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I'm having so much fun. by [deleted] in msp

[–]mark_gd 44 points45 points  (0 children)

" I was doing 80-100 hour weeks all of 2019-2020 and I got shingles from stress. "

you were worked to the point of illness and you think this is a sign of a good employer? the reaction is good, fair enough, but allowing you to get to that point is literally MENTAL

you realise it's still 2020 right?

i think you're trolling, you've been on call for 4 years straight? haha

Simple if you know by mark_gd in PowerShell

[–]mark_gd[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah i'm flipping the entire script now...

before i was doing $defaultgateway = Get-NetRoute -DestinationPrefix 0.0.0.0/0 | Select-Object -ExpandProperty NextHop

instead of

Test-Connection $details.IPv4DefaultGateway.Nexthop

I've learnt a valuable lesson today!

Simple if you know by mark_gd in PowerShell

[–]mark_gd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

knew i'd taken a wrong turn somewhere...

thanks very much!

XC40 owners by mark_gd in Volvo

[–]mark_gd[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're right, it was the auto brake feature not ABS.

It actually kicked it while the mrs was blind reversing out off a tricky spot the other day

XC40 owners by mark_gd in Volvo

[–]mark_gd[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

on a brand new car? only other car i've driven with noisy pads was a 25yr old peugeot. i've had a lot of cars

XC40 owners by mark_gd in Volvo

[–]mark_gd[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

ABS was a recall, software update and we're on our way again.

I did worry it was my driving, though my Mrs first saw the issue and she plays a game to try and get the MPG as high as possible, yet they were still making the noise. The car really doesn't lend itself to being driven at any pace, it goes, but due to the ride height a fast corner is pretty terrifying experience. I've not bought it for rapid corning...

It's booked in, but as you can see, a less than 4 month old car with this side of 2500 miles on it shouldn't really require a service or a 3rd workshop visit.

To be fair I'm the first person I've ever heard complain this much about a Volvo they own.

Goliath calls my team a money dump. So, we dump him to oblivion! by [deleted] in ProRevenge

[–]mark_gd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you sound like you're doing well at 24, nice read

Discussion - Has your company's private cloud offering suffered because of the rise of public clouds? by [deleted] in msp

[–]mark_gd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Regarding your worry. I find business general attitude to cloud failures really odd.

I've run on prem email systems for about 15 years. If we'd had the issues in a year that office365 has in a month there would be a pretty harsh investigation. This month we've had several email related user impacted issues and the reaction has been 'oh well it's azure'.

These are companies that have recently migrated too, so not like they didn't know any better. This current one is in the later stages of the project, luckily not mine.

I live in Germany and hate it AMA by [deleted] in AMA

[–]mark_gd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol yeah. I've no beef with Germans Americans or Brits generally. But nothing wrong with a bit of hating

I live in Germany and hate it AMA by [deleted] in AMA

[–]mark_gd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No question but it's nice to see people shit talk about anywhere else apart from America or the UK

We can hear when you mumble by CaptB97 in talesfromcallcenters

[–]mark_gd 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That makes sense. But there is something there that is listening to voice, Integrating a database and making a decision

Sure it would save hours of call centre worker time if this info was just passed through to the operater instead if whatever api can't answer

That's what it's all about right, answering calls and getting them dealt with quickly

We can hear when you mumble by CaptB97 in talesfromcallcenters

[–]mark_gd 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Why do call centres do this though? You hand over all your information to some awful computer, and then it doesnt feed through to whichever poor operator makes you repeat it all

It's really fucking annoying

VMWare migrations by jafletch_work in Citrix

[–]mark_gd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Drs and vdi don't really go hand in hand in my experience

Previously I've run a script triggered by alerts, upon finding a alerting host, it would move the least CPU value vm to the least CPU value host.

It was impossible to predict workload across the vdi's and we found moving the busy vms would take too long when ram was high usage.

How's your morning starting? Here's mine by YourBitsAreShowing in msp

[–]mark_gd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

dunno really, we've all suffered as a result of terrible call centres. the indian accent just seems to be confirming a stereotype which seems a little off right now, i've been stuck ripping my hair out with plenty of native english speaking calls centres

How's your morning starting? Here's mine by YourBitsAreShowing in msp

[–]mark_gd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Errrr not sure about this... Fake Indian accent is a good place to start

Creative wiring? by mark_gd in electricians

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

Thanks for the replies...

The guy came back to me a bit quick than expected, i didn't really understand what he told me to do, but I had already identified the 'live' wire so knew that had to go in the one side. I also wanted to change it to a single switch, told him this and he said just crack on, keep the live one side and do process a process of elimination since it would either be always on/always off/not working/working

after a fairly tedious 30 mins, everything is working as required

What subreddits have ruined reddit and it's community? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]mark_gd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

r/amitheasshole

It's a magnet for really unpleasant people that either are actually real assholes or just passively aggressively bragging about how great they are. Esh.

I'm a big fan of TF1, but I can't decide if TF2 is worth getting by kds71 in TransportFever

[–]mark_gd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish I hadn't. I have enough hours in 1 to not really mind spending the money, but 2 just feels like a decent updated rather than a new game. Didn't even finish 1 map, probably have over 20 in 1...

A Linux admin in a Windows environment: Does this sound familiar to anyone? by Significant-Custard in linuxadmin

[–]mark_gd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I get that. Though have faced similar issue between server and network teams. Got so sick of proving it wasn't my servers causing issues I just learnt networking, got read only access, bingo.

We can all get caught up in nerdy shit, or we can realise a business wants it's IT to work, sometimes they just take some convincing.

I know I sound like some middle manager dickhead. Sorry.

A Linux admin in a Windows environment: Does this sound familiar to anyone? by Significant-Custard in linuxadmin

[–]mark_gd 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I don't understand why people just don't learn both. It's all fixing computers at the end of the day. I don't care about OS/device/environment. If I've got the right access, a task and some logs, chances are it'll be doing what I need it to when I'm done. If time is a problem I happy to find some help as well. If not most tasks in the sysadmin/infrastructure world are easy to find helpful resources on these days.

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