• Quiet Today...

    From Jagossel@21:1/150 to All on Mon Feb 25 14:41:00 2019
    It seems pretty quiet here today. Everyone all right?

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  • From Erazmus@21:1/133 to Jagossel on Mon Feb 25 13:50:05 2019
    On 25 Feb 2019, Jagossel said the following...

    It seems pretty quiet here today. Everyone all right?

    It's Monday morning here on the Left Coast of Canada. Just arrived at work,
    and digging myself out of a weekend's worth of trouble tickets.

    How about you?

    Ian

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  • From garycrunk@21:4/126 to Jagossel on Mon Feb 25 14:15:58 2019
    It seems pretty quiet here today. Everyone all right?
    -jag

    It's Monday for me here... So no.. Not all right... :)

    It's all good. Hope all is well with you.

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  • From nristen@21:1/161 to Erazmus on Mon Feb 25 20:56:25 2019
    It seems pretty quiet here today. Everyone all right?

    It's Monday morning here on the Left Coast of Canada. Just arrived at work, and digging myself out of a weekend's worth of trouble tickets.

    Lot of problems over the weekend for work. Lot of network issues. Have to stay on top of stuff so the blame doesn't default to you.

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Jagossel on Tue Feb 26 11:39:00 2019
    On 02-25-19 09:41, Jagossel wrote to All <=-

    It seems pretty quiet here today. Everyone all right?

    Just waking up. ;)


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Vk3jed on Tue Feb 26 17:48:13 2019
    On 26 Feb 2019 at 06:39a, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    It seems pretty quiet here today. Everyone all right?

    Just waking up. ;)

    Lunchtime Tuesday here and just checking in... gotta love weekdays :)

    Best, Paul

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  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Jagossel on Mon Feb 25 22:08:01 2019
    On 25 Feb 2019, Jagossel said the following...

    It seems pretty quiet here today. Everyone all right?

    IS THIS BETTER! ;)

    Somedays I love the way my mind works... Other days, it just doesn't work. :)


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  • From nathanael@21:4/123 to nristen on Wed Feb 27 01:14:34 2019
    Have
    to stay on top of stuff so the blame doesn't default to you.

    Never worked for me :-(

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  • From Erazmus@21:1/133 to nristen on Tue Feb 26 12:53:43 2019
    On 25 Feb 2019, nristen said the following...

    Lot of problems over the weekend for work. Lot of network issues. Have to stay on top of stuff so the blame doesn't default to you.

    I find it easiest to blame whoever isn't at work at the time. Saves all those pesky counter-arguments :)

    Ian

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Avon on Tue Feb 26 20:40:00 2019
    On 02-26-19 12:48, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    On 26 Feb 2019 at 06:39a, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    It seems pretty quiet here today. Everyone all right?

    Just waking up. ;)

    Lunchtime Tuesday here and just checking in... gotta love weekdays :)

    Home from work. Would normally be headed to the track now, but I'm still recovering from my hip flexor injury and am prioritising fire brigade training, with the state championships less than 2 weeks away, so I'm home for a couple of hours, before going out to train (but not overdo it ;) ).


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  • From nathanael@21:4/123 to Erazmus on Wed Feb 27 13:35:21 2019
    I find it easiest to blame whoever isn't at work at the time. Saves all those pesky counter-arguments :)

    One year I was two days in to my annual vacation, relaxing nearly five
    hundred miles from work, when I got a call from my manager. Seems the network onsite where I was working had gone down, taking the executive VP's
    secretary's computer, and all her work, with it. All hell broke loose. Never mind that the site had its own internal staff to handle the network; since desktop installs and support were my team's responsibility, the secretary was adamant that, since I had personally installed her machine, it was all my fault.

    Ended up having to reschedule my vacation and take a red-eye back to work to calm the storm. I'd like to say that's why they were paying me the big bucks, 'cept they weren't.

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Avon on Wed Feb 27 13:49:00 2019
    On 02-26-19 15:40, Vk3jed wrote to Avon <=-

    On 02-26-19 12:48, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    On 26 Feb 2019 at 06:39a, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    It seems pretty quiet here today. Everyone all right?

