IT Thread

[VmaxEngage]

desktop support

you srs? is soooooo boring

Although we do the tech support for popeyes so most of my calls come from all the stores. thjey dont ever know wtf is going on, they dont employ the smartest peoples

[stonehenge]

No calls, in person desktop support. Think of generic IT guy.

Its the same pay scale as sysadmin and I'm tired of servers. Plus, old management changed and was hell. New place has better chance for moving up.

[Cez★]

you srs? is soooooo boring

Although we do the tech support for popeyes so most of my calls come from all the stores. thjey dont ever know wtf is going on, they dont employ the smartest peoples

well when u hire em to box dead chicken and hit some buttons u not dealing with MIT hopefuls

No calls, in person desktop support. Think of generic IT guy.

Its the same pay scale as sysadmin and I'm tired of servers. Plus, old management changed and was hell. New place has better chance for moving up.

:clap:

[stonehenge]

"Screen is blurry!!!!"

Blake: "wipe off chicken grease"

"IT WORKED OMG YOU ARE GENIUS"

[shootermcgavin003]

Dnw to be it guy. It's hard enough for me to explain how to work our new fax machine to some of the fucks at work. But they rather bitch about this new fandangled gadget than actually take 5 mins to educate themselves any.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

[VmaxEngage]

"Screen is blurry!!!!"

Blake: "wipe off chicken grease"

"IT WORKED OMG YOU ARE GENIUS"

you would not believe how accurate that was lololol

[theholycow]

No calls, in person desktop support. Think of generic IT guy.

Its the same pay scale as sysadmin and I'm tired of servers. Plus, old management changed and was hell. New place has better chance for moving up.

Fuck that. My support specialist has been out this week and I've been doing his job. Fuckin thing sucks, gotta help people of varying skill levels with all manner of stuff, gotta walk across campus when it's 50mph winds and 14 fucking degrees out, etc.

[stonehenge]

Well the worst weather here is hot and we get golf carts lol

I'm just tired of servers and miss doing desktop.

[VmaxEngage]

Fuck that. My support specialist has been out this week and I've been doing his job. Fuckin thing sucks, gotta help people of varying skill levels with all manner of stuff, gotta walk across campus when it's 50mph winds and 14 fucking degrees out, etc.

Thats the worst part. Dealing with people who cannot even tell what a modem is or anything for that matter

[stonehenge]

:jester: that kind of stuff doesn't bother me

[VmaxEngage]

It will when you have to deal with it all day err day

[stonehenge]

I started in desktop and was cool with it. I only moved to sysadmin because the opportunity presented itself and I got along with the manager. Plus kinda wanted more Linux knowledge.

[stonehenge]

Still get scared during BIOS updates.

:jester:

[theholycow]

:jester:

[stonehenge]

Skype for Businesses, dafuk is this trash :jester:

[M.B Co]

We use Jabber. Its odd

[VmaxEngage]

yea 365 is going with Skype


FTS high resource hoggin bullshit

[stonehenge]

Lync is becoming Skype for Bidness. They pushed the update to WSUS but didn't enable Skype so it did something weird. Lync opened and said Skype but had a popup that said "Your admins haven't enabled this so the program will now reboot and be Lync again"

It was enough to confuse users.

[M.B Co]

Let's data geek out.

What data analytic tools and dashboards do you guys use?

[VmaxEngage]

Lync is becoming Skype for Bidness. They pushed the update to WSUS but didn't enable Skype so it did something weird. Lync opened and said Skype but had a popup that said "Your admins haven't enabled this so the program will now reboot and be Lync again"

It was enough to confuse users.

I got the update pushed to my work laptop yesterday. It works, still has the lync layout but the icon in the taskbar is for skype


WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[stonehenge]

I got the update pushed to my work laptop yesterday. It works, still has the lync layout but the icon in the taskbar is for skype


WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Lol yeah, your server guys probably haven't enabled "Skype for Business" so it still says/shows Lync. Our icons stayed Skypified too.

Eventually MS will probably force Skype on us and it looks different but pretty much behaves the same. Idgaf

[stonehenge]

Chrome disabled Silverlight and a bunch of other plugins today. So if you have peeps who need it and can't figure out why it stopped working in Chrome all of a sudden, that's why.

Workaround is to enable it via flags (chrome://flags/#enable-npapi) but Google will remove that flag in September. So at that point, you use another browser if you want Silverlight. Foos should be using HTML5 anyway.

[theholycow]

Silverlight? Who the fuck ever used it?

I think I may have seen two sites that use it and one was a Microsoft site.

[stonehenge]

well I already found one department using some dumn software that needs it, I don't think we're going to enable the workaround because it will only last until Sept. Whoever makes that software needs to stop using Silverlight. immfo

[VmaxEngage]

chrome fucking stopped using java too

almost all of our monitoring uses java :fp:

[stonehenge]

Sucks because chrome ftw

*waits for cao opera reference

[theholycow]

Meh. Opera is no Java expert, at least not the old Opera version I use...not sure about post-Chromification.

