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Qlikview server issues, sequence of events:
01/11 11:30 - Server drops off the network
01/11 11:35 - Notify admin that owns the IP that it dropped off the network
01/12 05:50 - Arrive at work, machine still not accessible, admin hasn't responded, so I submit help desk ticket
01/12 09:45 - Help desk responds, asking which port number the machine is on. Really?
01/12 13:50 - Two guys from NetOps comes up to my office to see what I'm talking about. What in the phrase "the IP does not respond to a ping request" causes confusion? They actually had to watch me do it.
01/13 05:55 - Arrive at work, machine still not on network, email from help desk saying the qlikview share admin (the same idiot I emailed two freakin days ago and as yet have received no response) is working on the issue with no ETA on restoration of access.
01/13 07:15 - A guy from the IT department calls to say he's got the work order to look at my ports and that he'd be upstairs before 10am. I told him that it's not a f*ckin port issue and not to bother coming upstairs. But he's got a work order, so he has to come up anyway. I told him masturbating in a stairwell would be time better used.
No work has been done since 11:30am on Wednesday... What a cluster f*ck.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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As much as I feel your pain, try changing your wording.
You stated, "the IP does not respond to a ping request"; the implication is that the PING port is open and not blocked by a firewall - we fight this battle every time we deploy a new server to the field.
Rephrase it is, "I am unable to connect to the QlikView server, however, I am not having issues with other servers. I was previously able to connect to the QlikView server and, until such time as I can, I am unable to work productively."
Also... have you informed your management directly of this issue? Presumably, others are using the QlikView server - have they informed their management?
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I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that John is not in the market currently for constructive criticism of his Help Desk ticket reporting techniques.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: No work has been done since 11:30am on Wednesday
Look on the bright side: you are getting paid - and well paid, I presume - to sit around and do exactly nothing. With the side benefit that you don't have to watch "Judge Judy" and "Jerry Springer" while smoking ice.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I go through this every time I have to deal with our IT folks.
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Maybe "only" your network route was bogus 
Hey - it's friday ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I told him masturbating in a stairwell would be time better used.
I hope you used the lift elevator on your way out, or had an umbrella with you 
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Careful you don't slip on the stairwell sounds like a health and safety issue
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Aw, let the guy "look at your ports." WTF?
If nothing else it's going to be amusing to see what "looking at your ports" actually means (if they don't know how to ping how will they check the ports? clean the plug with a wire brush??), and even more how baffled and stupid he will look when it makes no bloody difference as the server is MIA anyway.
It's just like children and fire, sometimes, when it's small enough like a candle, you just have to let them touch the flame find out for themselves that it really does hurt.
It's a schadenfreude goldmine begging to be played from the comfort of your own office chair. Invite the boss to watch too - then you're fully covered for the lost work days.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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There are so many posers now in this business that think they are "IT". I don't know where to begin but it's way too late to fix it.
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Speaking of favorite books, what are some good books for learning ASP.Net MVC at any level?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Not an MVC based, but a Web API based ASP.NET book by Glenn Block is what I read previously, really loved that book. I still have it on my shelf — because I am lazy enough to not pick it up, of course.
Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET - O'Reilly Media
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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google.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: google
I've read and memorized 97% of it. I guess the MVC part is in the 3% I have yet to get to.
Thanks for the pointer. (null reference pointer.  )
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I haven't purchased a programming book in almost 15 years.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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And that's how you get into scripting jobs, kids.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I realize you're trying to be funny, but...
No, you fall into scripting jobs because management thinks that these generic one-size-fits-all everyone-is-a-programmer applications will fill every need they ever have. Soon, the real developers leave, and when they actually need the talent, it costs them even more than if they were to retain said talent in the first place.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Winners make things happen instead of blame the world. Be a winner John. Join us... join the cult. And while you're at it, confess your love for Macs.
Jeremy Falcon
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: everyone-is-a-programmer
This I can relate to. It gets really frustrating. I think they should put up a sound proof room and a punching bag in office to let out the anger.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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+100 
Jeremy Falcon
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I haven't purchased a programming book in almost 15 years.
I think I've only purchased 1 in the last 10 so I know what you mean. I'm still old fashioned though, when I want to learn a new technology I want a printed book.
To learn new bits and pieces of things I always find what I need on the internet. But I really want to be lazy and have a book walk me through learning MVC.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Bad idea IMHO. I prefer cohesive and rational material rather than picking every single time what I think I need on google.
I think that it is precisely this course of action that made the new generations of programmers for the most part complete idiots unable to solve high school level problems without googling - or asking in the QA.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I disagree. There is literally so much you have to know that it's impossible to retain it all. I've given up trying to retain much. I have a text file that contains the extremely useful links, broken down by platform (WPF, ASP.Net, MVC, etc), but I make little/no effort to remember anything. Of course, I'm old and have been doing this for over 35 years.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I agree with both of you. People rely too much on google and don't learn the fundamentals, meaning they take code that works but don't know why, but you are also right in that there is too much to remember. Nothing wrong with looking something up real quick.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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