The IT Crowd is actually pretty close to the truth when it comes to supporting Enterprise IT.
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Yes. My first NOC job was powered by Mountain Dew, PERL, and the phrase, “Turn it off and then back on.”
aug 29, 2025, 12:27 am • 7 1 • view
Rebooting solves a multitude of sins but there's always that ONE server that makes everyone pray to whatever God they hold dear as it comes back up and it's usually Exchange.
aug 29, 2025, 12:39 am • 8 1 • view
lol I’m a network engineer. Gear stays running for 10-12 years and then Security finds out it’s still able to run telnet and makes you upgrade it. Inevitably it’s the network in front of the server that everyone prays never goes down.
aug 29, 2025, 1:00 am • 3 0 • view
Yeah, it's never good when a switch comes back up and gets into a slap-fight with its failover over which one is primary. I spend most of my days babysitting a couple of vCenter stacks though. That's a whole different circle of hell.
aug 29, 2025, 1:57 am • 1 0 • view
Oh man, I’m sorry. We are dropping VMware as fast as possible.
aug 29, 2025, 4:42 am • 0 0 • view
Did support for a small dial-up ISP. We were in the garage. That's because they didn't have a basement.
aug 29, 2025, 12:43 am • 1 0 • view