What Are You Doing Right Now
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Laughing my ass off at red tape. Get a project. Reach out to specific vendors and get get the pricing and options. List four good options, with a #1 recommendation suitable for us. Get together with the C levels, and get it shot down as 'C' levels want to verify what we actually need from the options (which I did already). C levels spend several weeks in meetings, internally, externally... and come back with the exact same #1 recommendation. Pfft.
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@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Laughing my ass off at red tape. Get a project. Reach out to specific vendors and get get the pricing and options. List four good options, with a #1 recommendation suitable for us. Get together with the C levels, and get it shot down as 'C' levels want to verify what we actually need from the options (which I did already). C levels spend several weeks in meetings, internally, externally... and come back with the exact same #1 recommendation. Pfft.
Hopefully you didn't suck(er)ed into sitting in the several weeks of meetings, lol.
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@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Laughing my ass off at red tape. Get a project. Reach out to specific vendors and get get the pricing and options. List four good options, with a #1 recommendation suitable for us. Get together with the C levels, and get it shot down as 'C' levels want to verify what we actually need from the options (which I did already). C levels spend several weeks in meetings, internally, externally... and come back with the exact same #1 recommendation. Pfft.
So they are IT now?
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shaking my head again at a process that I've made a suggestion on how to 'fix'
Several of the POS card scanners have an issue with the Windows Service stopping. Have to remote to the desktop to restart them...
Has to be a better way and one that doesn't keep requiring Human intervention which may take 5-20 minutes depending on IT availability.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
shaking my head again at a process that I've made a suggestion on how to 'fix'
Several of the POS card scanners have an issue with the Windows Service stopping. Have to remote to the desktop to restart them...
Has to be a better way and one that doesn't keep requiring Human intervention which may take 5-20 minutes depending on IT availability.
Powershell script that runs once a minute (or once every x minutes) to check the service and restart it if needed?
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
shaking my head again at a process that I've made a suggestion on how to 'fix'
Several of the POS card scanners have an issue with the Windows Service stopping. Have to remote to the desktop to restart them...
Has to be a better way and one that doesn't keep requiring Human intervention which may take 5-20 minutes depending on IT availability.
Powershell script that runs once a minute (or once every x minutes) to check the service and restart it if needed?
My thoughts. Was about half way writing it when it was discovered that:
Powershell is disabled ...
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
shaking my head again at a process that I've made a suggestion on how to 'fix'
Several of the POS card scanners have an issue with the Windows Service stopping. Have to remote to the desktop to restart them...
Has to be a better way and one that doesn't keep requiring Human intervention which may take 5-20 minutes depending on IT availability.
Powershell script that runs once a minute (or once every x minutes) to check the service and restart it if needed?
My thoughts. Was about half way writing it when it was discovered that:
Powershell is disabled ...
Should be able to do it with a batch script, instead?
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
shaking my head again at a process that I've made a suggestion on how to 'fix'
Several of the POS card scanners have an issue with the Windows Service stopping. Have to remote to the desktop to restart them...
Has to be a better way and one that doesn't keep requiring Human intervention which may take 5-20 minutes depending on IT availability.
Powershell script that runs once a minute (or once every x minutes) to check the service and restart it if needed?
My thoughts. Was about half way writing it when it was discovered that:
Powershell is disabled ...
Use the command line then...
net start servicename -
What about having the service auto start on failure?
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What about having the service auto start on failure?
It is already set to auto start on failure. just that it fails enough it stops.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What about having the service auto start on failure?
It is already set to auto start on failure. just that it fails enough it stops.
wow - and they haven't decided it was worth finding the root cause on that yet? /sigh.
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Daily walk completed. Meal consumed. Time for RHCE prep.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Laughing my ass off at red tape. Get a project. Reach out to specific vendors and get get the pricing and options. List four good options, with a #1 recommendation suitable for us. Get together with the C levels, and get it shot down as 'C' levels want to verify what we actually need from the options (which I did already). C levels spend several weeks in meetings, internally, externally... and come back with the exact same #1 recommendation. Pfft.
So they are IT now?
By all accounts, yes.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Laughing my ass off at red tape. Get a project. Reach out to specific vendors and get get the pricing and options. List four good options, with a #1 recommendation suitable for us. Get together with the C levels, and get it shot down as 'C' levels want to verify what we actually need from the options (which I did already). C levels spend several weeks in meetings, internally, externally... and come back with the exact same #1 recommendation. Pfft.
So they are IT now?
By all accounts, yes.
frustrating yes, but at least they came back with same decision. coming back with a different decision would have been worse for you i'm guessing.
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weird dfsr problem on a dc.
old dc being reported as still alive in dfs rep group, but doesn't appear in metadata cleanup or dfs management app. -
Avoiding real work that i need to do by posting on here.
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OMG I forgot that I had come here for a reason but then got sidetracked and was posting, lol. I actually needed to look something up.
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Current work place.
With DIY chair
3hrs into the "recovery and fix"
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@hobbit666
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About to give a little presentation on how to get started with scripting for the weekly Fedora Infrastructure IRC chat meeting.
