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Achievements for dwirch

Achievement Description Points
And now his watch is ended Decommission a machine that's been in production more than ten years 1500
Areola Bold Find a user's porn stash in their fonts folder 25
Aw Fuck Execute a command that reset the NIC, while logged in remotely -100
Aw Fuck Deluxe Get an Aww Fuck while more than 4 hours drive from the device in question -2500
Buddha Worked a whole day and never spoke to a human soul 100
Completionist Carry out password resets for every user in an org 50
Don't wake Daddy Successfully patch production environment during off hours without user opening a down ticket during the restarts 150
Dr. Dump Diagnosed Issue from Memory Dump 50
Easter Egg Find something unexpected and noteworthy of a predecessor/old system 25
Error Prone Make IT coworker google ID10T error code 10000
F*#k it, we'll do it live! Successfully set up a production system you have no training for without vendor help. 1000
Failure's Not an Option Recover virtual environment after SAN controllers fail to failover properly 99
Full Circle Fix an issue after finding a solution you posted online and forgot about 150
Golden Mind Memorize all of your servers IPs 500
Grossly Incandescent Legitimately blame light fixtures for a problem 200
Gutenberg Wrote the guide to fix an issue that the vendor themselves couldn't fix 50
Hands Free When you're here and I try that, it suddenly works 5
Hans Gruber The backups didn't work -500
Hey while your here Get asked to fix another issue not related to why you were there in the first place 10
How Do You Know That? Use skills obtained in a non-IT hobby to fix an IT problem. 250
I like to live dangerously deploy to production on Friday after 3pm 50
I'm in! Use an exploit to break in to your own equipment because the creds aren't known 50
I'm taking credit anyway The user thanked you for fixing their problem. You didn't fix it and have no idea why or how it went away on it's own 100
IT Crowd Resolve issue by rebooting 5
It was DNS Successfully prove that DNS was in fact the problem 10
Its not me, its you ISP says there is nothing wrong on their end, because no one else is reporting it. Later it is deemed to be on their end 50
Mission accomplished Closed Ticket because user no longer works here. 30
Windows patch broke the server Temporarily make a server or service unavailable due to applying vendor prescribed patches or updates 20
Just the Tip Resolve a support ticket by properly plugging in a cable that was only partially plugged in. 5
Out of Office Successfully take two weeks of vacation without anyone calling you about an issue. 1000
Peon With a senior title, drop everything to fix a CEO's minor issue -5
Who, me? Dumpster some critical service and successfully recover it without anybody realizing it was all your fault. 500
The Ol' Switcheroo Onboard and Deactivate the same user without them ever starting work 10
Reconfigure the Primary Power Coupling resolve issue by plugging it in 5
Quickie Quick question from clueless coworker while on your way to fix urgent issue 10
Not My Monkey Successfully hand off an issue you have nothing to do with 50
Walmart Greeter Successfully roll back a change before anyone notices 100
You're alone on this one, Son When you have a problem and even the company's support cannot help you because it never happened to anyone else in the world. -250
John McClane You successfully recover the system from backups 100
Nakatomi Plaza A critical hard drive failure takes the system down -50
Oooh! Shiny! Take home a piece of hardware that is no longer required by the business 1000
Captain Tripps Have an anti-virus update quarantine critical system files and crash at least 10% of your site. -1000
Just doin' my job ma'am Maintain professionalism when the user is gushing after you fix something 100
Trick Shot Accurately identify an issue without even looking at it 50
What did you just do? Cause an outage by unplugging the wrong cable -50
Nothing more permanent Create a temporary fix that becomes the permanent solution -1000
Russian Roulette Successfully reboot a server with over 600 days of uptime 250
Task Failed Successfully Recieve a self-contradicting error message 20
Momma taught me good Successfully complete a month of backups 300
That was easy Fix something just by walking into the room 50
Miracle worker Fix something that everyone else thought was unfixable 100
VMify and forget it Convert a failing physical server to a VM to avoid having to rebuild it from scratch 250
Obscurist Find the answer to your issue beyond the 10th page of your Google search 200
Masochist Accidentally volunteer for work you didn't want to do -200
Ooopsie accidentaly reboot the wrong server 20
Security Specialist Catch a user doing something illegal 150
The Whisperer An end user you've trained successfully recognizes and deletes a malicious email 200
Lie Detector Audit logs prove the client broke it 100
That's a penis! Discover a user is looking at porn on the company network 5
What's That Smell? Stay at work for over 36 hours 13
RTFM Find the solution for something by reading the product manual 25
Robot Overlord Write scripts to automate menial, time consuming, life draining tasks. 1
Jedi Mind Trick Get a problem user or client to admit they were totally wrong without making them feel bad 50
yOu'Re a WiZarD!!1 Fix a simple problem (i.e. compact and repair a DB, plug a cable in, etc.), leaving the user in complete awe of your unrivaled technical prowess 50
Scream Test Artist Solve a mystery by turning something off and waiting for someone to complain in order to figure out what the hell it is 100
Where is your God now? Crash Task Manager 2500
Hasta la Vista, Baby! Delete your own credentials from the network after being laid off -1000
Total Points: 15138