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punishedkissinger posted:what level of lying is acceptable when dealing with warranty claims? The answer is all levels, especially when it comes to apple.
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This isn't even lying. Attempted to run diagnostics. Computer started emitting loud tone and turned off. Diagnostics failed.
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Feb 17, 2021 16:58
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How many more LACP groups will I find today that are mis-matched?
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Feb 17, 2021 17:01
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God is punishing you for not ECMPing
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punishedkissinger posted:what level of lying is acceptable when dealing with warranty claims? There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
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Bob Morales posted:How many more LACP groups will I find today that are mis-matched? Doesn't lacp prevent that? I thought part of it was bundle identification. Edit: oh like load balancing algo? All of them.
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Feb 17, 2021 17:23
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We're suppose to get a $250 bonus if someone gets hired and they say you recommended them. After 90 days or so. I got my bonus, it was $157.40 after taxes. WTF taxes are they taking out, what a con. Free money for sure, but still. 
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Feb 17, 2021 17:26
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punishedkissinger posted:what level of lying is acceptable when dealing with warranty claims? I had Lenovo do this to me... Had a Tiny system that just up and died completely and would do nothing. Wouldn't turn on. The "tech" I got stuck to their script and went through several things to have me try.. in Windows. I had to repeat "it won't turn on" about 10 times. Which was met with "well let's try this instead". 
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GreenNight posted:We're suppose to get a $250 bonus if someone gets hired and they say you recommended them. After 90 days or so. I got my bonus, it was $157.40 after taxes. WTF taxes are they taking out, what a con. Free money for sure, but still. Bonuses are withheld at a different rate, which you will reconcile with your tax returns. ~37% doesn't sound unreasonable.
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Feb 17, 2021 17:34
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KillHour posted:Bonuses are withheld at a different rate, which you will reconcile with your tax returns. ~37% doesn't sound unreasonable. 250 bucks is a loving scam too. We're getting 5000. A recruiter would get a poo poo load more than that, don't forget it.
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Crosby B. Alfred posted:What's the general sentiment regarding responsibly? It's freaking wild It's loving ERCOT's fault for not being prepared adequately. The winterization steps they thought would be enough, weren't. I saw the bullshit from Fox NEws and our own idiot governor blaming green energy. ERCOT itself says it's more the control systems of *all* the power plants freezing up (because everything is outside...) and problems with natural gas supply (gas pressure is much lower than usual in the cold, go figure,) though some of the wind turbines did freeze up because they weren't really expected to experience this sort of weather, just like all the other systems, actually. Sickening posted:Our richest neighborhoods haven’t gone without power. Our poorest have gone without it the most. This is both trying to deflect the blame from a very angry voter base and trying to help big energy donors. So much this. There were maybe a couple cycles of the "rolling" outages, and then it became just an "outage" for a lot of us. Someone posted a picture an ABC reporter took of downtown Houston skyscrapers lit the gently caress up, while everything surrounding was dark. Same poo poo in Dallas. Driving to my mother-in-laws, we passed quite a few car dealers and office buildings that were blazing with light (and presumably heat) and it rankled me something fierce. Another fun detail: I'm hearing that most of the board of ERCOT isn't even in TX, though I have not confirmed that. We really need to give up on the independant grid thing. We could have gotten some help from the rest of the US. PCjr sidecar posted:Thermal generation (gas, coal, nukes) are short 30 GW from forecast. Wind is short 1 GW. Not to mention that we come up short literally every summer, too.
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Well it took nearly a whole year (although to be fair I wasn't really looking for a good chunk of 2020 while I did freelance baseball writing) but  and my title is actually SysAdmin now!
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Feb 17, 2021 17:46
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Jeoh posted:250 bucks is a loving scam too. We're getting 5000. This is true.
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Feb 17, 2021 17:46
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I get referral bonuses from $4-10k but I’d also take $250 in place of $0.
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i am a moron posted:I get referral bonuses from $4-10k but I’d also take $250 in place of $0. Same, and getting someone hired who you think is competent and fun to work with is its own reward over a rando who might be poo poo.
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H110Hawk posted:Doesn't lacp prevent that? I thought part of it was bundle identification. Yea, sorta. The switch is smart enough to disable the port that's "wrong" Port 3 on both switch 1+2 should both be in the lag/lacp going to switch 3 Port 4 on both switch 1+2 should both be in the lag/lacp going to switch 4 Port 5 on both switch 1+2 should both be in the lag/lacp going to switch 5 ... But like 3/4 were flipped. So it's never worked. Each group for 3 and 4 only had 1 active port The rest of them aren't so simple. Not sure if the fiber isn't patched in or if it's broken somewhere? Gives me something to do for the afternoon.
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Darchangel posted:We really need to give up on the independant grid thing. We could have gotten some help from the rest of the US. Maybe from the west, but the next grid to the east (MISO, runs from midCanada down to Louisiana and a little of SE Texas) also had to institute some rolling blackouts last night.
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Inspector_666 posted:Well it took nearly a whole year (although to be fair I wasn't really looking for a good chunk of 2020 while I did freelance baseball writing) but That's awesome. Congrats!
