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CitizenKain posted:Hour 17 of being at work Going great! 
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SlowBloke posted:Having experienced split brain and other issues(that on datacore defense only created downtime but no data loss) we do prefer to let updates simmer a bit, both on datacore side and on windows side. Also your post said server, singular. That is no good, it should be at least two servers(in a sync replica team) to avoid going down during updates. Yeah it's a two service replica pair, should've been clearer about that, sorry. When I said SAN I meant the entire thing. I've never encountered a SAN with only one array of storage so the thought never crossed my mind that someone would implement that, which is dumb because of course someone has somewhere, and isn't backing it up
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Jan 20, 2021 11:46
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I’m getting mad at the stupid loving Salesforce mascots with their dumb names like “Appy” and “Codey”. I’m trying to do some boring enterprise garbage here, not read a children’s picture book. Quit showing me these cutesy loading animations that look like I’m playing Neopets at work.
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Jan 20, 2021 12:02
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Not pissing me off - having a seriously good incident manager running an outage call rather than just dump it all on the poor engineer (me) who is trying to get it all fixed. Such a huge quality of life change when theres 10-20 people on a call all watching your zoom and pointing fingers at each other. Hopefully it will last, but some bean-counter is bound to try to get rid of them in the future !
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Jan 20, 2021 14:55
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Lum posted:Yeah it's a two service replica pair, should've been clearer about that, sorry. It's surprisingly common as people think the server (which is equivalent as a single controller) equals as a SAN array chassis (which has usually two active controllers). Thankfully, it's easy to solve(just expensive) as you can convert single node volumes into mirrored ones with a couple of clicks.
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Jan 20, 2021 14:59
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For today's "Advanced Binary Editing & Analysis" cyber security class... the lady from the last class who couldn't get on Slack is having problems with g++ and vim.
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Jan 20, 2021 16:45
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I totally get that we need to use some liberal analogies with non-technical people to explain things in a way that means we all have an understanding... ...but I don't think telling a user a switch is full therefore his computer cant be connected (no wifi or outlying hubs permitted here) is going to be agreeable, when the user is saying the PC worked before lunch. I also heard a story that another (non-IT) manager of that area is trying to sort out an extra switch for the area which just absolutely wouldn't happen (its a gov. network, not ours, our strategy is to reduce where possible, not expand) so why you would suggest that is...curious. I could hear the conversation going round in circles and getting louder from my office and I ended up stepping in and just calming things down a bit. I think when he gets back from patching the dudes PC back in I might ask for his reflections upon that particular ticket.
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Jan 21, 2021 14:06
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They are building a house, 2 lots away from me. Loudest loving poo poo ever. Dumptrucks, backhoes, the semi trucks that need to haul poo poo in/out, dropping off dumpsters, BEEP BEEP BEEP backup alarms
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Jan 21, 2021 14:58
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Not pissing me off. It turns out our "digital marketing" team used an external website builder/hosting, and that builder was written in... Flash. The company tweeted saying to use their live chat for website updates. It's not pissing me off because it's not my problem, not my team's problem and the boss is backing us up on this one.
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Jan 22, 2021 12:10
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Lum posted:It's not pissing me off because it's not my problem, not my team's problem and the boss is backing us up on this one. 
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Jan 22, 2021 13:08
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Bob Morales posted:For today's "Advanced Binary Editing & Analysis" cyber security class... the lady from the last class who couldn't get on Slack is having problems with g++ and vim. there need to be admissions tests for these kind of classes "please generate helloworld.exe, you have three minutes"
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Jan 22, 2021 16:15
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pissing me off: our engineers wanting to blame connection issues and synthetics blips on GCP having a networking incident in us-east1 without doing any investigation. like sure, it might actually be GCP's problem, I'm more than happy to justifiably throw something at the feet of an upstream provider. but we literally do not know the root cause and I'm not willing to just wave my hand and blame GCP without a shred of evidence other than correlation that they're actually at fault! It's just sheer laziness.
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Jan 22, 2021 16:36
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Potato Salad posted:there need to be admissions tests for these kind of classes Any time I take a class that is pushing my knowledge I pre read like the whole first couple chapters of what ever info they send out just so I dont feel dumb at the beginning of the class. The threat of embarrassment is such a strong motivator for me and i dont know how it isnt for others. pissing me off: I feel like poo poo. I got really solid into a weight lifting routine and have been feeling great all month and I woke up just feeling like utter trash on wednesday and I still havent kicked it. Haven't been out of the house in like 3 weeks so its just sinus crud triggered by indoor allergies. The thought of sitting in front of my computer screen for 9 hours today is just dreadful.
