What Are You Doing Right Now
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We need to make a list of all of the things that people never understand in IT:
- They always say database but mean an application. And just as likely one that doesn't even use a database as one that does.
- Email. People never know how email works and make some really weird assumptions about it (like if you block port 25, your web pages looking at email systems will stop working.) How many IT people actually confuse email on their network with web pages?
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@scottalanmiller said:
We need to make a list of all of the things that people never understand in IT:
Why do we expect non-IT staff to understand our stuff? Just make your list "all the things" and be done with it.
I'm stoked if they can convey some form of "thingy over there no longer works" - they're paid to do their job not mine.
How often do you go to your car mechanic and say "PCV valve isn't venting and it's causing excessive pressures which is dropping my oil pressure and resulting in engine wear and poor fuel mileage" - it'd be more like "somethings weird man, there's no noise but it's not running like it usually does" if you're very lucky.
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller said:
We need to make a list of all of the things that people never understand in IT:
Why do we expect non-IT staff to understand our stuff? Just make your list "all the things" and be done with it.
I'm stoked if they can convey some form of "thingy over there no longer works" - they're paid to do their job not mine.
How often do you go to your car mechanic and say "PCV valve isn't venting and it's causing excessive pressures which is dropping my oil pressure and resulting in engine wear and poor fuel mileage" - it'd be more like "somethings weird man, there's no noise but it's not running like it usually does" if you're very lucky.
We should make vocabulary lists for our actual users
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@MattSpeller said:
Why do we expect non-IT staff to understand our stuff?
I'm talking about IT pros.
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@scottalanmiller I think this topic will be as popular as your Linux Admin course.
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Hey. I'm sure I need it lol
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Just about an hour until I head south to the big city, for smoky dive bar dinner and a comedy show. Randy and Mr. Lahey from Trailer Park Boys, to be exact.
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@RojoLoco said:
Just about an hour until I head south to the big city, for smoky dive bar dinner and a comedy show. Randy and Mr. Lahey from Trailer Park Boys, to be exact.
I mean...nobody wants to admit they ate 9 cans of ravioli
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@wirestyle22 looks like they were having some kind of crazy liquor and cheeseburger party....
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@RojoLoco said:
@wirestyle22 looks like they were having some kind of crazy liquor and cheeseburger party....
I live in my car. My car is my home. Cops pull you over in your home how can that be open liquor?
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@wirestyle22 said:
@RojoLoco said:
@wirestyle22 looks like they were having some kind of crazy liquor and cheeseburger party....
I live in my car. My car is my home. Cops pull you over in your home how can that be open liquor?
If I can't smoke and swear, I'm f@cked.
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insert grumbling about shopping online and getting the $CDN shaft
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"What's that? Dev testing server is slow? Oh, there is a bad drive, I'll replace it..... oh, the rebuild will take until tomorrow, that was a RAID 5 array. Any critical data on there? Better move it ASAP, just in case...."
Plus side - once the databases are safely moved, I get to blow away the RAID 5 and make a RAID 10
And I'm sincerely holding back the "I told you so" until this data gets re-staged and all is well. -
1am finally time to play video games with the kids.
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Ah - running numbers on a project I wanted to do last year.. I still want to be a part of it - nothing is guaranteed, but can try.
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So I was tired of needing to re-enter settings in keepass every time I wanted to generate a password. I wrote a small script to generate passwords a little quicker. You can remove the special characters if you want.
#!/bin/bash #Create random string password read -p "Enter password length " length cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9!@#$%^&*?' | fold -w $length | head -1 -
Listening to HPE Aruba present at the SpiceCorp of Chicagoland meetup this evening.
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SW has been offline for me for over five minutes now. Looks like their issues came back or is it just me?
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@scottalanmiller said:
SW has been offline for me for over five minutes now. Looks like their issues came back or is it just me?
me too....
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@scottalanmiller said:
SW has been offline for me for over five minutes now. Looks like their issues came back or is it just me?
Yeah, been getting more application errors this afternoon, now it's not even giving that... "this webpage is not available" now
