IT BS thread

Yep we do, it was never setup and there are so many things going on we dont have time to get it completed right now.

 

If it's not setup then you don't.

What took longer and costs more money taking the time to set it up or having the down time?

Trust me I know exactly what you mean about time and these things tend to not be a priority till they are. I also know I am Monday morning quarterbacking but that's what management will usually do.

Glad you got it back up and running.

 

I had an office with a RAID 5 NAS that had a hot spare, a nice piece of equipment. When the first drive failed the hot spare took over and not a beat was missed.

When the second drive failed they were OK because of the RAID

When the third drive failed . . . well At least there was a working backup, but the users lost a full days work. I don't even want to guess how many $$$,$$$ that cost the company.

The lessons that office learned were that those lights on the NAS might actually mean something, so pay attention. (the onsite tech confessed that he had seen the orange warning lights months ahead of the 3rd failure. He had come to accept them as normal) Since the drives are all bought at the same time, when one drive fails the other drives are going to fail soon there after. Even if you have a hot spare, keep cold spares on hand. It took an extra 2 days to get the NAS back online waiting for parts.

 

Do we have any designers in here that use AutoCad? The engineering dept got a file from a customer that looks to be a scanned pdf of a printed and scanned pdf lol. Needs converted raster to vector but our guys are missing the mark.
No, I won't send you the file because legalities. Just point me in the right direction to help my guys please!

 

I had to work all Thanksgiving because of a network issue. I'm a server guy. Every 15 minutes, all servers on a specific switch would drop packets for 55 seconds (9 to 11 total dropped). It turned out to be a bad module on that core switch.

 

I'm a computer tech, and am doing an informal test to see where my creation below will get the best reception; the tech forum or the dog forum? Since there's no dog AND tech forum, this is the best I can do. Please let me know what you think! -- By way of short explanation, we currently have two dogs, and are in the process of picking up a third. I'm working on a flowchart about the motivations of our middle dog as well, but Tiger will be our oldest, and he never ceases to amuse. (Brian is the hubby.)

 

Fuck working in IT.



That is all

 

Why?

 

LOL. First did you go through the Oversite Committee and get approval? Then Office of Information Security. Then Application Review Board. Get funding approval from Business Office? If it wasn't so much work I'd fire up Visio for you
My oldest says Approved!


Just remember that 3 dogs now becomes a pack.

 

Because people

 

My work just replaced Linux based desktops with Windows based bricks

 

What are the bricks connecting too? Im assuming that by brick you mean thin client.

 

Yeah it's basically a plastic box with a processor and a couple USB ports. Mostly used for a terminal and a very outdated Firefox

 

That's about all they are good for. My company made a big push for them a couple of years ago, thinking they could replace desktops. The short story is nope, no way they can do that for normal users. Now they are a support albatross around our neck, running a mostly current chrome browser.

 

For normal users, no. But for heads down task oriented users that only run a couple apps a day and never leave them they do work, usually.

Back when Winframe (Windows 3.51) was the norm WYSE terminals were a gateway for those coming from mainframe and mid range systems and used to the green screen and terminals. Used to kill me when the salesmen would pitch them as the last "PC" they would need. Yeah right saw that writing on the wall. Refresh on those were about the same as a PC.

Can't say Vblock for VDI is a whole lot better today either. Great in theory, not so much in the real world at least for us.

 

The math never worked out for us. By the time we got the user/server ratio right so they could actually do meaningful work, we could have bought desktop computers. Now they just run one web based app that is just text, no pictures at all. Before this we just used the oldest, slowest, hand me down computers for that task. The thin clients are way over priced for what they can do for us.

^^ yeah, this ^^

 

This is what we have now. N.Computing L300

 

They sent me one of those to play with years ago. It is sitting on a shelf somewhere. We determined that, at the time, the VDI model was not cost effective.

 

I set up a trial lab of those at my former high school ( I worked for the IT dept after school) and they are utterly incapable of anything but word processing and super light internet browsing. We even gave them ideal conditions to run in, a brand new server that was serving the VM via 10 gigabit fibre to an IDF that interpreted it to 1000 base T ethernet to each individual terminal. Sadly they cannot even reproduce more than 16bit color with any hopes of reliability. They still e-mail me to try their products.