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| Topic | No Google Fiber at my new apartments... Gotta have Spectrum |
| CableZL 12/24/19 3:58:46 PM #4 | TheVipaGTS posted... i thought they stopped expanding Fiber for....SOME DUMBASS REASON THAT MAKES NO SENSE. In San Antonio, they've had a hard time expanding Google Fiber because of the duopoly between Spectrum and AT&T in most of the town --- |
| Topic | No Google Fiber at my new apartments... Gotta have Spectrum |
| CableZL 12/24/19 3:54:46 PM #1 | AT&T's best service is 18 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up or some crap like that. I hate AT&T any way... So I signed up for Spectrum Send a tech to install the service for you? $50
Need wifi? $5/month
They give me the router any way and try to charge me for it. They charge me $9.99 as a "self-install fee." The coax line in the bedroom wasn't activated, so they had to send a tech out any way. *Sigh* Returned the router yesterday and got my own Eero wifi mesh system $5/month wifi charge still on my bill today... glad I called to check --- |
| Topic | FFFF @ Capital One |
| CableZL 12/24/19 3:31:46 PM #13 | _BIueMonk posted... dont most major banks use that new zelle system or whatever. transfers are instant.Did not know about this... will give it a try --- |
| Topic | FFFF @ Capital One |
| CableZL 12/24/19 3:02:26 PM #10 | kingdrake2 posted... this is most critical more than money.Yeah, it's such a weird situation for me... At my old job, I did 60 - 75 hour weeks from April to November... I built the company's whole network and I still have some weird emotional attachment to it. On one hand, I want to help the guy who took over my role... On the other hand, I don't want to support the company's network issues any more. Especially not for free. On top of that, I don't even want some kind of consulting contract that would likely end up in me just doing full time work for the company again. --- |
| Topic | FFFF @ Capital One |
| CableZL 12/24/19 1:37:02 PM #8 | jeffhardyb0yz posted... More money or what?Slightly more money, but much better work/life balance. Also, cost of living is much cheaper in San Antonio than Austin. --- |
| Topic | One woman who knew her rights forced Border Patrol off a Greyhound Bus |
| CableZL 12/24/19 1:34:18 PM #12 | Shablagoo posted... According to a description she posted on Facebook, she stood up and loudly said, This is a violation of your Fourth Amendment rights. You dont have to show them *s****!!! She then used Google Translate to repeat her message in Spanish, reassuring the Spanish-speaking woman sitting beside her and probably countless other fellow passengers. Does "You don't have to show them shit" translate well in Spanish? Especially through Google Translate? --- |
| Topic | FFFF @ Capital One |
| CableZL 12/24/19 1:30:44 PM #6 | jeffhardyb0yz posted... New apt? Which job did u take? The one at the much larger company. I start on the 6th. --- |
| Topic | FFFF @ Capital One |
| CableZL 12/24/19 1:23:19 PM #1 | So just got the vast majority of my stuff moved to my new apartment in San Antonio... I was going to do a manual cash transfer from Bank of America to Capital One because it's faster to move money that way...
Gonna need to switch banks now for my cash savings. --- |
| Topic | Rate: Hustle & Flow |
| CableZL 12/23/19 9:34:01 PM #2 | |
| Topic | Will Smith and Tom Holland do an escape room together |
| CableZL 12/23/19 9:10:17 PM #1 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqCNuTOrAwY Why does Will Smith look the same as he did 20 years ago --- |
| Topic | Shocking study shows that anti-LGBTQ discrimination harms LGBTQ people |
| CableZL 12/23/19 6:35:08 PM #25 | I need to figure out how to get paid to conduct one of these kinds of studies --- |
| Topic | What is the nicest airport you've ever been in? |
| CableZL 12/23/19 6:34:05 PM #21 | |
| Topic | Alright, finally starting to get my new apartment set up in San Antonio |
| CableZL 12/23/19 6:23:30 PM #1 | I've got 2 weeks before I start my new job... The large/heavy items have all been moved over and I have about a month and a half to move everything else. Making progress --- |
| Topic | Sonic cake face strikes again. |
| CableZL 12/22/19 8:04:43 PM #10 | |
| Topic | Iowan woman runs over teen because she was Mexican |
| CableZL 12/22/19 4:15:31 PM #25 | At some point, we as a society need to stop demonizing and dehumanizing people who we perceive to be different. --- |
| Topic | Am I the only person who legit never uses Amazon? |
| CableZL 12/22/19 3:17:33 PM #3 | Yes, you're the only one --- |
| Topic | Putting a sticky note on your webcam is overly paranoid... |
| CableZL 12/22/19 3:16:05 PM #14 | It's only a matter of time until the sticky note gets hacked --- |
| Topic | This is legitimately crazy... So I'm out of my old job now... |