New Opera is built on webkit/blink back-end from Chrome source. That would be all well and good if they hadn't done that at the height of the "hory shet Google is evil too" era, but more importantly, if they had implemented all the old features. Instead they fucking put out a bare bones piece of shit, which I assume has since regained some of the missing features.

We are truly in the malaise era of web browsers.

[VmaxEngage]

Want old chrome back that dgaf and supports everything :emo:

[stonehenge]

stop using old-ass shit :cheeky:

[stonehenge]

What do you guys charge for side work? I rarely do it but now that I'm in desktop support, i've had a few peeps ask. Talked to a few others and I'm thinking $50/hr with a 1 hour minimum. If I do it at their house, the time starts when I sit down at the machine and stops when I leave. If I bring it home, I keep track of the time actually spent sitting at the machine and charge them that. It saves them $ because I can do other stuff while it's scanning/installing/etc. If anyone asks me to drive hella far then I may tack on some kind of travel charge but I'm pretty central here so that shouldn't really be necessary.

Thoughts?

[Fatso]

50 an hour seems low. If your going to do that, then you should tack on a trip charge or charge time for the trip to their house.

[theholycow]

$50 first hour, $35/hr after, but I mostly only work for two really nice guys I've been working for for 15+ years and I generally tell them a smaller number, then they write a check for a higher number...

I do the same thing regarding at their place vs. mine.

If I was taking on new customers often I'd probably go higher, DNMFW to deal with people's shit for not a lot of money.

[stonehenge]

Well I was just referred two people from a coworker who recently decided to stop doing side-stuff. He did $50/hr so I kept that rate. I could start telling new peeps that it's higher. :chin:

But I didn't say any less for hours after the first, I just said $50/hr :cheeky:

First dude says his machine won't boot and says something about drivers or corrupt registry. Hoping I can repair his registry and get it booting. If not, I'll back up his entire HD somewhere and reinstall Vista (lol) because he has the original disc. Luckily, he agreed to let me bring it home and work on it.

Second woman just says her computer is slow. That's it. So I'll defrag it, run a virus scan for fun, see if there's unnecessary crap that runs at login, maybe disable aero or something depending on the OS it's running. If it's super old with no RAM, I'll do what I can and recommend a new machine soon (or just more RAM if the processor is decent).

Getting back into the swing of side-jerbs and desktop. Been working with servers too long :jester:

[stonehenge]

kAG39jKi0lI

[VmaxEngage]

Damn, I need to find me some side work to do

[Cez★]

:bj:

[VmaxEngage]

:cheeky:

[stonehenge]

Old lady had a 5 year old machine with a meh AMD processor and 2gb ram. Disabled aero and some other shit. It was already defragged, no viruses, no crapware. Told her RAM will help but she might as well save the money since she mentioned wanting to buy a laptop to replace it soon.

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Oh and removed some toolbars to speed up her IE

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Old dudes machine has a hosed registry. Got it to boot but its loading a temp profile. It looks like his Windows, Users, ProgramFiles folders got copied to C:/Windows.old/Windows. Dafuk

Copying it back so it can find his profile.

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Stupid Vista

[VmaxEngage]

lol damn vista

[stonehenge]

Srsly. He was like "my friend told me to get 7 but I can't find it cheap"

I'll be telling him the same thing. Go it booting at least and got his profile back, I think I'm done with this one for now until Vista suicides again.

[VmaxEngage]

http://www.reddit.com/r/microsoftsoftwareswap


can get cheap, legit keys from there. I've bought from s5ean a few times

[stonehenge]

:suspicious:

[BillyJeanKing]

nerd gaiz,

:read:

http://imgur.com/gallery/K9ltx

[stonehenge]

the starbucks one :wtf:

[Cez★]

http://i.imgur.com/S9uKLsE.gif


dem stories man

[theholycow]

:word: Classic fucking book.

Also, this is the story of my life:

http://i.imgur.com/ccyicbl.gif

[VmaxEngage]

So, may have jerb with Equifax. Had an interview today, it went very well IMO

...one thing that freaked me out tho was yesterday at my current jerb I got a 10% raise and an iPad Mini 2.

Weird how that happened the day before an interview. I took a half day today, wonder if they think something is up? We had 3 people quit last month...

Wonder if Equifax contacted them? IDK seems more than coincidence...

[stonehenge]

Dfw 10% and iPad mini

Although prefer a Nexus 9 :cheeky:

[VmaxEngage]

Even with the 10%, I wouldn't be making as mush as if the Equifax jerb was offered.

I just found it weird...maybe the boss sensed something was up lol

[Cez★]

"sup baws, lettin u know im puttin in 2 weeks notice. about that ipad...."

[VmaxEngage]

:lol:

pretty much

[stonehenge]

dumbass error: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/windows-update-error-0x80243004

[VmaxEngage]

So...a couple months ago one of my professors from school wanted a copy of my Resume.

Got me an interview with Equifax last month.

Got a call from them today. They offered me a job...making $18k more than I am now.

FUCK YES.

