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[sysadmin] I don't even work at your job and I'm already sick of your job.

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  • MyiagrosMyiagros Registered User regular
    Taking bets, will this SP3 update of Exchange 2010 on SBS2011 fuck everything up like the previous two have?

    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...
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  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    SBS

    I will light a candle for you.

    bowenBigity
  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    "So if I delete an email out of my email than it is gone from the server too? what if I need that email later? Is it gone forever?"

    This person asking about an email from January of 2014.

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    wunderbar wrote: »
    "So if I delete an email out of my email than it is gone from the server too? what if I need that email later? Is it gone forever?"

    This person asking about an email from January of 2014.

    "Why do you think 'delete' means 'hide' ?"

    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
  • RandomHajileRandomHajile Not actually a Snatcher The New KremlinRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    wunderbar wrote: »
    "So if I delete an email out of my email than it is gone from the server too? what if I need that email later? Is it gone forever?"

    This person asking about an email from January of 2014.

    "Why do you think 'delete' means 'hide' ?"
    "But but but, you said to clean up my emails because of the quota!"

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Better store important documents in the recycle bin, because if I don't take out my recycle bin, it doesn't get recycled yet!

    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
  • Bendery It Like BeckhamBendery It Like Beckham Hopeless Registered User regular
    edited April 2016
    Going to relabel everyone's network share to Recycle Bin, then maybe they'll back up their data.

    Bendery It Like Beckham on
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  • lwt1973lwt1973 King of Thieves SyndicationRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Better store important documents in the recycle bin, because if I don't take out my recycle bin, it doesn't get recycled yet!

    And create a folder hierarchy in the recycle bin for everything.

    "He's sulking in his tent like Achilles! It's the Iliad?...from Homer?! READ A BOOK!!" -Handy
    bowen
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    So...

    I think I've decided I'm going to make a VM lab with KVM vs hyper-v or vsphere.

    I don't want the headache that comes with dealing with windows or vmware, as I'm super familiar with linux as it is. And I don't want to deal with hardware nonsense as KVM only really cares if there's hardware virtualization and lets the linux kernel handle the rest.

    This way I can dump maybe a 1-2 grand into a server and if it fails, whatever, my boss won't be super pissed, but that's better than dropping 8k and coming out with nothing.

    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
  • Bendery It Like BeckhamBendery It Like Beckham Hopeless Registered User regular
    edited April 2016
    uhg, I'm getting sick pretty rapidly. My counterpart is out on paternity leave after Wednesday and I need to walk through some images with him tomorrow before he leaves.

    I wonder who got me sick.
    Maybe it's the lady on the other side of the cube wall who's been hacking up a lung all last week.

    Bendery It Like Beckham on
  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    uhg, I'm getting sick pretty rapidly. My counterpart is out on paternity leave after Wednesday and I need to walk through some images with him tomorrow before he leaves.

    I wonder who got me sick.
    Maybe it's the lady on the other side of the cube wall who's been hacking up a lung all last week.

    Can't be. That's too obvious.

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    wunderbar wrote: »
    uhg, I'm getting sick pretty rapidly. My counterpart is out on paternity leave after Wednesday and I need to walk through some images with him tomorrow before he leaves.

    I wonder who got me sick.
    Maybe it's the lady on the other side of the cube wall who's been hacking up a lung all last week.

    Can't be. That's too obvious.

    good ol' rhinovirus

    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
  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    edited April 2016
    Tomorrow I get to start the process of interviewing student worker candidates.

    All the applications I looked at were for grad school programmers who worked for 10-15 years as developers for big companies that are coming stateside to get their masters and want part-time work between their classes.

    I have no clue what I'd ask normal student workers, let alone people who are way overqualified for even our programmer jobs...

    Athenor on
    He/Him | "A boat is always safest in the harbor, but that’s not why we build boats." | "If you run, you gain one. If you move forward, you gain two." - Suletta Mercury, G-Witch
  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    Athenor wrote: »
    Tomorrow I get to start the process of interviewing student worker candidates.

    All the applications I looked at were for grad school programmers who worked for 10-15 years as developers for big companies that are coming stateside to get their masters and want part-time work between their classes.

    I have no clue what I'd ask normal student workers, let alone people who are way overqualified for even our programmer jobs...

    Culture stuff is important, so make sure they can work with people and have a good attitude/process towards fixing stuff. It's incredibly rare for someone's programming talents to overcome the organizational drain of being a toxic a-hole.

