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Thanks Ants posted:And further to the above, an insistence that you "just get me that domain, do something, just put some effort in and stop saying no all the time" Also "This 'quitter' attitude is why you will NEVER make management!" EDIT: No quote is not quote. Samizdata fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Jan 31, 2018 |
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Renegret posted:A ticket came in Change the SSID to "HEALING ENERGY WAVES"
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Jan 31, 2018 13:11
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Dick Trauma posted:
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Dunno-Lars posted:Change the SSID to "HEALING ENERGY WAVES"  Put a big ol chunk of Himalayan salt by the antenna
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Jan 31, 2018 13:43
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Bob Morales posted:
I'll have someone douse it in essential oils while they're installing the salt.
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Jan 31, 2018 14:06
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Renegret posted:A ticket came in We have a crazy who lives near the airport who has put in some doozies over the years. First he claimed that the air traffic controllers in the tower were spying on him with binoculars. His latest is when the nearby solar farm went online, it put a buzz in his phone line and wants them shut down immediately.
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Collateral Damage posted:They haven't registered the domain.  The good news is that an alternative is available. The bidding starts at $3k. Considering the value of the project they might actually go for it, but no one has told me to do it so I don't care. At the end of next month I'll wrap up my third year at this dumb place. We're having our first ALL-STAFF STATUS UPDATE MEETING this week which is a several hour long after-work affair that should be chock full of bullshit and drama.
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Jan 31, 2018 14:39
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Jan 31, 2018 15:01
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wolrah posted:I'm so glad they finally pulled their heads out of their asses and started supporting 802.3af/at like every other reasonable vendor. We're 802.3 as gently caress
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Jan 31, 2018 15:32
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Dick Trauma posted:
Is that alternative owned by you, under a false name? If not, why not?
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Jan 31, 2018 16:14
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Thanks Ants posted:After work?
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Jaded Burnout posted:This is still a point of confusion for me, their docs are inconsistent about which models of their cameras do and don't support active PoE with or without inline or AC adapters. Their datasheets disagree with their own knowledgebase entry. Farking Bastage posted:We have a crazy who lives near the airport who has put in some doozies over the years. First he claimed that the air traffic controllers in the tower were spying on him with binoculars. His latest is when the nearby solar farm went online, it put a buzz in his phone line and wants them shut down immediately. That said, obviously that should be something he should be reporting to the telco and letting them handle with the solar company, not going to the city. One would assume it'd be impacting other phone customers in his area too. turn left hillary!! noo posted:We're 802.3 as gently caress
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Jan 31, 2018 16:59
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wolrah posted:That's not actually implausible, phone lines are pretty good at picking up stray electromagnetic energy and a solar farm presumably has big inverters that could probably leak some serious energy at 60Hz if something's not right. If his line passes near it I can believe it. Oh I get that. Being in government we have to be nice. I clipped in a lineman's handset and it's clear as a bell. Turns out his 2.4ghz cordless phones are the culprit. 
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Ubiquiti cameras are weird because there's about 3 of them and they don't work with anything that isn't Ubiquiti's own software. I don't know why you'd buy them over any of the Onvif-supporting vendors that compete in the same price bracket. Unless you're one of those people pining for Ubiquiti to make everything so you can buy it from them, which is why they're now making PoE-powered lights and switches. I just can't see them doing anything that comes close to providing long-term support for that sort of product. EdgeRouter stuff, Wi-Fi, point-to-point wireless, go hog wild. But I can't find compelling reasons to be interested in any of the other things they make.
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Thanks Ants posted:After work? It's mandatory. How else can you build team spirit?
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Thanks Ants posted:Ubiquiti cameras are weird because there's about 3 of them and they don't work with anything that isn't Ubiquiti's own software. I don't know why you'd buy them over any of the Onvif-supporting vendors that compete in the same price bracket. Do I need to go into another rant about the clusterfuck that us UBNT's camera system? Because I can do it again, if people still want to use their camera system. After working for them for a brief period, I'm never touching anything of theirs that isn't a wireless AP.
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Jan 31, 2018 18:24
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chin up everything sucks posted:After working for them for a brief period, I'm never touching anything of theirs that isn't a wireless AP. Are the switches that bad? I don't really have any gripes with my EdgeRouter X aside from the terrible CLI syntax.