    Just waking up. ;)

    Lunchtime Tuesday here and just checking in... gotta love weekdays :)

    Home from work. Would normally be headed to the track now, but I'm
    still recovering from my hip flexor injury and am prioritising fire brigade training, with the state championships less than 2 weeks away,
    so I'm home for a couple of hours, before going out to train (but not overdo it ;) ).


    And last night's training went very well, got up to 80% of top speed without any issues. :)


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  • From Erazmus@21:1/133 to nathanael on Wed Feb 27 01:18:42 2019
    On 27 Feb 2019, nathanael said the following...

    Ended up having to reschedule my vacation and take a red-eye back to
    work to calm the storm. I'd like to say that's why they were paying me
    the big bucks, 'cept they weren't.

    Yeah, that sucks. Seems to be something about working in the IT industry.

    Ian

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Vk3jed on Thu Feb 28 01:23:09 2019
    On 26 Feb 2019 at 03:40p, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    Home from work. Would normally be headed to the track now, but I'm still recovering from my hip flexor injury and am prioritising fire brigade training, with the state championships less than 2 weeks away, so I'm
    home for a couple of hours, before going out to train (but not overdo it ;) ).

    Good idea.. it's a juggling act I'm sure but some lighter days now will pay
    off for comps coming up. So you get my vote :)

    Best, Paul

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to nathanael on Thu Feb 28 01:25:35 2019
    On 27 Feb 2019 at 08:35a, nathanael pondered and said...

    Ended up having to reschedule my vacation and take a red-eye back to
    work to calm the storm. I'd like to say that's why they were paying me
    the big bucks, 'cept they weren't.

    That's one of those work storys from hell... yipes!

    Here we have things called 'Friday Bombs' where the comms team that sits next to the team I work in has to deal with some major communications issue / calamity that befalls my organization or one of our staff on a Friday
    afternoon usually around 3pm..

    Best, Paul

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Vk3jed on Thu Feb 28 01:27:29 2019
    On 27 Feb 2019 at 08:49a, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    And last night's training went very well, got up to 80% of top speed without any issues. :)

    Rest is good. Watch three episodes of Home and Away and call me in the
    morning ;-p

    Best, Paul

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  • From nathanael@21:4/123 to Erazmus on Wed Feb 27 20:26:34 2019
    Yeah, that sucks. Seems to be something about working in the IT industry.

    The kicker was, when I walked into her office the next day, the first thing
    she said was, "How do I get my work back?" I said, "No problem. You'll still have everything from the last File-Save you did."

    "File-Save?"

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to nathanael on Wed Feb 27 23:37:00 2019
    On 02-27-19 08:35, nathanael wrote to Erazmus <=-

    I find it easiest to blame whoever isn't at work at the time. Saves all those pesky counter-arguments :)

    One year I was two days in to my annual vacation, relaxing nearly five hundred miles from work, when I got a call from my manager. Seems the network onsite where I was working had gone down, taking the executive VP's secretary's computer, and all her work, with it. All hell broke loose. Never mind that the site had its own internal staff to handle
    the network; since desktop installs and support were my team's responsibility, the secretary was adamant that, since I had personally installed her machine, it was all my fault.

    Ahh, the memories of IT. :) I've had a lot of interrupted vacations. One of the more interesting was a major fault in Sydney. As luck would have it, I was already in Sydney for a hamfest and a bit of beach time. I was staying at a friend's place in the SW suburbs and was originally scheduled to start the drive back on Monday (luckily I made it a road trip!), and was just getting my stuff together when the call came that there were major server problems in the Sydney CBD office. Luckily it was only around 8 - 8:30AM and I hadn't left yet. So I was diverted north back into Sydney. Work put me up in a hotel with secure parking a block away from work, and I spent the day fixing the problem. Left the next morning with everything working well and got back home that evening. :)


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to nathanael on Thu Feb 28 01:46:27 2019
    On 27 Feb 2019 at 03:26p, nathanael pondered and said...

    "File-Save?"

    Bahahahahah.....

    Best, Paul

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Avon on Wed Feb 27 23:52:00 2019
    On 02-27-19 20:23, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    training, with the state championships less than 2 weeks away, so I'm
    home for a couple of hours, before going out to train (but not overdo it ;) ).