  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2016
    laptop in diagnostic test mode, speakers don't work
    boot into windows they work fine


    dell :rotate:

    Aioua on
    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
    bowen
  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    wunderbar wrote: »
    uhg, I'm getting sick pretty rapidly. My counterpart is out on paternity leave after Wednesday and I need to walk through some images with him tomorrow before he leaves.

    I wonder who got me sick.
    Maybe it's the lady on the other side of the cube wall who's been hacking up a lung all last week.

    Can't be. That's too obvious.

    good ol' rhinovirus

    There's some shit that's been going around that gives you a few days of feeling terrible and then weeks of random coughing fits. I had it. I hate it. I just want to be able to chat with folks without having to stop in the middle of a sentence to start coughing. Fortunately for my coworkers I recognized what I was getting as soon as it started and took a day off and worked from home the next, so I think spared them the contagious phase.

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    wunderbar wrote: »
    uhg, I'm getting sick pretty rapidly. My counterpart is out on paternity leave after Wednesday and I need to walk through some images with him tomorrow before he leaves.

    I wonder who got me sick.
    Maybe it's the lady on the other side of the cube wall who's been hacking up a lung all last week.

    Can't be. That's too obvious.

    good ol' rhinovirus

    There's some shit that's been going around that gives you a few days of feeling terrible and then weeks of random coughing fits. I had it. I hate it. I just want to be able to chat with folks without having to stop in the middle of a sentence to start coughing. Fortunately for my coworkers I recognized what I was getting as soon as it started and took a day off and worked from home the next, so I think spared them the contagious phase.

    Welcome to the fallback of parents not vaccinating their kids.

    That's whooping cough.

    In kids? That cough will wreck you and basically leave it hard to eat or breathe.

    In adults? You get really sick for 2-3 days, then you get a cough for like 2-3 months. Adults don't typically get the 'whoop' from the cough that kids do.

    Huzzah!

    There's also another viral infection that causes this but it's rare, though, it kind of wrecked everyone 2-3 years ago as it moved through the US from East to West coasts.

    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
  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    I guess that doesn't surprise me. I got it from my wife, who probably got it from one of her pediatric patients.

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    bowen
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Yeah anyone who works around children should be getting a booster for TDAP, which your body expunges antibody memory of by the time you're 25 or so.

    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
  • InfidelInfidel Heretic Registered User regular
    So hey, had to replace a router here at the office, having a bitch of a time with wireless devices connecting to other wireless devices.

    It's a Cisco RV220W we scrounged up, everything seems fine now but this. I don't see any kind of P2P wireless settings that I can muck with but it seems like something is blocking it. I can ping from wireless to wired and vice versa, just not between wireless devices.

    Any ideas?

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Infidel wrote: »
    So hey, had to replace a router here at the office, having a bitch of a time with wireless devices connecting to other wireless devices.

    It's a Cisco RV220W we scrounged up, everything seems fine now but this. I don't see any kind of P2P wireless settings that I can muck with but it seems like something is blocking it. I can ping from wireless to wired and vice versa, just not between wireless devices.

    Any ideas?

    Usually wherever the SSID is set you'll have something like P2P or wireless clients invisible/protection or inter user bridging.

    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
  • InfidelInfidel Heretic Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Infidel wrote: »
    So hey, had to replace a router here at the office, having a bitch of a time with wireless devices connecting to other wireless devices.

    It's a Cisco RV220W we scrounged up, everything seems fine now but this. I don't see any kind of P2P wireless settings that I can muck with but it seems like something is blocking it. I can ping from wireless to wired and vice versa, just not between wireless devices.

    Any ideas?

    Usually wherever the SSID is set you'll have something like P2P or wireless clients invisible/protection or inter user bridging.

    There is "AP Isolation" on the AP Configuration page, where I pick profile (SSID+settings), active time window, max # clients, and this isolation check.

    The help doc says "Check this box to create a separate virtual network for your wireless network. When this feature is enabled, each of your wireless clients will be in its own virtual network and will not be able to communicate with other clients."

    However, it is unchecked already.

    Feels like the configuration is fine and potentially the router is goofed.

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  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    factory reset?

    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
  • InfidelInfidel Heretic Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    factory reset?

    Was the first thing that was done before I set it up initially.

    I've also tried checking AP Isolation, restarting, unchecking, restarting, seeing if that clears anything up, no dice.

    Power cycling has changed nothing.

