IT BS thread

That was MY problem Capt. ArcInfo in 90s but ended up working for a group that used Intergraph. Did a few MGE (dos type crap like ArcInfo)to Geomedia (ArcView counterpart) conversions. Why do I say that was MY problem? Look who leads the world in GIS....ESRI. My career could possibly have taken a different route IF I went with the industry standard mapping system. I have dabbled in ArcView but not much. Last cool GIS analysis project I did (early 2000s) was for a city PD I worked for. Mapped pedis locations to schools. It was disgusting but proved what data can do.

 

Have you found the "people" portion of our jobs is much, much more complicated than systems we manage? Have I stated how I can't wait to retire?

What side of IT do you work? Would you happen to work in SharePoint/PowerApps? Anyone else here? Need some direction on a flow...and Google is pointing to items outside of our O365 plan. Figured I checked here. Why not right?

 

Security is the name of the game. I'm busier than a one-armed paper hanger.

#jobsecurity

 

Yeah we've been using teams really heavily the last few months and its been great. Its not without its warts, but overall I'm impressed with it. We use the voice calls and meetings constantly and I can't recall a single hiccup in that functionality.

 

Same. Better voice stability over Skype/Lync. The only real downside is that it likes to turn on the camera. Joke's on you, Teams - meet Mister Electrical Tape!

 

If yall are looking for other routers to consider, check out the Microtik ones. I have the hAP AC and it has given me zero trouble (even though my home network is a busy place) and has surprisingly good wifi coverage.

$118 MikroTik hAP AC RouterBoard, Triple Chain Access Point 802.11ac (RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT-US)

https://www.amazon.com/MikroTik-Rou...1&keywords=routerboard&qid=1596200878&sr=8-11

 

Huh, mine never turns on the camera for me. Am I really that ugly?

 

Right on. Good luck in your IT adventures!

 

I think our issue is when updates are pushed it resets to the default settings.

We only have about 290 individual GPOs running right now. Locked down TIGHT!






Surprised I can even TW.

 

Ha, my shitty locked down corporate laptop sits on its dock sleeping until I need to VPN in for a timesheet. The kick ass laptop my boss got me for 'diagnostics' is where all the real work gets done.

Which is fine with me, corp laptop couldn't run a VM my life depended on it.

 

I went through the same garbage with my nighthawk. Also tried the Orbi Mesh system and it was garbage as well. I ultimately gave up and switched to a Ubiquiti/Unifi setup; using an Edgerouter 4, netgear GS108 switch, an AP inside, and an AP outside (we have a big back yard with minimal LTE coverage, and no other WiFi setup ever reached out there before). Might not be WiFi6, but the performance, consistency, and reliability more than make up for it. Of course the downside was having to make a couple of ethernet runs, but it was worth the effort in the end.

 

I was using a Nighthawk X8 for a bit and it was solid, but once I upgraded to Gigabit I realized it would only handle about 300 Mbps even though it was supposed to be faster. No love from Netgear to actually fix the problem and get it to meet the specs on the box. Tried open source firmware, but it couldn't see all the radios for some reason.

I tried the Ubiquiti Unifi and Edgerouter, but I would have needed another AP and do some ethernet runs to get coverage, which I didn't want to do in my attic. I went with the Amplifi mesh system and it has been awesome.

Not pleased with Netgear's handling of the X8 performance limitation, so not going back that way.

I did set up a separate WiFi router for all the smart home stuff, so the main WiFi can be left for streaming and gaming. With over 30 devices, things are getting a bit crowded.

 

I highly recommend Unifi gear. I switched a few years ago and it’s rock solid for the same pricing as premium consumer models. Lots of enterprise level features.

 

I’m laughing my ass off how have I not seen this thread... 20 years military cyber and shit never changes

 

3C0 or 1B4? Did both.

 

Well 3C and 3A merged to 3D... not sure on bravos but we are all one big difunctional family now

 

And I’ve been special ops... one deep forever so I can’t even begin to tell you about anything Big Blue

 

When 3D happened I was in network warfare doing bad things to bad people with the Internet. 1B4 was what we became after we got outed in 2008.

Our motto was “why bomb it when you can just turn it off?”

 

Started out as a weapons loader F15/F16 maintenance retrained and stumbled into Comm... 15yrs later on 20yrs and still in. Here I am loving that comm life

 

Ah exactly... fast forward four year and allegedly I was digging up stuff in Syria to do things