Security Programmer Analyst 1

I have no experience with mainframes, they were perfectly cool with it. They said they would train me but I wouldn't be comfortable until 2 years lol

I hope I don't mess this up. Start next month on the 24th lol so glad to not having to do MSP and customer service shit anymore

[Cez★]

:clap:


movin on up. congrats bruh. time to buy ALL THE ANIME :allthethings:

[theholycow]

:awwyeah:

[VmaxEngage]

fuck N nervous lol

Any of yall ever dealt with zOS?

[stonehenge]

Wat

[VmaxEngage]

Mainframe OS developed by IBM

It's what I am gonna be working on

[stonehenge]

Tell them to wipe it and put Windows 10, thx

[theholycow]

I have mild experience in AIX...

[VmaxEngage]

lol I have 0 exp

I made that clear to them in the interview, guess it didnt matter


still so excited. yalls have no idea! :cheeky:

[stonehenge]

A lot of places will pick someone with 0 exp in a certain specialty so they can train you how they want. Using best practices or whatever. You wont bring bad habits with you.

[VmaxEngage]

Yea, that's what I thought too

clean slate! so fucking hyped...18k raise is insane, this is going to help so much and take so much weight off my shoulders at home

[Cez★]

id take 18k right now :okay:

[VmaxEngage]

:emokfc:

[stonehenge]

My last jerb change was 1k raise :pow: but it was more to gtfo of previous area than for the moneys.

[VmaxEngage]

yay win 10...

what yall think?

[Cez★]

havent installed

[VmaxEngage]

fucked my display drivers up. had to rebooty a few times

[Cez★]

orry

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how do you like it aside from that?

[VmaxEngage]

its cool. i like how the taskbar and start menu colors can be set to automatically change colors based on your background image. Keeps everything looking good.

Cortana...idk how much use I will get out of her

[Cez★]

ill wear dat bish out :creepygusta:


sounds bamf tho. cant wait to download

[stonehenge]

No mic so cortana can pls go but otherwise I've been liking the preview.

[theholycow]

its cool. i like how the taskbar and start menu colors can be set to automatically change colors based on your background image. Keeps everything looking good.

Cortana...idk how much use I will get out of her
That color thing isn't new. 8 has it.

[stonehenge]

:word:

[Chevrolet Fanatic]

Windows 10 is for suckers: Windows 10 is new, shiny and best avoided - for now.
(http://www.computerworld.com/article/2953307/microsoft-windows/windows-10-is-for-suckers.html)

I'm waiting at least 6 months before I install W10 probably, but for those that already did on here you might want to look at these:

[GUIDE] How to disable data logging in W10. (https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3f38ed/guide_how_to_disable_data_logging_in_w10/)

Things to remove/disable in windows 10 (https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3f10k0/things_to_removedisable_in_windows_10/)

[theholycow]

Windows 10 is for suckers: Windows 10 is new, shiny and best avoided - for now.
(http://www.computerworld.com/article/2953307/microsoft-windows/windows-10-is-for-suckers.html)

Summary for experienced IT fellas: Standard stuff you already know about every new Windows version ever released.

[stonehenge]

:jester: :word: just turn off all that shit and move on

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https://go.sophos.com/retroweek/

[VmaxEngage]

That color thing isn't new. 8 has it.

eh oh well. never saw the option

[stonehenge]

-1 ITgai pts

[chevyrado14]

Installed 10 on my laptop today. i really like it so far. never had 8 so...

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/f8/f81d5e15bb17ec825914226dd16ea7e21d46388eeaee0ba452 a3034494bee989.jpg

[Cez★]

:lol:

[BillyJeanKing]

:lol:

[VmaxEngage]

-1 ITgai pts

:lol: :idgaf:


Never wanted to be in support ;)

[stonehenge]

Got W10 enterprahz installed on my work lappy. Disabled all the cloud/sharing shit. brb removing all live tiles from the start menu

[theholycow]

I installed it in a VM. First thing I did was turn off all dat shet, second was remove all tiles from start menu. Start menu might be tolerable, I might could skip installing Classic Shell.

[stonehenge]

I still find the "right click start" (Win+X) menu to be the best thing to happen in W8/10

so easy to open cmd, System, Device Manager, Programs/Features, etc quickly.

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https://i.imgur.com/A9X1RTO.jpg

[stonehenge]

b4taIpALfAo

[VmaxEngage]

lol that was awesome

[race2c]

Hi Hi Hi!

Who wants to help me with port forwarding for Wake on LAN with a DD-WRT tp-link wr842nd version 1 router?

Note that I am willing to send someone my teamviewer information to gget this done. Spent like 5-6hrs on this the past few days, and my patience is being very tested. Hahaha.

[VmaxEngage]

What you want wake on lan fer? so you can wake your computer up if you want to connect to it remotely?

[race2c]

Yeop. The computer is my HTPC/media server, so it doesn't run all the time to save electricity/power.

[VmaxEngage]

You should just have to enable wake on magic packet on the NIC of the server

It might have to be enabled in the BIOS as well. I have never messed with it personally tho, so that's all I can help with lol

As for the port forwarding, that should be pretty straight forward for that router

[race2c]

Yeah, but for some reason, I am not able to get it to work from outside the LAN. thus, I am thinking there is something i missed in the DD-wrt setup.

[VmaxEngage]

do you have an exception put in for the built in firewall on the server?

