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monsterzero posted:Hope this round of candidates all fall through and they can re-org before they hire your new Athletics Director, because higher ed leadership are literal toddlers who will throw a tantrum if anyone tries to touch their toys even if they didn't know they had them, how to use them, or any interest in managing them. What's great is that the dean who signs off on IT improvements has IT requests filtered through our boss who then passes it up two levels then back down two to get them approved or denied. We're pushing to just report directly to the dean who handles IT disbursements for the college. The org chart is a disaster and people are petty as gently caress, but I have zero overtime requirements and I get off every day at 4:30PM so I can't complain.
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Vargatron posted:The org chart is a disaster and people are petty as gently caress, but I have zero overtime requirements and I get off every day at 4:30PM so I can't complain. Oh I get it. In thirty more years my pension is going to rule.
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Boys who love boys
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Vargatron posted:Goongrats I'm pretty sure my current boss' ears were burning because all of a sudden it's "we want you to take over Mac deployment and ops" gently caress off. That's not what I want to do you micromanaging idiot. Just because I know how to use the terminal doesn't mean I want to do MDM bullshit.
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Today I learned that DDR4 RAM now features a curved die cut on the pins. Apparently that's how you tell DDR4 from DDR3. I really thought I got a batch of RAM with a manufacturing error.
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Dec 7, 2018 16:28
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Vargatron posted:Today I learned that DDR4 RAM now features a curved die cut on the pins. Apparently that's how you tell DDR4 from DDR3. Also the slot is more in the middle
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Dec 7, 2018 16:31
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I noticed that as well, but that was more annoyance than anything else. It's like plugging in a USB cable! Gotta flip it twice to alter reality.
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Today I have priced out what it will be like to move our florida office VMs to Azure and just do it through there. It's going to cost 2.6% of what our on prem solution currently costs, all things being equal. 
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Dec 7, 2018 17:42
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Vargatron posted:I noticed that as well, but that was more annoyance than anything else. It's like plugging in a USB cable! Gotta flip it twice to alter reality.  http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-10-04
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Dec 7, 2018 17:48
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:USB-A exists in 4 dimensional space. This is true, but beware the day it actually fits on the first try. 
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Dec 7, 2018 19:00
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Has anyone used Veeams oversized VM recommendations? They seem...aggressive. I get they’re using the data directly and calculating everything but it flies in the face of conventional wisdom that it’s hard to stomach if it’s right.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Has anyone used Veeams oversized VM recommendations? They seem...aggressive. I get they’re using the data directly and calculating everything but it flies in the face of conventional wisdom that it’s hard to stomach if it’s right. I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to...
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I kind of wonder how much we'd save if we just slightly under provisioned by default and just put up with things being a tiny bit slower. Probably trillions.
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Tab8715 posted:I kind of wonder how much we'd save if we just slightly under provisioned by default and just put up with things being a tiny bit slower. You'd probably lose more in productivity than you saved.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to... I think he’s referring to the base VM power recommendations to host the VEeam application. I do remember it being fairly Beefy. In all honesty though if you can spare having your Veeam server be powerful it is a major benefit.
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I'd rather just add proxy servers then give a VM something silly like 16 vCPU. I don't trust app vendors to make recommendations on VM sizing, to be honest.
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Veeam One is their monitoring and reports product that they like to try and push with Backup and Replication. One of their reports has some pretty aggressive sizing recommendations based on metrics taken from Hyper-V and Vsphere. It seems pretty slick so far.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:USB-A exists in 4 dimensional space.
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Internet Explorer posted:I'd rather just add proxy servers then give a VM something silly like 16 vCPU. I don't trust app vendors to make recommendations on VM sizing, to be honest. You know for some reason I never thought the proxy servers Had as much efficiency as the main server did. I get the need for them in certain situations due to network layout or whatever, but for some reason I always had lackluster experience with them.
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Do Cisco cordless phones usually need local DHCP to connect properly to wireless? Spent like 6 hours with TAC wondering why DHCP requests were stuck sending requests over and over until I changed it to local instead of our centralized server. The centralized configuration works at a bunch of other sites so I’m at a complete loss. It’s been a week and a half of whack a mole with wireless issues since TAC made me patch our controller for an issue where that wasn’t the problem. Thinking of reverting over the weekend and seeing if it helps so I can actually get some stuff done next week. the director decided we’re just going to stop messing around with wireless issues if only cell phones are affected lol
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Sickening posted:You know for some reason I never thought the proxy servers Had as much efficiency as the main server did. I get the need for them in certain situations due to network layout or whatever, but for some reason I always had lackluster experience with them. I may be talking out of my rear end here but we have a local proxy server that goes along with our main Veeam server and it seems to do okay. Can't say I've ever looked at it too carefully, but it solved a performance bottleneck for us. Also allows a different network interface to be used. We're on 10g now, but when we were still using 1g it made a difference.
