What Are You Doing Right Now
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Posting on Spiceworks today. Haven't really posted on more than a single thread or two for months now in any given day, but I'm hitting the Printers group pretty hard today.
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That is one thing I wish ML had, and I know we're working on getting is more questions. However, I like answering printer questions, and we don't get too many of those.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Grab a Ubiquiti Edge Router and throw that in there and see if everything clears up
I was thinking about that. Would be quick and easy to transfer it out... except our ISP has to be involved since they reject anything not coming from a specific MAC address.... and they take a silly amount of time for that type of thing.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@coliver said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@coliver said:
Jitter graph for the past two hours:
Ping graph over the last two hours.
Short downtime was when I moved my cable back to the switch.
Seems to me the best thing to do would be reboot the firewall and see if that fixes it.
I'll have to try that. Can't do it right now though.
Yeah, I understand. If you guys have a time when most people go to lunch, just tell everyone you're gonna bring the network down for 10 minutes and to grab some coffee and food in the meantime.
I was just going to send out an email telling everyone this.
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@coliver said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@coliver said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@coliver said:
Jitter graph for the past two hours:
Ping graph over the last two hours.
Short downtime was when I moved my cable back to the switch.
Seems to me the best thing to do would be reboot the firewall and see if that fixes it.
I'll have to try that. Can't do it right now though.
Yeah, I understand. If you guys have a time when most people go to lunch, just tell everyone you're gonna bring the network down for 10 minutes and to grab some coffee and food in the meantime.
I was just going to send out an email telling everyone this.
Great minds think alike. 
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Feeling like I need an intern today, desk is piling up.
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Looking at the openNMS project.
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@g.jacobse After you get done with that one, check out Zabbix! (http://www.zabbix.com)
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Shaking my head at CloudatCost and their SELinux snafu. What were they thinking!??!
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@scottalanmiller said:
Shaking my head at CloudatCost and their SELinux snafu. What were they thinking!??!
Answer: they weren't.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
That is one thing I wish ML had, and I know we're working on getting is more questions. However, I like answering printer questions, and we don't get too many of those.
I think most people aside from the smallest shops use MFPs under contracts. It's a better deal to use one networked MFP for both copying, printing and faxing than use separate or more units.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
That is one thing I wish ML had, and I know we're working on getting is more questions. However, I like answering printer questions, and we don't get too many of those.
Because printers need to die in a fire right along with POTS and faxing.
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@JaredBusch said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
That is one thing I wish ML had, and I know we're working on getting is more questions. However, I like answering printer questions, and we don't get too many of those.
Because printers need to die in a fire right along with POTS and faxing.
I really don't understand why IT people hate printers so much as a rule. However, I do know I'm the exception in not hating them.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Shaking my head at CloudatCost and their SELinux snafu. What were they thinking!??!
Annoys me as it killed my box somehow. I still think something else happened and that's what they are saying. I'm going to play around with it on another box and see if I can get it to break, otherwise I'm going with it was an IO issue that caused something to get corrupted which is my guess.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@JaredBusch said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
That is one thing I wish ML had, and I know we're working on getting is more questions. However, I like answering printer questions, and we don't get too many of those.
Because printers need to die in a fire right along with POTS and faxing.
I really don't understand why IT people hate printers so much as a rule. However, I do know I'm the exception.
They aren't IT. They are machines that's why.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
That is one thing I wish ML had, and I know we're working on getting is more questions. However, I like answering printer questions, and we don't get too many of those.
I think most people aside from the smallest shops use MFPs under contracts. It's a better deal to use one networked MFP for both copying, printing and faxing than use separate or more units.
Not necessarily. Most small shops have one printer that does everything. Some have contracts, others not. The range of quality in managed print contracts is huge. However, it's primarily only the smallest shops that have only one printer. Most businesses have several printers, and usually a combination of black/white and color.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
Not necessarily. Most small shops have one printer that does everything. Some have contracts, others not. The range of quality in managed print contracts is huge. However, it's primarily only the smallest shops that have only one printer. Most businesses have several printers, and usually a combination of black/white and color.
We've always just put one Ricoh or konica minolta (under contract) in each department area. Centralizes scanning, printing, copying and faxing. And saves a lot of money. It also means the department can handle maintenance themselves. Out of toner or paper just replace it. anything else call your contract contact.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
usually a combination of black/white and color.
There's no need to do this with copiers that support both black and white plus color. Just deploy two printers for each with group policy one with a B&W only setting and one as color. Keeps people from accidentally printing color.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
That is one thing I wish ML had, and I know we're working on getting is more questions. However, I like answering printer questions, and we don't get too many of those.
I think most people aside from the smallest shops use MFPs under contracts. It's a better deal to use one networked MFP for both copying, printing and faxing than use separate or more units.
Everyone that I know does (bigger shops, that is.)
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
usually a combination of black/white and color.
There's no need to do this with copiers that support both black and white plus color. Just deploy two printers for each with group policy one with a B&W only setting and one as color. Keeps people from accidentally printing color.
At my old job I had to put in a setting just like that for people with only a code could print in color. It cut's down on ink usage and copier/printer issues.