[race2c]

Yes, I believe so. I can check later this evening. The previous router build had an exception on ports 7 and 9. Do I need to update exception if the router firmware is different than before?

[VmaxEngage]

Firmware may changes settings, I know it does on some network devices

You running windows server?

Think you may have to put an exception on its firewall if its running

[race2c]

Nah, its just windows 8.1 Not that its a full-blown server, but its more just a desktop pc serving as my HTPC/plex setup.

[stonehenge]

In some rare cases, ISPs will block ports. This usually isnt the case though, unless its port 80 or something.

[race2c]

Prior to installing DD-WRT (on the stock tp link firmware) everything worked.

Want to take a look via teamviewer??? will send money via paypal for time/fixes.

[VmaxEngage]

I am not that experienced so will prolly just end up wasting time lol

what protocol are you using to remote into the htpc?

[race2c]

Protocol? like TCP/UDP? or what port number?

[VmaxEngage]

yea, like ssl or whatevsssssssssss

[race2c]

I believe its TCP on Ports 7 and 9.

[race2c]

All - fix my computer/wol issues via teamviewer and will pay $$$ via PayPal. If interested, let me know.

[VmaxEngage]

what program you using as the remote?

[race2c]

Remote?

The HTPC is simply turned on via the Wake On LAN (or similar) android/iOS app. I then use TeamViewer to see screen/manipulate computer.

[stonehenge]

Thats what he meant. A "remote" to wake it up.

[race2c]

Welp, looks like I was able to find something to get it to work. As to whether the right way or not...no clue.

[stonehenge]

rofl what did you change?

[race2c]

Updates to DMZ settings. Not sure if thats what its for...but who knows. :lol:

[Cez★]

lemme PM u my PP for expenses :sneaky:

[stonehenge]

Usually something in a DMZ only has access to the outside world but not to other things on your network. It also usually means alltheports are open to the internet. Depends how it is configured.

[race2c]

Back to not working again....:fp:

[Cez★]

no refunds

[stonehenge]

Wtf it worked then randomly stopped? Maybe its the computer somehow.

[race2c]

Are LAN/cat5 cables susceptible to failing?

[stonehenge]

Not really, unless you've pinched them really bad, cut them, pulled the end off, etc.

[race2c]

Hhhmmm. I may have to switch it up when I get back tonight.

What other issues could cause that on/off? Driver issues? Note I am on windows 8.1.

The ports on computer are testing as open per various websites. Hmmm. Just thinking iit may be time to replace router.

[stonehenge]

If websites say the port is open, its prob not be the router.

[race2c]

Ports open on computer verified that within windows firewall. Wake on LAN works via router web interface (manual wake on) and when connected to LAN (via computer and mobile app).

Port forwarding issues from WAN maybe?

I may install different version of DD-wrt to see if its the build version.

[stonehenge]

hmm idkwtf is going on

WOL working from the local network but not from outside says that the router/firewall is blocking it.

Ports on the computer showing as open from websites says that the router/firewall is letting it through.

:fulloffuck:

[race2c]

Exactly. I am like wtf

[race2c]

What is in interesting is that I can get the WOL to work within the LAN, but nothing even happens when trying on WAN.

[VmaxEngage]

Yea, if its coming from outside the network it sounds like a router/firewall issue

[stonehenge]

saw this on reddit, I lol'd

https://i.imgur.com/aFZaElF.jpg

[Chevrolet Fanatic]

Let me ask you guys a question. Some of these new laptops with Windows 8/8.1 and 10 no longer have the Windows serial key sticker on them anywhere. That's not a problem with 99% of the stuff I work on, because you can just use the restore partition, but what if the hard drive is fucked and I have to do a fresh install from a disk after installing a new hard drive? What do you do then, is there anything you can even do now?

It's not like you can use keyfinder software or find it using a VBScript when the hard drive is fucked.

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Need dat help for nailz computer hoar solutions.

[stonehenge]

Have been spoiled with the shared key at work and haven't had to deal with it for the few side jerbs I've done. :chin:

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oh, what about contacting the manufacturer of the laptop and seeing if they can send you recovery discs?

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hmm, check this out: http://superuser.com/questions/538302/reinstall-windows-8-on-a-windows-8-based-system-with-embedded-key

[Chevrolet Fanatic]

THE ACTUAL SOLUTION:

Get your hands on some clean installation media. If an official vendor will not give it to you, torrent it. We merely need to get Windows installed onto the machine with the NEW drive you have. The BIOS will at least tell us which version of Windows 8 it is. (If not, assume non-pro for consumer, and pro for business).

Click "skip" when the installer asks for the installation key when prompted. On the next screen, you'll hit CTRL + SHIFT + F3 to get to the "I'm an Admin, let me set up this computer for first time use" mode.

Download RWeverything (this reads the key out of the BIOS on Win8 Machines -- see this thread on how to use it) http://rweverything.com/download/ Then, hit the start button and open up Windows Activation (not the Win8 tile app, there should be a different one that shoots you back to the desktop). It will have an "activate" button. Click it and let it fail activation the first time. Then, it will ask if you want to try with a new key.

