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ferricoxide@nixCraft
Why couldn't you just use a LOM, though?
Why couldn't you just use a LOM, though?
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦@nixCraft I'm a developer, not a sysadmin. I've had that experience too.
Adam Katz@nixCraft I had that experience too, but I got a traffic ticket on the way home
Mélani (Melanie) Bjornsdottir (she, ŝi)
Flaming Cheeto@nixCraft in my experience, the only people who have access to server power buttons are...IT guys.
Amy (she/her/hers)@nixCraft IPMI: am I a joke to you?
Nicole ParsonsThere are a number of theories why
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/07/349052/the-manosphere-is-getting-more-toxic-as-angry-men-join-the-incels/
Tech companies are gender imbalanced & incels tend to have negative interactions with everyone
https://www.wired.com/story/ellen-pao-the-perverse-incentives-that-help-incels-thrive-in-tech/
They're bitter that they bought the hype that IT is well paid, interesting, with job security.
They're finding out that they can be fired on the whim of a Saudi-funded hedge fund manager.
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/billionaire-hohn-more-google-layoffs-17736530.php
They're sleep deprived.
https://hub.packtpub.com/sleep-loss-cuts-developers-productivity-in-half-research-finds/
https://scitechdaily.com/neuronal-death-protein-new-research-shows-how-sleep-deprivation-can-damage-the-brain/
https://theconversation.com/technology-is-radically-changing-sleep-as-we-know-it-190282
Barry Schwartz 🫖@Npars01 @nixCraft
I think there may be a more general dynamic going on. There has been a ‘bully-ization’ of the intellectual classes, which has been most pronounced, actually, in physics. It began with Niels Bohr and friends, who bullied Albert Einstein and others into being ignored from then on. There comes a point where Albert Einstein is treated as an outcast, because Niels Bohr basically beat him up.
It spread to computer programming, which used to be a mathematical field. It is not, now.
kravietz 🦇
lorddimwit is now @rk@well.comI was rushed onto a late-night flight to Boston with a few hours’ notice ultimately just to press “y” at a fsck prompt.
Aeronomix Guillaume Gronoff@lorddimwit @nixCraft 😨 now i feel my experience with a screen not working because the remote had no batteries (and they called me thinking the whole computer was dead) is not that bad
My y-pressing skills were so good they relocated me to the Boston office for a year as the resident expert.
I am not joking.
@lorddimwit @nixCraft Hopefully with the income and the increase that was deserved. Because it is quite the thing to change someone's life like that
@lorddimwit (je ne suis plus capable de faire une phrase correcte en anglais. C'est l'heure de dormir)
C’est vraiment l’heure, mais ce n’est pas indiqué par votre anglais. Il est juste tard. ;)
You’d think so wouldn’t you.
@lorddimwit @nixCraft So the reward was more headaches for you... It is like all these stories about people not suggesting good ideas anymore, because they were rewarded with more work/responsibilities without a raise/recognition...
@lorddimwit @nixCraft You should have pressed X
Mark 
@nixCraft my grandfather programmed on the first ever commercially available computer. It cost the equivalent of about a million 2023 dollars a month to run. One Monday it didn’t work. They spent hours trouble shooting over the phone when a long distance call was like the equivalent of like fifty cents a minute. IBM eventually helicoptered in two engineers who figured out one of the machines had been unplugged over the weekend during a vaccuuming. No joke, true 1960s story.
crazyeddie@nixCraft Failed to set up boot on lan I see ;)
Nicholas Stein@nixCraft Always start at the wall.
Das_blaue_Pony
Norman Wilson@nixCraft IPMI FTW
Deborah Pickett@nixCraft I literally took a one-hour flight to move an Ethernet cable from port 5 to port 6 in a switch because the person onsite didn't notice that the switch port numbering counted from zero.
pyroraptor@futzle @nixCraft Ouch! Vendors slam so many ports in 1RU these days you can't easily read the numbering behind the SFPs and cables once they're populated. I can totally see someone who didn't work with routers or switches regularly not making an effort to verify they have the right port... Even our experienced techs sometimes goof.
tinfoilhat@tinfoilhat @nixCraft Here’s how the conversation went:
“Are you sure it’s in port 6?”