| CableZL 12/21/19 4:12:41 PM #25 | IllegalAlien posted... You're getting hosed by your company holy shit dude. Do not work so many hours, do not put yourself in a position where you have to work that much, and do not allow yourself to be the person who works that much...Yeah, that's why I quit. They didn't want to hire enough people on so that I didn't have to work that much and they didn't want to give me the raise amount I asked for. --- |
| Topic | This is legitimately crazy... So I'm out of my old job now... |
| CableZL 12/21/19 4:02:11 PM #23 | I feel bad for the guy... It was never the plan for him to run the network by himself, but... I can't keep supporting the company, especially when I need to focus on getting moved and studying for the new job. --- |
| Topic | This is legitimately crazy... So I'm out of my old job now... |
| CableZL 12/21/19 12:33:36 PM #21 | Godnorgosh posted... Make him aware of the situation, that you no longer wish to be contacted as you are no longer with the company. If he persists, block his number.Yeah, that's what I did this morning. I'll opt to talk to my old boss and possibly HR if it continues before I block him --- |
| Topic | This is legitimately crazy... So I'm out of my old job now... |
| CableZL 12/21/19 12:29:34 PM #19 | alimajor posted... you could flip this into a side hustle and charge him for your consulting servicesThat's the thing, though... I don't even need or want that money. From April to November, I worked 60 - 75 hours per week every week because so much priority 1 stuff needed to get done. The point of me quitting on the 17th (just realized I said the 11th earlier... My last day was the 17th) and not a few days before I start the new job is so I can disconnect and decompress. I've been putting money away so I can live off of savings for a few months any way... AND the new company is paying for relocation... So I'll have money coming in that will more than cover the cost of moving. So if I did that, money that I don't need would come with strings that I don't want. --- |
| Topic | This is legitimately crazy... So I'm out of my old job now... |
| CableZL 12/21/19 12:24:04 PM #17 | And honestly, the ones that happened in the middle of the night... THAT was an actual major problem that I was originally referring to. Still ridiculous for me to be answering calls like that, but that's at least what I talked about. But most of it has been stuff that he can figure out on his own if he just thought things through --- |
| Topic | This is legitimately crazy... So I'm out of my old job now... |
| CableZL 12/21/19 12:19:20 PM #14 | Like seriously, my last day was on the 17th This screenshot is from yesterday <img src="https://i.imgur.com/xrsNpcj.png"> --- |
| Topic | This is legitimately crazy... So I'm out of my old job now... |
| CableZL 12/21/19 12:14:54 PM #10 | Yeah, it was a hard decision to make, but... I had to do it. I gotta be completely out, which was the point of me quitting and not starting at the new company until the 6th --- |
| Topic | This is legitimately crazy... So I'm out of my old job now... |
| CableZL 12/21/19 11:29:53 AM #6 | Just called him... He was understanding about it. I just told him that I'm sorry, but I have to really disconnect --- |
| Topic | Investigation finds WA state rep Matt Shea engaged in Domestic Terrorism |
| CableZL 12/21/19 10:17:35 AM #10 | |
| Topic | What do you dislike about Christianity? |
| CableZL 12/21/19 12:02:15 AM #11 | Logically, a lot of it just doesn't make sense. Then there's the part where people cherry pick parts of it to preach to people while ignoring other parts. --- |
| Topic | This is legitimately crazy... So I'm out of my old job now... |
| CableZL 12/20/19 10:57:23 PM #5 | I'm gonna be direct with him and just tell him that the intended result of me quitting the job on the 11th and starting my new job on the 6th was to give myself time to completely disconnect from work and decompress... Can't do that if he keeps calling me for help with problems. --- |
| Topic | This is legitimately crazy... So I'm out of my old job now... |
| CableZL 12/20/19 5:51:02 PM #1 | I told the guy taking over my role that if something major happens and he can't figure it out to call me This was a major mistake Probably going to have to just cut off the friendship I have with him because he's calling multiple times per day every day about basic things --- |
| Topic | Who here has seen the new star wars movie? |
| CableZL 12/20/19 10:41:13 AM #16 | I saw it and thought it was fine. I had it spoiled for me by some topic on CE the other day, though. --- |
| Topic | Trump calls Christian Today a radical far leftist magazine |
| CableZL 12/20/19 10:40:28 AM #2 | Starting to think this Donald J. Trump guy is kinda stupid --- |
| Topic | Barack Obama |
| CableZL 12/18/19 10:41:56 PM #9 | |