    Good idea.. it's a juggling act I'm sure but some lighter days now will pay off for comps coming up. So you get my vote :)

    Yep, so far, I'm on track to be 100% for these state level comps coming up, and in late April, I'm seriously considering competing in the Australian Masters championships. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Avon on Wed Feb 27 23:54:00 2019
    On 02-27-19 20:27, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    On 27 Feb 2019 at 08:49a, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    And last night's training went very well, got up to 80% of top speed without any issues. :)

    Rest is good. Watch three episodes of Home and Away and call me in the morning ;-p

    Ewwwwwww.

    I ended up walking 11km today. Guess that's active recovery. :D


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Vk3jed on Thu Feb 28 02:19:37 2019
    On 27 Feb 2019 at 06:52p, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    Yep, so far, I'm on track to be 100% for these state level comps coming up, and in late April, I'm seriously considering competing in the Australian Masters championships. :)

    Well pace yourself. I think you could do that if you chose to. My worry is
    that you might over extend yourself... so go gently good sir.

    Best, Paul

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Vk3jed on Thu Feb 28 02:22:41 2019
    On 27 Feb 2019 at 06:54p, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    Ewwwwwww.

    It was the first Australian TV show that came to mind.. sorry :)


    I ended up walking 11km today. Guess that's active recovery. :D

    More than me (I think?) actually I don't know... Hmm..I checked my fitness tracker just under 6k today so you did well... compared to my little efforts.

    Best, Paul

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Avon on Thu Feb 28 01:02:00 2019
    On 02-27-19 21:19, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    On 27 Feb 2019 at 06:52p, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    Yep, so far, I'm on track to be 100% for these state level comps coming up, and in late April, I'm seriously considering competing in the Australian Masters championships. :)

    Well pace yourself. I think you could do that if you chose to. My worry
    is that you might over extend yourself... so go gently good sir.

    I will, too much at stake in the next couple of months. :)


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Avon on Thu Feb 28 01:08:00 2019
    On 02-27-19 21:22, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    On 27 Feb 2019 at 06:54p, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    Ewwwwwww.

    It was the first Australian TV show that came to mind.. sorry :)

    You will be. :P


    I ended up walking 11km today. Guess that's active recovery. :D

    More than me (I think?) actually I don't know... Hmm..I checked my
    fitness tracker just under 6k today so you did well... compared to my little efforts.

    I had a meeting in the middle of town this morning, in the area of worst parking, so I thought "stuff it, I'll walk", and enjoy some tunes along the way. :) That's 3km each way.

    Then this afternoon, I cought up with a friend at the local gym. He went to do a bit of treadmill walking. Due to chemotherapy, he's not able to take the harsh sun. Also, the treadmills allowed us to choose more appropriate speeds for ourselves.

    Anyway, I cruised along at 6.6 km/h for most of the 50 odd minutes I walked there. Bumped it up to 7.1 km/h, which matched the speed I was doing for most of the return leg from town earlier. Racked up 5.66km, before we decided to call it quits. :)

    Total distance covered was 11.6km for the day. :)


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  • From nathanael@21:4/123 to Avon on Wed Feb 27 23:35:43 2019
    "File-Save?"

    Bahahahahah.....

    Yeah, it's funny NOW. You wanna tell me how to explain File-Save to a corp
    veep secy without letting her in on the secret that all her lost work was HER fault?

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  • From nathanael@21:4/123 to Vk3jed on Wed Feb 27 23:37:45 2019
    I ended up walking 11km today. Guess that's active recovery. :D

    Hey, I walked 5km this morning.

    Or, uh, wait ... was that last month?

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  • From Jagossel@21:1/150 to Avon on Wed Feb 27 13:41:00 2019
    Avon, to nathanael...

    Ended up having to reschedule my vacation and take a red-eye back to
    work to calm the storm. I'd like to say that's why they were paying me
    the big bucks, 'cept they weren't.

    That's one of those work storys from hell... yipes!

    Here we have things called 'Friday Bombs' where the comms team that
    sits next to the team I work in has to deal with some major
    communications issue / calamity that befalls my organization or one of
    our staff on a Friday afternoon usually around 3pm..