“Yeah, I’ve counted.”
“Because it starts from zero.”
“I’m sure.”
<hours later, across Bass strait>
<unplugs, replugs adjacent>
“Can I get a lift back to the airport, please?”
“Are you sure it’s in port 6?”
“Yeah, I’ve counted.”
“Because it starts from zero.”
“I’m sure.”
<hours later, across Bass strait>
<unplugs, replugs adjacent>
“Can I get a lift back to the airport, please?”
Brian Grinter@nixCraft troubleshooting a POS terminal, after several minutes on the phone trying various stuff asked them to check the cables at the back
“It’s too dark to see”
“Try moving into the light”
“Still can’t see, we’ve had a blackout”
🤦♂️
“It’s too dark to see”
“Try moving into the light”
“Still can’t see, we’ve had a blackout”
🤦♂️
Sumukha S@nixCraft I can understand IT guys better now.
MackajMany years ago I drove about an hour and a half to a customer site to troubleshoot a faulty server. I took one look at the console, hit ctrl-d and left. He'd assured me a couple of times over the phone it had fully booted 😐
Paul SuttonI read something similar once, enginner called out to a company, one of their machines wsan't working ( probably something mechanical )
So engineer hit said machine with a hammer and got it working.
The charge for this was something lile $50 for having the right too, and $25k for knowing where to hit it.
webhat@nixCraft I once had to fly to Sweden from NL to correct a 1 character spelling mistake in an LDAP query
SamuelJohnson@nixCraft Being on the receiving end of client stress and stupidity (and sometimes, cupidity) is wearing. Most IT users have no idea how badly *some* behave.
One eg
Once, when trying to restart an Exchange server (stressful enough) my dept secretary was getting harassed by phone by an irate person who eventually showed up at the server room and angrily demanded that the system be restored "JUST FOR ME" (ie, everyone else could wait). Impossible ofc. Also for me to fix for all but him.
wolfytuga@nixCraft True story!
Like calling me because the PC wasn't working, nothing appeared on the screen when they hit the Power button... Checking the cables, the monitor power cable was almost disconnected 🙄 And they told me they checked everything, the cables and stuff... Oh well!
Rob\Viewdata UK@nixCraft
I had almost this one... Customer getting no sound out of their desktop PC. An hour trip each way. On arriving, found their speakers were plugged in the microphone socket, and vice-versa. Would have been more understandable if this wasn't in the era of colour-coded plugs and sockets! Changed them over, checked all OK, left. On-site five minutes tops..
I had almost this one... Customer getting no sound out of their desktop PC. An hour trip each way. On arriving, found their speakers were plugged in the microphone socket, and vice-versa. Would have been more understandable if this wasn't in the era of colour-coded plugs and sockets! Changed them over, checked all OK, left. On-site five minutes tops..
prokyonid@nixCraft I'm defacto IT at work (we do not have dedicated IT). I set up a printer for one of our depts and once a week minimum I am troubleshooting this thing - hitting 'continue' at 'insert paper and hit continue' prompts, selecting the printer named '<dept>Printer' off the printer list, pushing the 'copy' button before the 'start' button to make a copy because someone else hit the fax button first, not being able to print because someone unplugged the USB cable to charge their phone...
Linker3000@nixCraft I once drove back to site because a PC I had just installed had 'gone crazy' when the user opened the Wordprocessor.
I removed the book juust resting on the numpad ENTER key and bid my second lot of farewells.
@nixCraft
These types of things are annoying, but when you're paid portal-to-portal, the annoyance ebbs quickly.
These types of things are annoying, but when you're paid portal-to-portal, the annoyance ebbs quickly.
Patsy Wakefield@nixCraft I can't tell you the number of times my father who was a refrigeration engineer came across this when people had defrosted their fridges and forgot to turn them back on. This was in the days before self defrosting fridges
Peter N Lewis
Kevin Karhan 
@nixCraft true, true...
I'm so tired of shit like that...
Chad Geidel@nixCraft We don't need self-driving cars, we need remotely operated datacenter robots. :D
Deb@nixCraft i worked IT at the college i went to. Quite a few elderly nuns were professors. They unplugged their machines at night from distrust of computers. Frequently, they would forget to plug it back in.