| Topic | guy impersonates police officer, escalates road rage incident w/his kids in car, |
| CableZL 12/18/19 10:39:09 PM #9 | |
| Topic | Help me w/ tough decision.Go to a cheap shitty gym or expensive but good gym? |
| CableZL 12/18/19 10:34:07 PM #6 | Me personally, I can't seem to get motivated enough to go to a cheap gym and do a good workout on my own. Crossfit gyms are relatively expensive, but it makes it much easier to get a really good workout in every time, imo. --- |
| Topic | Yesterday was my last day at the job... Weird situation today... |
| CableZL 12/18/19 10:32:10 PM #14 | yemmy posted... Lol if they ain't cutting you a check fuck them. Yeah, I'm definitely not going back. I'm definitely considering just not answering the phone at all at this point. It amazes me that he's comfortable calling himself a network engineer but he turns his brain off the moment someone asks him about a possible network problem. So much so that he calls someone who doesn't work there any more for help... Sheesh. That'd be nightmare scenario for me. Maybe I've been selling myself short... I feel like I'm not great at networking because there's sooooo much stuff I don't know that I feel like I should... But I interviewed a couple people who said they were network engineers, but couldn't answer basic network questions... And then this guy who took over my role... He's strong with physical network implementation, but he seems to lack troubleshooting skills, which is pretty bad. He's having to manage the entire network on his own because I just left. I guess I was covering for him quite a bit in this regard without realizing it. --- |
| Topic | Yesterday was my last day at the job... Weird situation today... |
| CableZL 12/18/19 10:18:03 PM #11 | Godnorgosh posted... Sometimes companies have to find out the hard way. My current company doesn't pay competitively or give raises for the experience we're getting here, and so they've been bleeding techs left and right. A bunch of us are actually moving on and getting engineer-level positions at other companies, including me. Upper management just doesn't get the picture, or they do and they just don't care until after it's already impacted them and they've started losing contracts. That's pretty much what's happening at this company, too... The old director of IT operations pretty much screwed all of IT over during his time here. The company is rapidly expanding, but you need to scale IT staff up along with the growth of the company... Because he refused to do that, IT is underwater with trouble tickets and projects... The company really should have 3 or 4 network engineers instead of just me and a contractor. Or at the very least, two network engineer level guys, 1 junior network engineer, and a network admin... Or some mixture along those lines. The new CIO is working on fixing that, but I'm not willing to wait any more. I tried to wait long enough. I never expected this new company to hire me, but they're one of the few companies that I would actually leave my old job for regardless of how much I did or didn't like working there. A few months ago, we lost our security architect and our system admin at the exact same time. This made my job a lot harder. The 3 of us managed the firewalls together, but when they left, all of the firewall management fell to me. I was already swamped with stuff I was working on and it got really rough. --- |
| Topic | Yesterday was my last day at the job... Weird situation today... |
| CableZL 12/18/19 10:06:12 PM #9 | Future_Trunks posted... Youre like not supposed to answer anymore lol wtf you doingI know, but this is pretty much a major adjustment for me mentally. I built so much of the network and I know the network like the back of my hand, so I'm having to adjust to: 1) My phone being so silent and not getting alerts and messages from people with network requests all the time 2) Not having to bring a laptop with me everywhere I go 3) Having the entire day to myself It's a weird thing... Not sure why I put up with being so overworked for so long. I actively refused to go to other companies because I was hoping it would go back to being an awesome place to work like it used to be... But it just didn't, so I'm out. --- |
| Topic | Yesterday was my last day at the job... Weird situation today... |
| CableZL 12/18/19 10:04:13 PM #8 | Godnorgosh posted... Company gets what they pay for. If they wanted to keep you they should have made you a strong counter offer or scaled up their IT department so you wouldn't be so overwhelmed. And see, I was trying to paint this picture to explain this issue to the old director of IT operations. He wouldn't listen and refused to expand the team. From April to November I was doing 60 - 70+ hour weeks every week. So I asked for a raise. They didn't give me the dollar amount I wanted, so I started looking for other jobs. The new company didn't meet the dollar amount either, but they have proper support infrastructure in place so that their network engineering team... Yes, team... doesn't work 50+ hours at all unless something crazy happens. And even then, if they have to work late, they get to go home early or come in late the next day to make up for that. I applied at this new job, then the director of IT operations left the company, but... I'm just not willing to wait for the new CIO to fix the staffing levels at this point. --- |
