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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Well the way I use it with thunderbird+lightning and the google provider, I can create a task/event and it gets pushed up, and I can see it on my phone and all that. If that's what you mean.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    Events work fine, but I didn't think Tasks worked. Maybe something's changed?

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Hmm I might have to play around with it a bit.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/google-tasks-sync/

    Maybe that?

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • lwt1973lwt1973 King of Thieves SyndicationRegistered User regular
    My horror story regarding batteries is that we bought several tablets but then couldn't deploy them for a couple of months. Seems that the batteries didn't like not being charged so they all died and the cmos didn't like not being charged so it died.

    A few months later the tablet maker upgraded their equipment (after we RMA'ed about 20) so that the cmos had a longer life then 1 hour if the battery was dead.

    "He's sulking in his tent like Achilles! It's the Iliad?...from Homer?! READ A BOOK!!" -Handy
  • MyiagrosMyiagros Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Myiagros wrote: »
    Speaking of old computers, who can help me with probably an easy batch file problem? I'm not sure exactly what to google to find the answer.

    I have a list made like:
    1. Start this server
    2. stop this server

    I want it so when I select 1 I go to another list, if I select 2 I go to a third list but how it works right now is that when a choice is made, say 1, it goes to the next list but it keeps that "1" selection so that list automatically selects option 1 again. Is there a way to clear that selection between script sections?

    Clear the choice variable before you start printing the submenu?

    I know that, but what the hell is the command to do that?

    iRevert wrote: »
    Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
    Steam: MyiagrosX27
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    I think it's just:
    set poopie=
    

    with no whitespace after the =

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • MyiagrosMyiagros Registered User regular
    Ya, I am dumb. Didn't realize that I needed another set command for each menu.

    iRevert wrote: »
    Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
    Steam: MyiagrosX27
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Hey man we all have days like that.

    ... Like not checking your junkmail folders

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    pppst, hey Myiagros

    ...you wanna buy some drugspowershell?

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    I'll take some powershell, but no metro, once you metro, you start losing flesh.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    I'll take some powershell, but no metro, once you metro, you start losing flesh.

    Yeah but bowen all the cool kids are using metro.

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    I'll take some powershell, but no metro, once you metro, you start losing flesh.

    Yeah but bowen all the cool kids are using metro.

    Yeah but they have no arms!

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • MyiagrosMyiagros Registered User regular
    I would powershell but this is a very simple script just so the engineers can easily switch between their CAD licenses since we don't have floating licenses for some reason. It starts their license and stops their license.

    iRevert wrote: »
    Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
    Steam: MyiagrosX27
  • StraygatsbyStraygatsby Registered User regular
    Myiagros wrote: »
    I would powershell but this is a very simple script just so the engineers can easily switch between their CAD licenses since we don't have floating licenses for some reason. It starts their license and stops their license.

    Oy, if we didn't use a floating db/server for our Autodesk loadouts, I'd probably just go up to the roof and see how quickly I can reach the ground floor. My condolences.

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Whoops crashed the phones.

    This is why I shouldn't be a phone tech!

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • donavannjdonavannj Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Whoops crashed the phones.

    This is why I shouldn't be a phone tech!

    It takes a special kind of person to be a phone tech. Most of the few I've met are more than a bit crazy.

    And the crashing reminds me of this occasional issue we've had on our Avaya setup where a voicemail inbox fills up with voicemails (because the user never checks and deletes them) and upon the next voicemail check by that user, the phone switch for that site will crash immediately.

    What poor phone system has the privilege to be abused by Bowen?

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    donavannj wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Whoops crashed the phones.

    This is why I shouldn't be a phone tech!

    It takes a special kind of person to be a phone tech. Most of the few I've met are more than a bit crazy.

    And the crashing reminds me of this occasional issue we've had on our Avaya setup where a voicemail inbox fills up with voicemails (because the user never checks and deletes them) and upon the next voicemail check by that user, the phone switch for that site will crash immediately.

    What poor phone system has the privilege to be abused by Bowen?

    bcm50

    Pretty much exactly the same issue you had. Our general delivery mailbox filled up because the phone company didn't have it set to automatically delete them when our email server receives them. So, there's about 4000 since last june.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • ueanuean Registered User regular
    Ugh. "Can you fix our elearning software? You guys fixed it last time" . check ticket history - last fixed in 2001. Ughhh!!! Spend an hour reading INI files and trying to figure out something with no Documentation. Also got to run compact and repair database on an access mdb! Still not working. No idea how this thing works. No one even knows if this portion of the program has EVER worked. F*ck it.

    Guys? Hay guys?
    PSN - sumowot
  • MyiagrosMyiagros Registered User regular
    Myiagros wrote: »
    I would powershell but this is a very simple script just so the engineers can easily switch between their CAD licenses since we don't have floating licenses for some reason. It starts their license and stops their license.

