Posts made by RAM.

@StrongBad said:

Maybe someone will tell Marzipan about this.

AaAaAaAaAaAaA! I was raised by a cup of coffee.

I haven't gotten a set in stone answer on this yet, but does it support EXT4 yet?

I say Scott sets up a server and we have occasional hack contests. Maybe a site like 2600 that only we know about you can put it on a tor site

@Bill-Kindle let me check the switches, I believe they are plugged into a smart UPS1500

Amber light on the front of the workstation displaying the number 3, CPU failure. The pro support guy said "odds are the slot on the motherboard died, so we'll send you a new motherboard by tomorrow and a tech to install. Seeing as his PC popped the same time the network died... I'm curious if his workstation had something to do with a network outage....

Ok so many of you get called by bosses, told the network is down, and required to run into work and get the issue fixed no matter what time it is correct? It could be 2am, and your ass has to get out of bed and book it to the office to fix a routing loop. This is where my job is weird... I don't have a company cell phone, they have been told if I'm not at work call my vice president, if he deems its needed for me to come in... he'll call me... on my personal cell... of this I'm not happy about. Now this isn't where it just starts to get weird, but this is where my morning begins to suck... 5:35 last night the people who monitor our servers calls me to tell me the network is down... he's suppose to call my vice president so I'm not exactly sure why he's going straight to me... but per my contract I'm not to come to work unless the vice president calls me. Needless to say my nerves were on end all night anticipating a call from the VP, as in... I wanted to get called so I could come in and fix the broken stuff.

Fast forward to this morning. I show up 30 minutes early to give myself leeway in case the VP says "fix this now", and he did. Run to the switches and notice they aren't doing ANYTHING. Something has caused our switches to lock up, and I'm not sure what, but I can do a quick unplug and plug back in to get 'em back up and running. Relatively simple, I'll attempt to find the cause of the outage, odds are i'll never find it since the outage was 14 hours ago.

I WISH IT STOPPED THERE!!!! The outage didn't just knock our network out, it seems two machines got BSOD'd over night, one of them a windows 7 laptop from 2 years ago, and one of 'em a 7 year old work station (its getting replaced soon, don't worry I'm working on it). So now I'm stuck restoring the windows 7 computer back to the night prior, I believe that was caused by a corrupt update, as for the 7 year old computer.... no effing clue what caused that. All the while I have users coming up to me saying "my outlook won't work, my CAD won't close" blah blah blah, basically people who need to learn how to turn off their stuff over night, don't and get upset when the network crash affects their network oriented software's.

BUT IT GETS BETTER!!! While I'm in the middle of dealing with two BSOD's, a handful of obnoxious users, a user on our NEWEST DELL DESKTOP!!! From August of last year, "I have a black screen on my computer"... two BSOD's, 1 black screen, dead network.... this day is fun... the black screen displays no BIOS, displays no signs of life, keyboard and mouse get no power... looks like it'll be a serious warranty issue, I've already reported my claim to my Dell rep since I don't have time to sit on a phone call to solve one problem while I have a handful of other issues going on.

And one guy has the nerve to stop me and go "the printer is broken and I don't know how to fix it"... IT SAYS ITS OUT OF INK, GO GET AN INK CARTRIDGE AND PUT IT IN!!!!

Not having a good day... not having a good day at all....

@Bill-Kindle said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Oh the joys of home ownership.

Part of the reason I can't buy toys

I have to save up for new flooring and possibly new Windows and a patio door this year. Last year was a kitchen remodel.

Start a garden, I'll even sell you a bag of doughnut seeds for $20, really rare and hard to come by.

lol @DenisKelley of this problem I am aware.

So @Bill-Kindle says call, so thats 1 vote call 0 votes email. anyone else?

@Bill-Kindle problem is the conversation was inconsistent, we didn't fall into other topics, we didn't get our mics crossed, he would start talking about nothing, and return to the beginning of the conversation which was nothing. I dunno I just feel like asking someone multiple times if they are ok is just... weird... and he never calls me so why start now? If he needed a ride home... his house is almost two hours from mine... ain't no way in hell I'd be that sad sack givin' him a ride lol.