Insert key you found with RWeverything. Activate. SUCCESS.

Interesting, will have to try this. I need to download a installation disk for 8. I have one for 7, Vista, and uh even XP still lol. I'll just have it on standby.

I didn't really need it today because the persons laptop was under warranty still yet and they are sending it in to get repaired by HP. I always like to know for the future though.

Still got dat moniez for mah animu waifus though for checking it out, all that matters.

[stonehenge]

I think there's a place where you can get images of every version of the OS straight from MS for free, you just need to have your own key obviously. Let me see if I can find it.

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It was called digital river and it looks like they took it down. Now you need to enter your key to download the image. And it only works with retail copies so even if you knew it, it wouldn't work since your copy would be OEM. :blahclap: you'll have to find the image elsewhere (torrent)

[Chevrolet Fanatic]

Yeah I remember digital river. I actually had it bookmarked.

Why must they make everything so fucking difficult for people who work on the computers that their shitty OS is installed on?

I swear, each fucking year they seem to be getting worse and worse.

[VmaxEngage]

MS lets you create your own bootable media for any version, then all you need is boot from USB and your key then you is good to go.


Fucking last day at shitty tech support job. So glad im not there anymore and am actually moving on up!

Starting Equifax on the 24th, I am headed to the beach for a week :fuckyeah:

[Cez★]

:ijelly:

[theholycow]

saw this on reddit, I lol'd

https://i.imgur.com/aFZaElF.jpg:rofl2:

Let me ask you guys a question. Some of these new laptops with Windows 8/8.1 and 10 no longer have the Windows serial key sticker on them anywhere. That's not a problem with 99% of the stuff I work on, because you can just use the restore partition, but what if the hard drive is fucked and I have to do a fresh install from a disk after installing a new hard drive? What do you do then, is there anything you can even do now?

It's not like you can use keyfinder software or find it using a VBScript when the hard drive is fucked.

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Need dat help for nailz computer hoar solutions.

This used to be a daily thing before it became common to put a key sticker on computers. Before activation was a thing, for customers we liked and trusted we'd use a pirated key or just one of our own keys...and strangers or shitty customers would be told they had to keep looking for the key or buy a new copy of Windows.

Click "skip" when the installer asks for the installation key when prompted.

I must be spoiled by volume licensing and/or server editions. I can't remember the last time I was prompted for a key during installation, unless it was XP or Server 2003. Pretty sure since Vista/2008 it's been keyless install, then it nags about activation later and you have to enter the key before it will activate.

Are LAN/cat5 cables susceptible to failing?

Yes, absolutely. I deal with flaky cables fairly often. Like any wire, the metal core is susceptible to fatigue; plus the connectors can be kinda delicate despite their seeming strength of being a near-solid block of plastic, and the manufacturer (or schmoe crimping cables on-site) can do a shitty job of crimping it, with the wire barely inserted far enough or the cable-piercing barb having bent off to the side, and after X amount of times moving it around it finally starts to quit.

If that happens, it won't affect just one port or function; you'll pretty much have all-or-nothing connectivity, or general flakiness in connectivity, but it's not discriminate by port. However, I suppose some protocol might not take kindly to flaky connectivity.

[race2c]

Cao - Based on that information, all my internet works on computer so it must not be the cable.

Considering the LAN connections work, remote WOL works via LAN and ports 7/9 both open on computer, I think it has to do with firewall of DD-WRT.

[race2c]

Welp, I may have finally figured out why the WAN works on/off, and it has to do with the deep sleep function of the MOBO.

In the realtek driver configuration "power management tab" there are 3 choices. One being waking on magic packets, allow NIC to wake computer, and then another to allow the computer to completely shut off power to NIC. Based upon testing, everytime you shut down the computer, even with unchecking the "shut down complete power", the mobo/computer resets the tick marks/choices.

This is an older article talking about windows 7/NICs, but believe this may be the case. https://adeelejaz.com/blog/realteks-network-controller-deep-sleep-mode-issue/

[stonehenge]

That's a handy feature

[race2c]

Tell me about it.

[race2c]

anyone want a good deal on a like new motherboard if i am not able to get a warranty claim? its a msi h97m-g43.

thinking about selling mine to get something that is more reliable for WOL.

[stonehenge]

Hmm how much?

[race2c]

Let me look at what I would need as to other mATX motherboards cost-wise. By no means will I want to recoup the whole costs considering its used now.

I don't have the original box, but have all the manuals/software/etc if thats okay.

[stonehenge]

Ive been wanting to build a new machine for a while but we'll see. Money is tight as usual.

[race2c]

How about you tell me what you are comfortable paying and we go from there.

I think a new mobo with what I would like is going to be $90-120ish....depending on deals.

[race2c]

@Stonehenge - Any thoughts to the above comment?

[stonehenge]

Don't worry about it, I probably won't be able to spend any money any time soon.

[VmaxEngage]

sell dat shit on reddit.com/r/hardwareswap cam

[race2c]

Here is whats weird. I can get Wake on WAN to work when close to computer (or within 10-15miles), but any further and nothing works. Any thoughts?

Thinking about updating BIOS tonight to see if that has any effects.