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Dick Trauma posted:It's mandatory. How else can you build team spirit? I really dig the way we handle it. If it's a mandatory company wide thing (quarterly meeting or whatnot) they schedule it for the end of the day, normally 3:00 or 4:00 PM. Kegs are rolled in and people enjoy a beer or two during and after the meeting if they wish. Once it's over, you're not expected to return to work, but if you have to (people are expected to be Responsible Adults and make a judgement call as to whether or not they need to keep working), you're free to keep enjoying beverages until you are done and can either drive home or expense a rideshare if you feel like you need to, no questions asked. Some people bail immediately after, but most of the time people will drink and hang out and bullshit, sometimes about work but often not, until 5:00 or so. People will actively help others finish their work for the day so everyone can enjoy some downtime. When we do events for charity (most recently a dodgeball tournament) it's much of the same, minus the mandatory part. You're encouraged to participate or at least cheer your teammates on, but it's understood that people have lives outside of work and striking a balance is actively encouraged. You'd guess we're a tiny company but there's like 800 of us now. It's really difficult to maintain a culture like this but if you must do mandatory things, do them during the work day, make them not suck, and people will generally not hate them.
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Sheep posted:Are the switches that bad? I don't really have any gripes with my EdgeRouter X aside from the terrible CLI syntax. The switches were still in development when I left, so I don't know.
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Thanks Ants posted:Ubiquiti cameras are weird because there's about 3 of them and they don't work with anything that isn't Ubiquiti's own software. I don't know why you'd buy them over any of the Onvif-supporting vendors that compete in the same price bracket. The cameras support standard RTSP these days so you're not just tied to their software anymore, but I agree I haven't really been impressed by them overall. Their NVR appliance is literally a random shitbox PC that they slapped a lightly customized Debian install on. I have three customers using the cameras and we just run the official software in a VM on a NAS.
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nullfunction posted:I really dig the way we handle it. This company is 30 years old but has never grown much beyond 50 people. They have never functioned as a proper company and this meeting is an attempt to act like one, with powerpoint presentations even! We will all sit there dutifully for three hours while the important people talk about the mission statement they spent over six months on that cost us about $100k and is typical meaningless corporate BS. There will be minor swag handed out, because real companies have swag. They'll introduce some new executives, and by "introduce" I mean ambush people who didn't realize they are no longer going to be department heads as folks have been brought on over them. So.. fun for all!
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Dick Trauma posted:So.. fun for all!  Culture is the #1 thing I look for, and it's hard to get a feel for what all it actually entails before you've spent a few months working there, so I rely heavily on my network for that. I really lucked out in finding a place with an excellent culture, great pay, and decent benefits (could be better but are made up for by the other factors, and the company has pledged to improve them over the coming years). I found that if I'm at a place where I was miserable for 8 hours a day it bled over into other aspects of my life. I made a promise to myself not to do that again, for my sake and the people around me. I busted my rear end for many years to get to where I'm at, but it means I'm out of the day-to-day break/fix ticket queue, which has been liberating. I've followed your story for a while now and I know you're a hard worker and clearly have the smarts to know you're capable of more. It's never too late to find something that makes you happy. 
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A corporate restructuring came in: My boss (IT Director) no longer reports to the CEO and now reports to the VP of Marketing and Communication Apparently she was just as confused when the announcement came down as we were and promises to take a hands off approach to our department.
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Dick Trauma posted:This company is 30 years old but has never grown much beyond 50 people. They have never functioned as a proper company and this meeting is an attempt to act like one, with powerpoint presentations even! We will all sit there dutifully for three hours while the important people talk about the mission statement they spent over six months on that cost us about $100k and is typical meaningless corporate BS. There will be minor swag handed out, because real companies have swag. They'll introduce some new executives, and by "introduce" I mean ambush people who didn't realize they are no longer going to be department heads as folks have been brought on over them. Oooh these are always fun. Will they put up the targets for the next year / three years and then not provide any information on how they think they're going to get there?
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wolrah posted:The cameras support standard RTSP these days so you're not just tied to their software anymore, but I agree I haven't really been impressed by them overall. Their NVR appliance is literally a random shitbox PC that they slapped a lightly customized Debian install on. I have three customers using the cameras and we just run the official software in a VM on a NAS. I'm pretty sure their software is also just a customized (albeit heavily) version of ZoneMinder. And last I looked it saves "video" in quite possibly the most space in-efficient format possible. A bunch of individual JPEG snapshots.
