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What are we arguing over? Legible code? Lemme grep my GitHub repos for how many times I have gently caress in it.
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jaegerx posted:What are we arguing over? Legible code? Lemme grep my GitHub repos for how many times I have gently caress in it. nobody asked about your commit messages Edit: code:
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Feb 16, 2019 07:58
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jaegerx posted:What are we arguing over? Legible code? Lemme grep my GitHub repos for how many times I have gently caress in it. #TODO what the gently caress was i doing with this, i got drunk and posted on SA instead
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Feb 16, 2019 07:59
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The Fool posted:I was trying to make a point about "self documenting code" being a fallacy. I've seen too many people think that code spoke for itself and then flounder 6 months later looking at their own work. “The code is the documentation” isn’t incompatible with decent comments and docstrings and whatnot. That is a basic part of writing good, maintainable code. It just means that instead of having 5 million wiki pages on how to do every stupid little process in your environment, you write code to do those things directly. People will still poo poo out inscrutable code with no documentation of its own of course, but they are bad and doing it wrong.
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Feb 16, 2019 14:06
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CLAM DOWN posted:#TODO what the gently caress was i doing with this, i got drunk and posted on SA instead God hell yes. All the comments related to drugs, sex even in production code is hilarious.
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Feb 16, 2019 16:43
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I think having some great comments in the code is a good way to go for some applications. But it really does depend on the size/scale of the monolith. If it’s huge then documentation is useful; if it’s a service providing another application with something, then it’s useful... if it’s only ever going to be a team of 5 working on something niche then it’s probably a legitimate thing When I do my own coding I tend to do this - because when you revisit after a while it’s good to remember what you were trying to do. Thank you last me!
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Feb 16, 2019 17:12
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nielsm posted:I got the Plantronics 8200 recently, and love it. Very comfortable to wear, the ANC is comfortable and works well, sound quality is great, battery time is amazing. Just to close out the conversation, I, too, went with the 8200. I like the design better than the Jabra and the price better than the Bose. I wish Plantronics made an XL version with bigger earcups and a larger headband, but the slight discomfort I feel wearing it on long calls is more than made up for by the convenience of being able to get up and move around while I'm on the phone.
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Feb 17, 2019 04:30
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Just to close out the conversation, I, too, went with the 8200. I like the design better than the Jabra and the price better than the Bose. I wish Plantronics made an XL version with bigger earcups and a larger headband, but the slight discomfort I feel wearing it on long calls is more than made up for by the convenience of being able to get up and move around while I'm on the phone. Just remember, "the mic is always hot."
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Feb 17, 2019 06:15
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*flushes toilet on a conference call*
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Feb 17, 2019 06:23
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I have become a fan of hitting mute until the headset tells me, "Mute on."
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Feb 17, 2019 07:50
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I triple mute. Headset, phone, and Webex. Can never be too careful
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Feb 17, 2019 08:59
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Tetramin posted:*flushes toilet on a conference call* https://twitter.com/bea_ker/status/700161865192615936?lang=en
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Feb 17, 2019 11:34
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Genuinely laughed out loud with this  I think we’ve all done it and been busted. It’s one of those things; you don’t know how sensitive your mic is and you’ve got to go. Worst time for me was when I had to go number 2, and was dialled in but on-the-go. So being on mute in a very noisy public restroom and occasionally having to unmute to talk. It was very bad. Kill me now 
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Feb 17, 2019 12:40
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I discovered the hard way during a training session that if the battery dies on my headset and I turn it back on immediately after plugging it in, none of the buttons work and the mic is always hot even if it's in the raised position and the mute light is on. Fortunately this was revealed when I let out a massive burp during the lunch break rather than by a bathroom trip.
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Feb 17, 2019 16:56
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I finally finished reading The Phoenix Project, but I took nothing away from it because I spent the entire book wishing that Sarah would get fired, as anyone who has worked with a Sarah would have.
