this thread is for general stress point items and difficulties-turned-challenges to overcome.
housing situation:
living in the cheapest 1 bedroom place i could find ($750 split in half w/roommate). it's ghetto. been here one year. cockroaches. deceitful landlord. evil neighbor. our building is a duplex. we pay gas&electric. gas is supplied to my unit where we have a gas heater (unused), gas stove (rarely used), and water heater (showers). our gas bill alone is $150.
we discovered our neighbor has no gas appliances but has access to and utility from our water heater. neighbor leeches gas via the water heater to an unknown degree. there's no way to determine how much. landlord offered half of our previous bills ($100 bills both times) be taken as a discount from him. we talked to neighbor who said he was charged $25, $50, $50.
in the contract it says we are responsible for gas and electric, but it doesn't disclose that the gas will be shared. landlord repeatedly mentions that no one else is using the gas, but then out the other side of his mouth says that our neighbor does have access to hot water and that he mentioned that the gas will be paid for by us.
housing solution:
in all i'm moving to a room by myself. and this wouldn't be so bad over the winter break, except i'm going to school for a 3 week class that condenses a semester equivalent. it's m-f 9:00am-12:30pm and then i work 2-7:30 with about three hours of homework a night. so there isn't much weekday availability for me to investigate new rooms. i spent this weekend cleaning my room, packing, and arguing with mario (neighbor) and the landlord. during this week i'll be calling places to set up appointments for the weekend or at night.
if it were several weeks later i would be able to use my student loans to procure my deposit and rent. now, who knows what. we'll see if timing works out such that my paycheck is of ample supply and i find a place that is reasonable enough. i really need some luck here to get something good this time round. -- fuck, can i get out of school already?
anecdote: last year around this time i was living out of my car for about a month because of a similarly awful housing situation where the place i was renting was a scam, and the owner had his home foreclosed already.
/end rant/
housing situation:
living in the cheapest 1 bedroom place i could find ($750 split in half w/roommate). it's ghetto. been here one year. cockroaches. deceitful landlord. evil neighbor. our building is a duplex. we pay gas&electric. gas is supplied to my unit where we have a gas heater (unused), gas stove (rarely used), and water heater (showers). our gas bill alone is $150.
we discovered our neighbor has no gas appliances but has access to and utility from our water heater. neighbor leeches gas via the water heater to an unknown degree. there's no way to determine how much. landlord offered half of our previous bills ($100 bills both times) be taken as a discount from him. we talked to neighbor who said he was charged $25, $50, $50.
in the contract it says we are responsible for gas and electric, but it doesn't disclose that the gas will be shared. landlord repeatedly mentions that no one else is using the gas, but then out the other side of his mouth says that our neighbor does have access to hot water and that he mentioned that the gas will be paid for by us.
housing solution:
in all i'm moving to a room by myself. and this wouldn't be so bad over the winter break, except i'm going to school for a 3 week class that condenses a semester equivalent. it's m-f 9:00am-12:30pm and then i work 2-7:30 with about three hours of homework a night. so there isn't much weekday availability for me to investigate new rooms. i spent this weekend cleaning my room, packing, and arguing with mario (neighbor) and the landlord. during this week i'll be calling places to set up appointments for the weekend or at night.
if it were several weeks later i would be able to use my student loans to procure my deposit and rent. now, who knows what. we'll see if timing works out such that my paycheck is of ample supply and i find a place that is reasonable enough. i really need some luck here to get something good this time round. -- fuck, can i get out of school already?
anecdote: last year around this time i was living out of my car for about a month because of a similarly awful housing situation where the place i was renting was a scam, and the owner had his home foreclosed already.
/end rant/
Man dp you never seem to have a good housing situation!
network situation:
client work network has a vpn (192.168.40.1/24) running SBS2003 (192.168.40.10) with the ad tree client.local. client workstation at work (192.168.40.22) needs some ports opened and authentication parameters set. this is done, authentication solutions furnished, rdp is forwarded. client home laptop needs to connect to the vpn for shares, rdp is used for accessing quickbooks.
now here's the part that caused a lot of stress over this holiday break: from the laptop at home, connected to quickbooks over rdp, the user on the laptop at home needed to print locally using the remote computer. the reason for this is basically to print checks using quickbooks app on the workstation at work, to the printer at home.
network solution:
share the network printer on the laptop over the vpn. this seems easy, but it would only time out when shared. the result was me struggling with this and other proposed solutions. i did this for a long while and ended up finding the method.
i saw that there were some issues in secpol.msc /Security Options/ & /User Rights Assignment/. there was also a minor issue when we overhauled the network where i changed the username slightly on server at work (to retain uniformity in user name structure). there was one lingering previous username in the permissions on the laptop that was 1 character different that caused a lot of trouble.
windows firewall also was active over the vpn connection, and it had some previous settings that only worked with some proprietary hardware that had been superseded in the rehaul. i hadn't seen the menu for the firewall inside the vpn connection before, that was new to me. so what happened was that netbios ports, along with some other printer related ports, were limited to the vpn subnet.
the real clincher was that i was doing the configuration and testing using rdp(client home) inside rdp(client work), so it was extremely slow finding all of this out. adding users to different permissions fields is something i'll probably have nightmares about for a while. isn't it so excruciatingly terrible how when you want to add a user on a domain you have to click on all this crap with new windows opening each time? yes you can add user@client.local ; user2@client.local etc, but still theres tons of windows.
client work network has a vpn (192.168.40.1/24) running SBS2003 (192.168.40.10) with the ad tree client.local. client workstation at work (192.168.40.22) needs some ports opened and authentication parameters set. this is done, authentication solutions furnished, rdp is forwarded. client home laptop needs to connect to the vpn for shares, rdp is used for accessing quickbooks.
now here's the part that caused a lot of stress over this holiday break: from the laptop at home, connected to quickbooks over rdp, the user on the laptop at home needed to print locally using the remote computer. the reason for this is basically to print checks using quickbooks app on the workstation at work, to the printer at home.
network solution:
share the network printer on the laptop over the vpn. this seems easy, but it would only time out when shared. the result was me struggling with this and other proposed solutions. i did this for a long while and ended up finding the method.
i saw that there were some issues in secpol.msc /Security Options/ & /User Rights Assignment/. there was also a minor issue when we overhauled the network where i changed the username slightly on server at work (to retain uniformity in user name structure). there was one lingering previous username in the permissions on the laptop that was 1 character different that caused a lot of trouble.
windows firewall also was active over the vpn connection, and it had some previous settings that only worked with some proprietary hardware that had been superseded in the rehaul. i hadn't seen the menu for the firewall inside the vpn connection before, that was new to me. so what happened was that netbios ports, along with some other printer related ports, were limited to the vpn subnet.
the real clincher was that i was doing the configuration and testing using rdp(client home) inside rdp(client work), so it was extremely slow finding all of this out. adding users to different permissions fields is something i'll probably have nightmares about for a while. isn't it so excruciatingly terrible how when you want to add a user on a domain you have to click on all this crap with new windows opening each time? yes you can add user@client.local ; user2@client.local etc, but still theres tons of windows.