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chin up everything sucks posted:Do I need to go into another rant about the clusterfuck that us UBNT's camera system? Because I can do it again, if people still want to use their camera system. After working for them for a brief period, I'm never touching anything of theirs that isn't a wireless AP. Please do. I bought a couple Ubiquiti switches, USG, and cloud key, thinking that I'd probably need them to power and control their special snowflake cameras. I haven't bought the cameras yet.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Please do. I bought a couple Ubiquiti switches, USG, and cloud key, thinking that I'd probably need them to power and control their special snowflake cameras. So, when I was doing tech support for UBNT, there were four of us doing support for them, total. This was... 5-6 years ago. Their camera system and their TUFF Cable were our bane, as tickets about them NEVER ended well. At the time, the Camera team was a bunch of people in Lithuania, and the NVR team were in the USA. These guys basically didn't talk to eachother. The cameras wanted to stream video, and the NVR wasn't even a dedicated NVR, it was just a software package you installed on a standard PC. So if you had more than a couple cameras set to record at once, you would only get SOME of the video because the cameras would fight over the connection to the computer, and the NVR didn't care, it just recorded whatever made it through the network bottleneck. This was a known issue, and had been for several YEARS. Their solution was to start designing their new NVR box, rather than figuring out how other security camera systems worked. But during this multi-year period they kept selling these cameras as security camera systems, and we would constantly get people emailing in saying "Hey, I need some video for legal reasons and I can't find it..." and our response was "If you can't find it, it's not there, this system doesn't work with more than 3 or maybe 4 cameras at once".
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The Fool posted:Apparently she was just as confused when the announcement came down as we were and promises to take a hands off approach to our department. That'll last just until she has some stupid project that needs doing, and she now has the power to bully you into doing because she's the boss now.
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Thanks Ants posted:Oooh these are always fun. Will they put up the targets for the next year / three years and then not provide any information on how they think they're going to get there? I am probably a target for next year.
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chin up everything sucks posted:So, when I was doing tech support for UBNT, there were four of us doing support for them, total. This was... 5-6 years ago. Their camera system and their TUFF Cable were our bane, as tickets about them NEVER ended well. Thanks for this. To answer your question as to why anyone would buy their cameras is that I didn't know any better so I was planning to, now I am not. Ubiquiti is still pushed hard by the home networking thread here and without a point of contention like this why wouldn't you buy everything from the same vendor? chin up everything sucks posted:But during this multi-year period they kept selling these cameras as security camera systems, and we would constantly get people emailing in saying "Hey, I need some video for legal reasons and I can't find it..." and our response was "If you can't find it, it's not there, this system doesn't work with more than 3 or maybe 4 cameras at once". They sell them in packs of 5 
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Just got out of a meeting to learn about my new org's cloud strategy. We've already spun up a virtual data center, and that project is being nicknamed 'Base Camp'. All the announcements and presentations are heavily relying on mountain climbing imagery, most of it being photos of or graphics based on Everest. This leads me to wonder... -What's our timeline for reaching the death zone? -How long do we need to acclimatize at a partly cloudy level? -Can I call the VDC members sherpas? -Which team is going to be left behind on our summit attempt, stuck at the height of the project with no hope for rescue, fated to be forever memorialized like Green Boots? (I bet it's virtualization)
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Jaded Burnout posted:Thanks for this. To answer your question as to why anyone would buy their cameras is that I didn't know any better so I was planning to, now I am not. Ubiquiti is still pushed hard by the home networking thread here and without a point of contention like this why wouldn't you buy everything from the same vendor? Ubiquiti has a long history of their marketing department being about 2 years ahead of their R&D department. They routinely put out products where major marketed features are not actually available until months or years after the initial product release. It's just what they do.
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Sirotan posted:Just got out of a meeting to learn about my new org's cloud strategy. We've already spun up a virtual data center, and that project is being nicknamed 'Base Camp'. All the announcements and presentations are heavily relying on mountain climbing imagery, most of it being photos of or graphics based on Everest. This leads me to wonder... All projects quoted in multiples of 127 hours
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My boss just stopped by and I shared with him my Everest jokes. Think I probably weirded him out. "Do you climb?" Hah, no, I'm just fascinated by all the stories of arrogant assholes who get themselves killed on Everest! By the way have you read Into Thin Air?? ok I didn't actually say that, but I DID recommend the book.Still trying to work out a good IT analogy for the Khumbu Icefall though. Something something automation spitting out an instance at the bottom?
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stevewm posted:Ubiquiti has a long history of their marketing department being about 2 years ahead of their R&D department. They routinely put out products where major marketed features are not actually available until months or years after the initial product release. Yeah, if you need to do more than a Home/Home Office or Branch Office needing 3 AP or less for coverage, Ubiquiti will probably meet your needs. For anything larger (and especially if you're going to have more than 30 APs at a single location) I recommend Extreme's WiNG* based APs (NOT the ExOS based ones) or Cisco APs. Aruba is a valid choice if you can't get/afford Extreme or Cisco, but they lack some base features that Extreme and Cisco have out of the box (at least last I looked). Personally, my experience is mostly with WiNG and the stability and MTBF of the APs is pretty impressive. * - Previously Motorola's WiNG APs
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It will indeed be a 2/3 AP home office with the ol' security cams and 48 active ports.
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Jaded Burnout posted:It will indeed be a 2/3 AP home office with the ol' security cams and 48 active ports. Then overall, Ubiquiti is probably a solid choice. Except for the cameras as mentioned earlier in thread.
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