Yes. Of course that statement can be taken to the positive or the negative. 

So I got done with huntsville face-to-face

good times

the dude up there is hardcore DBA, less sysadmin

however, he knows only marginally more than me of 11g, so it's all good. we spent a lot of time on Thursday cracking open a problem that will give us the ATO, so it was 100% worth it

I'm feeling so much better about the whole situation now, better grasp on things, I know what's going on up there. 

I hate IIS. 

Why yes IIS sucks decaying donkey balls. What's worse is a piece of software written to make insanely heavy use of IIS for an environment that doesn't even need it and it breaks--requiring a service restart--every couple of days and sometimes 8 times in a day. Development is clueless. IIS doesn't produce a damn bit of information about the issue. MITG.

Hey while I'm here...

'Why yes, I completely understand that you need your network account re-enabled. Oh why yes I'll do that absolutely immediately, let me ignore this IIS problem for the moment because you suddenly need this account a day after it was disabled automatically from a 60-day period of inactivity.' FU

Don't look now... it's Monday. I need to grab my Tylenol and the secret stash of RPG-7s. 

Yes, my remote tech just asked me "What the hell is an exclamation mark?"

/maybe he has a heavy heavy unix background. 

wtf am i missing to get an offsite copier to scan to email? 

smtp gateway entered into the copier?

copier allowed to use that gateway?

is the copier only setup to send to pre-programmed addresses, or can it send to anyone?

is there a restriction on the copier to only email within domain? 

yup
yup
anyone
shouldn't be. It's just using the IP of my mail server. 

authentication?
plain text or encrypted?
port #? 

it's using an account/pw for authentication
not encrypted
default port 25. 

ldap? 

it's working now.
i blame the Ikon rep onsite. 

i'm good luck 

to whores 

I found a pretty new desktop just sitting on the floor not being used so I take the desktop into my office to run updates / clean off old stuff... beep, beep, beep.
Some bastard has stolen the ram. Who steals just the ram? 

Ummmmm...someone who needs RAM? 

hahaha 

dvr marry me?

our babbys can be borgs 

You just randomly plug in desktops that find floating around? Did you read that article about the security consulting company that illustrated that one of the biggest IT risks is by physically gaining access to the network by distributing all those thumb drives loaded with viruses? 

Resistance is futile 

In this context, sounds like a KY slogan. 

guys

I just found a HP proliant server in the parking lot

it looked pretty cold, not being in the rack and all

should I rack this bitch up and plug it into the giga? 

lady giga 

I say go for it 

STRAP YER HATS ON BOYS I'M GOIN IN HOT! 

SU WEET 

call from a woman
"I think I have spyware"
"bla bla bla"
"popups, antivirus says it found a bunch"
"you do. what did you click on?"
"a link from a google search"
"what was the link?"
"one of the results from something I was searching for"
".............okay" 

Well duh....she must have been searching for "how do I get spyware".

I love the nondescript explanations we (always) get 

Did you mean: HOW DO I SHOT WEB? 

FREE PORN 

click
Click
CLICK
CLICK
CLICK 

Side job tonight. Two hours of training on Word. $50/hr. Not bad. 

dvrdwn said:

I love the nondescript explanations we (always) get

Ask more specific questions ;)

Which makes me think of our office. When you log a call, the technician will usually ask where you sit in the office. People, naturally, will give where they sit ("in finance", say). "I mean where in the office do you sit?" ("4th floor, just to the left of the scanner"). They only want to figure out what the asset tag on the machine is though.

So now my conversation with them goes:

"Where do you sit in the office?"
"ABC-1234"
"Errr...."

:p 

Why don't you just asset tag each machine and just ask the user what the tag is?

or if they take them off, put a custom background up that lists IP/asset tag/user ID logged in so they always have it 

If IT doesn't have a way to determine where someone sits ( and what equipment they have assigned to them) that is their failure - I freely admit that.

Inventory control/Asset Management.

I wish the biggest issues with end users was getting "where do you sit" out of them hahaha 

yay the registry on my voicemail\phone system server blew up yay
/misery 

UGH. .no slave/standby for that box? 

man I really don't envy you screwy

NT boxes, registry problems

it's like the technology problems black hole 

I can't wait to upgrade/transition to a hosted VOIP system. god I hope it doesn't get "deferred" in the budget again! 

of course i do
copying the config and the voicemails over now 

god damnit had to reschedule my interview
ffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu 

does this make me look like a flake or someone who still takes care of business even though he's looking elsewhere? 

UGH. .no slave/standby for that box?

of course i do
copying the config and the voicemails over now

How big is this company? 

this machine services a few hundred in 3 or 4 sites 

what can you do, you can't predict failure 

this is one of those things we kind of cobbled together after the fire that probably wasn't built with best practices but it needed to work NOW 

combo breaker 

oh best practices. where are you? no, not under my covers. you're sleeping with screwbacca!!! how dare you!! 

tomorrow at 2:30 yeahhhhh 

screwbacca said:

of course i do
copying the config and the voicemails over now

Nice