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Attestant posted:Our workplace had an issue with a line of printers that had inbuilt light sensors in them, and a power off function tied to that. Why the hell would you select 'light' as your criteria as to whether a networked printer was required, rather than, say, network information such as print jobs?
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Plainly you're going to buy enough printers to have them all throughout the cube farm rather than 2 for the floor a walk away cause your users would never tolerate that. Now with all those printers you need to save power so we'll just follow the lights cause people always have the lights on right.
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Dec 10, 2019 18:52
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Sickening posted:Turning off outlets is actually a really old way of doing things, I just never heard of it connected to sensors. Switched outlets make total sense in a home but I can't think of a single thing in an office that I would want setup like that. Unless you work at a lamp showroom, I guess?
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Dec 10, 2019 19:08
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Inspector_666 posted:Switched outlets make total sense in a home but I can't think of a single thing in an office that I would want setup like that. Unless you work at a lamp showroom, I guess? Depending on the age of the office that may have been the goal.
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Dec 10, 2019 19:11
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Sickening posted:Depending on the age of the office that may have been the goal. It was the only office in that office that had an outlet like that. My guess is there was a specific use case that nobody around now is aware of, and probably installed after the building was constructed given it's about a foot away from a regular outlet. At least whoever installed it clearly labeled it "occupancy controlled outlet". And then somebody plugged the power strip in anyway
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Dec 10, 2019 19:32
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An email came in...it looks like the old porn extortion scam is back and using ligature marks to not get immediately filtered out.
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Dec 10, 2019 19:43
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The email is using what now??
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Dec 10, 2019 19:57
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We're gonna get to the point where spammers are going to use all the available music notes to create increasingly complex symphonies to header out their spam past filters, and some orchestra is going to adopt and play them live.
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Dec 10, 2019 20:29
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Shut up Meg posted:Why the hell would you select 'light' as your criteria as to whether a networked printer was required, rather than, say, network information such as print jobs? ECO-FRIENDLY 
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DelphiAegis posted:The email is using what now?? Assuming it's that one that goes like "My virus software has infiltrated your computing laptop and I have observed the indulgence of you in the carnal act of pleasing!! You are quite the sinful character!!! Please post-haste remit $772 to the following bitcoin wallet address"
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Data Graham posted:Assuming it's that one that goes like "My virus software has infiltrated your computing laptop and I have observed the indulgence of you in the carnal act of pleasing!! You are quite the sinful character!!! Please post-haste remit $772 to the following bitcoin wallet address" See, I was thinking ligature marks, not the text definition of ligature.
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Dec 10, 2019 20:55
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So was the other poster, probably means adding lots of invisible or weird-rendering characters to defeat badword filters. But yes, 
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Dec 10, 2019 20:59
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MJP posted:We're gonna get to the point where spammers are going to use all the available music notes to create increasingly complex symphonies to header out their spam past filters, and some orchestra is going to adopt and play them live. 'Naked pictures of Anna Kournikova: tootle your bassoon to view!!!' *tootles bassoon* *entire orchestra locks up, apart from the banjo players*
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Dec 10, 2019 21:44
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Shut up Meg posted:Why the hell would you select 'light' as your criteria as to whether a networked printer was required, rather than, say, network information such as print jobs? They probably get some kind of eco kickback for each unit, even though they all already had a sleep mode based on print jobs. Bonus, adding the sensor made us use up more petroleum and mine more minerals.
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Dec 10, 2019 22:31
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DelphiAegis posted:See, I was thinking ligature marks, not the text definition of ligature. All of those emails appear to be working off the old LinkedIn breach anyway, if that helps you calm your users down.
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DelphiAegis posted:See, I was thinking ligature marks, not the text definition of ligature. My first thought was that they were photoshopping ropes marks in to make you look even kinkier. And yes, I know there is no picture
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Dec 11, 2019 00:54
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A ticket came inquote:Surface was not sinking info from desktop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOTpIVxji8
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Dec 11, 2019 18:00
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Oh man, I forgot about the time they moved some of my coworkers to a new building and a bunch of dev people were erroneously set up with their desktops plugged into motion sensor outlets. Those were fun calls to deal with.
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Dec 11, 2019 18:20
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Inspector_666 posted:Switched outlets make total sense in a home but I can't think of a single thing in an office that I would want setup like that. Unless you work at a lamp showroom, I guess? I have a client like that where the big fancy projector in the big conference room is tied into the motion detector outlet. Probably they want to avoid it being left on overnight as well.
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Dec 12, 2019 08:00
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they did motion sensors all over my building last year and the room where i work is totally disconnected from every other zone so i get to work in natural light a lot. the bathroom also turns off if anyone hasn't entered it in like ten minutes.
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Dec 12, 2019 09:31
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The pen test on our server room failed.
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sfwarlock posted:I have a client like that where the big fancy projector in the big conference room is tied into the motion detector outlet. Probably they want to avoid it being left on overnight as well. I hope they enjoy wasting extra $ on lamps, projectors have a cool down cycle when you shut them off where they power off the lamps(s) and run the fan, you're never supposed to shut them down by cutting the power.
