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Ok, come on, admit it. I'll start.. I sit in front of a PC for most of the average day as I'm a sysadmin/helpdesk/"the computer guy"
I get an insane amount of joy from figuring out some new technological way to make my job more interesting/easier. As of today, all 10 servers that I manage are hooked up to a spankin' new omniview giving me instant access to each desktop, and my own workstation is connected as well... My office? well if you could call it an office, its basically our server room.. containing 2 big racks with a bridge going across. Its LOUD and COLD in here.
I also try not to be one of those snotty sysadmins who thinks you are an idiot for asking a silly question
And I definately feel like a nerd for starting this thread.
Anyone else come up with a technological wonder recently?
I've recently started using two monitors in my Systems Analyst job. It's nice to have the specs/info docs up on one side with code/compiler on the other.
Oh, who am I kidding. It's Firefox/Inforoo up on the other side.
I'm with ya man. I am our Dialer Admin/helpdesk here in my office also!! Is omniview the name of the product you atre using? We are starting to look into that as well.
I work in a call center....me and my team (my whole 1 employee!!) Just developed a way for one group of our agents to make a cold (unannounced) transfer to another group. The call goes into a special high priority Q, taking priority over any Outbound or Inbound calls currently waiting. Seconds before the call is connected to the new agent a "whisper" plays in their ear to let them know it is a transfer from wherever. Pretty cool stuff if your a Call Center/PC nerd!!!!!!!
I've just figured out a new not documented feature of our phone system.. it requires that your phone have a supervisor box checked in the system, but you can dial someones extension and immediately hit 1 and their phone automatically answers on speakerphone.. I try not to abuse it but it works great with friend co-workers
Omniview used to be a company that made these things but now its become a common term.. what you'd want to look into is a Belkin KVM. They can get expensive! but wow are they worthit.. right now I have an 8port and 4port stacked together. scroll lock+scroll lock+spacebar gives me a list of all systems connected and I can scroll through them to pick which one I want, or scroll lock+scroll lock+up/down cycles through them.. its really cool.
Also, if you have two or three computers and 2-3 monitors and you want one keyboard/mouse to use all of them I reccomend Synergy2, its free! and your mouse/keyboard will switch focus either by hotkey or by moving your mouse to another monitor.. you can use PCs/macs/linux in combination too!
I have an hp zd8000 laptop at home that I do my gaming on. (bad idea, the damn thing gets too hot). It is nice to have something that I can move around easily and take with me on trips and stuff. And also easy to relocate downstairs to the air conditioning. So I bought the xb2000 expansion base on ebay. the damn thing works great for a while (about 6 hours) and then suddenly powers down. you plug the power cord and peripherals to the base, and one cord runs to the laptop. It either gets hot or it's something to do with the hp cord and card. So now I just have a really heavy duty laptop stand. At least it's a little more ergonomic, even if it's not a working "dock".
at work I'm on a 20" imac. i loves it.
i'm more of a software troubleshooter. I don't know squat about servers. Well, enough to know that I don't know squat. My boss had a ram chip go bad in a server blade a month or so ago...that was a long night. I helped him get through the software reinstalls required to get things back up.
My recent headache was one particular font face in a family was crashing QuarkXPress and my baseview software. It took about 6 hours of troubleshooting to figure out what font it was. If i chose it or opened a file when it is in my font folders, it would crash. It was horrible. Now I'm using an alternative font, but it just seems my mac just said "FU" to ITC Franklin Gothic Medium. But man was I thrilled when I figured out the problem and was able to get my paper done.
instant access to every desktop kinda creeps me out dude.
We treat mishaps like sinking ships and I know that I don't want to be out to drift Well I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips and They both tell me that we're better than this
Post by melikecheese on May 3, 2007 14:59:51 GMT -5
I work at a large ecommerce payment service company and I am a PC nerd as well. I coordinate the tech support department and am just startnig to us Crystal Reports, pretty fun stuff. The internet is sweeeeet!
If anyone ever needs to know anything about configuring Exchange 2003 on Active Directory to make it work with a UNIX Midtier mail system, setting up group resource mailboxes with auto-forward rules (without adding them to the GAL), writing C programs to de-code PC MIME or UUENCODED attachments on a UNIX midtier server or anything else involving any obscure, unique or otherwise really picky a** weird thing no one else would EVER want to do with PC/UNIX mail integration - DON'T CALL ME!!!!
I just wasted the last 8 months of my life having to deal with that crap because NO ONE ELSE would do it!! Was it my job??? No. My job is to write database automation applications....or Project Management, or, apparently now, Network and LAN Management and troubleshooting....one more thing to pad my resume with I guess....*sigh*
PC Nerd? Well on my way now I suppose....they say the first step is admitting you have a problem......
