I thought the definition of "IT Pro" was: "anyone and everyone who manages to figure out how to make a spiceworks account". Or is that just SW's definition?

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking Pinky?"

"Um, I fink so, SAM.... but where are we going to find a proper hardware RAID controller at this time of night? NARF!!!"

@IRJ said in Avatars:

@ChrisL said in Avatars:

What if I actually look surprisingly like a round South Park character?

As long as you aren't a Canadian south park character, buddy. lol

Actual pic of @MattSpeller on his daily commute.

The first thing she tasted was the bitterness of sorrow for wasting 16 years of her life.

@donaldlandru said in MangoCon 2019:

Thanks @Dominica and @pchiodo for the extra shirt

So..... your MangoConda don't want none unless it's pre-shrunk hun?

Just got a raise!!! Happy holiday to me!

I graduated from physical therapy today!!!

It's official.... I'M GOING BACK TO WORK ON APRIL 1ST!!!!!

Cloud at Cost be like:

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What ever happened to "work / life balance"? I don't have a home lab because I unplug when I leave the office. Wouldn't mind having a lab to dick around with between 9am-6pm, but I have no desire to have noisy ass servers blaring on in my home. So I guess I'd be fuct if I ever went to find a new job?

@MrWright4hire So you're an expert at talking about stuff then? That will definitely make you a strong candidate for starting IT positions. Definitely quote your post here to your new boss and coworkers.

Truth. I missed a meeting with some IBM reseller guys on Thursday. Why? Because when I accepted the Teams call invite, that was scheduled in my mind. Thursday morning they decide it's going to be at the office, which is an hour away. The first meeting with these guys was the same, me rushing to the office to deal with something that could have easily been a call.

Glad I'm not at the office today... The power has been out all morning, even the emergency lights are out. Found out that Georgia Power "hit a substation", which sounds pretty serious. So I guess the office folks get a day off!

What has been going on with the site the last couple of days? It finally loaded correctly just now.

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/shocker-french-make-surprise-arrest-of-telegram-founder-at-paris-airport/

I saw that and just had to laugh, because these people and governments don't understand what encryption means and is meant to do.

It's made for hiding your criminal activities, YAY!!!!!

Candidate for new word to add to the dictionary - Crowdstruck.

@WrCombs Some janky Crowdstrike thing BSOD'ed a shit-tonne of windows machines, from what I read.

@EddieJennings said in OUR NEW VIDEO IS LIVE!!!!:

It's clear a non-trivial amount of effort went into making that. Opening and closing reminded me of some Karlheinz Stockhausen music I heard during undergrad.

That's actually an improvised synth piece done by the singer, using a little pocket device that's smaller than a cell phone. And I definitely need to check out some Karlheinz Stockhausen. Thanks for watching!

That's right, you heard right! Sonic Speculum's 1st video from their self titled debut album is LIVE on the tube right now!!!! Be the first on your block to see the madmen in action!!!

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A couple of years ago, we discovered that AT&T geoblocks all VOIP traffic from India. We sent some configured phones to them, because the bosses were told by AT&T that it would work fine. Nope. All the tracert results clearly showed them dropping the traffic. But then a few months ago, it started working! The India team emailed me asking to change out the names/extensions, and since then we've had no problems.