[stonehenge]

wtf distance shouldn't matter unless you're using wifi and then losing signal

[race2c]

Yeop.

[VmaxEngage]

wtf? 10-15 miles from casa?


Started the new jerb yesterday

Gonna be using Roscoe and TSO on z/os mainframes.

:lolwut:

[race2c]

wtf? 10-15 miles from casa?


Started the new jerb yesterday

Gonna be using Roscoe and TSO on z/os mainframes.

:lolwut:

Good luck at new jerb!!!!

Yeop 10-15 minutes/about 8 miles from apartment.

I tried using Wakeonlan.me (actual website) with my host name (DDNS service) and MAC address. That works....was able to have the gf start computer from Northern California (380 miles/6 hrs) and stepdad (1985 miles/29 hrs).

:happy:

[stonehenge]

:notbad:

Sent from my Nexus 7

[VmaxEngage]

Good luck at new jerb!!!!

Yeop 10-15 minutes/about 8 miles from apartment.

I tried using Wakeonlan.me (actual website) with my host name (DDNS service) and MAC address. That works....was able to have the gf start computer from Northern California (380 miles/6 hrs) and stepdad (1985 miles/29 hrs).

:happy:

:fuckyeah:


Me at my new job

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing-dog.jpg

[Cez★]

dat doge :emo:

[stonehenge]

Blaek so insensitive to homies feelz

[Cez★]

:emoserio:

[stonehenge]

Fun fact: when I typed homies on my phone, I fat fingered it and typed homoes.

[Cez★]

:secret:

[VmaxEngage]

:lolwut:

[stonehenge]

[insensitivity intensifies]

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https://i.imgur.com/w0YoJgK.gif

[VmaxEngage]

:okay:

[race2c]

All - whats the best program to use to share files across network folders? also whats the best VPN to use? PIA and torguard are both having deals right now.

I am wanting to share folders/files over network versus having to transfer via flash drive/hard drive. Note this is from a Macbook Pro and Windows 8.1 HTPC.

Really tempted to sell Macbook Pro to get newer windows laptop....hmmm

[theholycow]

Can't Mac use regular Windows file sharing?

Could install Services for NFS on Windows (it's in add/remove Windows features). I'm sure NFS must be ready to go on the Mac.

[stonehenge]

Macs can see normal windows shares. Share a folder on your windows computer, then on the Mac click the desktop, hit Apple+K, type:

smb://IP.of.windows.computer/sharename/

If it gives you credential errors, you can specify them like so:

smb://username:[email protected]/sharename

[Cez★]

rofl

[race2c]

Got everything working on network drives. Thanks Juan-bro!!!

Next steps arr Usenet, Sonarr, VPN and maybe setting up old GNex/S5 as HTPC remote.

[stonehenge]

:shake:

Sent from my LG G2

[race2c]

debating new router...current router is TPLink WR-842ND v1 running DD-WRT. this may definitely lead to my slow performance over wi-fi.

Wired:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/4661412626.png

Wireless:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/4661416132.png

[stonehenge]

https://i.imgur.com/8JDsUC3.jpg

[race2c]

Juan - I currently have a Macbook Pro 13 inch/Early 2011/2.3 ghz i5/4gb 1333/320gb and its been running real laggy lately (like beach ball status when running chrome).

Is it best to clean the hard drive? install more ram? get new computer? what?

[Cez★]

ssd

[Chevrolet Fanatic]

Anyone know of a place that has a list of the IT endorsments you can have on LinkedIn? I need to spruce my LinkedIn page up tremendously, it's shit right now and I didn't even bother with endorsements ever.

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BTW...Blake, Juan, Cao, you guys have LinkedIn profiles so I can add you?

[stonehenge]

Depends.

Free: back things up, wipe HD, install fresh OSX
Cheap: upgrade RAM to 8gb or 16gb and get an SSD. Will make it faster.
$$$: Send me your current Mac and buy a new one.

Sent from my Nexus 7 (2013)

[race2c]

Give me the right offer and I'll sell it to you. Been thinking about getting Windows laptop.

What are your opinions though? Get new computer or spend money for upgrades?

[stonehenge]

We've been throwing ram/ssd at i5 machines that are 3-5 yes old and it makes them great. I just put an ssd in my work lappy and it made a huge difference. 8gb + ssd is usually <$150 for Crucial stuff, not cheap brands.

Sent from my Nexus 7 (2013)

[Cez★]

samsung ssd's always on special all over the net too. have one of those in my pc, is beast

[stonehenge]

Yeah, Samsung's are nice

Sent from my Nexus 7 (2013)

[race2c]

HTPC has a 240/250gb Samsung 850 EVO....great luck with it so far.

HTPC RAM is 8gb HyperX and the reviews of comparable Mac laptop memory are good.

[stonehenge]

There are tons of RAM/SSD manufacturers. We've been sticking with Crucial because we've had good luck and they're usually in the middle of the price spectrum.

