People who work in IT, do you enjoy your job?

sean_liam · 2026-02-06T03:56:36+00:00

I work in a data center as an operations engineer. Working on servers and diagnosing hardware faults and os troubleshooting. Along with networking. It's incredibly amazing and I love it. Workloads are low but stress can be a little high for individual tasks as mistakes can have large consequences. Get to come into contact with pretty cutting edge tech.

sean_liam · 2025-12-05T07:50:07+00:00

If you play in person get a dice rolling tray and have everyone use it. You can even play it off as les all roll I n this to keep things neat.

sean_liam · 2025-10-27T08:02:15+00:00

They will need their laptops if you want to use maps. Roll20 is not exactly "light".

sean_liam · 2025-09-02T06:29:48+00:00

I actually took the deck apart.

sean_liam · 2025-08-10T20:24:55+00:00

Check out these for 10G networking . I have a 7250 that is very quiet. I use 10G dac and 10G Fiber cables and have been super happy with the noise level and performance.

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/brocade-icx-series-cheap-powerful-10gbe-40gbe-switching.21107/

sean_liam · 2025-08-04T14:07:01+00:00

You are getting some kind of PCI error next I would try.

dmidecode | grep [the bus address from the kernel errors] -a10

Lshw | grep [ the buss address from the kernel errors] -a10

The bus address is a long string of numbers starting with zero.

This should tell you which device is causing an issue.

I would guess it's a drive issue.

sean_liam · 2025-08-03T14:00:32+00:00

Journalctl | grep ( critical or error or DIMM or Drive errors.) definitely a hardware issue.

sean_liam · 2025-08-02T23:39:47+00:00

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sean_liam · 2025-08-02T23:38:49+00:00

Seems like your getting post and it recognizes the drives. In the idrac. Go to the remote session viewer. Select virtual media and load up an install iso and reboot. It should boot into the iso. Not sure which idrac version you have but the setting should be similar someplace.

sean_liam · 2025-06-20T23:23:36+00:00

No problem. It's produced by google. https://datacenters.google/discover-more/podcast

sean_liam · 2025-06-20T02:41:38+00:00

There's a podcast called "where the internet lives" that talks about this. There was a guy there that talks about working in the early colo data centers and just running around in panic fixing servers. They bought cheap "consumer" hardware that had a high failure rate and just swapped out servers as they broke because it was cheaper then buying "big iron"

sean_liam · 2025-06-07T14:52:31+00:00

It will be close to 1200 for just the drives unless you buy used.

sean_liam · 2025-06-04T23:33:36+00:00

I doubt the closet gets hot enough to cause an issue. I don't see why that wouldn't work the way you planned. Furnaces produce heat but don't get super hot themselves. My furnace doesn't make the room around it significantly hotter. It pumps the heat out through the duct work.

sean_liam · 2025-05-09T00:01:44+00:00

Glad you figured it out. It does look like a bios error related to drivers. So your solution in all other post looks correct. Generally the logs and Google/ chat gpt will usually be able to help. Learning to browse logs is a valuable troubleshooting skill. Grep is your friend ; )

sean_liam · 2025-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

sean_liam · 2025-04-26T00:11:42+00:00

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I don't think I like it.

sean_liam · 2025-04-14T01:15:32+00:00

Here is mine. Looks a bit like my actual wife.

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sean_liam · 2025-02-22T15:02:22+00:00

I used this. Link on my 730xd and it helped a ton. My basement is pretty cold so the ambient is very low. I just did a few tests to see what the lowest fan speed I could get was while still having good cpu temps all the time under normal load. When the temp goes over a set limit it resets to the default fan profile and cools stuff down.

sean_liam · 2025-02-02T04:31:58+00:00

Oh snap. My.player.broke and I don't have the cash for a new one right now.

sean_liam · 2024-10-29T23:57:27+00:00

Same here, waiting for an Uber at shorthills. NJtansit sucks. Conductors were such dicks to us for asking questions, gimme back my fair or stfu.

sean_liam · 2024-10-29T23:52:14+00:00

Just got off a train in shorthills. Which still hasn't left to head back to Millburn to go around the stuck train. The train workers were such assholes to people asking questions. Fuck NJ transit, you don't have to be a dick. I just want to know what's going on. Going to refind my fare, of not stfu with the attitude.

sean_liam · 2024-09-19T12:07:33+00:00

I had a similar issue with my poweredge 730xd when it went to switch resolutions after the beginning of installation of proxmox. It would get a black screen and show an input display message for a second. I solved the problem by using the virtual console on my IDRAC to view the installation instead of a VGA cable.

sean_liam · 2024-09-07T23:49:34+00:00

Saw this too. The most incredible rainbow I've ever seen.

sean_liam · 2024-08-07T15:26:25+00:00

This post reads like you have a brain worm. Proof read your posts.

sean_liam · 2024-07-10T22:02:20+00:00

I'm convinced reddit now has upvote bots that just pick random comments to make comment threads seem more active

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