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A receptionist has to make a spreadsheet with a list of names on it. She wants the first letter capitalized, and the rest of the name lowercase. She doesn't want to use the shift key.
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Sep 12, 2013 21:51
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Oh hey, remember my complaints about the support department a couple pages ago? All of those upper management types I complained about were let go. Total wipeout. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch. 
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Sep 12, 2013 21:52
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My Cryptolocker infection came from someone who received his daily Postini spam summary and decided to manually deliver the infected spam email and then open the goddamn attachment. Idiot. This incident sucked monkey-balls.
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Sep 12, 2013 22:04
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demonachizer posted:Was it in Watertown rather than Boston proper? I don't remember exactly, it was on Federal Street. Sad to say I didn't get it 
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Sep 12, 2013 22:05
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:A receptionist has to make a spreadsheet with a list of names on it. She wants the first letter capitalized, and the rest of the name lowercase. =UPPER(LEFT(A1,1))&LOWER(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-1))
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Sep 12, 2013 22:29
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:A receptionist has to make a spreadsheet with a list of names on it. She wants the first letter capitalized, and the rest of the name lowercase. dorkanoid posted:=UPPER(LEFT(A1,1))&LOWER(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-1)) 
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Sep 12, 2013 22:29
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Re: Drinking on the job I worked at a (failed) internet startup that modified a standing refrigerator to have holes in it so it could support kegs. Every Friday they would dress up really fancy (like tuxedo fancy) and go to an expensive restaurant for lunch and get slashed, it was called 'formal friday'. When I worked at a game company they had a fridge just for beer next to the one for food. That policy continued until they were bought by EA, which frowned on it for some reason and discontinued it. The weirdest thing? I didn't drink a drop in either situation. It's like there's a switch in my brain, labelled 'working' in one position and 'drinking' in the other.
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Sep 12, 2013 22:33
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I've been following Cryptolocker since it hit last week and man is it a doozy. Long story short if they don't have good backups or don't pay the ransom, they are highly unlikely to be getting their files back.
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Sep 12, 2013 22:35
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Dick Trauma posted:My Cryptolocker infection came from someone who received his daily Postini spam summary and decided to manually deliver the infected spam email and then open the goddamn attachment. Idiot. This incident sucked monkey-balls. I'm just so loving grateful that I quit my old job. I can completely picture my old stressball boss tearing her hair out the past two days over Cryptolocker. Would have been my problem. Scaramouche posted:The weirdest thing? I didn't drink a drop in either situation. It's like there's a switch in my brain, labelled 'working' in one position and 'drinking' in the other.
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Sep 12, 2013 22:50
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Restore points seem to work for getting rid of Crytolocker, which is something at least.
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Sep 12, 2013 22:57
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teethgrinder posted:Do you guys have examples of these emails? Like how did these doofuses get "socially engineered" into clicking through? For me it was from XeroxScanner@mydomain.com with a subject line about a scanned document. The user had just scanned something. On a Ricoh. Postini grabbed it and when he got the daily summary he hit the Deliver link.
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Sep 12, 2013 23:09
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Cyrptolocker is pretty easy to get rid of, its the whole encryption thing that is going to burn people
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Sep 12, 2013 23:11
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Did Postini detect the virus or did it just classify it as spam?
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Sep 12, 2013 23:16
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teethgrinder posted:I find working fun with drinking. The novelty of it is definitely part of it. If it was a regular thing, that would be alcoholism territory. My last two jobs were totally fine with drinking while working. Countless times a few of us went out for lunch with the VP of IT and gotten hammer drunk on reposado to come back in around 2 to spend the rest of the day reeking of tequila. Or drinking mud slides with the Director of IT at lunch in the break room and rounding out the day with vodka martinis made from the Russian Standard in the freezer. Let's just say that Don Draper and Roger Sterling had nothing on us. Countless times people would get back into the office and find dark corners (or the lactation station, beanbag meeting room, under the foosball table) to pass out until close of business. Strangely enough, both companies got bought out from under us and everyone in IT fired. I have no idea why...
