will it let me know if I'm being too hysterical because it's 'that time of the month', too? It will direct you to request a slap from the nearest man to straighten you out
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MF_James posted:Close to the thing of nightmares... but not really. I deal with this on a daily basis at 2300 different sites that some wiring schmuck went out and labeled in some abstract way that made sense to him BUT NO OTHER loving PERSON ON EARTH. This. A thousand times, this. We have student workers who don't always follow directions or have their own weird interpretation of what they were told but gently caress me, nothing is consistently labeled here. Nothing on the patch panels or wall jacks are labeled and all the computers are some horrible mix of Lab1, Lab01, Lab01-Swap, Lab001-New-Replacement, etc, etc. It drives me up the wall.
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Sirotan posted:Ahahaha. Uh, wow. Will it let me know if I'm being too hysterical because it's 'that time of the month', too? I hear Apple's latest offering, the iBone, is a cure for womanly hysteria.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who had a "bwuuuh?" reaction when confronted with the Bra for Windows.
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I just picked up a Barco Clickshare and this thing is awesome.
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Firmware coming out next year will let you have it on a different subnet to your Wi-Fi clients (iPads etc), so you can keep using the internet while on the ClickShare. Will involve certain things in DNS a bit like how you point Windows clients at KMS, and obviously some routing between the subnets.
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rolleyes posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one who had a "bwuuuh?" reaction when confronted with the Bra for Windows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUEemQeInjE
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