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Feb 18, 2019 05:48
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We all have a Sarah in our lives. The handbook they made is very useful and doesn’t have the narrative in it; well worth having on the desk as a reference book.
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Feb 18, 2019 10:09
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I recall a conference call with a couple of consultants who did...something... for us. I am probably being highly flippant but I believe their service to us was to basically tell our customer (the government) that we were a bunch of stand up guys, because the government were unable to audit us to their own standard and thus verify themselves we were stand up guys, so instead of resolving that issue they basically just told their contractors (us), to hire their... friends... and get them to say we were ok... I think. Anyway, on a conference call with these dudes and we are going through some kind of policy review session or something like that and the underling of the 2 dudes starts going "Listen, when I say do such and such, you need to do it, I go out and earn the money, you need to go and do this right now" - basically really laying into his wife in front of everyone... I remember his bosses reaction was something along the lines of "erm dave, dave? daaaavvveee?? DAVE STOP DAVE DAVE" *beep beep* Dave hung up. Crash and burn haha
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Feb 18, 2019 15:04
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I wake up in the middle of night in a cold sweat from nightmares that I forgot to mute my phone in a conference call.
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Feb 18, 2019 16:14
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The latest version of Webex will actually unmute my phone on its own, which is a pretty annoying little "feature". I'm used to it by now and shut off all of my porn before I join, but as soon as I join I mute the webex and phone and get back to work.
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Feb 18, 2019 16:37
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Internet Explorer posted:Yeah. I mean, that's my opinion. There will be a consolidation of sorts and those of us left in IT will either work for large companies managing their SaaS products or working for MSPs managing smaller company's SaaS products. lmao I just finished a 2 week project upgrading a machine center that was controlled by 24 year old PLCs with HMIs running controls software on MS-DOS 6.22 There will be some companies that manage what you are saying, but the majority will have legacy poo poo running until I
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Feb 18, 2019 16:46
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Nuclearmonkee posted:lmao I just finished a 2 week project upgrading a machine center that was controlled by 24 year old PLCs with HMIs running controls software on MS-DOS 6.22 Got some pictures ? I work with industrial automation and old poo poo like this is super interesting 
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Feb 18, 2019 16:58
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I know we talked about on premise server monitoring a few pages ago, but I have a question for cloud-based monitoring. I work for an IT Consultant (but not really an MSP). We have clients that we do other services for asking for 24/7 monitoring of their on premise servers, databases, websites. I'm looking for a recommendation of a cloud based server monitoring. In my mind, I'd install agents on client servers at different sites and have them report to a central dashboard so I can see everything at once. Any ideas?
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Feb 18, 2019 17:37
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Heffer posted:I know we talked about on premise server monitoring a few pages ago, but I have a question for cloud-based monitoring. Look into the Site24x7 server monitoring. It does exactly that. I like the interface personally but others might not. I also like the azure piece.
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Feb 18, 2019 17:44
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Logic Monitor is cloud based and we like it. Stupidly easy to install, nice dashboards, good support, and is opt out so you just filter out what you don’t need instead of trying to figure out what you need to monitor in the first place
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Theres also connectwise which has more MSP integrations
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Wibla posted:Got some pictures ? I work with industrial automation and old poo poo like this is super interesting I've only got pictures of the old PLC5s and the Cisco 2955s since my area of responsibility for this was primarily the networking and new server stuff. Here's some of the dinosaur PLC hardware we swapped out though. Didn't get an after picture since the controls engineers didn't get finished with their end until after I was already on the plane home.  Didn't get pictures of the old DOS poo poo cause that was thankfully someone else's problem. We naturally saved every bit of the PLC5 hardware because those components cost more refurb/used than the new stuff costs out of the box (it's insane). Naturally still in production all over the place in the company (and others). Once we retire one it goes back into the parts pool for all the rest.
