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 03/22/2006 12:31:18 AM · #26
I'm with eschelar, it's all about the Bean-Counters and the Gear. If you got stingey bean-counters then upgrades don't happen all that often. I have been crying for 6 years for a new Router, approved and in every years budget, but some other group (usually marcomms) get the dough.

A Gbic card does not good in my facility expect I can make the light come on to make people smile and think that they are communicating at a gig...I have a 10M router in house (no layer 3 switches), 3 IP subnets going out a 1.5M Frame Link.

Add Active Directory and Exchange Replication, ePolicy Orchestrator (anti-virus updates realtime), SMS, Back-ups Across the LAN and there goes a good hunk of BW. Add the Software engineers dl'ing MSDN dvds, (braindead) users emailing with 80M attachments (instead of FTP'ing) and my network is toast.

I had to bring in a MegaPath T1 for my gaming... :) (and surfing)

Message edited by author 2006-03-22 00:31:56.
 03/22/2006 12:46:31 AM · #27
I like where I work so much .. they have offices not in use and told me I could set up a studio there as long as I take pics of the office too .. I really do work for a great place .. and have my fun too :)
 03/22/2006 12:55:01 AM · #28
do you get this much time in office??????

Originally posted by mystopia:
I only play online poker with a bunch of strangers .. does that count as hogging bandwith?? *snicker*
03/22/2006 12:56:30 AM · #29
now that there's a lot of you IT people here... could a computer science major work at an IT dept. easily or is it limited to people with IT degrees? I don't know if it's the same way everywhere but at my university they are separate degrees: CS and IT... the way I see it right now, computer science majors can adapt to doing IT eaily but it would be harder for an IT major to do CS.. or is it all the same? lol, thanks
 03/22/2006 12:59:53 AM · #30
I am not really an IT guy, and I have hardly done one programming course. But i am habitual programmer (programming is one thing i do daily). I think its all related to work, degrees are okey, but one can work even if he does not have degree in IT / comp Sci.

Originally posted by DrGee:
now that there's a lot of you IT people here... could a computer science major work at an IT dept. easily or is it limited to people with IT degrees? I don't know if it's the same way everywhere but at my university they are separate degrees: CS and IT... the way I see it right now, computer science majors can adapt to doing IT eaily but it would be harder for an IT major to do CS.. or is it all the same? lol, thanks
03/22/2006 01:18:38 AM · #31
Originally posted by DrGee:
now that there's a lot of you IT people here... could a computer science major work at an IT dept. easily or is it limited to people with IT degrees? I don't know if it's the same way everywhere but at my university they are separate degrees: CS and IT... the way I see it right now, computer science majors can adapt to doing IT eaily but it would be harder for an IT major to do CS.. or is it all the same? lol, thanks


CS guys are usually suit and tie types, book learned and thrown in to the ring of politics of a company.

It is more VoTech and experience that will get you a long ways. As companies cut back the more you know technically the better your odds in IT.

Guys coming out of school Both the Microskills type et el... are trying to get jobs where the companies want more out of on person.

I am a Network/Systems engineer but can work/troubleshoot, Cisco/3COM routers/switches, VPN (Firewall-1), Microsoft Certified, Dell Certified, can program/troubleshoot several PBXs (Phone Switch) several Voicemail Systems and I have a Hardware engineering background from the Marines...

It is hard for someone to come out of school and compete with us old dogs (nearing 30yrs in the field now) the way companies are doing things now. Usually noobs want way too much money and won't settle for less and that is how they get frustrated.

CS Majors will get taken on as CIOs and CTOs but they better know the ropes...my company has a revolving door at them two seats... If they talk the talk in their resume they better be able to back it up.

My advice to CS types, would be to find a votech person or two that has experience and let that person make them (CS person) look good.

I actually told one of the last CIOs that he was better off not saying things at all because he was making himself look silly in front of the Operating Board...bad move on his part.

Message edited by author 2006-03-22 01:22:01.
 03/22/2006 01:34:52 AM · #32
Shall we submit funniest IT calls - Mine is:

I was called to a client in a panic who stated that they were definately being hacked into and whoever it was, was writing jibberish on the screen. Arriving at the persons desk, took one look & removed his clipboard from resting on the keyboard & walked out.
 03/22/2006 01:47:07 AM · #33
If you really want to mess with someones computer, if they're running windows, turn every color option to black. It's almost impossible to recover from unless you know exactly how to undo it.