    Man, I hate Fridat @3PM issues... especially the critical ones that needs
    to be fixed right now. It's like you're almost ready for the weekend and someone comes up to you or a call, E-Mail, or IM comes in: "Hey, we just
    found this issue, could you fix it? It's urgent."


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to nathanael on Wed Feb 27 18:00:51 2019
    Re: Re: Quiet Today...
    By: nathanael to Erazmus on Wed Feb 27 2019 08:35 am

    Ended up having to reschedule my vacation and take a red-eye back to work to calm the storm. I'd like to say that's why they were paying me the big bucks, 'cept they weren't.

    Where was your boss when this happened?
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Erazmus on Wed Feb 27 18:03:26 2019
    Re: Re: Quiet Today...
    By: Erazmus to nathanael on Tue Feb 26 2019 08:18 pm

    Yeah, that sucks. Seems to be something about working in the IT industry.

    I alluded in a previous response - situations that I've seen like this usually revolve around management that doesn't back up their people.

    I've been in IT management for some time, and the most valuable skill I provide is running interference for good, loyal, smart people.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to nathanael on Wed Feb 27 18:05:22 2019
    Re: Re: Quiet Today...
    By: nathanael to Erazmus on Wed Feb 27 2019 03:26 pm

    "File-Save?"

    I worked with a woman who named every file MEMO.DOC, and wondered why she couldn't get the document she wrote 2 weeks ago.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Avon on Wed Feb 27 18:09:41 2019
    Re: Re: Quiet Today...
    By: Avon to nathanael on Wed Feb 27 2019 08:25 pm

    Here we have things called 'Friday Bombs' where the comms team that sits next to the team I work in has to deal with some major communications issue / calamity that befalls my organization or one of our staff on a Friday afternoon usually around 3pm..

    I worked at a company that had gone VOIP, they had Cisco 4600 POE switches, 2 ports per desk, and Avaya VOIP phones with a 2 port switch to pass through 1 ethernet port.

    Every Friday, it seemed - a contractor or visitor would come in, see a blank screen on the phone (screen saver), see a cable unplugged, and plug it into the wall.

    That plugged both ports on the phone into the network and created a spanning-tree loop, which brought the network down. The network team blamed the telecom team, the telecom team blamed the network team, and my team had the office knowledge to know who was visiting and could locate the offending phone before the teams could set politics aside and work the problem.

    Every Friday.
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  • From Dmxrob@21:4/148 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Feb 27 20:42:48 2019
    Re: Re: Quiet Today...
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Erazmus on Wed Feb 27 2019 01:03 pm

    Yeah, that sucks. Seems to be something about working in the IT industry.

    I alluded in a previous response - situations that I've seen like this usually revolve around management that doesn't back up their people.

    Amen!

    I 100% refuse to answer the phone, respond to email (or read it) when I am on vacation nowadays. Been screwed over too many times. If it is that big of an emergency they can call someone who gives a damn.


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  • From nathanael@21:4/123 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Feb 28 11:41:15 2019
    Where was your boss when this happened?

    Doing what bosses do -- handling the politics. However, resolving the
    technical side was my domain, and since mine was the face the secretary saw regularly, mine was the face she wanted front and center. In the end, it required a sit-down with my boss, myself, and their internal IT staff who handled the network, to iron things out.

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  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Poindexter Fortran on Thu Feb 28 01:31:53 2019

    That plugged both ports on the phone into the network and created a spanning-tree loop, which brought the network down. The network team
    blamed the telecom team, the telecom team blamed the network team, and my team had the office knowledge to know who was visiting and could locate
    the offending phone before the teams could set politics aside and work
    the problem.

    BPDU guard is your friend. That would have prevented the issue. I can't tell you how many times people have done that on our network. That will put the port in error-disable and prevent the loop.

    There is also the issue of a vender connecting a router or server running DHCP on the network. Rouge DHCP is fun too, but can be prevented by enabling ip dhcp snooping - and only trusting the ports that have real DHCP servers.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Vk3jed on Thu Feb 28 22:33:53 2019
    On 27 Feb 2019 at 08:02p, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    I will, too much at stake in the next couple of months. :)

    Yep.. good stuff.

