What Are You Doing Right Now
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Solution ended up being restarting the box that was running IIS. As it couldn't establish a TCP connection to our SQL server. Problem is trying to figure out how to prevent this in the future -- if it can be prevented. Devs and I are very much wading in the dark
I have an 2008 R2 RDS server that is constantly stupid. I "fixed" the issues it was having by creating a task to reboot it every morning at 4am.
Weird problems resolved enough for me, because the server will be decommissioned in August.
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I have a site that refuses to allow the installation of any remote administration software.
User E-mails: One person needs a printer installed.
I drive over and install the printer. I ask her if there were any other people that needed this installed or any other issues that needed my attention, even though our ticketing system is empty. "Nope. Everything is fine." Me: "Are you sure you don't want to check with anyone else?" "I know my employees". Smh, cool.Same User E-mails: Three more people need that same printer installed.
I drive over and install the printers again. I really want to say "I guess you don't know your employees as well as you thought" but I remain professional in my words and actions. I then check again, this time with everyone else.
"Nope nothing". Ok, cool.Same User E-mails: We are having a problem with the scanner
Me: Can you please provide me with more detail? Where are you attempting to scan to? Are you receiving an error message?No reply for the past hour. I absolutely despise people and I would never do this to another human being. I guarantee that there is no actual problem. They say stuff like this when they create a new folder they want to be mapped to in the copier so they can scan to it. Sigh.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I have a site that refuses to allow the installation of any remote administration software.
User E-mails: One person needs a printer installed.
I drive over and install the printer. I ask her if there were any other people that needed this installed or any other issues that needed my attention, even though our ticketing system is empty. "Nope. Everything is fine." Me: "Are you sure you don't want to check with anyone else?" "I know my employees". Smh, cool.Same User E-mails: Three more people need that same printer installed.
I drive over and install the printers again. I really want to say "I guess you don't know your employees as well as you thought" but I remain professional in my words and actions. I then check again, this time with everyone else.
"Nope nothing". Ok, cool.Same User E-mails: We are having a problem with the scanner
Me: Can you please provide me with more detail? Where are you attempting to scan to? Are you receiving an error message?No reply for the past hour. I absolutely despise people and I would never do this to another human being. I guarantee that there is no actual problem. They say stuff like this when they create a new folder they want to be mapped to in the copier so they can scan to it. Sigh.
Very normal user issues. Still frustrating, but VERY normal.
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Drinking coffee and revelling in having air conditioning again.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to get my morning stuff knocked out so I can go home and fix my leaking toilet. The joys of home ownership have found me.
Dominica fixes that stuff here.
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WTF People. 13% This is SO basic and talked about SO often.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Drinking coffee and revelling in having power again.
FTFY.
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HAHAHA.. . . article
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
WTF People. 13% This is SO basic and talked about SO often.
Actually that question is vaguely worded. Who has heard of a dual core processor in modern times?
But the basic thing here is the minimum license amount is 8 2-core packs.
So the answer could ONLY have ever been 8 or 16.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
WTF People. 13% This is SO basic and talked about SO often.
Actually that question is vaguely worded. Who has heard of a dual core processor in modern times?
They exist. But there is nothing vague at all. It's Windows Server 2016, the minimum is 16 cores to license, so the lowest number of packs of two is eight. Nothing vague.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
WTF People. 13% This is SO basic and talked about SO often.
Actually that question is vaguely worded. Who has heard of a dual core processor in modern times?
They exist. But there is nothing vague at all. It's Windows Server 2016, the minimum is 16 cores to license, so the lowest number of packs of two is eight. Nothing vague.
Exist and exist in common use are two completely different things.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
WTF People. 13% This is SO basic and talked about SO often.
Actually that question is vaguely worded. Who has heard of a dual core processor in modern times?
They exist. But there is nothing vague at all. It's Windows Server 2016, the minimum is 16 cores to license, so the lowest number of packs of two is eight. Nothing vague.
Exist and exist in common use are two completely different things.
They are pretty common. but that's irrelevant. How does dual core procs being uncommon make the question any harder OR vague in any way?
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Quad core procs are not uncommon and the question would have been just as hard and used all the same logic. Are you saying that asking it with four cores would not have been vague?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
WTF People. 13% This is SO basic and talked about SO often.
Actually that question is vaguely worded. Who has heard of a dual core processor in modern times?
They exist. But there is nothing vague at all. It's Windows Server 2016, the minimum is 16 cores to license, so the lowest number of packs of two is eight. Nothing vague.
Exist and exist in common use are two completely different things.
They are pretty common. but that's irrelevant. How does dual core procs being uncommon make the question any harder OR vague in any way?
Because you take people out of what is "known" and expect them to think. Duh.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
WTF People. 13% This is SO basic and talked about SO often.
Actually that question is vaguely worded. Who has heard of a dual core processor in modern times?
They exist. But there is nothing vague at all. It's Windows Server 2016, the minimum is 16 cores to license, so the lowest number of packs of two is eight. Nothing vague.
Exist and exist in common use are two completely different things.
They are pretty common. but that's irrelevant. How does dual core procs being uncommon make the question any harder OR vague in any way?
Because you take people out of what is "known" and expect them to think. Duh.
People being dumb is not related to the question being vague. That's not what vague means.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
WTF People. 13% This is SO basic and talked about SO often.
Before posting this comment, I had to look up a doc to make sure my memory of a 16-core minimum was correct
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That's honestly one of the best questions I've seen someone post. It's very clear what the answer is, and they even made the red herring portion of the question so obviously over the top, as you pointed out, that they should have known something was wrong just from that. They went way out of their way to make it obvious where the bit to be ignored was. If anything, they made it too easy. Do the same question with quad core procs or hexacore and it would get even less correct, I bet.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
WTF People. 13% This is SO basic and talked about SO often.
Before posting this comment, I had to look up a doc to make sure my memory of a 16-core minimum was correct
Seriously? This is something so beat to death.