That and set every sound event to an annoying wave file (something from lemmings).

Message edited by author 2006-03-22 01:47:37.
 03/22/2006 01:55:18 AM · #34
For six years I managed IT at a software company that grew from ten employees to 700+. I have stories, but that part of my brain shut down when I left the company - now all I am left with is night sweats.

I do remember when one of our VPs was at a hotel and he left his laptop on his seat when he got up to get some food from the buffet table and within a minute or two someone had stolen it. In a panic, he yelled out "My laptop was stolen! Did anyone see anything" It was then he realized the futility since the restaurant was full of folks gathered there for a convention for the blind. No lie. When he called and told me this I dropped the phone I was laughing so hard.

I packed over ten years of experiences into the six years I was there (easy to do when you work 14 hour days most of the time). Sometimes I miss it even though there is only one other job I had done that was more thankless: Tech Support.

Message edited by author 2006-03-22 01:56:22.
 03/22/2006 02:10:45 AM · #35
Oh for the good ole days... the days when the IT person was seen as a person of such importance that people would tip toe past their office so as not to distube the gods of high tech. Anyone needing help knew that they had to bring an offering of cookies and candy or they would be put at the end of the queue for help.

Ah, those where the days... back when Novell was supream and DOS was king. When Unix was really Unix and not the water down unix wanna be, Linux.

Today, everyone thinks they know everything about computers. They demand you come out and fix their printer, find that important document (which they deleted because they didn't think it was important), get their speakers to work so they can listen to the latest hip hop sound recording off the internet... and generally are a bunch of ungrateful spoiled web surfers. The internet has ruined it for all of us old IT gurus.

:D

Mike
 03/22/2006 02:27:56 AM · #36
Have you seen this one? True Story...

New salesman comes into the lab to pick his new laptop. I always give these guys a quick class on connecting to the corp network via VPN.

Anyways I tell him "click your mouse here" [pointing at icon on desktop], believe it or not he picks the mouse up off the mousepad and places it on the LCD (on the icon) and clicks, it does nothing...doh

Or I know you all had someone in the field do this.

You are walking them through a problem over the phone...

You: "Click on the Start button"
You: "Ok, now click on All Programs in the menu"
Them: "Wait it's still coming up" (they press the power button...shesh)

03/22/2006 05:14:43 AM · #37
The experiance I have had with IT persons with my current company is that -

If some things goes wrong then there is a witch hunt so they can blame some one else.

If there is the slightest problem with you computer they the first thing they say is "restart you computer" this does not always work try a new line.

I must admit it though that the IT Gal we have is the most helpful and will come and sit at you PC to find out what the underlying problem is and sort it.
 03/22/2006 07:35:14 AM · #38
Its the users i like, bless them, especially the one who rang up and asked he he could have 'the internet on cd'.....

Users never cease to amaze me!!

Our I.T. help desk was recently (late 2005) moved to India, it was a bit sticky at first but they have improved a lot in the last few months.


03/22/2006 07:54:21 AM · #39
awpollard, I don't know about anyone else, but that is the reason that I never refer to it as a start button. Only a programmer sees that as a "button". I always say to click on the start menu at the lower left hand of the screen. Right or not, it's being able to get things done in a way that people understand that's important right?

Benhur. My sister is a comp-sci graduate and while she helps me sometimes with stuff that goes wrong (pretty rare), she gets really frustrated that I end up helping her with far more stuff with her computer... (I never actually went to school for computers)

Oddly, most of the time niggles do happen to me that I can't figure out how to fix (like that recent one with the ghost toolbar), when she recommends to me to do a reboot, 90% of the time, it DOES fix it.

The advice to reboot first is actually one that even the techies use themselves. It's not a dumbed down version of anything.

It's merely the first line of offense on the issue. Next time, if you have already done it, tell them like this:

"Hi. I'm having a little problem with my computer. Naturally, I did a quick reboot to see if it would clear the problem, and it didn't fix anything, so this is what it's doing...."

This way, if they tell you to reboot again, they are the ones that look dumb because you've already told them that you did it.

