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Our Fortinet puked for no reason at 3:45pm Couldn't ping it, couldn't console in, nobody could get online, power-cycled the fucker and it's been okay since. Fortinet tech remoted in, checked out the logs, didn't see anything weird, said "It was probably up too long" Seriously?
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*** This is a system generated email. Please do not respond to this message. *** Dear Customer, This email is to inform you that your ticket has been updated. Ticket Title: Fortigate stopped responding Ticket Status: Researching Updated by xxxxxxxxxx at 1/4/2018 11:01:25 AM Hello xxxxxx Thank you for taking my call today. The unit became irresponsiv Looking into the crashlog we did not see any clue related to the non responsiveness of the Fortigate. -The system log shows high cpu or high memory -The unit does not seems to have been rebooted for more than a year, which can cause some processes to hang. In this case only a reboot can solve the issue.
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FungiCap posted:Shame because I actually like the feature-set and how things are organized for FortiGate's but their reliability is so poo poo I would never put them in production again as a network engineer if I had the option. When we first got them, we were breaking the internal storage because we had logging turned on, so we switched over to Foritcloud after they realized that was hapening to people (took them two months) and pushed out some updates. I also just racked a couple of those for my old employer, they switched to Fortigate company-wide....ugh
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Jan 5, 2018 14:48
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Farking Bastage posted:I'm worried. The police department wants to use the house wireless network for uploading their body cam footage. We have nice stuff ( Extreme wireless 3825 and 3965's, about 100 in total ) but I'm genuinely worried about overall performance when 5 or 6 of them pull up to a fire station, hook into the outdoor AP's and start pushing gigs upon gigs of video across it, especially considering the fact that a lot of the outlying areas have older switches that can only support 1 gig SFP's in addition to saturating the shared bandwidth of the radios, then throw in a full conversion to VOIP this year. This will also throw the wireless, which is generally considered a luxury now, into a public safety issue if something goes awry. Apparently using their air cards is cost prohibitive Police murdered 5 puppies...footage was unrecoverable due to 'technical issues'
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Jan 6, 2018 18:01
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I have an Adtran in my server rack, just waiting to be plugged back in when the Fartinet craps out.
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Jan 8, 2018 22:36
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Farking Bastage posted:I can tell you that the expensive firewalls have quirks of their own. 15 minutes before quitting time today, something went wonky with our *VERY* expensive Checkpoint 15000 HA pair. We pushed an application rule to block snapchat and something glitched. The primary poo poo itself completely, but not in such a way that the HA backup would sense it and take over. Forced a failover to the secondary, but it still didn't want to work right. After about two trips in the cold and snow I bought a UPS with a web interface for the power outlets 
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Jan 9, 2018 02:59
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vendor left an IP phone for us to play with for the week. CEO (owners wife) comes in and asks about it, complains because the handset isn't cordless Ughhhh
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Jan 18, 2018 03:36
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Many people already have headsets (that will work with the new phones) but it's just her trying to find something to complain about "It'd be nice to not have a cord, I've seen phones like that"
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Jan 18, 2018 15:54
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bitterandtwisted posted:No one could access their files for an hour because the datacentre suspended us for not paying a £20 late payment fee. You do fine work, finance department. We pay all of our bills late because out accounting department is full of slow senior citizens Every other time we call a vendor for help "uhh you owe us $1200 we can't talk to you until..."
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Jan 23, 2018 14:38
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A friend sent me a message, the county government I live in is hiring for a programming position. Pay sucks though, maxes out at 60k 
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Jan 24, 2018 19:46
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We had a GD here that sneeze and say and spray all over her screen, her iMac looked ten times worse than that. Never cleaned the drat thing either.
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Jan 30, 2018 14:38
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Renegret posted:A ticket came in We put a cell phone extender in 2 offices that we have because we're in a poo poo cell phone reception area.  Nobody wants to sit by the 'cancer box'. So they'll unplug it and think we won't know.
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Thanks Ants posted:One of our clients has this in their office Do they keep a gimp in there? And let him out to go change toners and stuff?
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 Hey Bob, we haven't gotten any work orders this week and CBRE sent us this. Is this something you need to do to my PC?Attachment reads: UPDATE: ADDITIONAL STEPS NEEDED BY THIS FRIDAY, 1/19 To avoid delayed or lost email notifications/alerts from your Corrigo platform, please complete these additional steps by EOD Friday, 1/19. Please forward this Update to your IT resources or IT team. As Corrigo migrates our SMTP traffic to new IP addresses, the below Email Whitelisting Instructions will ensure that your operational emails from Corrigo will not be throttled or held up by your ISP.
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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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Arquinsiel posted:Did they ask you to change the number to match the cards so they wouldn't have to reprint them? Fix them for free with an Avery label!
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Aunt Beth posted:Because of the quality of the devices, right? Not because of that godawful annoying PTT. *BLOOP-BLEEP* HEY BOB DID YOU GO TO LUNCH YET? *BLOOP*
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Feb 2, 2018 19:34
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Got some neat patches and some new cables, gonna fix up the poo poo closet here.
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Feb 9, 2018 02:11
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AT&T down for anyone else?
