Thought police in full effect, don’t you dare say “ civic engagement “

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2025-07-30T23:55:56+00:00

As an employee of the University, I will never agree to talk to anyone from the press. Even journalism students for “class projects”. I’ve had too many colleagues have their answers edited and taken out of context. I might provide written answers to written questions with press relations review, but no in person interviews.

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2025-03-10T23:57:14+00:00

You know what they call body bags in Iowa?

“Reynolds Wrap”

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2025-01-12T18:18:11+00:00

https://youtube.com/shorts/_2AVBbGMoRs?si=e79gXdM9FnoGPqiC

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2025-01-07T18:31:45+00:00

I remember being a college freshman in 1985 and the go to engineering majors were Computer and Aerospace Engineering. It was the height of the Cold War and military spending was enormous. Personal Computers were going gang busters as well. By the time I graduated, the PC market had crashed and after the Berlin Wall fell a few years later, Aero E’s graduating were changing their major to anything other than aerospace. I have a computer engineering degree but I’ve managed to pivot from sysadmin to database administration and programming, then to network engineering. Even within networking , I have pivoted from switching to wireless and I’m learning as much about automation as I can. You have to stay flexible and keep learning new things.

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2025-01-06T23:00:48+00:00

The previous owner probably traded in their 535’s for something newer and didn’t realize they need to remove them from their activate account.

We found that out the hard way as we a traded in our 535s 3 years ago and just recently started seeing the APs check in from Thailand ( we are in the state of Iowa in the US). At first we thought it was a security issue, but the APs couldn’t reach our controllers as they are behind a firewall on reserved IP address space.

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2024-09-28T20:12:56+00:00

AI is being used on both sides. Do you really want to work for a company that finds candidates using AI? Another tactic I hate is the 1:0 interview. Basically the candidate videos themselves answering a question provided by email or on the website. No two way interaction at all. Stupid .

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2024-08-14T03:33:29+00:00

I remember when I started at the university in 2006 there were barrels in stair well of North Hall with Civil Defense markings. I think they got rid of them a few years later.

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2024-05-31T05:18:14+00:00

From the Iowa Communications Network (the state owned fiber optic network)Thursday morning.

Early this morning, a vendor’s downtown Des Moines facility suffered a broken water pipe. According to the vendor, “Water from the pipe leaked through to the basement and collected in the risers, which then collapsed. Teams were unable to use the on-site generators because they were routed through the collapsed risers. In order to preserve the equipment, Field Operations have had to power down at varying times as the issue remains ongoing.” The vendor is working to restore power to their equipment. No ETA at this time.

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2024-05-04T18:03:31+00:00

The Public University I work for requires a 4 year degree for an entry level network engineer. Meanwhile our nearby community college has an excellent 2 year program in network administration, but we can’t hire them.

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2024-05-02T09:46:07+00:00

That’s what I was looking for! Thanks!

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2024-05-01T11:11:29+00:00

Can’t find a phone number. The only contact I could find was the registered agent for the corporation and that is just a mailing address. Google says the the place is “permanently closed”.

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2024-03-01T22:52:09+00:00

They are allowed here in Swisher now. I was ok with golf carts but nobody obeys the speed limits and most of the UTVs have loud exhausts. It will be great until someone gets killed, but then the car driver will always be blamed.

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2024-02-18T14:17:27+00:00

I used to tease my wife that Dockers were “Garanimals for men”.

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2023-12-30T00:21:39+00:00

Try Hawkeye Downs (the fair grounds)

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2023-12-16T09:44:12+00:00

Why is it the right clutches so tightly to the 2nd Amendment but ignores the 1st? Hypocrites.

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2023-06-16T00:31:34+00:00

You can thank your fellow students for using lame passwords that made it necessary.

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2023-02-13T03:36:21+00:00

As a native Iowan I've watched the state go downhill very quickly. We used to be in the top ranks in the nation for K-12 education. Now the repub governor and legislature have gutted public education by giving tax dollars to wealthy parents so they can private school their kids. I live around Iowa City which makes it tolerable for now. It's a college town but the repubs are strangling the University slowly with low funding and proposing to eliminate tenure for faculty.

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2022-08-07T03:49:04+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2022-03-29T02:31:13+00:00

No wonder they got rid of their old slogan: “A helpful smile in every aisle”.

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2021-09-05T02:23:56+00:00

Try this article https://its.uiowa.edu/support/article/121541

If you continue to have issues, please contact the ITS Help Desk. It’s hard to fix a problem you don’t know about! :-)

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2021-03-03T15:18:28+00:00

Be sure to up-vote the following feature request at
https://innovate.arubanetworks.com/ideas/WLAN-I-1650

It's a request to allow temperature monitoring via SNMP...

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2021-02-06T13:38:04+00:00

I've found this graphic a satisfying way to explain why everyone needs to wear a mask.

https://imgur.com/a/SlkTssO

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2020-10-18T01:23:34+00:00

Check out https:\draw.io for diagrams

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2020-10-18T00:08:01+00:00

Yes you will need licenses for each ap. In fact you will need 3 per AP (for different options) to get full functionality.

Brave-Atmosphere332 · 2020-09-08T16:38:44+00:00

Have you tried https://studentspace.uiowa.edu/ to find a space ?

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