If anyone ever needs to know anything about configuring Exchange 2003 on Active Directory to make it work with a UNIX Midtier mail system, setting up group resource mailboxes with auto-forward rules (without adding them to the GAL), writing C programs to de-code PC MIME or UUENCODED attachments on a UNIX midtier server or anything else involving any obscure, unique or otherwise really picky a** weird thing no one else would EVER want to do with PC/UNIX mail integration - DON'T CALL ME!!!!
I just wasted the last 8 months of my life having to deal with that crap because NO ONE ELSE would do it!! Was it my job??? No. My job is to write database automation applications....or Project Management, or, apparently now, Network and LAN Management and troubleshooting....one more thing to pad my resume with I guess....*sigh*
PC Nerd? Well on my way now I suppose....they say the first step is admitting you have a problem......
LOL!!! karma when I can, I just used this hours by smiting Oat(at his request)
Smite you all!! I spent two hours yesterday with the head IT nerd (I'm the head R&D nerd) going through our issues list, many of which are six months+ old and finding that it could be six more months at least...
Not his fault, we're a multi-national and half the policies come from head office in Sweden.
How'd you like this? New Intranet launched last week via an announcement from the CEO - on the new Intranet! The old Intranet's still up with no link to the new one. How would anyone know? Smite you all!!!
this morning I dreamt i was in some kind of gaming competition. first round was a warcraft quest, i went afk and lost. Second round was some kind of first person shooter. I woke up before the third round.
So I can't wait to do some pvp this weekend. lawls.
We treat mishaps like sinking ships and I know that I don't want to be out to drift Well I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips and They both tell me that we're better than this
We treat mishaps like sinking ships and I know that I don't want to be out to drift Well I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips and They both tell me that we're better than this
If anyone ever needs to know anything about configuring Exchange 2003 on Active Directory to make it work with a UNIX Midtier mail system, setting up group resource mailboxes with auto-forward rules (without adding them to the GAL), writing C programs to de-code PC MIME or UUENCODED attachments on a UNIX midtier server or anything else involving any obscure, unique or otherwise really picky a** weird thing no one else would EVER want to do with PC/UNIX mail integration - DON'T CALL ME!!!!
I just wasted the last 8 months of my life having to deal with that crap because NO ONE ELSE would do it!! Was it my job??? No. My job is to write database automation applications....or Project Management, or, apparently now, Network and LAN Management and troubleshooting....one more thing to pad my resume with I guess....*sigh*
PC Nerd? Well on my way now I suppose....they say the first step is admitting you have a problem......
its no accident that exchange doesnt play well with others. thats what you get for not running microsoft on all your servers. resistence is futile.
Seriously. BUT....the logical half of my brain realized I MIGHT need Plan B to fall back on...so I double-minored in Physics and Business (mostly Computer Programming classes like Basic and SQL)....figuring on Tech Writing. Which turned out to be a good plan. Got in with a company that let you do whatever you were capable of (not what you were schooled for) which is rare these days and now everyone assumes I have an engineering degree like most of the peeps I work with. Literally, you cannot swing a cat in this town without hitting an engineer. Or a rocket scientist. Scary
LOL! It's a southern thang I guess.....I think it comes from something like this [glow=red,2,300]<caution - sick humor ahead!!>[/glow] Cat Skinning
The Kinetic Method Enter a large room with your cat grab the cat by the tail swing the cat around your head (hence the need for a room large enough to swing a cat) keep swinging the cat until the centrifugal force causes the cat to be ejected, leaving the skin behind clean up the mess on the wall
Post by spookymonster on May 6, 2007 18:17:13 GMT -5
cacobb said:
Are you the guys I call when all my Sh$t at work suddenly quits working? And you ax me to unplug it and plug it back in? I call you the helpless desk
Personally, I'm the guy behind those guys.
<rant> My sightless masters came up with the brilliant scheme to offshore several of my coworkers. I then am put upon to condense my 15 years of systems knowledge into a 3 month 'lightning round' training session with one of the offshorers, who then returns to his native land and bastardizes my teachings to another dozen or so of his compatriots. Invariably, the end result is a list of tasks with the instructions "after breaking, call Marc (me) to fix at 3AM" appended to the end.
When this all started, one of my bosses tried to sugar coat it by saying "they're here to make our jobs easier". The one bit of satisfaction I have is throwing that back in his face when he starts telling me how I have to "try harder" to work with them. Hey... they're here to help us, not the other way 'round!
HAHA! I feel your pain, I get those 3am phone calls too!
I think most of us who have posted on this thread do or have (or will!), it's part and parcel of working in IT. Hmmm, something IT and the Music Biz have in common....all nighters..... ;D
Or assassinated. Same difference methinks....
OK....no joke....I have a BA in journalism....