[race2c]

Thinking about Kingston HyperX (just debating 8gb vs 16gb) and Samsung SSD (just debating 250 vs 500gb).


http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00KQCU3WM/ref=twister_B00M1Q9DZO?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
http://smile.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E500B-AM/dp/B00OBRE5UE/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1442870272&sr=1-1&keywords=samsung+850+evo+500gb

[Cez★]

I'm debating that too


If I remove my current hd with music, can I still connect it to iPod for iTunes? Would save money by buying smaller hd

[stonehenge]

get a single 8gb stick, have one slot left for more (plus, you can keep a stick of your existing memory and have 10gb or so)

[VmaxEngage]

BTW...Blake, Juan, Cao, you guys have LinkedIn profiles so I can add you?

here go brah

https://www.linkedin.com/profile/preview?vpa=pub&locale=en_US

[stonehenge]

Don't haves

Sent from my LG G2

[race2c]

accidentally altered some settings in dd-wrt firmware for HTPC via teamviewer. lost Wake on lan abilities. oops.

hoping my automatic updates that turns on at 3:00am will leave device running. haha.

[race2c]

Samsung 850 evo on sale on Amazon for $152.....hmmm. to purchase nnow or wait....

[Cez★]

size?

[race2c]

500gb ssd

Then again, wouldn't be surprised if more deals as we get closer toto Black Friday/cyber monday as ssd deals are getting cheaper everyday.

[Cez★]

yeah, id wait. hell i see deals on them now, i try to RT what i see on twittah. but yeah, ill see if mac holds up until the holiday season to pick one up

[race2c]

Use trackif. Found it a few weeks ago. Pretty nifty site similar to camelcamelcamel which allows you to track price and email you when it reaches a certain point.

Here you go. https://trackif.com

[stonehenge]

https://i.imgur.com/liNqO2s.jpg

Sent from my LG V10

[Cez★]

lolwut

[theholycow]

:lol:

[chevyrado14]

They should have used a screenshot from typelikeahacker.com

Sent from my XT1575 using Tapatalk

[stonehenge]

Follow the white rabbit neo

Sent from my LG V10

[VmaxEngage]

lmao so when I run check disk Im hacking like a pro

fucking idiots

[theholycow]

http://winaero.com/blog/enable-anti-adware-feature-in-windows-defender/

Could put that in a GPO...

[stonehenge]

dat PUS

[stonehenge]

KB3114409 y u do dis

Sent from my LG V10

[theholycow]

Juan
:yuno:
Y U NO WAIT FOR PATCHES TO STABILIZE/GET PULLED BEFORE INSTALLING?

[stonehenge]

Don't ask me, I'm not the sysadmin anymore :cheeky:

I just have to clean up afterwards :blahclap:

[race2c]

Anyone need any extra pieces of RAM? I have 4gb (2x2) PC3-10600 DDR3 that came from my macbook pro when I upgraded. Do you guys want it? Cover shipping and you can have it.

[theholycow]

Wonder if that shit fits my computer. Don't feel like figuring it out. I'm so lame.

[race2c]

its 204 pin

[race2c]

Cow / Wan / others - quick RAM question.

I am thinking about upgrading or putting more RAM in my HTPC as the motherboard still has 2 more slots available. My current RAM is Kingston hyper x fury 8gb (2x4, 1866, CL10, DDR3), thus taking up 2 slots. If I simply wanted to throw in an 8gb (1x8, same specs) would that throw anything off, such as the timing?

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

[stonehenge]

since it's DDR3, it shouldn't require pairs, you should be able to add one stick to it

[stonehenge]

https://upvoted.com/2015/12/15/it-workers-share-the-most-idiotic-things-non-techies-have-told-them/

[Cez★]

Brb suicide

[race2c]

Anyone have any experience with SendEmail or setup a computer to send email everytime it turns on?

I am trying to get my htpc to send me an email everytime it turns on to trace some Wake on WAN/LAN errors. Followed an article on HowToGeek and the system doesn't work.

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

[stonehenge]

I played with something like that a while back to email me when my IP changed. Then I got annoyed with it and just had it save a text file in drop box when it changed lol

[stonehenge]

So a friend gave me an old Pavilion dv7 that he got for free from some old lady who bought a new laptop. It has a meh AMD dual core in it and had a gig or two of RAM. Bumped it up to 4gb and threw CloudReady on it and it isn't half bad. ChromeOS can turn a turd into a not-bad machine if all you need is a glorified browser.

Only downside of this thing is that it's a huge brick :jester: kinda the opposite of most Chromebooks.

[stonehenge]

got an email from my parents friends (old peeps) saying they're having trouble upgrading to Win10 from 8.1. Ok cool I'll call them later. Then another one "we can't get on the internet anymore and someone wants to charge us $740 to fix it". WTF. then "Yeah, [husband] fell for it, the credit card company said it was a scam." :blahclap: "Here's a pic of the message [insert pic of generic web-based pop up that says you have a virus, call Microsoft at this number to fix it] and here is a pic of what the guy did to fix it [insert pic of random nonsense in a command prompt window]"

:sacfp:

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was hoping to fix their issues remotely (they're an hour out of town) but we'll see

[Cez★]

:lol2:

[stonehenge]

they couldn't stop with giving these foos money, but they actually let one of them connect and run some random commands

[Cez★]

Keep old people from the internet

[theholycow]

got an email from my parents friends (old peeps) saying they're having trouble upgrading to Win10 from 8.1. Ok cool I'll call them later. Then another one "we can't get on the internet anymore and someone wants to charge us $740 to fix it". WTF. then "Yeah, [husband] fell for it, the credit card company said it was a scam." :blahclap: "Here's a pic of the message [insert pic of generic web-based pop up that says you have a virus, call Microsoft at this number to fix it] and here is a pic of what the guy did to fix it [insert pic of random nonsense in a command prompt window]"

:sacfp:

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was hoping to fix their issues remotely (they're an hour out of town) but we'll see

Fix issue remotely. Charge $730.