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We use VeeamONE and are analyzing our environment to see if the sizing recommendations are accurate. They seem to be pretty reasonable so far. We’re just watching some of our applications with spiky demand to see if they’ll be able to perform under load if we size by Veeam’s suggestions.
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Docjowles posted:This is true, but beware the day it actually fits on the first try. 
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:USB-A exists in 4 dimensional space. USB ports are composed of 1.5-spin particles.
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Tetramin posted:Do Cisco cordless phones usually need local DHCP to connect properly to wireless? Spent like 6 hours with TAC wondering why DHCP requests were stuck sending requests over and over until I changed it to local instead of our centralized server. The centralized configuration works at a bunch of other sites so I’m at a complete loss. I am very tired just now and maybe this is a stupid question but do you have the DHCP options (Option 150, e.g.) for this subnet properly set on the central scope? I'm assuming the scope was actually created there. guppy fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Dec 8, 2018 |
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George H.W. oval office posted:Veeam One is their monitoring and reports product that they like to try and push with Backup and Replication. One of their reports has some pretty aggressive sizing recommendations based on metrics taken from Hyper-V and Vsphere. It seems pretty slick so far. I’m evaluating backup/light DR solutions right now and that’s the one of the two features that’s giving me pause (the other is the sandboxing) in going with Standard and not Enterprise. It would be nice to know how over provisioned my guests are.
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Collateral Damage posted:My favorite on the list of unusual superpowers is "able to insert a USB plug correctly in only two tries" fuuuuuuuuuck I might have to put this on my resume.
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TerryLennox posted:USB ports are composed of 1.5-spin particles. I like you
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Joy to the world, the fax is dead... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46497526
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It's amazingly alive and well in Japan though. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-34667380
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Wow, who would have guessed - although the high SME rate kinda makes sense I guess. Anyway, is this normal: We discovered some stuff was offline we look and conclude almost certainly a fibre in duct issue somewhere. We get our fibre guy to quote us - he says I'll rod the ducts and price it up - finds collapsed ducts and tells us he doesn't fit ducts. I said to the facilities manager do you know anyone that fits ducts - big fat nope. I'm pretty sure that we are going to be digging which means the facilities guys probably want to advise us about other services such as water and electricity But apparently not my FM manager ha ha. Time for a CYA email...
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I'm having a little trouble parsing that, but am I understanding correctly that you're worried about hitting underground utilities while burying fiber? Yeah, uh, you should be. You really want to get a private locate service to mark them out. I think one might be legally required, not sure if that's jurisdictional, but it would also just be insane not to. You do not want to hit a gas main. Your facilities people may also have maps showing existing services but you should still have it checked and marked out.
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Basically yeah that is my concern. I'm UK and not sure what the laws are but I dragged the guy doing the survey over to facilities, made them get the drawings out and come with us to do the survey. So I'm very confident that a) there wont be a problem and b) I've checked it with facilities and they agree there wont be a problem. The real question is: If you had a fibre damaged in a collapsed duct, would you arrange for it to be repaired or would you get your facilities guys to resolve this for you? I'm surprised facilities are pushing back on this - kinda assuming they are just being their usual lazy selves but it might be me who is wrong
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angry armadillo posted:Joy to the world, the fax is dead... quote:"The internet is slow there and sometimes we send funny messages to each other using a fax machine. The sound it makes is really satisfying." I guess that about sums up the use case.
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angry armadillo posted:If you had a fibre damaged in a collapsed duct, would you arrange for it to be repaired or would you get your facilities guys to resolve this for you? When you say duct, you mean underground runs? But yeah, any kind of underground/trench work would be managed by facilities. Whether they do it themselves, or managed the contractors who do. The cost involved also comes out of Facility's budget, not IT's if you can swing it.
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Proteus Jones posted:When you say duct, you mean underground runs? In good news - this very much comes out of the Facility money, one of my most enjoyable tasks at work is finding ways to spend their money 
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angry armadillo posted:So I'm very confident that a) there wont be a problem and b) I've checked it with facilities and they agree there wont be a problem. 5 minutes after breaking ground: "hey uh does it smell like gas to anyone else?"
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angry armadillo posted:
Lol. This isn’t the kind of thing to for YOU to be overconfident about. People like YOU are why we have these crazy digging fiascos where major fiber lines get cut or gas emergencies happen. Even if you are totally right let someone who actually has the chops to be overly confident can chime in.
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How is anyone supposed to get a job these days without knowing someone or having a ridiculous amount of certs and exp? I trawl the job boards and get something like four responses for 100 applications and out of those get past the phone screen like once, but I ask my bros and get a 100% response rate and pretty much get to the interview if I want the job. I have my bachelors and about a year as the IT department for a small financial firm, so I'd think I'd have a fair shot. Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Dec 10, 2018 |
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