Controversial posts made by thanksajdotcom

@JaredBusch said:

@ajstringham said:

Shedding light on the situation for everyone else here.

This is why I severely dislike you. A mature person would not have posted that.

Huh?

Shedding light on the situation for everyone else here.

@coliver said:

http://www.howtogeek.com/206620/how-to-automatically-reboot-your-router-the-geeky-way/

Not sure if you've seen this?

That will work perfectly.

So I've got an issue that I'm try to resolve. Yes, my network piggybacks off my landlord's FiOS router. The issue is that he says he never once had an issue with his router not working. This morning I was unable to access anything on my network, and I know it's not my equipment. This has always meant the FiOS router needs to be rebooted.

I sent him a text, asking him to reboot it when he woke up. Well, my text woke him up. He's all upset because he said there were never issues until I arrived and that he shouldn't have to reboot the router. I've had these kind of issues before with Verizon equipment. I don't know if it's incapable of handling the traffic it's supposed to be able to deliver, but I'm thinking that the easiest way to address this is a scheduled task in the router to make it reboot every night at 4 or 5AM.

Until I dropped the FiOS router in Texas, I'd run into similar issues. I'm wondering if over the course of a few days if the cache gets overloaded, and then the router is online, but it can't process any traffic. A reboot always solves the problem. Yes, I generate a fair amount of traffic, whereas his traffic needs are just Playstation Network, a few Skype calls a month, and general web browsing.

Does anyone know off-hand if you can schedule tasks in a FiOS router? I believe you can but I won't know for sure until I get another look at it.

Thanks,
A.J.

@scottalanmiller said:

That internship generated my first real job offer (outside of high school food service) when I was 17. It went quite well for me.

That's more like 20 years then. Internships are limited experience. That's why they're internships.

@Dashrender said:

@ajstringham said:

@JaredBusch said:

@ajstringham said:

Shedding light on the situation for everyone else here.

This is why I severely dislike you. A mature person would not have posted that.

Huh?

You were basically bragging that you knew something the rest of us did not know.

That wasn't the intention. I was just stating a fact.

@Aaron-Studer said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

I'm not charging for it.

So if I rob a bank, but give the money away, it's OK?

Seriously Aaron. I'm not in the mood to deal with you today. Either post a relevant response to the OP or [moderated].

So the topic is pretty straight-forward...

My sales manager at Staples is on a freaking power trip with me. Here are a couple of things that happened yesterday:

Scenario 1:

Our new ET Expert, who is a GREAT guy by the way (although not at my level technically speaking but sales-wise might finally give me a challenge) sold a computer with an onsite. I was right there so he asked me to schedule it. No problem. I walk over to the service desk to grab the schedule book and my sales manager goes "make sure you schedule it when you have coverage". Now, I started as the onsite tech in 2011. I know the gig better than anyone. I've corrected him on policy quite a few times. Anyways, I simply respond "I know <manager's name>, I've been doing this awhile". I wasn't rude but just very forward and kept walking. I scheduled the onsite and all seemed fine. He then pulled me into the office and asked if we were going to have another issue. Now, mind you, he has sent me home twice in the past couple weeks for no reason other than I hurt his pride.

Scenario 2:

I'm standing up front talking to our newest tech associate who I helped get hired. He's actually technical and going to be a great salesman once he gets trained. He's been working helpdesk/L1/some L2 for most of his career. I'll tell you about his day job's network in another thread...

Anyways, my sales manager, who LITERALLY is doing nothing to get stuff done around the store, is talking to another associate up by the customer service desk about food. Well, we both mention how we're kind hungry and if they want to talk about that, just please go ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE ****ING STORE! (not in those words exactly) He starts saying how I'm not his boss and I can't tell him what to do. I politely ask him again just to please go somewhere else or stop talking about food. He refuses quite rudely again.

So at this point, with nobody in the store, I put some music on and start singing. I'm just having some fun and he tells me how there is no singing at work. I look at him and just say how if he wants to talk about food, I will sing. Now I know he is technically my manager, but the issue I have with this is that he only pulls this **** when my General Manager is not around.

I'm getting fed up because he inhibits me from doing my job and makes me just not care when I'm there. He's apathetic , lazy, and acts quite inappropriately around some of the female associates. For example, we have a couple of ladies who work in copy center who are in their 20s. The sales manager is 27. If he's closing with one of them, he spends all night in copy center talking and working with them. If one of our two ladies in their 50s close in Copy Center, they practically have to beg him to come over and help under the exact same circumstances.

Me and others have brought this to the GM's attention but the issue is that the GM can't fire the sales manager, only the DM can. The DM is an even bigger idiot and won't get rid of him. Several people have complained to HR about the sales manager but it seems to have fallen on deaf ears. I'm not sure what else to try. How do you deal with someone who seems to have made it their sole goal in life to make your life difficult?

I know many would say leave and find another job but in the area I'm in that's both easier said than done and also I like my job and don't really want to leave. I just can't stand this sales manager anymore!

Thanks,
A.J.

@JaredBusch said:

@IRJ said:

Spiceworks U should have most of what I need.