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Jan 22, 2021 16:58
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Windows XP machines in 2021... A lab that has multiple lazer optical measuring devices that cost $10k each somehow didn't think to upgrade their computers. They are complaining that the new software won't work. Apparently me telling them the new software is 64 bit and xp is 32 bit wasn't enough.... joebuddah fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Jan 24, 2021 |
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Jan 24, 2021 03:23
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joebuddah posted:Windows XP machines in 2021... Wait, expensive industrial machinery with software that actually runs on (semi) modern hardware? I didn't think that existed.
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Jan 24, 2021 12:47
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The lifespan of laboratory equipment can be twenty or thirty years, maybe even longer as the good stuff often gets hand-me-down to less well funded departments/teaching spaces. The software that run this equipment is often a POS and will only work with the machine it was coded for, newer versions of the software that can run on modern computers will often deliberately not work with the older machines.
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Jan 24, 2021 12:52
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This story is totally going to end with them buying x64 Windows XP from a reseller and then wondering why their XP drivers don't work anymore isn't it
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Jan 26, 2021 23:08
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This wasn't on the device controller, it was on the SPC computer.( Where they input the data to) . That's why I was baffled.
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Jan 27, 2021 03:02
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Why on earth would you be Facebook friends with all your coworkers and most of the upper management and then proceed to poo poo talk the company, by name, on Facebook? And why do you have to be one of my direct reports? I don't need this!
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Jan 27, 2021 08:51
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Did some firmware updates on our sonicwall routers last night and one - the most important one - didn't come back up. Turned out to be a bad sfp module at the datacentre and it came back up once they swapped it out but I was dreading it being my fuckup because of this: Why would you have these options right next to each other in a drop down menu?
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Jan 27, 2021 11:36
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A minor one that's still there in modern Windows when you RDP. On the start menu if you click your profile pic, you get Change account settings, lock & sign out. Great nothing wrong here. Go down two and you get Disconnect, Shutdown and Restart. Why is disconnect here and not on the above menu with all the other signout related options? Why is the least destructive option (log out but leave all your poo poo running) right next to the two most destructive?
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Jan 27, 2021 12:09
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tactlessbastard posted:Why on earth would you
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Jan 27, 2021 14:17
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bitterandtwisted posted:Did some firmware updates on our sonicwall routers last night and one - the most important one - didn't come back up. Turned out to be a bad sfp module at the datacentre and it came back up once they swapped it out but I was dreading it being my fuckup because of this: Jesus loving Christmas
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Jan 27, 2021 17:22
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me: hey was the registration for this widgetA submitted? co-worker: yes I requested addresses me: is it done? I'm not seeing it in the database co-worker: yes it was completed me: but there's nothing there, can you confirm if there was an issue? co-worker: I requested for widgetB and widgetC, not widgetA 
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Jan 27, 2021 18:16
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bitterandtwisted posted:Did some firmware updates on our sonicwall routers last night and one - the most important one - didn't come back up. Turned out to be a bad sfp module at the datacentre and it came back up once they swapped it out but I was dreading it being my fuckup because of this: There is zero reason for reset with defaults to be an option in that menu. Put it as a tickbox on the reboot page or something.
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Jan 27, 2021 18:52
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Some personal poo poo pissing me off: Apparently the Corsair Commander Pro straight up doesn't work on some X570 boards, including mine. The internal USB headers don't get passed through to the OS and the fans also just randomly disappear from the controller software. I bought this thing expecting to be able to use it and did my cable management with that expectation; now I have to find an alternative, tear open my rig again, remove this hunk of junk, and redo all my cable management.
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Jan 27, 2021 20:04
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Today I learned that "dogfooding" is a thing. I had to actually look it up. I guess "open public beta testing" was too long to type out so someone decided to make up a word for it?  e: I was wrong, it's when a company uses its own product internally. I guess the term's been around for a while. Never heard of it before today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food DizzyBum fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jan 27, 2021 |
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Jan 27, 2021 21:29
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DizzyBum posted:Today I learned that "dogfooding" is a thing. I had to actually look it up. I guess "open public beta testing" was too long to type out so someone decided to make up a word for it? Dogfooding is using your own products, not open/public beta testing. Essentially the company “eats its own dog food” and uses its own products. This often includes having internal users test as part of a release cycle. In other words it means the product has to be good enough for your own internal use cases before you release it to the public. I’m 100% in favor of this as long as the people in charge favor honest feedback. Nothing is worse than a company that makes a subpar product, forces its use on its own employees, and doesn’t listen when those employees say why it sucks.
