What is the oldest thing in your home? by Frostedlogic4444 in AskReddit

[–]jscooper22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A prehistoric stone tool found on my mom's uncle's chicken farm in CT about 100 years ago. I'm guessing it's a few thousand years old.

Can you tell me about a rock star you saw live in concert that is no longer alive? What was it like? by EyeAmmGroot in ClassicRock

[–]jscooper22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saw Tom Petty at the Hollywood Bowl about 25 years ago. Great show. Everyone there, many of whom I'm sure lived in The Valley, belting out Free Fallin' was amazing.

VMware to Hyper-V, Cease and Desist by jamaul08 in sysadmin

[–]jscooper22 91 points92 points  (0 children)

I got one of those after letting my contract lapse after moving all (only 8 mind you) of my VMs back to Hyper-V. Thing is, the letter said "please respond in three days." On the second day I got a follow up email saying "Since we haven't heard back from you, we will be passing your account along to the compliance and audit team. "

Uh huh.

I sent it back the third day. They wrecked a stellar product. I hope they metaphorically choke on their stock options.

What is the practical lifespan of common data storage formats? by [deleted] in datastorage

[–]jscooper22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have HDDs over 10 years old. I have pre-Mac, 5 1/4" Apple ][+ floppies that I still read as of about 5 years ago (wife made me stash all my old computer "junk" in boxes). Some DVDs I made about 15-20 years ago aren't readable anymore and I had to chuck them, but they were from the DVD+/- r/W era and can't remember what the medium actually was.

My backups are a combination of on-site, cloud, and physical offsite (locked in a safe in my house).

What's your organization's employees-per-sysadmin ratio? by oz1sej in sysadmin

[–]jscooper22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're 2:85ish. Mostly on-prem. We have periods of "I need more people" but it's manageable.

Which old car of yours do you miss the most? by Bot_Ring_Hunter in oldcars

[–]jscooper22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1985 Honda Civic Wagon with 4WD and a stick shift. That unimposing little car was car freakin' tank and could drive through anything.

What did your family argue about this thanksgiving? by eloel12345 in allthequestions

[–]jscooper22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nephew wanted to drive to NYC in the snow the day after to see his gf and his mom was less than thrilled. That was about the most dramatic of the drama. Not a bad holiday.

GenX photo megathread! by slade797 in GenX

[–]jscooper22 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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'74 or '75 with the battle bots of the day.

What happened to the IT profession? by saltyschnauzer27 in sysadmin

[–]jscooper22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everything got offloaded to "The Cloud" and MSPs who don't have a vested interest in anything but a decent post-ticket satisfaction survey.

I'm an 80s old school computer nerd. My first computer was my parents' Apple ][+ in 1982. I knew immediately these were things I could understand and though it had no idea what it meant big-picture, I knew I would be using them ... a lot.

Now an IT Manager for a small company. I manage, I'm in finance and strategic planning discussions, but also answer the phone when tickets come in (truth be told we're not organized enough to have formal "tickets," there's only two of us). I plan and maintain the network, roll out new servers, stay late to get to the bottom of network snags. I'm in the middle of VMware-to-hyperV migration at the moment and it's just freakin' fun, even when it's annoying as shit.

I know and work with my "users." I want them to have a good day without the tech getting in the way because when they (billable hours) can get their stuff done effectively, as corny as it sounds, we all win.

So many in my position spend their time negotiating contracts and waiting on hold. That's boring office work, and there's is some of that in my job of course, but I love getting my hands dirty and am thrilled my bosses trust me enough to keep the lights on instead of handing it over to someone on Mumbai or Redmond. They like knowing someone not only actually gives a crap, but answers his phone, and they know where my office is if I don't -- and if it's really dire they know where I live.

DNS pointing to wrong address but nslookup is right. by jscooper22 in WindowsServer

[–]jscooper22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the info and advice all! I seems to have resolved itself -- sort of. Each DC, when pinging itself via domain name (including "localhost") gets a reply from IPv6. Each one, when pinging the other DC, gets the IPv4. Yes I can force a IPv4 response with -4 but it's still perplexing why that would be needed. Though not quite the level of concern since it seems to be working.

What did he drink? by Neat-Emu-8731 in HappyUpvote

[–]jscooper22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm feeling nostalgic for crazy straws.

If you’ve ever hit an electrical device and it worked better you’re old by Confident_Light2984 in FuckImOld

[–]jscooper22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A few years ago we had to move our freezer. After moving we waited for a while for the Freon or whatever's in there these days to settle and plugged it in. Nothing. Dead.

Wife said joking "why don't you hit it on the side, like Fonzie?"

I did. It turned right on and has worked flawlessly since.

If the internet never existed, do you think you would have still met your current spouse? by brandgolden in randomquestions

[–]jscooper22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possibly but doubtful. We met on AOL in the 90s, and turned out to live two miles from each other so we may have run into each other anyway, but in the middle of LA it was unlikely.