My first experience was Year 10 work experience, I went to work at a chemical company and worked in their server IT department. Made me realise instantly where i wanted to go in my career
@MarkHenderson Haha, would be fun! I was tempted to look at a college course that was all networking and security, but... Photoshop and Video Editing is my calling.
Apparently there hasn't been a change of regime in rules and such since last week, as I recall swearing was a point of contention. Pottymouth sysadmins...
@Holocryptic Well their ultimate goal is to get usage based internet billing and funnel more money into the country wide monopoly of internet, so.... it sucks
@BartSilverstrim Yeah, we still swear. A bit less than before, though. I'm actually trying to be a bit more cognizant of it, which I think was Iain's goal
@BartSilverstrim I thought their fetish was politicians choking themselves whilst jerking off and then accidentally dying. Like Michael Hutchinson from INXS
I have an aspergian aversion to seeing people chew like cows. For some reason it's like most of the population in the US simply does NOT know how to chew with their lips shut.
--------------------------- Local Users and Groups --------------------------- "Domain Admins" is already in the list. --------------------------- OK ---------------------------
@Jacob - I'm serious btw, if this is a brand new server (in terms of OS install) and you've done nothing but join it to the domain, format the fucker and forget about it
Even better, take the time to set up a WDS instance and then you don't even need to worry about it, just hit F12 at the boot prompt and come back in 90 minutes
@Holocryptic, sounds like he somehow managed to join the domain, but something got screwed up, and the client machine isn't acting like it is completely on the domain.
@Holocryptic, sounds like he somehow managed to join the domain, but something got screwed up, and the client machine isn't acting like it is completely on the domain.
--------------------------- Local Users and Groups --------------------------- "Domain Admins" is already in the list. --------------------------- OK ---------------------------
Otherwise you have an issue like I had yesterday where we had a network with two DC's and two DNS's. One of the DC's went offline, and all of a sudden the other DC's DNS was useless because it was using the FIRST DC's DNS instead of 127.0.0.1 and all the lookups were failing
@BartSilverstrim I take pride in making sure every app we roll out of our office has a customised icon. We pay someone $150/hour just to make them. Worth every cent.
Then wondered why the database was throwing lock errors under load.
They blamed our network. Had us install a mini-hub for the lunch line.
O_o
I nearly shat when I examined the application structure and realized they were using an Access database with all the district POS registers hitting it with updates.
@BartSilverstrim One of the things our company specialises in is taking these access apps and making them proper SQL-based SaaS apps, so I feel your pain...
@BartSilverstrim I shit you not I once saw (hell, maybe i even wrote it as a teenager) an Excel Spreadsheet that was loaded into an Access Database as a table, and then that Access database wqas accessed by a classic ASP website that printed it as an online price list
