[SYSTEMS ADMINS & IT MONKEYS] ...maybe they should have hired a professional

urahonky

And now there's tea all over my monitor, thanks @chamberlain!

chamberlain

I know your pain, my first IT job was a catch all, but they had the decency to put it into my job description so I knew it when I took the job.

50% IT, 50% building manager, which is in itself a fancy way of saying 'the guy who fixes things on the cheap because they can't afford to hire a professional'

bowen

I've been tasked to fix toilets and electrical sockets. I've done it because I like my boss. And because I was bored. I probably wouldn't let them make it a habit but a one off "the toilet won't stop draining, HELP" is no big deal.

Tofystedeth

Well, it won't respond to pings, and I can't get it to boot to run any diagnostics. I'm out of ideas.

Aioua

Uuuugh writing self-evals is the worst. Have to make up all my future goals, since they actually are: Get job at a good company. Enjoy getting paid more than half the standard wage.

urahonky

Glassfish is awful. I just want you guys to know that.

iTunesIsEvil

What else would I expect from an "open-source java-based application-server?" Seriously, that's like every DANGER buzzword slapped into one product.

urahonky

I just cannot get this war to deploy on Windows Server 2012. I have removed/added the server hundreds of times while trying something slightly different... Still nothing. And, unfortunately, one of our major projects requires glassfish and it NEEDS to be installed on this server since it is going to deploy soon.

Tomanta

It would be awesome if get your new job before your annual review.

"What do you think you can do to improve your performance?"
"Leave. Here's my 2 weeks notice."

urahonky

Believe me I am staring at that email inbox. :P

urahonky

Goddamn you glassfish you piece of shit. WHY WONT YOU INSTALL THIS WAR FILE?!

urahonky

No... Don't do it. Just relax.

Whooo-sah.

bowen

I'd just disavow all knowledge that I had to do anything with glassfish. When questioned, make them think they're looney.

"What are you talking about?"
"No I've never done anything like that. I'm a programmer why would I do that stuff?
"What I have work orders with my name... hmm looks like someone forged them."
"Not sure what to tell you man, I really wouldn't even know where to begin."

Aioua

"Wait glassfish is a real thing? I thought you were just on mushrooms or something. I mostly just smile and nod while thinking about boobs when you talk to me"

bowen

Honestly wiping your hands of the project is the best thing to do "I tried to help but this is beyond my expertise."

And then go work on something else.

Dehumanized

you know you're in some shit when you get asked to install a war file

urahonky

I take it as some sort of challenge if something isn't working... I don't want to accept defeat!

bowen

Nothing wrong with defeat. Always accept it so you can get help instead of limping around and then someone swoops in for the kill because you're defeated and exhausted.

Sage advice from an old man who was once like you.

Echo

Is the shadow copy storage actually useful for your average gaming-only desktop computer? I discovered that mine was up to 130 gigs and Windows was for whatever reason doing massive disk activity there for days on end, killing performance.

Set it to 20 gigs max and got 130 gigs of disk space back.

bowen

Shadow copy storage is pretty much useless unless you have a habit of deleting shit you shouldn't.

urahonky

I... figured it out finally. 5 days of working and do you want to know what it was!?

I had a 64bit JDK installed........ when I installed the 32bit JDK the server deployed it without a problem.

urahonky

I want to kill myself.

Echo

bowen wrote: »

Shadow copy storage is pretty much useless unless you have a habit of deleting shit you shouldn't.

Yeah. Disk space wasn't an issue, but constant 30 megs/second read/write... fuck off.

bowen

urahonky wrote: »

I... figured it out finally. 5 days of working and do you want to know what it was!?

I had a 64bit JDK installed........ when I installed the 32bit JDK the server deployed it without a problem.

Hmm didn't I mention that? I thought I did. If not man, yeah, that's like the #1 thing to check against JVMs. Do you have 32bit/64bit? Try the other one.

urahonky

Here's the thing... I ran the glassfish installer using the 32 bit JDK but for some reason it was still trying to use the 64bit... So I decided to remove everything and start from square 1.

bowen

It will probably opt for whatever is first in the PATH statement, or, based on the architecture of the system, regardless of whatever JVM is running it.

Echo

This is what the shadow copy storage was chewing on for hours on end.

bowen

Jesus christ. Maybe that's what fucked up my previous hard drive. Gonna have to check that out later tonight.

Echo

I got a new case a few weeks ago, so now I don't even hear disk activity, or I'd have spotted it sooner.

urahonky

bowen wrote: »

It will probably opt for whatever is first in the PATH statement, or, based on the architecture of the system, regardless of whatever JVM is running it.

PATH had the 32 bit and JAVA_HOME was the 32 bit. I just don't understannnd. Oh well it works now.

bowen

urahonky wrote: »

bowen wrote: »

It will probably opt for whatever is first in the PATH statement, or, based on the architecture of the system, regardless of whatever JVM is running it.

PATH had the 32 bit and JAVA_HOME was the 32 bit. I just don't understannnd. Oh well it works now.

Mr_Rose

For those of us who are not in 'murica or don't watch the "history" channel on principle, why is that guy relevant here? Other than the hair, obviously.

bowen

Ancient Aliens show, Georgio Tsoukalos.

He thinks everything happened because of aliens. In particular, this meme is used to explain the unexplainable using his tagline (though I'm not sure if he officially phrased it this way).

"I'm not saying it was aliens. But it was aliens." Shortened to "Aliens."

Mr_Rose

Ah, that explains why he keeps showing up in sci-fi threads… I just thought he was a bad Centauri cosplayer.

bowen

Hahaha. That's one theory behind his hair.

Another is he's being slowly abducted by aliens.

urahonky

So another weird thing about my CEO's email... he just moved 10,000 emails locally (over 7GB worth) and it didn't move his mailbox size. I am seriously confused here.

I have a bad feeling his "All Mail" folder is also keeping a copy of his sent items and that the "Sent items" folder didn't really do anything. It's very, very weird.

bowen

He probably didn't move. He probably copied.

Or, he's set it up as a POP server with "keep a copy on the server" and thus, he downloads a copy, marks it as read on the server, then, you're just working with a local copy.

urahonky

Unfortunately that's what I thought too but his "Sent Items" folder in the Google application says that there are only 2600 emails, down from 13,000. So I know he moved them locally (verified that they were gone). And I know for a fact he doesn't use POP because he's paranoid about not being able to get to his email from home whenever we do anything in Outlook.

bowen

Could also be he's got gigantic attachments in his emails so that the remaining emails were the ones taking up 99% of that space. And hence why they're "important."

Or, it could take a while for the system to update space free as it gets processed and removed form backups and all that.

urahonky

Hmm.... Well he is trying to keep emails from the past 3 months, then archive the rest.