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Crowley posted:Someone tell me why a Twitter account could be important for anything.
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Apr 9, 2014 12:32
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Twitter is what you make of it. It can be funny, informative, boring, any combination thereof. It's dictated by whom you choose to interact with.
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Apr 9, 2014 12:52
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Crowley posted:Someone tell me why a Twitter account could be important for anything. You can follow all your vendors etc. So when someone has a new product or an outage or security issue you can get live updates. A lot of status pages for companies are just twitter feeds now. Sure, you can manually find them all and bookmark them without an account but you can't tweet back or just have them all in one spot.
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Apr 9, 2014 13:12
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Crowley posted:Someone tell me why a Twitter account could be important for anything. Post automated server status updates to it, then when they stop you know you have a problem 
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Apr 9, 2014 13:56
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Post automated server status updates to it, then when they stop you know you have a problem I hope you're all happy - I will spend the day getting Twitter set up perfectly, following all the right people. This will take approximately 9 hours with a one hour break for lunch.
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Apr 9, 2014 14:04
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Post automated server status updates to it, then when they stop you know you have a problem Post automated server status updates to Tumblr. Will work just like the above, but also people will reply to them with Sherlock GIFs and comments that your server should kill itself for being white and cisgender, even if it's actually an HP DL380 G5 with a PERC4 RAID controller.
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Apr 9, 2014 15:00
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Moey posted:Your first problem is the electrician having access to your switches.... poo poo, did not write clearly. By "he", I meant my boss, the Network Administrator, not the electrician.
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Apr 9, 2014 15:20
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Stuff pissing me off: Re-keying all my SSL certificates. I most likely have to go through EV verifcation for a SAN cert with subjects in interesting TLDs  Lum posted:Post automated server status updates to Tumblr. Will work just like the above, but also people will reply to them with Sherlock GIFs and comments that your server should kill itself for being white and cisgender, even if it's actually an HP DL380 G5 with a PERC4 RAID controller. Check your RAID privilege luminalflux fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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Apr 9, 2014 15:26
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I had an electrician move some PC's for me once. Dumb fucker ripped the CAT5 right out of the walls. Some of the cables broke, some of them had the walljacks attached still.
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Apr 9, 2014 15:36
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luminalflux posted:Check your RAID privilege I was actually going to use that in response to why can't I install this software / save to this directory.
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Apr 9, 2014 15:42
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Lum posted:Post automated server status updates to Tumblr. Will work just like the above, but also people will reply to them with Sherlock GIFs and comments that your server should kill itself for being white and cisgender, even if it's actually an HP DL380 G5 with a PERC4 RAID controller. This could actually work quite well because we refer to our batch boxes as "BI File Servers". This will also prove that when tumblr isn't raging about something, you know something has gone wrong and the natural order is upset. Edit: poo poo we have a system that's actually called CIS as well.
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Apr 9, 2014 16:08
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My boss has been fighting for almost 2 weeks to get BIG_HOST_COMPANY to change their terms of service and contract with us, just for us, because we're special snowflakes. Not yet Bob, it’s on my schedule for today however. As discussed yesterday, these terms are pretty much as-is set in stone no consideration for unique terms since we service 50,000 customers globally with those terms in multi-tenant environments. They were designed to be incredibly balanced which is rare. Apple terms are not balanced at all they are shameful yet everyone agrees to them. All xxxxxxx customers are customers at-will with the 100% right to cancel at any time for any reason with no penalty. That having been said, I have not digested your request and want to do so prior to a final response. That will happen today. Thanks for your patience since I’m just a bit overrun this week
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Apr 9, 2014 16:14
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dogstile posted:At the very least, when asked to keep my status updated at all times, I got to reply with "What do you want me to do, set it to "walking across the room to help colleagues?". He wasn't pleased because it was sarcastic. That's good, but I think my first response would have been to ask him why he was managing someone that wasn't his responsibility. I mean, how often do you as an adult get to say, "You're not the boss of me!" in a serious fashion and have it be completely appropriate?
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Apr 9, 2014 17:07
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Che Delilas posted:That's good, but I think my first response would have been to ask him why he was managing someone that wasn't his responsibility. I mean, how often do you as an adult get to say, "You're not the boss of me!" in a serious fashion and have it be completely appropriate? I was able to do this to great effect recently. My now ex-ex-boss (i still work in the same company but in a different division) would continually browbeat my ex boss into having me clear stuff through her (to the point of CCing her on all tickets, getting clearance before installing hardware and other silly crap no one else in the division that didn't work under her before the reorg had to put up with. Fast forward to now where I work at a much better division within the same company and she tries this again only to run into my new boss who happens to be a director and far above the offending ex-ex-boss. She now has to have upper management audit HER meetings and got written up and has left me alone, while my new boss and I get along great. I was so afraid to make a lateral move but since doing so life has been so much better. Lessons learned? Two wrongs CAN make a right and making a lateral move can be an amazing choice.