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Sep 12, 2013 23:27
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Late in the day, usually a Friday I'll find some upper management and OG employees from "before our company was a company" sharing wine in the break room... Otherwise no drinking of alcoholic beverages allowed. We do have some kickass bbq's though. 
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Sep 12, 2013 23:36
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teethgrinder posted:Do you guys have examples of these emails? Like how did these doofuses get "socially engineered" into clicking through? People are morons and will open any attachment that catches their interest, or "forces" them into action. Examples: Fed Ex email: "you have an unclaimed package" IRS email: "There was a problem found on your tax return" Bank email: "There was unauthorized activity on your account"
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Sep 12, 2013 23:45
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After coming close to finishing the configuration of the 100-150 or so switches at work, Jim came in and told us that because SOMEONE was loving up and couldn't save the configs properly, he wanted us to go through EVERY switch again and check the startup-config on each one...these take forever to start up...
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Sep 13, 2013 00:01
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Gweenz posted:People are morons and will open any attachment that catches their interest, or "forces" them into action. Examples: 
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Sep 13, 2013 00:07
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Scikar posted:Did Postini detect the virus or did it just classify it as spam? Classified it as Bulk Spam.
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Sep 13, 2013 00:11
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Gweenz posted:
There we go.
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Sep 13, 2013 00:14
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anthonypants posted:You mean like proper()? you can probably tell that I work in an environment where I see "clever" solutions in excel all the time. my favourite quote: "what? you can only have 8 IF()s nested?!"
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Sep 13, 2013 00:14
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I worked in a place once that the Boss insisted on a fresh case of beer delivered each morning and put on ice. He refused to drink old beer *shrug*. Oh, and the beer on ice was stored in the coolroom. Current place most people have some wine in thier cupboard. A drink at lunch will be ignored, but everything else is after 4.
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Sep 13, 2013 00:31
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I have a bottle of bullet bourbon on my desk right now, and every friday we have a happy hour with beer/wine and booze. Its pretty normal to have a beer at lunch(or many beers depending on how the day is going) when we actually go and sit down somewhere for lunch.
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Sep 13, 2013 00:39
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dorkanoid posted:you can probably tell that I work in an environment where I see "clever" solutions in excel all the time.
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Sep 13, 2013 00:46
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:A receptionist has to make a spreadsheet with a list of names on it. She wants the first letter capitalized, and the rest of the name lowercase.
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Sep 13, 2013 02:07
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ConfusedUs posted:Oh hey, remember my complaints about the support department a couple pages ago?
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Sep 13, 2013 04:01
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:A receptionist has to make a spreadsheet with a list of names on it. She wants the first letter capitalized, and the rest of the name lowercase. She can do what quite a few of the users here do, hit the Caps lock key, type the letter, then hit the caps lock key again and type out the rest. I know this, because Windows helpfully pops up a balloon that tells them their caps lock is on when they're typing in their password. Do they not know what the shift key is for? The really weird part is that it's not just one user, as I've seen quite a few that do this.
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Sep 13, 2013 05:42
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I have some people who use the number pad for their password. Sometimes the numlock key gets hit and the trouble report I get is that "when I log in, it takes me back to the login screen again." What's really happening is they type "GoP@ckers2 enter" but the 2 is actually a down arrow which selects "Switch User" The worst thing for me is when you're trying to help someone choose a password. I just love this: pre:Username: JDoe45 Password: ********** Confirm : ********
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Sep 13, 2013 06:02
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A call came in! At midnight! After I'd been asleep for an hour! I haven't been on after-hours support for two years! NEVER let your clients have your cellphone number - even if it is a business phone - and ALWAYS remember to turn the ringer off at the end of the day. (Client's a pretty chill guy, and it was a system down, so I did try to help out for a few minutes... But I copied my boss and the CIO on the resulting email exchange. I'm looking for time off tomorrow for this.)