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Dec 12, 2019 15:15
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evobatman posted:The pen test on our server room failed. Is that an otter?
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Dec 12, 2019 15:19
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Sickening posted:Is that an otter? Wondering that same thing.
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It is indeed an otter. Happy ending:  No idea how he got in, probably through a drain or the ventilation, the building is very close to the shore.
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Would you now say you know one an otter?
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D. Ebdrup posted:Would you now say you know one an otter? booooooooooooooooo
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Gunjin posted:I hope they enjoy wasting extra $ on lamps, projectors have a cool down cycle when you shut them off where they power off the lamps(s) and run the fan, you're never supposed to shut them down by cutting the power. I was going to ask if that was actually a very bad thing for this exact reason.
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Dec 12, 2019 16:32
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sfwarlock posted:I have a client like that where the big fancy projector in the big conference room is tied into the motion detector outlet. Probably they want to avoid it being left on overnight as well. Get a light powered fan, put it in front of the motion detector and inform people they can control lights using the master switch on the wall
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Inspector_666 posted:I was going to ask if that was actually a very bad thing for this exact reason. Those things get crazy hot, especially the high lumen ones. I've had lamps explode on improperly shut down projectors.
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Gunjin posted:I've had lamps explode on improperly shut down projectors. I’ve always thought the concept of a projector was awesome: build a device such that glass can shatter if improperly handled and put it in the greasy, sticky, all-thumbs, power-button-mashing hands of end users and locate it in a place where people gather, guaranteeing operator ignorance total lack of individual ownership.
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We had a squirrel get stuck in the drop ceiling in our office a couple years back. Brought a trap in from home, and got him in with some granola in a cup attached to the trip plate. Was able to release him safely outside. 
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Agrikk posted:I’ve always thought the concept of a projector was awesome: build a device such that glass can shatter if improperly handled and put it in the greasy, sticky, all-thumbs, power-button-mashing hands of end users and locate it in a place where people gather, guaranteeing operator ignorance total lack of individual ownership. It doesn't matter how easy you make it either, someone will gently caress it up. We had a system in the boardroom of a Fortune 200 company, touch panel on the table with a button on it marked "End Meeting", push that and it turns everything off and puts the screen back in the ceiling, but nope, one of the C levels decided that instead they'd leave the boardroom, go around back to the projection booth, and pull the power plug out of the projector each time they were done with their meeting. We eventually had to put multiple warning signs and tape the cord to the projector before they stopped. That was a 4 lamp projector where each individual lamp was ~$600 dollars.
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You can get projectors (Panasonic are one example) that are designed to be able to cope with the power being yanked to them. What would be better would be a presence sensor linked to an actual control system like AMX or Crestron, to shut the projector down via a serial command. Or just look at how cheaply huge LCD panels can be had for now and give up on projectors.
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A few jobs back, I had to come in to work at 4am due to a network outage, and found a very large wasp had taken up residence in my server room. I named him Bitey, ushered him into a box, and let him go outside, mostly to spite my rear end in a top hat co-workers who would gladly kill things just for the sheer joy of taking a life. Normally I'd say gently caress wasps, but gently caress my co-workers even more.
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Thanks Ants posted:You can get projectors (Panasonic are one example) that are designed to be able to cope with the power being yanked to them. What would be better would be a presence sensor linked to an actual control system like AMX or Crestron, to shut the projector down via a serial command. I'd love to fire all the projectors into the sun, but for some applications (think 120"+ viewing area with 1mm or smaller pixel pitch) projectors still win out on (upfront) cost, even if they are more of a pain in the rear end.
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Gunjin posted:I'd love to fire all the projectors into the sun, but for some applications (think 120"+ viewing area with 1mm or smaller pixel pitch) projectors still win out on (upfront) cost, even if they are more of a pain in the rear end. At this price point (presuming you don't work for a lovely company that wants to have everything but pay nothing, i.e. every company) if you're going projector then go laser projector and have none of the downsides of lamps. Panasonic has a nice lineup: https://panasonic.net/cns/projector/products/finder/?condition_ls=lmp4 And as I recall some of the low end models are under $10k, or getting close to it.
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Super Soaker Party! posted:At this price point (presuming you don't work for a lovely company that wants to have everything but pay nothing, i.e. every company) if you're going projector then go laser projector and have none of the downsides of lamps. Panasonic has a nice lineup: We do use laser sometimes, but that's a fairly new development as they've only recently(ish) come available at a decent price point for higher lumen models.
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Super Soaker Party! posted:At this price point (presuming you don't work for a lovely company that wants to have everything but pay nothing, i.e. every company) if you're going projector then go laser projector and have none of the downsides of lamps. Panasonic has a nice lineup: Casio do laser models as well - https://projectors.casio.co.uk/projectors/xj-l8300hn-uj is around £5000. I wouldn't say 5000 lumens is large venue territory though, but it's decent. Thanks Ants fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Dec 12, 2019 |
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:A few jobs back, I had to come in to work at 4am due to a network outage, and found a very large wasp had taken up residence in my server room. 
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