What Are You Doing Right Now
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Started internet recovery on my MacBook Pro.
Apple only lets it recover to the original OS. So back to OS X Lion.
Logged in and now it is downloading macOS Sierra.
The fun part was the old Mac App Store could not handle the 2 factor auth on my iCloud account. Turns out you have to type your password and then the 6 digit code tacked onto your password and then it accepts it.Going to troubleshoot the weird wireless behavior I was having again with a clean macOS install and see what I want to do with the laptop.
Is this the one you just had Kororra on?
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Started internet recovery on my MacBook Pro.
Apple only lets it recover to the original OS. So back to OS X Lion.
Logged in and now it is downloading macOS Sierra.
The fun part was the old Mac App Store could not handle the 2 factor auth on my iCloud account. Turns out you have to type your password and then the 6 digit code tacked onto your password and then it accepts it.Going to troubleshoot the weird wireless behavior I was having again with a clean macOS install and see what I want to do with the laptop.
Is this the one you just had Kororra on?
Yeah. It was flaky before. That is why I decided to wipe it in the first place.
It steadily got worse. So I expect to have the same issues again.
But it is not my laptop. It is a company machine. So once I troubleshoot it, and replace/repair if needed, it needs to be reloaded clean yet again and set aside as spare or I have to buy it out.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Started internet recovery on my MacBook Pro.
Apple only lets it recover to the original OS. So back to OS X Lion.
Logged in and now it is downloading macOS Sierra.
The fun part was the old Mac App Store could not handle the 2 factor auth on my iCloud account. Turns out you have to type your password and then the 6 digit code tacked onto your password and then it accepts it.Going to troubleshoot the weird wireless behavior I was having again with a clean macOS install and see what I want to do with the laptop.
Is this the one you just had Kororra on?
Yeah. It was flaky before. That is why I decided to wipe it in the first place.
It steadily got worse. So I expect to have the same issues again.
But it is not my laptop. It is a company machine. So once I troubleshoot it, and replace/repair if needed, it needs to be reloaded clean yet again and set aside as spare or I have to buy it out.
If its hardware is flaky and it's an older machine, I'd pitch it unless it's something you can replace yourself. I hate keeping flaky crap around.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Started internet recovery on my MacBook Pro.
Apple only lets it recover to the original OS. So back to OS X Lion.
Logged in and now it is downloading macOS Sierra.
The fun part was the old Mac App Store could not handle the 2 factor auth on my iCloud account. Turns out you have to type your password and then the 6 digit code tacked onto your password and then it accepts it.Going to troubleshoot the weird wireless behavior I was having again with a clean macOS install and see what I want to do with the laptop.
Is this the one you just had Kororra on?
Yeah. It was flaky before. That is why I decided to wipe it in the first place.
It steadily got worse. So I expect to have the same issues again.
But it is not my laptop. It is a company machine. So once I troubleshoot it, and replace/repair if needed, it needs to be reloaded clean yet again and set aside as spare or I have to buy it out.
If its hardware is flaky and it's an older machine, I'd pitch it unless it's something you can replace yourself. I hate keeping flaky crap around.
was only the wireless. so if it stays flaky, I can replace just that easily enough.
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Just forced a password reset for 99 O365 accounts. now to watch things burn....
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just forced a password reset for 99 O365 accounts. now to watch things burn....
Nothing like a MS error for things to blow up in your hands.
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Finally just caught up on posts!
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We need one more good, solid conversation today. We are about to break our one day posting record!!
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This might be our record busiest posting day!
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Contract with DirecTV ends on Monday. Considering going to Sling.com and trying it out. Anybody else had any experience with them?
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First SW thread that I look at today... modern MySQL on ancient Windows 2008 32bit. Wat?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2012235-installing-mysql-on-windows-server-2008-32bit
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Just read some SMB IT Journal articles on generalist / specialist and engineer / support and am re-familiarizing myself with the feeling of ambivalence.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just read some SMB IT Journal articles on generalist / specialist and engineer / support and am re-familiarizing myself with the feeling of ambivalence.
Good stuff
Be sure to like and share 
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just read some SMB IT Journal articles on generalist / specialist and engineer / support and am re-familiarizing myself with the feeling of ambivalence.
Good stuff
Be sure to like and share No, it's terrible. Deciding between multiple things about which you have passion is quite stressful.
On sharing: I posted them in our it-private channel at work for my colleagues to read :).
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just read some SMB IT Journal articles on generalist / specialist and engineer / support and am re-familiarizing myself with the feeling of ambivalence.
Good stuff
Be sure to like and share No, it's terrible. Deciding between multiple things about which you have passion is quite stressful.
On sharing: I posted them in our it-private channel at work for my colleagues to read :).
I try sharing stuff and get this response:
"They are full of it. We experience saturation weekly and without QOS our calls would we inaudible. Tell mango con they will never see us at a conference. QOS FOR LIFE
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All I shared was:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/11896/qos-for-voip-is-not-the-big-deal-the-vendors-want-you-to-think
https://mangolassi.it/topic/11895/why-vlans-do-not-provide-effective-qos-for-voip -
Would having the understanding of QoS concepts and having the skills to configure it be something that you'd expect a generalist to have? Or would that knowledge and skill be expected for a network specialist and a bonus for a generalist?
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@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
All I shared was:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/11896/qos-for-voip-is-not-the-big-deal-the-vendors-want-you-to-think
https://mangolassi.it/topic/11895/why-vlans-do-not-provide-effective-qos-for-voipWhere did you share them?
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Would having the understanding of QoS concepts and having the skills to configure it be something that you'd expect a generalist to have? Or would that knowledge and skill be expected for a network specialist and a bonus for a generalist?
Yes, that's very basic networking knowledge expected for something like the Network+
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QoS knowledge was, in the 1990s, considered so basic that you had to do a test on it that gave you zero credit in the MS cert world, other than allowing you to then go on to other certs. Today, you get a Net+ for that same work. The bar has lowered a bit. But that it is entry level "universal" knowledge that you should expect from everyone hasn't changed. Even helpdesk people, while maybe not confident that they know the answers, should know what QoS does any why and when it would be useful.