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  • InfidelInfidel Heretic Registered User regular
    Oh thank god, figured it out.

    Factory defaults sets up a VLAN 1 and puts all physical ports and your SSIDs on it.

    So in theory I could connect to everything but that doesn't work on device to device stuff because it probably depends on your wireless adapter and hahahahaha fuck that.

    Just turned off VLAN and it all works. :+1:

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    bowen
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    yeah that was my next suggestion for vlan fuckmuppetry

    good ol' cisco

    your hardware and software are massive piles of hot garbage, I am glad I dropped you

    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 migrated Sophos Enterprise Console to a new server today. Half the steps should have been built into the damn program because it was basically copying files, moving them, running a command, restarting services, then backing those files up again, then editing some registry files. It took me a good 2 hours to go through everything when it could be done with a single script if Sophos provided one to begin with.

    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
  • BigityBigity Lubbock, TXRegistered User regular
    Athenor wrote: »
    Tomorrow I get to start the process of interviewing student worker candidates.

    All the applications I looked at were for grad school programmers who worked for 10-15 years as developers for big companies that are coming stateside to get their masters and want part-time work between their classes.

    I have no clue what I'd ask normal student workers, let alone people who are way overqualified for even our programmer jobs...

    I had a little to do with something like this at an Air Force base - students from other countries would come in and we had some basic kind of briefings about computers (some had not really been around them before, and they were used for the training. Part of their other acclimation were things like being on time is being late (USAF is all about 15 minutes early is on time, etc), how to behave in public or at someone's home when invited (stuff like bringing a snack/drinks to a BBQ), all the way down to showering daily - some countries this is not a thing they do and it's kind of expected here, etc etc.

    I can't imagine covering everything in a regular job business type environment.

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    so how expensive is sophos? I totally shunned the sales guy that called me because ain't no one got time for 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
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    This is weird as fuck.

    This server reboots itself anytime I control someone's RDP session and disconnect from it.

    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
  • KakodaimonosKakodaimonos Code fondler Helping the 1% get richerRegistered User regular
    Check the update policy. It's probably set to automatic install but not to reboot while anyone's logged on.

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Check the update policy. It's probably set to automatic install but not to reboot while anyone's logged on.

    It's not, it's an RDP server. They're all logged in, I log in, I take control of their session, it locks up and reboots.

    If I don't take control of their session, system says on for weeks.

    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
    lol somthing broke with our network such that VPN and Exchange are borked

    tickets pouring in

    not_my_problem.exe

    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
    bowen
  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    lol somthing broke with our network such that VPN and Exchange are borked

    tickets pouring in

    not_my_problem.exe

    just wait until exchange is back up and you get a flood of emails asking "hey is email down?"

    XBL: thewunderbar PSN: thewunderbar NNID: thewunderbar Steam: wunderbar87 Twitter: wunderbar
    Bigity
  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    oh my god helpdesk stop escalating tickets and calling us

    we know

    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
    wunderbar
  • lwt1973lwt1973 King of Thieves SyndicationRegistered User regular
    COO/Owners: Try to break the software during testing.
    Project Manager: I'm going to take away all your rights so you can't break the software.

    "He's sulking in his tent like Achilles! It's the Iliad?...from Homer?! READ A BOOK!!" -Handy
    bowenschuss
  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    oh god this is great. so remember from a couple pages back our thing about the power going out in the old building and the generator that was supposed to be there being gone?

    This morning the power went out in the new building, which also doesn't have a generator yet, which is why a bunch of our core services stuff is still in the old building.

    It was only out for about 15 minutes thank the gods, but what I really enjoyed was the one exec level manager asking me where the generator for this building was. She was less than impressed when I told her about it taking months of fighting to see where to put it and that's why it wasn't hooked up yet, and that we've been told that it might be up and running in another month or so. She was......less than impressed (with the people responsible for that, not me).

    At least the UPS here is rated for about 2 and a half hours, so we were never in any danger of the servers in this building going down un-gracefully.

    XBL: thewunderbar PSN: thewunderbar NNID: thewunderbar Steam: wunderbar87 Twitter: wunderbar
    Aioua
  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    turns out that when you put 100 gigs of personal photos and music onto the 250 gig SSD of your company laptop, filling the drive completely, it starts shitting the bed.

    Who knew?

    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
    where'd the other 150 gigs go?!

    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: »
    where'd the other 150 gigs go?!

    windows, the programs he needs for his job, job data

    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
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