What Are You Doing Right Now
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in bed
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Having one of those fun days after a client was bought and the company that bought them decided that they would move all of their IT to their internal IT departments. Yes, first, they have two departments for IT. And they have an internal person who "doesn't want to hear about it" who oversees IT, but refuses to be made aware of any outages, issues, or complaints. She directly said that she was not to be informed.
One of their sites has been without working email for weeks. Their websites are broken and don't load. Their users are threatening to quit because they "have no IT support anymore". LOL
Just, enjoying it all.
Popcorn has an extra good flavor during this drama.
My issue with that scenario is the IT department is probably catching the shit from users while the "decision" maker is overlooked. On top of that, I'm guessing, there are a few IT people who know/want to fix the issues but have not power to fix them.
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Resilvering an R1, which kicked out a drive in the pair for a transient error.
Good morning, at least the other drive seems consistent and I have backups.
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@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
On top of that, I'm guessing, there are a few IT people who know/want to fix the issues but have not power to fix them.
Not likely, appears to be a one man show. They claim to be bigger, but they operate from a cell phone and if the owner is at lunch, the company evaporates. Every so often we see one other name in emails, but all responses and phone calls only go to the owner. We suspect this is a one man, part time deal. He's a nice guy, but goes weeks at a time without even acknowledging that they have tickets or that things are down.
They split IT into two, one that does the LAN based stuff, and one that does public facing. From what we can tell, the head of IT for public facing doesn't even know what DNS records are so as you can guess, the disasters that ensure are pretty significant. Their LAN guy and us both take a bit of humour from the situation.
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Monday starts new employee onboarding, so busily going over documents today.
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So the Pakistani restaurant that we really liked just a block down is gone. Another COVID death. Their phones are even gone, so definitely no coming back.
Helps make the sting of moving away not quite as bad, though.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So the Pakistani restaurant that we really liked just a block down is gone. Another COVID death. Their phones are even gone, so definitely no coming back.
Helps make the sting of moving away not quite as bad, though.
Where are you moving to now? Didn't you just move back to Texas
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So the Pakistani restaurant that we really liked just a block down is gone. Another COVID death. Their phones are even gone, so definitely no coming back.
Helps make the sting of moving away not quite as bad, though.
Where are you moving to now? Didn't you just move back to Texas
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.
I moved back to Texas in 2017 later in the year. So been here a while. We are selling the house (and everything in it) and the moment that the borders open I'm driving the dogs to CDMX, picking up @valentina and her dog Tomasa, and driving through Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras to make the full move to Nicaragua. Already have an immigration lawyer working on our paperwork.
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@scottalanmiller
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller
Doesn't Valentina live in Mexico?
Is she also moving to Nicaragua?Yes, CDMX.
Yes, the only exec or management team member not currently moving to Nica is @Romo
Valentina is Chief of Staff and our new ops center and our new veterinarian businesses are Nicaragua based. So being there is a big deal. As is living on the beach, of course.
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@scottalanmiller Haha right I can definitely see the advantages. Someday I will get away from the concrete jungle I live in. Doing Tech and IT on the beach, I love the idea!
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On a Saturday morning consultation call.
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Upgrading NextCloud to 20.0.0 Beta
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NC has a "status" button now.
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Shopping for a new machanical kb. Thinking hhkb, varmilo, or ducky.
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Oh got my new router, switch, and access poitn setup early this morning. I like EdgeOS.
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For my new Kb setup, thinking this: https://www.duckychannel.com.tw/en/Ducky-Pocket
along with this:
https://en.varmilo.com/keyboardproscenium/subject_product_detailed?subjectid=274
using the Sakura switches. -
Taking a little break for lunch then on to math for some fun. Working on Algebra, specifically field theory.
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Busily hiring new staff, I hope.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh got my new router, switch, and access poitn setup early this morning. I like EdgeOS.
I'm deploying a Unifi right now.