| Topic | Network savvy people - what's this error code mean? |
| CableZL 12/18/19 10:00:49 PM #7 | Cornmuffins posted... Sorry IDK much about computer stuff, I just assumed it was a network thing. What else could it be? If the message means what I think it does, it could also be that the server the computer is trying to talk to isn't responding... So like If it is a network problem, some possibilities: [Machine getting the error sends packet to server, let's just say it's using port TCP5858] ---> network devices --- firewall not allowing communication on port TCP5858 ---> Server (packet never gets here) So "no listener" could mean the server that is supposed to listen on port TCP5858 never received the packet Or if it's a problem with the server itself, then the server could possibly not be configured to respond on that port... so it'd be like... [Machine getting the error sends packet to server, let's just say it's using port TCP5858] ---> network devices --- firewall IS allowing communication on port TCP5858 ---> Server (packet gets here, but the server doesn't know it's supposed to respond to packets with a destination port of TCP5858, so it just drops the packet) --- |
| Topic | Network savvy people - what's this error code mean? |
| CableZL 12/18/19 9:52:42 PM #2 | If it is a network problem, "no listener" might mean the server it's trying to talk to isn't responding on whatever port the machine is trying to communicate on... Or something in between the two devices is blocking said communication. I'm just not sure if that's exactly what that message means. --- |
| Topic | Yesterday was my last day at the job... Weird situation today... |
| CableZL 12/18/19 9:51:34 PM #1 | I don't start my new job until January 6th, so I'm just enjoying free time and getting stuff ready to move to the new apartment. Not even a full day into my free time, I get a call from the guy who took over my role... I told him to call me if something major happened and he couldn't figure it out. What he was calling about was incredibly basic... Like... incredibly basic and he hadn't even tried to start troubleshooting before calling me. I'm kinda frustrated, lol. I probably shouldn't have answered at all. --- |
| Topic | Today was my last day at my job... Wow. |
| CableZL 12/17/19 9:45:22 PM #1 | What a ride. I'm definitely a much better network engineer having worked at this place for 3.5 years. Can't believe my tenure here has come to an end. Looooots of hard work, lots of long hours, but also some fun times and events that I got to help set up and be a part of. The network I built here will be a lasting footprint for this company, possibly for as long as the company exists. --- |
| Topic | Last night in the office at this job has come to an end... Man... |
| CableZL 12/16/19 10:37:48 PM #1 | Tomorrow is my last day and then they're having a going away party at a nearby restaurant at 5pm. I'm so proud of what I've been able to accomplish at this company. I've built so much of their network and that will have a lasting impact, possibly for as long as the company exists unless they move out of all of the buildings I helped set up... Started out as a guy with a CCNP Route/Switch cert and very little hands-on experience to being able to build an entire enterprise network with redundant ISPs at most locations, automated failover on Palo Alto firewalls that I had no prior experience with... Man, I've come such a long way. --- |
| Topic | About 24 hours left at my job... someone unplugs a firewall at a store |
| CableZL 12/16/19 8:01:08 PM #5 | Got the store back up... Glad tomorrow is my last day... --- |
| Topic | About 24 hours left at my job... someone unplugs a firewall at a store |
| CableZL 12/16/19 6:09:41 PM #4 | Rexdragon125 posted... I'll have to guess cleaners. They love unplugging stuffSecurity camera company, believe it or not --- |
| Topic | About 24 hours left at my job... someone unplugs a firewall at a store |
| CableZL 12/16/19 5:29:01 PM #1 | Gotta be fucking kidding me --- |
| Topic | me: ''im going to buy this phone unlocked at full price! im not being locked to |
| CableZL 12/16/19 1:10:53 PM #5 | I typically get a new Galaxy Note every year with trade-in deals. Samsung gave me $600 for my Note 9 and i got the Note 10+. --- |
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