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Jan 27, 2021 21:33
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I would argue its worse when a company makes a subpar product and then uses a different product internally because it sucks.
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Jan 27, 2021 21:34
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DizzyBum posted:Today I learned that "dogfooding" is a thing. I had to actually look it up. I guess "open public beta testing" was too long to type out so someone decided to make up a word for it? I've never heard that definition before. Dogfooding is also expressed as "eating your own dog food" and it means that the company uses their own product(s). Like if, for instance, I worked for Juniper, then eating our own dog food would mean the entire infrastructure was run on Juniper equipment.
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Jan 27, 2021 21:37
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Yeah, I did more reading and found the actual definition, so I was wrong. I was worried there was a new buzzword being thrown around the office. This is fine. We already do this with our products.
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Jan 27, 2021 21:46
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klosterdev posted:I would argue its worse when a company makes a subpar product and then uses a different product internally because it sucks. It's absolutely awful when you're using your own poo poo, and it's poo poo, everyone knows it's poo poo, and please can we use <not-poo poo product instead>, but no. We gotta eat our own dogfood and use our own lovely poo poo. And sell our own lovely poo poo, lying through our teeth because we know it's poo poo and the customer really would be better served with a competitor, because, gently caress, so would we. Apropos of nothing, never in my life have I been more aware of the truth of the phrase "Sharepoint is the worst at what it does, except everything else."
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Jan 27, 2021 21:49
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bitterandtwisted posted:Did some firmware updates on our sonicwall routers last night and one - the most important one - didn't come back up. Turned out to be a bad sfp module at the datacentre and it came back up once they swapped it out but I was dreading it being my fuckup because of this: 
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Jan 27, 2021 22:05
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I love the whole series that came from that event.
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Jan 27, 2021 22:57
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ConfusedUs posted:I’m 100% in favor of this as long as the people in charge favor honest feedback. Nothing is worse than a company that makes a subpar product, forces its use on its own employees, and doesn’t listen when those employees say why it sucks. Pissing me off: this We're moving from Zendesk to Salesforce for ticketing and every single loving piece of feedback I've filed that isn't a "hey this literally doesn't work" bug report has been essentially WONTFIX'd. The gently caress is the point of user acceptance testing if you're just going to ignore every bit of feedback? 
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Jan 27, 2021 23:01
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Had a new local firewall program pushed to my computer yesterday, didn't cause noticeable issues when on the network. But I take off the network to configure some hardware, and I can't talk to the equipment. I ask the team the manages the program what the deal is. Turns out that they block any https traffic when off network that isn't going to our citrix portal. Our old firewall program did that as well, but I could turn it off temporarily, or at the very least look at traffic. I ask if there is a way to turn that off, I'm told no, but maybe they can whitelist a single ip range for a few hours on just my machine. No idea how they expect that to work when doing things after hours, or remotely.
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Jan 28, 2021 03:57
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I am once again responsible for a loving MFP printer I can neither fix, nor replace. I'm sorry your papers are getting wrecked in the ADF, but I really don't have anything to give you and if I "send someone else", they won't have anything for you either. The only replacements we have are color, out of toner, and missing a 3rd tray for their precious labels.
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Jan 28, 2021 05:15
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skooma512 posted:I am once again responsible for a loving MFP printer I can neither fix, nor replace. So what would happen if this colossal paperweight were to "break"?
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Jan 28, 2021 05:25
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It's more cringe than STPYO, but whatever. I was on an interview today with 4 other interviewers. The candidate said a lot of disqualifying poo poo, but by far my favorite was this exchange:  Any of you ever been to Mexico? ...yes? Then you understand the importance of good sanitation services. Honestly, I can't believe the interview went on for another 45 minutes after that. Bonus exchange: How would you go about researching a new technology? Well, first I'd search around the intranet, you know, look for any internal documents that mention it, look through Jira tickets that reference it, that kind of thing. uhhh... Okay? Then I'd see if I could find the servers it's hosted on and try to log into them. wait, what? never know what you might be able to get into if you snoop around enough, you know? At this other place I worked at, I found all KINDS of stuff. Financial records, you name it. I found what they were paying all their contractors and consultants, budget plans, tons of stuff.
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KillHour posted:It's more cringe than STPYO, but whatever. I had a guy tell me about his web comic, which featured a ghost, a transgender and a lesbian who were roommates and had wacky adventures, while we were waiting for the other interviewer to get there. My coworker didn't understand why I rushed it but when he handed her a card for his website and described it to her too, she caught on quickly. The position didn't involve comics, animation, writing or anything like that. Just a tier 1 help desk.
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