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Apr 9, 2014 17:32
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Get loving hosed. So that lovely security admin job I applied for is being considered, not for me, but for my lazy, uninspired, technically inept co-worker who only has seniority and his good-ol-boys club to back him. I'm tired of being on the hell desk. YOTJ indeed. EDIT: no more consideration, he got the job, only because of his seniority. Glad I have a chilled bottle of Tanqueray 10 at home. slightpirate fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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Apr 9, 2014 17:33
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slightpirate posted:Get loving hosed. So that lovely security admin job I applied for is being considered, not for me, but for my lazy, uninspired, technically inept co-worker who only has seniority and his good-ol-boys club to back him. I'm tired of being on the hell desk. YOTJ indeed. The secret to getting off the helldesk is to get any IT job that isn't helldesk. If I could do it all over again (besides never being on the helldesk to begin with) I would have been a little bolder about my job hunting while I was on the helldesk way back when. I would have lied, cheated, and virtual done anything to get any junior admin type role their was. Nothing would be too taboo. Because once you get a non-helldesk job, suddenly the skills you list on your resume all of sudden have some weight. I wish your current title didn't matter as much as it does for finding new jobs. I wish titles didn't matter period.
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Apr 9, 2014 17:45
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Pissing me off: the network guy (higher-up but not my boss, not at the same site as me, organizationally unrelated to me) is forwarding me his voicemails asking me to call someone back for him. The original calls were about a printer/copier that he ordered... which I'm not involved with in any way. It is entirely unclear why he wants me to be the one in contact with them. Make your own drat phone calls. 
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Apr 9, 2014 19:17
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Alright let's assume this twitter talk isn't a prank. Who I should be following?
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Apr 9, 2014 20:30
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Alright let's assume this twitter talk isn't a prank. Who I should be following? Everyone all the time.
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Apr 9, 2014 20:36
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after speaking with my boss about this, there is a good chance that im going to get a promotion to a job that doesn't exist yet. I'm not holding my breath, but If I'm helping him architect the job role, responsibilities, and pay grade, I'm aiming to keep my sweet sweet hourly pay, 15% raise and a lovely "work from home once a week" package, at least for the summer. I know full well that it'll be like 5-7% and no work from home, but a man can
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Apr 9, 2014 20:44
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slightpirate posted:after speaking with my boss about this, there is a good chance that im going to get a promotion to a job that doesn't exist yet. I'm not holding my breath, but If I'm helping him architect the job role, responsibilities, and pay grade, I'm aiming to keep my sweet sweet hourly pay, 15% raise and a lovely "work from home once a week" package, at least for the summer. I know full well that it'll be like 5-7% and no work from home, but a man can Whats your current job and whats the potential promotion to?
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Apr 9, 2014 20:46
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Whats your current job and whats the potential promotion to? IT Support Specialist to IT Support Specialist (Lead) ?
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Apr 9, 2014 20:56
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slightpirate posted:IT Support Specialist to IT Support Specialist (Lead) ? Make sure its something you want to do. A lot of time "lead" in the name can end up being a supervisor (without the limited power) while still taking on the heaviest part of the daily production workload. 15% raise and some WFH sounds good though. Just make sure the duties are well definded.
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Apr 9, 2014 21:00
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slightpirate posted:IT Support Specialist to IT Support Specialist (Lead) ? Helldesk to "slightly valuable but not enough for a real promotion" helldesk? Hey, if you can get everything you listed, awesome, but if not you maybe ought to take the thread's advice and  .
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Apr 9, 2014 21:05
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Who owns Linksys now? Because I just set up one made post-Cisco and it looks/feels like something you buy for $5 off of Dealextreme.
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Apr 9, 2014 21:14
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Why that would be Belkin, so it sounds like they are keeping it real.
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Apr 9, 2014 21:16
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Also the box says N300 in big letters, then E1200 in small letters, and the router says E1200 on it, so that's fun.
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Apr 9, 2014 21:20
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SolTerrasa posted:Helldesk to "slightly valuable but not enough for a real promotion" helldesk? Hey, if you can get everything you listed, awesome, but if not you maybe ought to take the thread's advice and I'll keep you guys posted, but I don't see my imaginary job materializing anytime soon, and if I do leave it wont be until after summer comes because I at least want to see this Windows 7 deployment though.