    Oy, if we didn't use a floating db/server for our Autodesk loadouts, I'd probably just go up to the roof and see how quickly I can reach the ground floor. My condolences.

    For the most part I don't have to support the engineers but when I do it's a pain in the ass, this was easy enough though.

    iRevert wrote: »
    Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
    Steam: MyiagrosX27
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    Blows my mind how bad everyone else is at GPO here.

  • jaziekjaziek Bad at everything And mad about it.Registered User regular
    jaziek wrote: »
    Patched and restarted both domain controllers on tuesday, and now NOTHING WORKS.

    I couldn't authenticate with them at all, so I rolled back the patches and restarted, and now SMB authentication works, as does SQL server, but interactive logons don't. They'll get stuck applying group policy for a solid 20 minutes.

    Shits fucked and I don't know why.

    Can you turn off all of the linked group policy objects and then log in? Or create a new user in a new OU that has no group policy linked to it and log in with that. At least that way you will know if it is group policy that is screwed up or something else.

    I think its DNS. I'm not sure exactly what, and a 4 hour support session with an MS tech didn't yield any answers either.

    I get an "unable to resolve computer name" when attempting to update group policy. On one computer I can update computer policy but not user policy, on another its the other way round.

    I can resolve the addresses of the domain controllers, I can access shares on them, I can log in to domain accounts, it just takes AGES. It also takes a long time for a non domain account to access a share on a domain system, but on when accessing it by hostname, not via IP, which is weird.

    Something with Kerberos maybe?

    I'm completely out of ideas at this point.

    Steam ||| SC2 - Jaziek.377 on EU & NA. ||| Twitch Stream
  • ueanuean Registered User regular
    Cog wrote: »
    Blows my mind how bad everyone else is at GPO here.

    Got me thinking it would be fun to spin up a PA sysadmin competition server and environment with red vs blue teams... Take turns screwing things up and fixing them and reporting back to the thread. Leaderboards and points.... Hmmmm! I might set this up!

    Guys? Hay guys?
    PSN - sumowot
  • chamberlainchamberlain Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    DNS is a goddamn mystery at times.

    I mean that with all sincerity.

    Edit: Can the domain controller resolve their own names to IP addresses?

    chamberlain on
  • jaziekjaziek Bad at everything And mad about it.Registered User regular
    DNS is a goddamn mystery at times.

    I mean that with all sincerity.

    Edit: Can the domain controller resolve their own names to IP addresses?

    yes.

    the servers affected by the issues can also resolve their own names, the names of the domain controllers and the names of other servers in the network fine.

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  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    Wait, so am I the only person in here who is also responsible for the phone systems? Fucking anything that plugs into something else is my responsibility. Our recently-replaced Nortel system was definitely one of those crazy ones that at some point in the future, I could see being paid a lot of money to work on. I had memorized most of the codes and menus and could practically do them blindfolded. The new VoIP system is a massive upgrade, but there are a whole lot of things to learn and relearn now.

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Cog wrote: »
    Blows my mind how bad everyone else is at GPO here.

    Nothing a little google can't learn me.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    uean wrote: »
    Cog wrote: »
    Blows my mind how bad everyone else is at GPO here.

    Got me thinking it would be fun to spin up a PA sysadmin competition server and environment with red vs blue teams... Take turns screwing things up and fixing them and reporting back to the thread. Leaderboards and points.... Hmmmm! I might set this up!

    You know this would really just be a "who's best at googling" competition.

  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    edited May 2014
    Cog wrote: »
    Blows my mind how bad everyone else is at GPO here.
    My big problem is that my job involves such a wide variety of technologies that I've learned things as the problems arrived. Just like bowen said, Google is one hell of a helper. I've never been formally trained on how to manage Exchange, but the years of using multiple versions have made me pretty decent at it. Yeah, there is a shit ton I don't know, but I know a good amount. As for GPOs, I understand the concept and have done a little bit, but I've never been presented with the opportunity to do much with them, which kind of sucks.

    Le_Goat on
    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Cog wrote: »
    uean wrote: »
    Cog wrote: »
    Blows my mind how bad everyone else is at GPO here.

    Got me thinking it would be fun to spin up a PA sysadmin competition server and environment with red vs blue teams... Take turns screwing things up and fixing them and reporting back to the thread. Leaderboards and points.... Hmmmm! I might set this up!

    You know this would really just be a "who's best at googling" competition.

    Without google, there'd have to be like 1 IT guy for every 5 users.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    bowen wrote: »
    Cog wrote: »
    Blows my mind how bad everyone else is at GPO here.

    Nothing a little google can't learn me.

    To be clear, by "here" I meant where I work, not this thread. I'm not currently claiming that's a shortcoming any of you specifically have.