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Jeoh posted:250 bucks is a loving scam too. We're getting 5000. We have a dedicated recruiter on staff too.
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Inspector_666 posted:Well it took nearly a whole year (although to be fair I wasn't really looking for a good chunk of 2020 while I did freelance baseball writing) but Congrats dude! I do enjoy your baseball writing 
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I can maybe understand running an independent grid, but why aren't there a ton of DC interconnectors available?
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Thanks Ants posted:I can maybe understand running an independent grid, but why aren't there a ton of DC interconnectors available? Because that makes it no longer independent I imagine.
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Thanks Ants posted:I can maybe understand running an independent grid, but why aren't there a ton of DC interconnectors available? I know nothing about electrical engineering or electrical utilities, my thing is water and water treatment utilities, but if what ever you're talking about isn't required for the system to run nominally, then there wasn't budget.
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Thanks Ants posted:I can maybe understand running an independent grid, but why aren't there a ton of DC interconnectors available? For a long time it was isolated to avoid fed regulation. There’s ~1 GW interconnects to East iirc. There was a 30 GW e/w/tx interconnect planned to move renewable generation output around but that’s largely vaporware also stymied by trump’s energy policy.
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KillHour posted:Bonuses are withheld at a different rate, which you will reconcile with your tax returns. ~37% doesn't sound unreasonable. I think bonuses are taxed at capital gains rate, which iirc is your highest marginal rate (i.e. the top bracket you fall into). I could be wildly mistaken but that's what my hazy brain is bringing up. His Divine Shadow posted:Is this where I go to ask about recommendations for a DM system? Document management that is. It's hard to get a handle on it on my own from all the options out there. Looking for something suitable for a small company, ideally what it needs to do is handle office documents and automate version control. If you use O365 sharepoint can do some of this, disclaimer that sharepoint can be a bitch but cloud sharepoint is better than admining on prem sharepoint. Though I'm sure others know if a 3rd party that can do all/most.
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I love getting a user e-mail with the subject "THIS IS A DISASTER!!!". A user was prepping a laptop for shipment to me and wanted to remove all confidential data on there, which is fine. This data is on a Google Drive folder, so I instructed them to make an external backup, verify the files, then delete the data off the old laptop. I then got the panicked e-mail followed by a phone call because data on the other computer they were using was deleted and they wanted to know why "the thing I told them to do" caused them to lose all their data. Of course this was an easy fix by just restoring the files from Trash in Google Drive, but I simply could not explain to them that they had two PCs linked to the same Google Drive and that's what caused the deletion. Which is also why I had instructed them to make a backup just in case something like this happened. "I feel like you're not taking this seriously at all!!!". Oh, I'm taking it seriously, it's just that we made a contingency for this situation. No reason to panic.
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To be fair if I was a dumbass user and I got that set of instructions I would have done exactly the same thing. Plus or minus the panic anyways.
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Can you not unlink the computer before deleting the data?
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Well, I was under the impression that they had unlinked the Google Drive folder after the backup was complete and was just removing the documents after the unlink was complete. I suppose I should have been more clear about that when discussing the prep work with them. Normally I would have handled this myself, but they are working remotely from the west coast so all I could do was give them instructions on what to do. I did stress to make sure they had a backup before doing anything else. I guess the thing that bothered me that it took me 30 minutes to calm them down after getting the data restored.
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When that happens I like to tell people that their data is gone forever, give their heart a few seconds to explode before coming in with the “actually, it’s fine” Got to set expectations
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I would really rather not agitate my users. Especially users who have a tendency to be difficult to deal with and high strung. I usually get assigned problem users because my demeanor generally gets a good reaction from them.
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Vargatron posted:I would really rather not agitate my users. Especially users who have a tendency to be difficult to deal with and high strung. I usually get assigned problem users because my demeanor generally gets a good reaction from them. Oh hey what's up problem user buddy, I've been thrown like 5 clients in the last month that are pissed off because of the previous engineer they had, whom was fired.
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I got thrown into a super hosed up seven figure project my first week if it makes you feel any better. Never seen a client and service provider father apart on a project before - one of their engineers went in and hosed some stuff up this afternoon without mentioning they were doing anything. Lol
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I just had a 45 meeting with network engineers on why branding “or lack there of” isn’t a major security risk on its own. This combined with my power going out constantly has led me to early afternoon drinking.
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Sickening posted:I just had a 45 meeting with network engineers on why branding “or lack there of” isn’t a major security risk on its own. This combined with my power going out constantly has led me to early afternoon drinking. The devices in the rack that are in GREEN chassis have never been hacked, therefore...
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The Fool posted:When that happens I like to tell people that their data is gone forever, give their heart a few seconds to explode before coming in with the “actually, it’s fine”
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angry armadillo posted:what sort of expectation is that even setting? That we're assholes here to make their lives miserable. It's surprisingly accurate.
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If you’re not modeling your behavior on Nick Burns and BOFH and the it crowd losers are you even really in it?
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PCjr sidecar posted:If you’re not modeling your behavior on Nick Burns and BOFH and the it crowd losers are you even really in it? I work from home, but every time my wife asks for help with O365, I lean over from behind and breathe loudly while staring down her shirt. Gotta keep the craft alive.
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