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    • travisdh1
      travisdh1 @Dashrender last edited by

      @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Reading through income tax return.

      We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.

      what is her goal?

      Refund.... she's used to getting a large refund.

      Of course I think we came out real close to right.

      She realized that's insane - right? hell - you want to owe every year so YOU get the interest free loan instead of the gov't.... Of course - you PLAN for that and save money to pay when it's time...

      Preaching to the quire here @Dashrender

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      • scottalanmiller
        scottalanmiller @Dashrender last edited by

        @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        I had someone recently tell me that their CIO wanted to use Vmware over KVM because, and you can't make this stuff up, they liked "working with the biggest vendor."

        Literally, they didn't care if it made sense for the purpose, they didn't care if it was reliable or cost effective, they didn't care if it was secure. They literally only wanted to know which product was made by the largest company. No IT factor considered.

        And then, as incompetent as that is, with only a single thing to research; with no need to check on features, cost, licensing, support, price, or other complicated factors; they got the ONLY thing that they were considering wrong.

        KVM is made by IBM at about $63bn USD. VMware is made by Broadcom at about $21bn USD. IBM is roughly three times the size. And IBM is the KIND of company that should make hypervisors, Broadcom really isn't. But that aside, no matter how insane it would be to consider market cap or revenue of a vendor as the determination of product applicability to a company, they got that one, insanely simple task, ass backwards.

        When you are THAT dumb, it is pervasive. If you are dumb enough to think company size matters in some significant way, you are also so clueless as not to be able to determine company size.

        While they said - the larges company - what they really meant was - the one that advertises the most to people like me - in airports, on TV, etc... If I'm not seeing ads for them - then they aren't worth considering.. /sigh

        Exactly, they didn't even know how to describe what they meant. They didn't want largest, best, best known, most used, most deployed, most support engineers... they wanted "pays the most to trick me."

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        • WrCombs
          WrCombs last edited by

          got very little sleep last night. My daughter is going through growth spurts left and right and woke up quite a bit due to being asleep a majority of the day (as she was not with me.) it's going to be a hard day.

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          • notverypunny
            notverypunny last edited by

            Read-Only Friday so checking our Exchange (Online) environment for CVE-2023-23397

            https://microsoft.github.io/CSS-Exchange/Security/CVE-2023-23397/

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            • nadnerB
              nadnerB last edited by

              3 power failures this week, and a phone system meltdown.
              A little more eventful than I'd like 😛

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              • RojoLoco
                RojoLoco last edited by

                Junk cleaning at the office today. I get to purge a bunch of dead laptops, printers, and battery backups. Oh, and also the whole training room!!!

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                • travisdh1
                  travisdh1 last edited by

                  Got to deal with realizing I'm triple booked next Thursday, and never got a notification on 2 of the installs today.

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                  • EddieJennings
                    EddieJennings last edited by

                    One hour until the live draft for a free Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league 🙂

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                    • scottalanmiller
                      scottalanmiller last edited by

                      Just hanging out on the veranda having some coffee this morning.

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                      • scottalanmiller
                        scottalanmiller last edited by

                        Started the day with two servers down. One was just a power outage, though.

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                        • WrCombs
                          WrCombs last edited by

                          Today is my Friday evening 40 minutes left to go, Was able to write a guide for building items in one of the POS we support. Ready for my weekend

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                          • jt1001001
                            jt1001001 last edited by

                            Printers (and their evil offspring FAX) need to die a horrible death

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                            • gjacobse
                              gjacobse @jt1001001 last edited by

                              @jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              Printers (and their evil offspring FAX) need to die a horrible death

                              Don’t disagree, but I don’t get that choice… no faxes,.. but plenty of printers. But that’s a shipping environment.

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                              • RojoLoco
                                RojoLoco last edited by

                                The junk pile has been taken away for recycling! An estimated 2000lbs! And secure destruction of all the hard drives!

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                                • jt1001001
                                  jt1001001 @gjacobse last edited by

                                  @gjacobse I'm dealing with a MFP device that prints but wrong font so everything's all messed on formatting; AND then they also want it to fax; through a Grandstream ATA to a SIP service and that keep failing. Trying to convince them to move to an HTTPS fax service instead

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                                  • jt1001001
                                    jt1001001 @RojoLoco last edited by

                                    @RojoLoco Was there anything good in there? I have determined I need to build the home lab back up.

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                                    • RojoLoco
                                      RojoLoco @jt1001001 last edited by

                                      @jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @RojoLoco Was there anything good in there? I have determined I need to build the home lab back up.

                                      Nope, all old junk, no servers in this run. But I have a pile of Dell 12G and 13G rack servers that are going to be on the chopping block soon.

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                                      • gjacobse
                                        gjacobse @jt1001001 last edited by

                                        @jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @gjacobse I'm dealing with a MFP device that prints but wrong font so everything's all messed on formatting; AND then they also want it to fax; through a Grandstream ATA to a SIP service and that keep failing. Trying to convince them to move to an HTTPS fax service instead

                                        We have several desk MFPs, as well as office MFPs,.. and Zebra's.. whee.. oh the fun. Yea,.. time to move to a fax service - modernize that analog crap.

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                                        • EddieJennings
                                          EddieJennings last edited by

                                          Learning about unattended Ubuntu installs.

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                                          • JaredBusch
                                            JaredBusch last edited by

                                            Server was slow all day.. checked things no errors. Checked iDRAC, no errors in RAID array.. /shrug

                                            Arrived on site just after 6pm, ran updates on the hypervisor and rebooted.

                                            server did not come online....

                                            Fuck.. Went into server room, 3 of 6 drives offline.

                                            Thank god for OBR10..... All three disks were part of a different span (mirror).

                                            Rebooted server and continued past the controller warning to get hte server online.

                                            Waiting for the host to get stable with the degraded array and slotted one drive back in. It spun up and auto rebuild kicked in. Waited 10 minutes between drives and did the other 2 also.

                                            Now waiting for the rebuild to finish.
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