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Feb 9, 2018 17:12
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"Why are emails being delayed? <whoever> sent me an email at 8:47 and it just came in at 9:07a." Should I reply with: "It's not called instant messenger" "Your fat rear end didn't even get to work until 8:52" "Rackspace is looking into it"
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Feb 12, 2018 15:19
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Our standard accounting laptop is: Lenovo P51 512GB NVME 16GB RAM Because otherwise Excel doesn't work.
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Feb 12, 2018 16:49
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stevewm posted:Wow... We go bottom of the barrel, because no one needs an i7 for office work. We do that for everyone, but we do a 256GB SSD because Windows likes hogging space, huge local OST/PST files, blah blah
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Feb 12, 2018 17:06
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spankmeister posted:What's 16gb and 512gb in this day and age anyway? Pretty standard stuff imo. It's about $2600 from PC Connection with a dock. Really that spec isn't very high, I agree. I guess we will replace that with something like a quad-core T480 in the next few months, probably saving $500-$800? We used to use a T520 or something which saves quite a few bucks over a full workstation like a W or P
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The Iron Rose posted:yeah i'm 100% okay with giving finance and accounting overpowered laptops so they can brute force their way through pivot tables rather than calling us in Our guys export 300,000 rows from our database and then do queries and poo poo on it in Excel. I get it, you know how to work with it, but guess what you can do the same thing in seconds if you just use the drat database. Part of this to blame is the owner of the company made two of our accounting people 'data analysts' and they spend all their time trying to find places to save very small sums of money, create redundant data, blah blah. Useless.
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Merijn posted:You guys should watch Scorpion. There's 3 or 4 seasons on Netflix and it's the ultimate relaxing tech bullshit show. Most episodes are just your average detective show but sometimes they ramp up the action to ridiculous heights. Like in the pilot where they fix a low-flying airplane from a speeding Lambo Yea, there's a loving USB port on the underside of the plane
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Feb 15, 2018 12:54
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Renegret posted:Staples tech support is so bad that even geek squad makes fun of them Office manager sent the Staples office supply rep to me. Wants to quote us on Dell and other technology needs, and quotes us on a VoIP system....
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dogstile posted:Luckily i've already asked the boss about working from home and he's very much "how would i know if people are actually working". I had a previous job like that which was weird because we had like 5 remote employees, but if you lived near the office you couldn't work from home, ever.
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The best part of my old boss that didn't approve of remote work if you lived close enough to the office...he worked from his house in Arizona half the year (we're in Michigan)Fortis posted:But this is a company where the CEO famously said “people are here to work, not be entertained” about headphones, so I guess we should have seen it coming. We can wear a headphone in one ear.
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GreenNight posted:Fijitsu's new LAN port on laptops is pretty great. Too thin? gently caress no. Xjack had that back in like...1992 
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Arquinsiel posted:I can't be the only person who sees a ruggedised milspec laptop on TV and thinks "yes, that is what I want". I wanted a Tadpole or that fake SGI laptop from Twister so bad when I was a youngin'
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Ahhh.... March Madness (NCAA Basketball Tournament) bracket time Please flood the helpdesk with issues regarding:
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Thanatosian posted:Make sure the resumes and cover letters you're sending out are good. I'm an old (36) so when I last started job searching, I wrote up what I was always told to do years ago, and wasn't getting many bites; then I spent a couple of days voraciously reading https://www.askamanager.org and re-writing the stuff I was sending out, and immediately got a few bites (literally within a week had the interview for the job I have now). Yea, don't be afraid to re-write and use new words especially if it's not getting you anything in the form it is now I added a couple keywords to mine and cut out some fluff and I got about 10 messages from recruiters/employers within a week. Nothing that really appealed to me, but still.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I look back at working on a dev team where people would fly drones around the open plan office and I cringe. We were stuck in the engineering department for a few months while they were remodeling. Nerf wars get old really quick
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Mini pet-peeve: 'maybe' tickets "If so and so approves, I want a laptop" Why don't you just get approval and then put a request in for the laptop.
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If you're going to print your resume at work, don't call the file RESUME.DOC because it shows that JSMITH printed it on the copier and all that. instead call it something like Font Configuration.docedit: that reminds me of the custom email filter the owner of a place I once worked at had me set up. It had a crazy word list of things that would cause an email to be silenty forwarded to him. Certain product names, companies, words like resume, pay, etc
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Oh poo poo. Stuff is about to get exciting. Just had a talk with HR. At 3:45 they are firing someone who is 'known to get verbal and or physical'. I can think of a couple people out in the production floor that would fit the description, but they all go home at 3:00, so it has to be someone from the office. So here's the floor layout:  They are going to bring the person into the conference room to sit down and talk. At that point they want me to go out to the front desk (the IT office is right by the front desk), get the lady that sits out there, and bring her into the IT office and close the door. Then I have to make sure the mystery person doesn't 'escape' or something and walks straight out the front door after they fire him. 
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Methanar posted:It must be pretty embarrassing to get tackled by the IT guy of all people. 
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ilkhan posted:Are they worried about the person being violent or about him/her talking to others or about others knowing who they are firing? Apparently they might yell at the front desk lady or sucker punch her or something I don't know I don't know who the person is, they might be from her old department (she was in customer service until last week) so maybe they hate her or something.
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Current status is they are waiting for the owners of the company to leave (they have an appointment at 4:30 so they should be leaving any minute) before they do this.
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