Message edited by author 2006-03-22 07:55:50.
 03/22/2006 08:09:22 AM · #40
been doing IT Mgmt/support as part of my real job (CAD/EDA management) for damn near 20yrs ..
current location 6 years & on my 4th windoze support person in that time

revolving door - for anybody with half a brain
trouble is same as the users -- toomany prima donnas
03/22/2006 09:07:09 AM · #41
My father has worked as Unofficial Tech Support in his office (Marine Cartography for the Canadian Feds) for a number of years and has a bit of a reputation...

I remember about 12-15 years ago, he came home with a life-sized cut-out picture of his face mounted on a stick. It was a gag gift from the guys at the office who would often call him up (instead of actual tech support) to help them out with their problems, but as soon as he came over, the problem would vanish and the computer would start working just fine.

The "Eric on a Stick" was an attempt to fool the computers. It didn't really work quite as well as hoped though.

The really funny thing was a few years later when I was in junior high school and I had an assignment to follow my dad at work, I noticed that there were a bunch of them floating around different work stations and offices.

Some people swore by them!

True story!
 03/22/2006 10:36:17 AM · #42
okay.
how this sounds : to be only system administrator responisble for backup/archives in big telecom company ?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH
 03/22/2006 10:45:09 AM · #43
Hey, IT guys, can you fix this site? =] lol.
 03/22/2006 11:34:09 AM · #44
Originally posted by MikeOwens:
....especially the one who rang up and asked he he could have 'the internet on cd'.....


ROTFLOL - Hey, Can you burn me a copy while you are there please :-)

Want to try been a programmer having to go through "IT" to get installs I need pushed to my own laptop => ....oh that whacking noise - It's just me thumping myself over the head with my keyboard.... no C is spelt the way the letter sounds, not sea not see..... Yes the plus sign - you know near the equal sign.....
 03/22/2006 11:42:58 AM · #45
I swapped the letter N and M on the keyboard on 50+ keyboards at school!

Hahahahahahh
 03/22/2006 12:07:21 PM · #46
IT at the company I worked for was awful. They had the same online report system, which they tended to ignore. You could always find them all in their office, in a locked room, reading Dilbert strips. I worked with a half-dozen pilots and maintence crew, who brought their computers to me to fix - and I was just the intern!
 03/23/2006 11:44:39 PM · #47
Originally posted by eschelar:
Jab. Online gaming doesn't have nearly the bandwidth you think it does.


I was just making a funny I know it does not affect downloads and such. Im in good with the IT/LAN/WAN guys because I usually wind up buying them stuff under my projects that they cant get approval to buy. Of course this is NOT for the PC network like email server and web connectivity stuff (well some routers are) but mostly its to increase our capacity between offices for our ATM network and other communications devices.

I give them a hard time and tell them if they quit playing Quake 3 on the network we would not need the equipment. Then I tell them to get me some quotes and I would buy the equipment for them since their department did not have it in the budget. I can slide most of their stuff under my projects and all is well. 2 years ago I spent just over $50 million for my company, just in the 4 building I covered. about 1 million of that was stuff for the IT/LAN/WAN guys. It was easy to justify from my stand point because we needed the IT/LAN/WAN equipment up and online before we could bring the other networks up. and having the other networks up and on time, brings in revenue faster, and for some odd reason upper management likes revenue.

James
 03/24/2006 12:13:01 PM · #48

03/26/2006 07:12:25 AM · #49
Would someone like my IT job...

It is great - you get to work with multi million dollars worth of mostly outdated equipment and software. They will take you overseas - and during that time you will actually do the job that you are continously training for every day of the year. You get to spend heaps of time working on live remote networks as soon as your 9mths of "under the pump" IT training is commplete. You can learn about all facets of satellite communications, radio communications etc etc etc...

But there is only one catch - You have to join the Australian Army, carry a weapon for most of that time, and when you are overseas - be prepared to be shot at, or even blown up...

Australian Army - Signals Corps
"Commz till it Megahertz"
FRONTLINE GEEKS
 03/26/2006 07:24:16 AM · #50
Originally posted by james_syd:
But there is only one catch - You have to join the Australian Army, carry a weapon for most of that time, and when you are overseas - be prepared to be shot at, or even blown up...

Australian Army - Signals Corps
"Commz till it Megahertz"
FRONTLINE GEEKS


Perhaps also the small possibility of getting into a situation where you blow up innocent people and have to live with that for the rest of your life? PTSS anyone?
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