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Apr 9, 2014 21:24
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Inspector_666 posted:Also the box says N300 in big letters, then E1200 in small letters, and the router says E1200 on it, so that's fun. What are you setting up that is linksys anyway?
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Apr 9, 2014 21:25
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Whoa, what? Well, gently caress. Guess I won't be buying Linksys for home use anymore. Belkin sucks.
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Apr 9, 2014 21:25
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Sickening posted:What are you setting up that is linksys anyway? Router for a T1 connection for VOIP service. I didn't pick the hardware. TWBalls posted:Whoa, what? Well, gently caress. Guess I won't be buying Linksys for home use anymore. Belkin sucks. They still have the same design as the latest Cisco ones, but I think they feel less substantial and the box looks like a knockoff model. They also cut the number of LEDs on the ports to 1, which doesn't really make any practical difference but doesn't really help the "Looks like a cheap knockoff" effect. Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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Apr 9, 2014 21:26
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We have an XP "server" that handles some imaging over the network, since XP lost support (and it isnt 2003 for some reason) they are upgrading to vista which of course means thats what I'll be doing, not "them"
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Apr 9, 2014 21:28
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Inspector_666 posted:Router for a T1 connection for VOIP service. I didn't pick the hardware. Wow! I see a lot of router resets in someone's future. I would imagine that most calculators are running on faster hardware than what are in those poo poo boxes. And the firmware... don't get me started. Ignoarints posted:We have an XP "server" that handles some imaging over the network, since XP lost support (and it isnt 2003 for some reason) they are upgrading They buy a vista upgrade key off of ebay?
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Apr 9, 2014 21:29
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Sickening posted:Wow! I see a lot of router resets in someone's future. It doesn't have to actually do anything aside from DHCP, but yeah. I have a feeling this was a "cost conscious" setup since usually for T1s the ISP brings their own Cisco router and switch.
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Apr 9, 2014 21:32
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Inspector_666 posted:It doesn't have to actually do anything aside from DHCP, but yeah. I have a feeling this was a "cost conscious" setup since usually for T1s the ISP brings their own Cisco router and switch. Its still going to be an edge device though right? Like providing nat and such? If yes, rip. If its going to be used like a switch then it might not have to be reset as much. If all I needed was a device to provide dhcp, so many other options I would have chosen. Probably a good time to mention to someone that choosing hardware is sort of important.
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Apr 9, 2014 21:37
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Ignoarints posted:We have an XP "server" that handles some imaging over the network, since XP lost support (and it isnt 2003 for some reason) they are upgrading This just reminded me, we have an Optiplex 755 running XP that is our RISLink server for a remote site. Gonna talk to my boss about finally getting that on a proper server and OS. Sickening posted:They buy a vista upgrade key off of ebay?
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Apr 9, 2014 21:38
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TWBalls posted:
Probably this then, I know little about business licensing, and no explanation. This company must have at least 10,000 licenses or more though of every other flavor of windows, but we specifically never use Vista ever. It just seemed very odd to us that they'd put vista on a pretty important system, but I'm guessing it's free this way? edit: Incredible insane timing, I just got an email mentioning how how different licenses can be downgraded although not for this specific reason. Also a chart of windows 8 licenses and there are 12000 (which is faaaaaaaaar more than I would have thought) Ignoarints fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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Apr 9, 2014 21:51
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Sickening posted:Its still going to be an edge device though right? Like providing nat and such? If yes, rip. If its going to be used like a switch then it might not have to be reset as much. If all I needed was a device to provide dhcp, so many other options I would have chosen. Probably a good time to mention to someone that choosing hardware is sort of important. Oh, yeah, it's gotta do NAT too. Slipped my mind as I was trying to track down which mis-labeled port everything went to as I was posting. All of the computers here are still XP and I don't think there's a current timetable for upgrading.
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Apr 9, 2014 21:54
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TWBalls posted:This just reminded me, we have an Optiplex 755 running XP that is our RISLink server for a remote site. Gonna talk to my boss about finally getting that on a proper server and OS. I've got an OptiPlex 755 running my corp office's main firewall. The old DL380 G1's CDROM drive died and it was the only box I had handy that would boot pfSense without a ton of configuration file changes. 
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NullPtr4Lunch posted:I've got an OptiPlex 755 running my corp office's main firewall. The old DL380 G1's CDROM drive died and it was the only box I had handy that would boot pfSense without a ton of configuration file changes. I've been quite happy with our 755's. They've been workhorses. We've got a ton of them and I think we've only had maybe 3 or so that have poo poo the bed. The USFF 745's have been a different story. Quite a few of those have failed capacitors. What kind of CDROM drive (Desktop size or laptop size)? I have a few old servers in storage I may be able to scavenge from.
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