But then AJ couldn't get his $0.02 in

Just trying to be helpful. Jeez...

So are they going back to Lync? I can't watch the video right now.

@thecreativeone91 said:

We've been over this before accessing the router that you don't have permission to access is illegal. Sharing the connection is against the TOS.

And while some torrenting is legal. Most of it's use is not. almost all linux distro provide http downloads that are much faster than the torrent downloads.

Wrong. Torrent downloads are infinitely faster.

Also, I DO have permission to access it. Also, how is it against TOS? He's not making me pay to use it. I pay to live there and I share his internet. I share his bandwidth. @PSX_Defector could comment on this more, but you're again getting off the topic of the OP.

@g.jacobse said:

@coliver said:

http://www.howtogeek.com/206620/how-to-automatically-reboot-your-router-the-geeky-way/

Not sure if you've seen this?

That is a sweet little script..

Yeah. I've used something similar to this before, but never as a cronjob or scheduled task. I can set this up on my Linux servers and it'll work quite well.

@IRJ said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

The jobs I want to work at may not agree with my opinion (or maybe they do), but they will appreciate that I stand behind my convictions.

The problem that you face is the lack of convictions. No one is saying that you are inconsistent.

Really? The fact my convictions don't line up with yours doesn't mean I lack convictions. It means I lack your convictions.

AJ, I am trying to defend you but you aren't making it easy

I appreciate that Joel. I really do.

@Bill-Kindle said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@PaulBunion said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

What's technically allowed versus what your ISP actually cares about is totally different. In my opinion, if the ISP doesn't care, even if it's outside the official TOS, why should I?

So, your moral compass is completely dependent upon what someone else thinks? If you're with a group of people breaking the law, you're okay with it because they are? If you visit a country where having sex with kids is allowed, you're okay with it because they are?

Your decisions are yours. You know you are breaking the TOS here. You know you are breaking the MS license talked about before. Just because you haven't been caught and probably won't be caught changes nothing. Your moral compass is broken. Admit it and move on, breaking whatever rules you feel you can get away with breaking.

And, while doing that, go on and wonder why your IT career seems to keep falling apart each and every time you seem to get a decent job.

No it is not. I take what others think and feel into consideration, combine it with my own views, and proceed accordingly.

I am also a big picture thinker. In the large scheme of things, does using a key in the cloud instead of locally when it's legitimate locally, but technically not in the cloud going to hurt anyone? No. Did anyone die, lose a job, go without food, or suffer some other harm? No. I don't even think of this in the same way as I do speeding on the highway. When you speed, there is a higher risk you could lose control and hurt someone, or worse, kill someone. You could harm yourself or wreck your car and then have no ride to get to work, etc. Still, most people do that every day.

Taking this analogy A.J., think about it this way. You've very publicly exposed your current IP to this server, that's a public facing wide open DNS server (It doesn't matter if it's got Webroot on it or not). How long do you think it will take for a rouge to infiltrate and commandeer that server for their own purposes right under your nose? And those who decided to use your DNS server are suddenly at risk. Maybe not physically, but they are at risk of harm. Digital harm.

DNS has been locked down. That was something I was not aware of. I have resolved that. The way I did the setup was correct, except I was wrong in my understanding of the Open DNS vs OpenDNS emails and the threat is could potentially pose to others. That's been resolved.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

The jobs I want to work at may not agree with my opinion (or maybe they do), but they will appreciate that I stand behind my convictions.

The problem that you face is the lack of convictions. No one is saying that you are inconsistent.

Really? The fact my convictions don't line up with yours doesn't mean I lack convictions. It means I lack your convictions.

I just heard about this. Too funny!

This is a list of things not to tell @Minion-Queen . First and foremost: http://moviepilot.com/p/despicable-me-3-first-trailer/4169090
Youtube Video

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

This usually ends up with people doing a bad job at both job and either losing both or at least burning bridges. I'd focus on one and to a good job at it.

I totally agree with this generally but there is some behind the scenes stuff going on that AJ has shared with me and I support his logic on this. Not sure he can pull it off, but he's not doing it for the extra money, that's for sure.

I do need the money, as I couldn't make it right now on either job alone, but I have a supplemental source that could offset that. No, the reason I'm doing this is because one is a good long-term prospect (ShoreGroup), but the other I most definitely need now for a variety of reasons (Staples), mostly emotional. I told my GM I'm not going anywhere, and I can still kick some pretty serious ass as a part-timer. I did for years.

@tonyshowoff said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

did you try mine? you need http:// for it to be complaint.

Finally, can't believe it took 13 posts before someone noticed it! I thought I was going to get to answer it, damn you creativeone!

But yes, AJ, that has to be it, considering if protocol is not included, it's automatically considered a subdirectory on the foreign host.

Yeah, I would have noticed it given time. Most threads like this are a process of elimination. That's just what I saw first.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

I'll never trust Blackberry after they gave the decryption keys to middle east countries to be allowed to keep services going there.

Who cares about BB to even think about trusting or not trusting them?

Totally agree.