What Are You Doing Right Now
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Rep for VTech on SW just posted an article on SIP as if VTech had just discovered VoIP and had no idea that it existed and the article acts like everyone doesn't already know about VOIP. It's insane. SIP is 21 years old! And VTech acts like there are alternatives, like PRI. Ha, almost all PRI is secretly delivered over SIP. VTech seriously missed the boat here.
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I feel like 80% of IT work is just "correcting crazy assumptions and unfounded leaps in logic." It constantly amazes me how often this is all that needs to be done. I think IT is so much easier than people think that it is because they are using flawed thinking that leads to crazy assumptions and then, of course, things are really hard or confusing. Sure, you still need to know things, but so many fewer things. Thread after thread today (elsewhere) where the ENTIRE thread is nothing other than an initial post of nothing but incorrect assumptions and then a huge thread of people either confused because they don't know what those assumptions were or figuring out the assumptions and trying to show somewhere where their logic doesn't work.
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Some examples....
- SPOF is all I have to worry about for reliability, no need to look at reliability.
- The term SDS means highly reliable and multiple nodes, or redundancy of some sort.
- Backups don't need to be different things than the originals.
- I can use this SAN thing I've heard about for file shares.
- Red Pro drives are safe and Red drives are not (hint: identical).
- RAID ideas that are horrific are good when brand names are slapped onto them.
- Redundancy is magic at some levels and useless at others.
- Mention a storage concept and everyone will automatically know that I specifically mean a specific instance of it (e.g. is it safe to put backups on a NAS. Oh I thought you all knew that I mean the NAS that the original files were on.)
It's really consistent. For some reason in IT, not only do technical assumptions get awry, but basic English seems to be a huge challenge regularly.
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Oh and this one all the time... my servers don't meet my needs, obviously this means I need a SAN instead of fixing my servers. WTH
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Well our plans just changed a lot. My aunt just found my grandmother unconscious in a pool of blood. We are guessing that she fell. She's in Ohio. So we are throwing everything into the car as quickly as we can, going to try to get out of Texas tonight and see how far we can make it. Hoping there is some change to get there before she goes. No idea how bad it is, but sounds like she isn't coming back at this point. She's in the ER and my baby cousin is there with her.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Well our plans just changed a lot. My aunt just found my grandmother unconscious in a pool of blood. We are guessing that she fell. She's in Ohio. So we are throwing everything into the car as quickly as we can, going to try to get out of Texas tonight and see how far we can make it. Hoping there is some change to get there before she goes. No idea how bad it is, but sounds like she isn't coming back at this point. She's in the ER and my baby cousin is there with her.
Oh wow I'm really sorry.
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She's in a CT scan right now. So no idea how bad it is. But she is cold, but does have a heartbeat. We are packing quickly.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Well our plans just changed a lot. My aunt just found my grandmother unconscious in a pool of blood. We are guessing that she fell. She's in Ohio. So we are throwing everything into the car as quickly as we can, going to try to get out of Texas tonight and see how far we can make it. Hoping there is some change to get there before she goes. No idea how bad it is, but sounds like she isn't coming back at this point. She's in the ER and my baby cousin is there with her.
oh crap - sorry to hear this. If there is anything I can do from here, please let me know.
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@scottalanmiller Here for you man. Really sorry to hear
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Thanks everyone. This is my mom's mom, my last grandparent and my last direct person on that side of the family since mom passed long ago and grandpa like six years ago.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
- Mention a storage concept and everyone will automatically know that I specifically mean a specific instance of it (e.g. is it safe to put backups on a NAS. Oh I thought you all knew that I mean the NAS that the original files were on.)
Like putting your spare key on the same keyring as the first. - wife of Dash.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Thanks everyone. This is my mom's mom, my last grandparent and my last direct person on that side of the family since mom passed long ago and grandpa like six years ago.
Sorry, hope you make it.
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@Dashrender I like that your wife understands this.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This ride on 402 west in Canada is BORING!!!
at least your a passenger and not driving.. .so you can be online.
Never stopped me apparently.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Thanks everyone. This is my mom's mom, my last grandparent and my last direct person on that side of the family since mom passed long ago and grandpa like six years ago.
Sorry to hear that @scottalanmiller ! Y'all travel safe!
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Apparently I am waiting 8 days for this 1TB set of backup data to copy offsite at 12mbps. Thankfully this is a seed. Should not need to transfer this much again.
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Stopping for the night in Pontiac Illinois
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Got to work today, 8:30am (usual time for an agreed 9am start -- I like the extra buffer of telling myself to be at work by 830 so when things go sideways and I'm late at 9, I'm actually on time) and the usual happened: everything went sideways for whatever reason, and we fixed it, and then I decided to get a couple change requests pushed through so I could update a server. No big deal except this one wasn't updated since it was originally installed, ca. 1/2013. Ok, start that at 6, leave the office at 7, finish at 9:30pm. In the meantime, the minecraft/ARK server lost power and it was brought back up after some delay (owner forgot where to put the USB boot stick that has the hypervisor). Fixed at 9ish, but I ran linux dist-upgrades, freed up disk space, etc. and then got that done at 10:30. Finally, get to walk in my own office and the f()ing server here has a drive failure. What the everliving f() is up with this day?
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Good morning Mangos! Will be getting on the road again soon.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh and this one all the time... my servers don't meet my needs, obviously this means I need a SAN instead of fixing my servers. WTH
This is just one where someone doesn't realize that a SAN is a form of a server. Usually costing way more money than a server..
Marketing gets to a lot of people
