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Jaded Burnout posted:

If I were to guess I'd say he burned out of the school job and found somewhere mediocre like the rest of us, not interesting enough to talk about, went through two girlfriends and then either settled down or relegated himself to a lonely future, hoping to eventually escape to the coasts. At least that's the trajectory I saw in his future.

CaptainGimpy posted:

WHY WAS I NOT NOTIFIED OF THE CHANGE OF LOCATION FOR THE "a TICKET CAME IN" THREAD?!?!?!

I HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO PROPERLY AVOID MY DAY TO DAY WORK FOR TWO DAYS BECAUSE I WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THIS. AND BEFORE YOU SAY I SHOULD HAVE BEEN READING MY THREADS, IT IS NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY TO PAY ATTENTION TO ANY OF THE 6 PAGES THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE REGARDING THIS.

i'M cc'ING MY MANAGER AND YOUR MANAGER AND THE ceo JUST TO BE SURE THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.

Collateral Damage posted:

ServiceNow suffers from the same problem so many other highly customizable software suites do: It absolutely needs to be set up by someone who knows what they're doing, and in a larger organization you probably want someone managing it full time.

Sheep posted:

Good grief.

wolrah posted:

I'll be that guy and point out that these have nothing to do with ethernet. They're properly called DB9<>8P8C adapters and though technically incorrect DB9<>RJ45 is also acceptable since everyone calls 8P8C RJ45 and we all know what it means. It's still RS-232 signaling the whole way through. Ethernet just also happens to commonly use 8P8C connectors.

This is a RS232<>Ethernet adapter: https://www.startech.com/Networking-IO/Serial-over-IP/1-port-RS232-serial-over-ip-adapter~NETRS2321P

If you need one and get the other you're going to have a bad time.

Bob Morales posted:

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..."

Proteus Jones posted:

Isn't there some goon in ones of these IT threads that buys all his mission critical server hardware off of eBay?

That's some serious

guppy posted:

They aren't the same thing. Directors work for superintendents, not necessarily directly.

Renaissance Robot posted:

Skywriting it is then

Zil posted:

Or just hire a dildo drone.

Yes they are real and no don't search for that at work.

Entropic posted:

You've never seen this kind of setup?

GreenNight posted:

You're supposed to use production equipment as shelves in your racks!

Thanks Ants posted:

and nobody cares anyway.

Zamboni Apocalypse posted:

loss lans.jpg

oh rly posted:

If you need to see all of your concurrent work, I recommend you create separate reports for each task type and throw the reports on a homepage. At my org, the teams handle Incidents and Requests so would use the "Incident" table and "Catalog Task" table for each report. Your org may differ if they decided not to use the OOTB ticket model for Requests.

larchesdanrew posted:

So, now I'm apparently responsible for a plan that none of the three previous TCs did any work on and that was not mentioned to me until it was the day before they're submitting it.

Seriously, gently caress this place right to death. I can't wait to get out of here.

Data Graham posted:

Booted tangs, what is this nerf poo poo

Thanks Ants posted:

Yeah getting rid of it ASAP is vital. It depreciates so quickly because the market for second-user enterprise gear is basically really tight companies and people doing home labs, or crazy people who want a NAS and think they need half a rack of PowerVault stuff. If you sit on it even for a year then you're basically getting its weight in scrap.

sfwarlock posted:

Then again, I don't do personal poo poo on work machines anyways.

Bob Morales posted:

Absolutely nothing happened. They sat down with him, someone came out and boxed up his desk, and the he left.

Samizdata posted:

Could one of you at least point me in the direction of a good Powershell starter? This is nothing official, just a task I like to do every so often. I already know the commands, and have just been abusing the persistent scroll back buffer. I just need to know what basic structural stuff a Powershell script needs.

nullfunction posted:

A bank I worked for had to put their secondary datacenter in another state because Texas is all one power grid.

Kurieg posted:

I use YYYYMMDD in my comments. it's absolutely necessary that I get across exactly when I did a thing without any confusion.

ilkhan posted:

Congrats dude. You are certainly past due for some good luck.

TITTIEKISSER69 posted:

Sometimes the mentor you were looking for was inside you all along.

MF_James posted:

I have the opposite experience at mine, our technical architect is some scary robot that remembers literally everything and gladly passes any and all knowledge down, I've learned so much from him.

Thanks Ants posted:

Time the delivery so it arrives on the morning after your last day

iospace posted:

I found something you guys might need:

Sirotan posted:

Dravs posted:

When I was young I had an Atari ST with an attached tape drive. My favourite game was some 4-bit Bruce Lee thing. This must have been in 1986 or something.



Edit: the tape drive took around 20 minutes to load a game. While it was loading you had to stare at some psychedelic flashing lights. Almost certainly would have triggered seizures in some people with hindsight.

Kyrosiris posted:

At $OLDJOB-2 we had both this as well as "close ticket immediately as soon as you think an issue's fixed, make the customer open a new ticket if it's not". My habit of "hey, we show it's fixed from our end, but if you could confirm it's fixed for you, that'd be great!" and leaving tickets in a pending auto-close state (if the customer didn't reply within 72 hours, then it closed itself) was seriously super frowned upon once a new management team rolled in. It was so stupid, and we had so many customers bitch about it, but GOTTA HAVE THEM TICKET CLOSE METRICS .

AlternateAccount posted:

I think that's a major milestone in admin maturity. Once GANDALF becomes ATLVDC03 life is better for everyone.

Dick Nipples posted:

OC-420 - aka “Dank Line”.

Gotta get that dank line installed.

Che Delilas posted:

Congratulations you are now also the janitor.

Arquinsiel posted:

"No task found, closing ticket".

Neddy Seagoon posted:

So should we get the mods to close Entropic's account now, or wait for confirmation of their gruesome death in a news piece about another technician not heeding the warnings of entering The Hole?

Neddy Seagoon posted:

You stupid fool, that's the one who made the blood-pact to offer other souls to The Hole in exchange for the dark magicks it provides .