    Best, Paul

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Weatherman on Thu Feb 28 02:01:48 2019
    Re: Re: Quiet Today...
    By: Weatherman to Poindexter Fortran on Wed Feb 27 2019 08:31 pm

    BPDU guard is your friend. That would have prevented the issue. I can't tell you how many times people have done that on our network. That will put the port in error-disable and prevent the loop.

    There was something about the Avaya IP phones and the Cisco switches that broke SPL detection, I seem to recall that the solution for the telecom team's problem was for my team to reboot and redownload firmware on all of "their" phones.
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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to nathanael on Fri Mar 1 00:12:30 2019
    On 27 Feb 2019 at 06:35p, nathanael pondered and said...

    Yeah, it's funny NOW. You wanna tell me how to explain File-Save to a
    corp veep secy without letting her in on the secret that all her lost
    work was HER fault?

    You do it via Skype right? Saves getting hit by the cup flying in your direction :)

    Best, Paul

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Jagossel on Fri Mar 1 00:18:10 2019
    On 27 Feb 2019 at 08:41a, Jagossel pondered and said...

    Man, I hate Fridat @3PM issues... especially the critical ones that
    needs to be fixed right now. It's like you're almost ready for the
    weekend and someone comes up to you or a call, E-Mail, or IM comes in: "Hey, we just found this issue, could you fix it? It's urgent."

    Yep it seems to be a universal law folks get hammered with from time to
    time... and always on a Friday... who knew huh? :)

    Best, Paul

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  • From nathanael@21:4/123 to Avon on Thu Feb 28 20:15:10 2019
    You do it via Skype right? Saves getting hit by the cup flying in your

    'Cept this was ca 1997, telecommuting hadn't been invented yet.

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to nathanael on Thu Feb 28 21:40:00 2019
    On 02-27-19 18:37, nathanael wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I ended up walking 11km today. Guess that's active recovery. :D

    Hey, I walked 5km this morning.

    Or, uh, wait ... was that last month?

    Haha, well more training tonight, and just registered for the Australian Masters nationals. :D


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Avon on Thu Feb 28 22:11:00 2019
    On 02-28-19 17:33, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    On 27 Feb 2019 at 08:02p, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    I will, too much at stake in the next couple of months. :)

    Yep.. good stuff.

    And now I've just entered the Australian Masters nationals. :D


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Jagossel on Fri Mar 1 01:48:00 2019
    On 02-27-19 08:41, Jagossel wrote to Avon <=-

    Man, I hate Fridat @3PM issues... especially the critical ones that
    needs to be fixed right now. It's like you're almost ready for the
    weekend and someone comes up to you or a call, E-Mail, or IM comes in: "Hey, we just found this issue, could you fix it? It's urgent."

    4PM or 4:30PM Friday bombs are even worse! :D


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Weatherman on Fri Mar 1 02:08:00 2019
    On 02-27-19 20:31, Weatherman wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

    There is also the issue of a vender connecting a router or server
    running DHCP on the network. Rouge DHCP is fun too, but can be
    prevented by enabling ip dhcp snooping - and only trusting the ports
    that have real DHCP servers.

    Haha yep I remember a few rogue DHCP incidents, like the time we took down the post office's network. Back then I worked for a company that did corporate training, and Australia Post were one of their clients. Because we were in the same building, they ran a cable between floors. However, our network was a hodge podge of hubs and thinnet, and configuring a room to run off the postal network rather than ours required a bit of planning, and only certain rooms or combinations of rooms could be used. Anyway, there was an issue in coordinating a change of network for one of the rooms on a Friday, but we didn't find out until the Monday morning, when someone from Australia Post came down and asked if we had a DHCP server with an IP of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. I immediately recognised the IP as one of our NT servers which ran DHCP... Oops!

    Not too long after, we invested in a managed switch and recabled with a separate Cat 5 to each room, and dedicated ports for external client networks, our ISDN router and the like. After then, reconfiguring a room for a client network was a simple procedure of telnetting in and changing the VLAN that the room was on. That pretty much eliminated the human error component. :)


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Vk3jed on Thu Feb 28 13:49:00 2019
    Vk3jed wrote to Weatherman <=-


    Haha yep I remember a few rogue DHCP incidents, like the time we took
    down the post office's network.

