This e-mail I just received about a job. Figured you guys would get a kick out of the job description (or lack there of)

I have a client looking for a Full-Time IT Specialist/Generalist who does support, can speak with C level exec’s, windows and LAN/WAN Administration. This client has multiple branches so this person must be okay with going to these other locations (all a half hour or hour from Brick) as need be. Take a look at the description below and if interested – send me over your most recent resume so we can get the process started.

Brick NJ - Position: IT Specialist 65-75k

Representing a healthcare company based in NJ, looking for an IT Specialist –. This position requires someone to wear multiple hats.

Experience with the following:

• MS Windows Server 2008 R2
• RDP services ( server and client side), Print Server
• MS Exchange
• MS Windows Desktop ( XP, 7 , 8 )
• MS Office suite ( 2010 and up)
• MAC OS , IOs , Android configuration
• Trouble Shooting
• LAN Administration
• WAN Administration

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Trying to figure out how to get Meraki to authenticate laptops against AD and a security group through NPS/RADIUS.

It keeps asking for user credentials. Anybody have any suggestions?

Argh. Wrong post. Supposed to go to the "What are you doing right now?" post.

Random thread fits too, ha ha.

belongs in it's own post.

Absolutely, questions shouldn't be inline in other threads. Better than not asking at all, but that knowledge is all just lost even if Google can see it. Every question should be its own topic.

Get ready I guess?

For?

A lot of new posts

Someone needs to challenge @mlnews and all those early morning posts for post count. Shall we declare a joust?

Go for it. And it's early afternoon posts here!

I've given up trying to keep track of where you happen to be on the planet at any given time, and just default to EST time now.

SAMST

"Printer Programming"

That 10 mninute commute though. Good god it was all worth it.

Well, here we go boys and girls.

I have to have Comcast for two months while Verizon finishes putting in Fios. I am not happy about it. The range they gave me was 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM with me receiving a call 15 minutes before the tech would arrive. I am now 10 minutes away from work. Excellent. I received a phone call at 11:15 stating that the tech was at my door and no one was answering. Great. As I'm leaving work (taking my lunch to get this set up) I call Comcast to get them to contact the tech and have him stay there. I am 10 minutes away. I get to my address and the tech had left, I am on hold at this point. I get a phone call from a number I don't know and pick up. It's the tech. He's turning around and will be at my place in 5 minutes. Great. Comcast then gets back on the phone with me to tell me that the tech will not be able to make it there until 1:00 PM, hes pulling up to my place at this point. I explained this and they said "okay". I asked the tech if he was a contractor and he said no, hes a Comcast employee. Interesting. We go into my apartment and the tech is setting everything up, he tested the signal strength and it was good. He asks me to test the wireless with my phone. Internet not working. I checked my PC which is wired, no internet. I run an ipconfig and it's giving back a 169 IP. This is after the config dialogue had already popped up. I explained that the router's DHCP was most likely not working. The tech called Comcast 3 times and could not get this working. Comcast then said they "have an outage in my area". No. I said hold on for 2 minutes. I set my static IP to 10.0.0.10 knowing the default is 10.0.0.1 for the router. I now have access to the internet, which I showed the tech. "If a static IP address works there is no outage in my area". I then went into the router and saw that an IP Address range was set from 10.0.0.2 to 192.168.1.254 WTH? I checked the port forwarding rules and I see entries. Comcast did not factory reset this router and someone probably returned this because they screwed up the ip ranges and didn't know how to fix it. The tech is sitting there not knowing what to do this entire time. I then reset the router and went through the install process again, everything worked perfectly fine.

tl;dr Comcast is shit

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You know what? All of this is nice and all. You know, where to put the washer and dryer, where to put the stairs, how are you going to do the foundation, etc, etc, etc.

However, you're missing one very critical piece of real estate here. Where are you going to put your server room for your home lab?

Finished basement. He'd need a wall mounted aircon unit in that area too. Really he only needs a 4'x5' area or so.

I'm going above and beyond with it for sure. Fully enclosed area, mounted to the foundation.

Enclosed by a faraday cage? Too far?

I'll have two years worth of rations a generator and a solar farm in the backyard. Fuck it, let's doomsday prep

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We had salad.

oh uhhhh.... yeah, me too....?

That's just a salad that's been processed by an animal to convert it into beautiful proteins.

I never knew I was a vegetarian this entire time

Thank you @scottalanmiller and @Dashrender. I can't even thank you guys enough for the amount of help you have given me since joining. I really mean it.

Uh, ice cream? Why would you punish over that?

My boss told me that the company servicing their IT needs before us was the same company that provided copier support and were primarily a copier company.

wat

Well, one good thing that has come out of the past few weeks is that I'm diagnosing a lot of problems in a bunch of different environments. It's actually pretty good practice for me

I am contributing to the cat pics initiative with a picture of my cat

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@NerdyDad You're going to attempt to run the Plex app through your Smart TV or you're going to have a device running it that is connected to your TV?

Plex App on smart TV. Trying to cut out as many dependencies as I can as I am wanting the family to utilize this more. I have to try to keep it as easy as possible for them to use if I am wanting them to use it.

Is this a Roku TV?

Nope, its an LG. They have their own store, which is mediocre, but does have a PLEX app for the TV. I'm willing to try it out before i go for another device taking up another HDMI port.

In my experience, every smart TV I've ever seen runs like hot garbage. I would seriously recommend buying a Roku 3. I not only have a Plex server but I also have a Visio Smart TV and still opted to get the Roku. Never looked back.

You old guys are motivating me to work out

God's speed dad's of ML