What Are You Doing Right Now
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@MattSpeller said:
Found the first victim of the power outage the other day. Dell R210 II, found powered up, fans screaming, throwing codes on it's little screen thingy. No one seems to care enough to ask about it so I'll wait and see.
We had some crazy lightening at the beginning of the week here (now it's snowing). We must of gotten hit a night because our DC voltage thing for the old phone system is now pushing about half the amount of power as it should be. Thankfully this is the telcom's equipment and the only thing we use it for are the fire alarm systems.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Running anything important?
Honestly I'm not entirely sure. It's one we keep the lights on and network for but don't manage directly. I'm 100% positive it's not backed up in any meaningful way. No one has cared enough to ask about it in almost 48h so it'll likely remain off until they do. I sent a FYI email to the relevant parties earlier, still no reply. If anything comes of it, we might get to bill out some hours for diag. Exactly zero concerned either way lol
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@Minion-Queen Super jealous, I'd do that in a heart beat!!
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@Minion-Queen said:
I AM SO DARN EXCITED!!! I am going to SpiceWorld LONDON!! WOOT WOOT!!!
Congrats! I'm jelly...
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Good Morning to all!
Today I will be moving to City no need to commute of 6 hours daily. -
Woah! most small business come no where near maxing 100mb to the desktop. I think people are confusing the improvements from better switches and more switching throughput with increase from going from 100mb to 1000mb. http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/913053-wow-gigabit-networking-is-a-big-improvement-for-microbusiness
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@thecreativeone91 As someone at the breaking point of 100mbit, I sure as hell wouldn't be deploying it for anyone with gig so cheap. If you inherit some legacy junk, yeah, 100 will get you going at least. We run backups over it - this is where the pain begins.
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 As someone at the breaking point of 100mbit, I sure as hell wouldn't be deploying it for anyone with gig so cheap. If you inherit some legacy junk, yeah, 100 will get you going at least. We run backups over it - this is where the pain begins.
Wouldn't deploy it. but attributing upgrading to gigabit everywhere improving the network is wrong. Server likely. but otherwise I'd say you just had bad switches.
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@thecreativeone91 or some other horrific networking faux-pas. You're right, 100 gets the job done for clients still.
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Trying to install spanDSP, here's hoping.
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 or some other horrific networking faux-pas. You're right, 100 gets the job done for clients still.
This kind of stuff is part of the reason I've been thinking about ditching IT and going to electrical engineering. Most companies don't understand IT nor do they care to. and a lot of IT folks don't either. It's this crazy madness of wrong solutions for most problems and not truly understanding what they are doing.
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SAN vendors are hitting hard today... got three calls just this afternoon.
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@coliver said:
SAN vendors are hitting hard today... got three calls just this afternoon.
They've been calling my cell phone the best week. I'm not even sure how they got my cell. I have a suspicion that a former employer is given all these sales people who keep calling them my cell phone to annoy me.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
This kind of stuff is part of the reason I've been thinking about ditching IT and going to electrical engineering.
When your problem is with stupidity / ignorance / people, changing careers won't fix it. I've seen some cringe worthy stuff doing electronics eng, and that's all low voltage reasonably safe stuff.
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
This kind of stuff is part of the reason I've been thinking about ditching IT and going to electrical engineering.
When your problem is with stupidity / ignorance / people, changing careers won't fix it. I've seen some cringe worthy stuff doing electronics eng, and that's all low voltage reasonably safe stuff.
Heck ever look in a Non-branded USB Charger/ SMPS that people use on their phones.. some scary stuff. little seperation between High/low voltage. Lots of leak (50-60v) from AC to the DC side. etc some don't even have over current protection.
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@thecreativeone91 ahhhhhh the Wun Hung-Lo Factory special! Gotta love it!
(EEV blog is pure awesome)
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@MattSpeller One of my favorite youtube channels.
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Just back from dinner and taking the kids to some playground. Got a couple miles of walking in. Wrapping up for the day around here.
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Half day for me today.
Getting ready for ANZAC day tomorrow.