    Cog on
  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    Cog wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Cog wrote: »
    Blows my mind how bad everyone else is at GPO here.

    Nothing a little google can't learn me.

    To be clear, by "here" I meant where I work, not this thread. I'm not currently claiming that's a shortcoming any of you specifically have.
    Too late. I've already admitted it

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    Cog wrote: »
    Blows my mind how bad everyone else is at GPO here.
    My big problem is that my job involves such a wide variety of technologies that I've learned things as the problems arrived. Just like bowen said, Google is one hell of a helper. I've never been formally trained on how to manage Exchange, but the years of using multiple versions have made me pretty decent at it. Yeah, there is a shit ton I don't know, but I know a good amount. As for GPOs, I understand the concept and have done a little bit, but I've never been presented with the opportunity to do much with them, which kind of sucks.

    I've found understanding the basics makes it pretty easy.

    I know how to run and terminate wires, I can figure out routing and port forwarding.

    25 some odd years of fucking around with a computer makes you pretty good at having a basic idea what's wrong too.

    But if you use your PC more like a vehicle than a hobby then there might be issues.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    Cog wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Cog wrote: »
    Blows my mind how bad everyone else is at GPO here.

    Nothing a little google can't learn me.

    To be clear, by "here" I meant where I work, not this thread. I'm not currently claiming that's a shortcoming any of you specifically have.
    Too late. I've already admitted it

    Look, I'm not denying it either.

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    If it wasn't for MSFS 5.1 fucking up my boot sector in windows 3.1 I'd probably never have really cared for getting into this stuff.

    But It was like the 8th time I'd asked my dad to fix it and he got increasingly agitated every time.

    So... I figured it out myself through trial and error.

    5 minutes before he got home.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Cog wrote: »
    uean wrote: »
    Cog wrote: »
    Blows my mind how bad everyone else is at GPO here.

    Got me thinking it would be fun to spin up a PA sysadmin competition server and environment with red vs blue teams... Take turns screwing things up and fixing them and reporting back to the thread. Leaderboards and points.... Hmmmm! I might set this up!

    You know this would really just be a "who's best at googling" competition.

    Without google, there'd have to be like 1 IT guy for every 5 users.

    I'm thinking it'd be more like

    glendalemillfire3202004.jpg

  • chamberlainchamberlain Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    It would be like Highlander, with us killing each other to absorb the victims knowledge.
    jaziek wrote: »
    DNS is a goddamn mystery at times.

    I mean that with all sincerity.

    Edit: Can the domain controller resolve their own names to IP addresses?

    yes.

    the servers affected by the issues can also resolve their own names, the names of the domain controllers and the names of other servers in the network fine.

    Are you using roaming profiles?

    chamberlain on
  • ueanuean Registered User regular
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    Wait, so am I the only person in here who is also responsible for the phone systems? Fucking anything that plugs into something else is my responsibility. Our recently-replaced Nortel system was definitely one of those crazy ones that at some point in the future, I could see being paid a lot of money to work on. I had memorized most of the codes and menus and could practically do them blindfolded. The new VoIP system is a massive upgrade, but there are a whole lot of things to learn and relearn now.

    No. I manage a slew of avaya setups and an Asterisk. And a few undocumented VLANs.

    Guys? Hay guys?
    PSN - sumowot
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    I've found that if it isn't made out of air, I am responsible for it.

    This goes double if it's powered by electricity.

    Honestly? This feels like a form of sexism, but I wouldn't dare utter those words anywhere else but here.

    Plumbing? Get bowen.
    Electrical? Get bowen.
    Computers? Get bowen.
    Phones? Get bowen.
    Printers? Get bowen. (most likely out of paper btw)
    Camera System? Get bowen.
    Carpentry things? Get bowen.

    Hey yeah I have a penis, I must know all about that shit. I mean... I do, but I don't wanna.

    bowen on
    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • ueanuean Registered User regular
    It would be like Highlander, with us killing each other to absorb the victims knowledge.

    This already happens every time something gets escalated. Its just a slow, stabby death through repetition.

    Guys? Hay guys?
    PSN - sumowot
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    uean wrote: »
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    Wait, so am I the only person in here who is also responsible for the phone systems? Fucking anything that plugs into something else is my responsibility. Our recently-replaced Nortel system was definitely one of those crazy ones that at some point in the future, I could see being paid a lot of money to work on. I had memorized most of the codes and menus and could practically do them blindfolded. The new VoIP system is a massive upgrade, but there are a whole lot of things to learn and relearn now.

    No. I manage a slew of avaya setups and an Asterisk. And a few undocumented VLANs.

    The "anything that plugs in" is pretty accurate for us as well. We run the Cisco phones and voicemail system, though the majority of the work falls on other people in my department.

    Cog on
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