[Cez★]

:rofltank:

[stonehenge]

Forgot to call them after work [emoji14]ow: will send my bad text and call after work today.

Sent from my LG V10

[JayBo]

I work for Telephone Company now :). IT work has taken a back seat to this


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[stonehenge]

orly, what you doing there?

[Cez★]

probably IT things

[JayBo]

Werkin on dem phones. Installing intrawebz, fixing dial tone. All that good shit.


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[Cez★]

Come gimme internet

[stonehenge]

brah, lemme get some of dat dial tones

[JayBo]

"Were sorry. You have a reached a number that is no longer in service. Please hang up, and try again. Or call your operator to help you. This is a recording."

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

[race2c]

Quick question - is there a good guide/tutorial on how to install files from github on to a windows computer and raspberry pi?

[stonehenge]

:smileshrug:

Sent from my LG V10

[race2c]

IT folks - what media players play a .el8 media file?

The file is an internet/study session stream that was recorded and then posted for download. Just gotta find a media player that will play it.

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

[stonehenge]

Just looked up that extension and it looks like it is a proprietary format created by e-lecta (online course software). From what I'm reading, there isn't a way to play them locally on your computer, you HAVE to use e-lecta's java web player.

There's a way to use their website to play .el8 files saved on other servers (like so: http://e-lectazone.com/tools/play_uni.asp?url=http://www.YourSite.com/YourFile.el8) but I highly doubt that would work with a file on your local machine.

Your instructor should have either sent you a playable link for the e-lecta server or uploaded it somewhere else and gave you a link like I mentioned above.

More info here: http://support.e-lecta.com/eLectaKB/afmmain.aspx?faqid=113

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If you have a web server running then you can host the file on it and use a link like I mentioned, otherwise that foo needs to give you guys a playable link.

[stonehenge]

Microsoft getting interesting.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/30/ubuntu-on-windows-the-ubuntu-userspace-for-windows-developers/

http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/04/01/windows-10-will-soon-allow-you-to-mirror-and-control-android-notifications/

[theholycow]

We are testing software called DatAdvantage by Varonis. It's pronounced "data advantage" but every time I see it the way they spelled/capitalized it I think :richboy:

[stonehenge]

:roflmao:

[Cez★]

:turborofl:

[stonehenge]

maybe this whole time

Data SS

:fulloffuck:

[Cez★]

cao gonna keep making :richboy: face when name comes up


"yo rick. wtf is up with your lips?"

[stonehenge]

DatAssassination could be good name for a program that "shreds" files so they can't be recovered.

[theholycow]

:jester:

[theholycow]

https://i.imgur.com/ni6hwTD.jpg

[Cez★]

:lol:

[race2c]

Hi IT folks!

How do I get a computer to automatically send me an email once it turns on? I tried using SendEmail and this link (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/send-automated-emails-save-time-sendemail-windows-task-scheduler/), but couldn't get anything to work.

this is windows 8.1.

[theholycow]

According to that link, SendEmail sounds like a good tool for the job. Are you able to use SendEmail from the command line for testing but can't get it to work automatically, or are you unable to even successfully test SendEmail manually?

[stonehenge]

Word, does it work if you just run that line in a command prompt window?

Sent from my LG V10

[Cez★]

mehbeh needs IR cellphone

[stonehenge]

rofl

Also, if this (http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/) is the official page for Sendmail (seems like it is), it was last updated in 2009. It's a simple tool so that may be fine. I'll try to play with it later.

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ok, after messing with it for a while, I figured out why it wouldn't send (for me). Google disables SMTP access unless you turn on "Less secure apps" here: https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

I enabled that and now I can send with sendEmail using this line:

sendEmail -f [email protected] -t [email protected] -u "Test Subject" -m "Test message." -s smtp.gmail.com:587 -o tls=yes -xu [email protected] -xp fromaddresspassword

(ew plain text password)

[race2c]

Thanks guys! I was able to figure it out within the Task Scheduler for MS.

Wan - That was really helpful writing it out that way too!

[stonehenge]

:shake:

Sent from my LG V10

[race2c]

I had to tinker around with the settings. Thinking it had to do with the "less secure apps" checkbox.

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

[stonehenge]

Yeah I tried lots of things and it didn't work until i found that checkbox. It doesn't mention SMTP either so it wasn't obvious.

Sent from my LG V10

[stonehenge]

https://i.imgur.com/loEVz45.jpg

[Cez★]

:lol: