Actually I have seen some shitty network rooms but this takes the cake :P

I gotta vent because no one here at work seems to get it. Back story, we are a school with 19 homes on campus (Profs live there) and dorms for 84 students. In September our deal for bulk TV was up. We renegotiated so we could get the TV and internet for the homes and all 84 student rooms (Main campus has fiber, students do not get individual internet) on one bill. Before the deal, 17 homes had Business Class internet @ 15 down and 2 up. 2 other homes had residential internet, which was separate from everything else. The deal was everything was included and the residences and student areas pay nothing.

November the deal goes live and Spectrum says, send your residents down to the local store and they can get their new modem and set top box. December comes and we get 4 new bills. One for the new agreement, one still charging for the business class at the 17 homes, 1 for the set top boxes, and one for the 2 other homes that had residential internet.

Call in December to attempt to get the bills squared away and they make adjustments to 3 of the residences and nothing else. Call again and no changes. Get a guy higher up and he is getting places until Spectrum cuts off what he used to be able to do and removes his ability to help us. We escalate and no one seems to be able to get their crap together.

We are now in March and TV services were getting shut off at homes even though we are getting credits on some bills but not others. The billing is now so eff'd up that we're spending most of our time going through bills, credits, and charges to figure out what we should and shouldn't pay.

We actually just reached out to our state reps this morning because we were told by one of our Spectrum reps that we are in violation of the contract.

Worst part of all of it is there isn't another service provider that could match the services, if they were all working.

I spent 4 years in the Marines. Was curious if anyone else spent time in the service.

I also know how that is. My first MSP job was the same way. I was tasked with getting Kaseya up and running. Then it snowballed from there. New job responsibilities, no support, no help, and of course, no increase in pay. Stayed there for 3 years and then finally called my boss a fat lazy bastard and left. I didn't just burn the bridge I poured gas on it and stood on the other side laughing.

post your questions here because you don't like sifting through the crap responses you get over there, at :hot_pepper: ? [moderated as per new guidelines we can't mention said community]

ALL I CAN SAY IS WTF!!!!!!!

@WLS-ITGuy said in Any former military here?:

Not exactly the same as former military but how about anyone that IT is a 2nd or 3rd or later career move.

If you guys can't tell I don't really want to work today :)

I'm posting in the VMWare forums as well but curious to know why when I move a machine live via vmotion it causes the machine to get a corrupt file system. Usually in /dev/sda1/ on a linux box but has also happened on windows boxes as well.

I know you're working on things but I just wanted to report that none of my machines have checked in since at least May26th. I've rebooted, restarted Salt-Minion to no change.

That is all :)

All good. I dove way too deep on this one :crazy_face:

Turns out when I upgraded Moodle I forgot to put a log directory back in place and it was failing on the Apache restart.

@mr-jones said in I did it:

@scottalanmiller Yea, I see it now. My wife told me I should send the guy an email update on my success, but I'm not that petty. There was a lesson to be had, and I think I nailed it.

As temping as it is to give them the

your way is better for you and that's all that matters.

@scottalanmiller said in Free Laserdisc Collection and Two LaserDisc Players to Good Home in DFW Area:

@carnival-boy said in Free Laserdisc Collection and Two LaserDisc Players to Good Home in DFW Area:

@scottalanmiller where are you moving to?

A small village outside of Leon, Nicaragua.

Nothing like bringing a distinct meaning to the words 'Remote Work'.

@scottalanmiller said in How to Install PHP 7.3 on Ubuntu 18.04:

I hate having to do this, but sometimes it has to be done. Here is how to get this middling PHP version onto this old version of Ubuntu.

Why do you hate doing this? Because Ubuntu 18 is older or because php 7.3 is older?

@jaredbusch said in I can't even:

@jaredbusch said in I can't even:

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@jaredbusch said in I can't even:

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@jaredbusch that doesn't SEEM like it could be real....

It is because autocorrect in Outlook has a setting to capitalize automatically.

Oh man.

It is one of my users. I know it was a real email...

Not gonna lie, that made me almost spit coffee all over my screen. It's almost as bad as writing out instructions on how to access/navigate our new Student Info System and still having users ask questions when it is in the doc. RTFM!!!

@Pete-S said in PHP 8 upgrade:

It's a little early I think. PHP is currently only on 8.0.3 and none of the big distros are yet running 8.x branch.

@dbeato said in PHP 8 upgrade:

I haven't tested yet to be honest. We shall see.

I've got clones of the WordPress and Moodle servers that I think I'm going to play with. I though I saw WordPress pushing php 8 recently.

I run Debian for most of my Linux servers for wordpress/moodle which require 7.4+. Was curious if anyone else has bumped up to php8 yet.

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Boardgames as we have no power.

How bad is the weather by you. It has been bitter cold the last few days and now snowing again which makes people in WI think they're invincible.

I am not a big RPG type gamer. Although I do like No Man's Sky for PS4, all CODs and am still playing Stardew Valley.

@JaredBusch said in Fedora 33 upgrade time:

@WLS-ITGuy said in Fedora 33 upgrade time:

Do you use it mixed with other OS's as to what each situation calls for?

How many desktops do you have? Do you switch desktops based on each situation?

Sorry I meant server set ups.

Is there a reason for the Fedora preference?

s it more stable than CentOS, Debian, or Ubuntu?

Do you use it mixed with other OS's as to what each situation calls for?