@Hubtech said:

only one dog came back.....RIP

Youtube Video

So last night I was chilling on my couch watching king of the hill per my usual. My phone buzzes and its out of reach, so I look at my watch and I got a text from a user that NEVER texts me... this is curious already, maybe he is in the area and wants to go to a crab restaurant like he always talks about. I look at the text and it says "good?"... that's it just "good?"... we have NO texting history prior.... what?...

I text him back saying "¿Que?" just to see what was up, he's an educated man he'll understand what I mean.

My phone rings, which I feel I should add, this isn't a work issued phone line, this is my personal Ryan K Jones cell number. Its the user calling... ok... maybe I'll answer and see whats up? I pick up with a simple "hey man whats up?"... odd pause for a second and he goes "hey... you good?"... well that's one way of starting a conversation... I of course say "yeah man I'm good, how about you?"... he mumbles a bit... says he's good... and follows with a short odd silence... and goes "so you're good?".

At this point my fiancee is like "what is going on? who are you talking too?" I put it on speaker and continue to talk. "yeah I'm fine man, why do you ask?" He mumbles more, says "just wanted to make sure you were good, you know" and mumbles more. His words weren't slurred at all, it was just... odd... Now I know his daughter lives in the area, maybe he's rattled and knows something? SO I ask "did you hear that something bad happened in my neighborhood? Is that why you're asking?" He chuckles and says "no man, why would you think that? Did something bad happen?"... his voice is getting clearer... and clearer so I think the mumbles were just a signal issue and his words are more comprehend-able but... not in the order at which he's saying them.

Then out of nowhere he goes "you know its just so hard... you know?"... I respond with "what?... whats hard?" he says "you know its just getting" and his phone begins to have weird digitization, I hear him say "its hard" multiple times through the murmur of digitized sounds, over a 30 second period of time. Eventually he says "well I gotta go, good talking to you, I'll buzz you back in a few"... never heard from him the rest of the night.... WHAT THE [@PSX_Defector approved word] IS GOING ON HERE?

Not only did this make me VERY uncomfortable, it made my fiancee VERY uncomfortable... he doesn't work in the same office as me so I won't see him but once or twice a month... but should I call him at work? Or send him a work email asking if he's ok?

I don't trust it Scott

Scott are you looking to adopt a independent 25 year old male and take them on trips to France?... I've never been to Europe...

@IRJ said:

@RAM. said:

@IRJ said:

@RAM. said:

Sticking with my bourbon and coffee mug suggestion :-P. Yeah I inherit garbage that makes little to no sense, you're a great dude Joel.

The sooner he learns our network, the sooner he can help me out

undercover, eh?

Yes sir, after the snafoo went down, I don't want to be a recognizable house hold name, so I comment maybe one or twice a week on the other account to prove I'm not dead, but I'm hanging on my alt to remain somewhat anonymous. Oh and do you guys pay to relocate ;-).

I dont know. I think they might if they found the right fit.

well if you guys need anything

@IRJ said:

@RAM. said:

Sticking with my bourbon and coffee mug suggestion :-P. Yeah I inherit garbage that makes little to no sense, you're a great dude Joel.

The sooner he learns our network, the sooner he can help me out

undercover, eh?

Yes sir, after the snafoo went down, I don't want to be a recognizable house hold name, so I comment maybe one or twice a week on the other account to prove I'm not dead, but I'm hanging on my alt to remain somewhat anonymous. Oh and do you guys pay to relocate ;-).

Sticking with my bourbon and coffee mug suggestion :-P. Yeah I inherit garbage that makes little to no sense, you're a great dude Joel.

@scottalanmiller said:

@RAM. said:

lol or you can just use gmail and thunderbird to just scoff at the fact Yahoo still exists.

That's the real thing to do. They were decent in the late 1990s but it has been a really, really long time since they had a good email system.

They've made wise business decisions in the past though, like buying Myspace.

Convenience comes at a price, sure they have the car starters now, next they'll have a way to hack into your front door at your house after stalking you on facebook and seeing you say "can't wait for my trip to Jamaica for the next two weeks". Harder to hack physical I guess...

lol or you can just use gmail and thunderbird to just scoff at the fact Yahoo still exists.

@Bill-Kindle said:

@Katie said:

@IRJ @Bill-Kindle Nope, not Unitrends Katie. I am NTG's Katie.

Doesn't mean you aren't just as awesome!

Nor does it mean she is, SHA CHA CHA!!! Rusty Shackelford's the name.