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Feb 18, 2019 18:20
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Heffer posted:I know we talked about on premise server monitoring a few pages ago, but I have a question for cloud-based monitoring. We use solarwinds n-central for this
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Nuclearmonkee posted:I've only got pictures of the old PLC5s and the Cisco 2955s since my area of responsibility for this was primarily the networking and new server stuff. Here's some of the dinosaur PLC hardware we swapped out though. Didn't get an after picture since the controls engineers didn't get finished with their end until after I was already on the plane home. Now that is old school. Most of the stuff I'm upgrading nowadays are older Siemens S7-300 and Mitsubishi PLCs from the late 90s.
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Anyone have recommendations for inventory systems? We stock a bunch of various stuff for new users and replacements: laptops, monitors, cabling, what ever, and the company is expanding to the point where having an inventory system that isn't just a google spreadsheet we bother to fill in when we remember might be in our best interest.
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Feb 18, 2019 21:40
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Snipe-IT is an easy to set up asset management system that works fairly well. https://snipeitapp.com/
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Defenestrategy posted:Anyone have recommendations for inventory systems? Pdq inventory is what we use
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Naramyth posted:Pdq inventory is what we use While I love me some PDQ, it doesn't lend itself to tracking accessories and other non-networked equipment.
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The Fool posted:While I love me some PDQ, it doesn't lend itself to tracking accessories and other non-networked equipment. THEN IT DOESNT EXIST That's super fair.
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Naramyth posted:THEN IT DOESNT EXIST Does PDQ handle non-AD based objects at all? Last I checked we couldn’t use it pull snmp from things like UPS’ or our VMware hosts so it was kinda worthless for network-wide inventory management.
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Boss liked the look of snipeit, so he bought a barcode scanner and now I get to install it. Good work goons.
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lampey posted:We use solarwinds n-central for this Of all the MSP geared monitoring solutions this has been my favorite. Granted I haven't used it since Solarwinds picked it up, so not sure if they turned it to crap.
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The Fool posted:Snipe-IT is an easy to set up asset management system that works fairly well. As the person who last asked the question and received this answer, I quite like snipe-it.
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TheFace posted:Of all the MSP geared monitoring solutions this has been my favorite. Granted I haven't used it since Solarwinds picked it up, so not sure if they turned it to crap. N-Central is still good, also their remote control tool is loving top-notch, but there are a few caveats: 1) When you go through updates, ensure any custom settings you have made do not get reverted to default settings 2) Test after updates because something will be broken 3) Find a new job if they want to start using N-Central for patching/patch monitoring and you're going to be responsible for it; it's a loving horrible broken mess and you will drink yourself into oblivion 4) This likely holds true of any monitoring system but there is a steep learning curve and you will spend a lot of time setting it up (especially if you want to do it correctly) and you will likely end up writing your own WMI/SNMP queries at some point because of an update in N-Central breaking something or a vendor updating something and breaking it 5) Read #3 again and realize that it is not a joke, last job was monitoring somewhere around 8000 devices and it basically took 2-3 dedicated people to make sure we hit SLAs every month for patching because it does not Just Work Also, they have some really odd design decisions about how things work and it can be extremely unintuitive at times; it might be easier if you're setting it up instead of being someone that comes in afterwards to try to admin it.
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MF_James posted:N-Central is still good, also their remote control tool is loving top-notch, but there are a few caveats: On the patch management front, a lot of the RMM tools MSPs use suck at it. At least the ones I've used do. Labtech (Connectwise Automate, whatever the eff it's called now) was horrid to setup and manage patching, Kaseya was even worse, N-Central I thankfully didn't have to deal with much, but I remember it being a pain in the rear end to the point the guys who did have to deal with it would set up a WSUS server at most client sites and manage it the "old fashioned" way. No longer working at an MSP, but we just started using Cloud Management Suite with our Windows 10 rollout and I like it a lot compared to what we were doing using SCCM.
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Open office floorplan problems - We have a company spotify playlist that we can all log into and add poo poo to which is fine. It's pretty eclectic. What isn't ok is some rear end in a top hat went over to the laptop that is hooked up to the speakers and changed it to play all amos lee all day. God drat monsters.
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