    Back when Windows 95 was in development, the early Chicago builds had all
    sorts of things that didn't make it into the release, like Netware File Services - a Chicago box could act like a Netware server, and if you didn't enter the existing network number, clients would oftentimes connect to it instead of the production network.

    When I chastised the engineer who broke our office network, his response
    was "Well, it should be intelligent enough to not break...". Not an iota of remorse.

    I locked his port at 10mbps, half duplex.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Vk3jed on Fri Mar 1 19:24:03 2019
    On 28 Feb 2019 at 05:11p, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    And now I've just entered the Australian Masters nationals. :D

    W00t!

    Best, Paul

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Mar 1 19:25:00 2019
    On 02-28-19 08:49, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Back when Windows 95 was in development, the early Chicago builds had
    all sorts of things that didn't make it into the release, like Netware File Services - a Chicago box could act like a Netware server, and if

    Cool. NT did retain that capability, and we did use it for a number of years, to allow our DOS/Netware clients to access files on the NT servers.

    you didn't enter the existing network number, clients would oftentimes connect to it instead of the production network.

    Oops. :D

    When I chastised the engineer who broke our office network, his
    response was "Well, it should be intelligent enough to not break...".
    Not an iota of remorse.

    I locked his port at 10mbps, half duplex.

    LOL dump him in the slow lane. :D


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Avon on Fri Mar 1 19:44:00 2019
    On 03-01-19 14:24, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    On 28 Feb 2019 at 05:11p, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    And now I've just entered the Australian Masters nationals. :D

    W00t!

    Thanks. :) Was hard to resist, being in Melbourne this time around. I'll go down on the train. :)


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  • From nristen@21:1/161 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Mar 1 16:46:49 2019
    Back when Windows 95 was in development, the early Chicago builds had
    all sorts of things that didn't make it into the release, like Netware File Services - a Chicago box could act like a Netware server, and if
    you didn't enter the existing network number, clients would oftentimes connect to it instead of the production network.

    When I chastised the engineer who broke our office network, his
    response was "Well, it should be intelligent enough to not break...".
    Not an iota of remorse.

    I locked his port at 10mbps, half duplex.

    Lol... Long time since I thought of the name Chicago referencing the pre-Win95 - was working for Gateway back then.

    Your comment about the "engineer" brough back two other memories...
    1. When I was doing tech support at Gateway, having a customer list their credentials at the beginning of a call was the surest way to tell that they didn't know what they were talking about and it was going to require extra work on my part to convince them to work with you on a resolution.

    2. Mr Mom movie when the Dad (engineer) was pretending to do some home repair and when referring to the electrical work, stated "220/221 whatever it takes"

    ... And now to the weather. Its zero outside. No temperature at all.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Vk3jed on Fri Mar 1 14:27:00 2019
    Vk3jed wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I locked his port at 10mbps, half duplex.

    LOL dump him in the slow lane. :D

    This was back in the mid-90s in a mostly Mac shop. Remember After Dark? The "Flying Toasters" screeen saver?

    The cool kids had Newtons, and they'd use Appletalk to connect to printers, shares, etc over our network. There was a sort of hub and spoke
    arrangement, and one of the spokes included all of the printers. Guess
    where the primmadonna's ports were located?



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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Mar 2 17:17:00 2019
    On 03-01-19 09:27, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    This was back in the mid-90s in a mostly Mac shop. Remember After Dark? The "Flying Toasters" screeen saver?

    Yeah an old classic. I didn't have anything to do with Macs back they, they were outside my price range. :(

    The cool kids had Newtons, and they'd use Appletalk to connect to printers, shares, etc over our network. There was a sort of hub and
    spoke arrangement, and one of the spokes included all of the printers. Guess where the primmadonna's ports were located?

    Oh dear. :D

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    Climbing the corporate ladder? :D


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  • From Fireball@21:4/145 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Mar 2 15:16:06 2019
    On 28 Feb 2019, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

    When I chastised the engineer who broke our office network, his response was "Well, it should be intelligent enough to not break...". Not an iota of remorse.

    I locked his port at 10mbps, half duplex.


    Oh man, that's funny! LMAO!

    Fireball

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