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Sep 13, 2013 06:07
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TWBalls posted:She can do what quite a few of the users here do, hit the Caps lock key, type the letter, then hit the caps lock key again and type out the rest. I know this, because Windows helpfully pops up a balloon that tells them their caps lock is on when they're typing in their password. Do they not know what the shift key is for? The really weird part is that it's not just one user, as I've seen quite a few that do this. Are they terminal services users? There's something with Windows Server where it will pop up the sticky keys window every time you press shift while connected via RDP sometimes.
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Sep 13, 2013 06:08
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dorkanoid posted:you can probably tell that I work in an environment where I see "clever" solutions in excel all the time. Don't feel bad dude, I had no idea Proper() existed, I'd have done it your way too.
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Sep 13, 2013 07:19
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dorkanoid posted:my favourite quote: "what? you can only have 8 IF()s nested?!" I hit this limit once building a fake gaant chart out of a linked excel spreadsheet because the team was spooked by project.
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Sep 13, 2013 07:28
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frogbert posted:Don't feel bad dude, I had no idea Proper() existed, I'd have done it your way too. I knew about Proper() but when I read the post I was constructing some god-awful VBA routine in my head. I never pick the easy path.
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Sep 13, 2013 07:40
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J posted:Shopping for laptops is pissing me off. I've been tasked with buying a kickass laptop for a C level. It's gotta look nice for presentations, have "a big screen for watching movies on" and also have a touchscreen, on a ~$1200-$1500ish budget. I'm really not sure why it has to have a touchscreen, and the touchscreen requirement is throwing a goddamn monkey wrench into this process. Having a touchscreen steers everything into the sleeker, lighter, more portable (read: smaller screen) type of laptop which isn't what I want here. Every time I try a different manufacturer's laptop customizer I find myself unable to really put together the mix of options that I want. Typically it's not being able to put a goddamn SSD in the thing. Some of them seem to have some type of traditional hard drive + SSD cache option. Now I've never tried a laptop with an SSD cache like that - does it boot up fast like it would on a SSD? That's really what I care about.
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Sep 13, 2013 09:06
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TWBalls posted:She can do what quite a few of the users here do, hit the Caps lock key, type the letter, then hit the caps lock key again and type out the rest. I know this, because Windows helpfully pops up a balloon that tells them their caps lock is on when they're typing in their password. Do they not know what the shift key is for? The really weird part is that it's not just one user, as I've seen quite a few that do this. I have a foot pedal thingy that presents as a USB keyboard, with the 3 pedals mapped up to Shift, Ctrl and Alt. Saves wear and tear on my little fingers. Or it would, if my typing style wasn't so ingrained after all these years that I can never remember to use it. In practice the pedal only gets used as a crouch button in gaming. Time Crysis.
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Sep 13, 2013 09:30
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Lum posted:I have a foot pedal thingy that presents as a USB keyboard, with the 3 pedals mapped up to Shift, Ctrl and Alt. Saves wear and tear on my little fingers. Price and link please 
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Sep 13, 2013 09:45
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frogbert posted:Don't feel bad dude, I had no idea Proper() existed, I'd have done it your way too. I didn't know about Proper(), and I don't really care - half my job some days is making people do things the right way (in this case, press loving Shift - or "don't nest 15 IF()s"). My solution is one of those  -solutions where, in a few years time when the original solution is lost to the mists of time, you get something like "I'm sorry, mr. O'Malley, we can't capitalize the M in your name due to how the system handles names"
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Sep 13, 2013 09:51
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Swink posted:I knew about Proper() but when I read the post I was constructing some god-awful VBA routine in my head. I never pick the easy path. You can almost imagine that if you suggest Proper() the answer is "no, you have to fix it in the same cell!" - leading to some VBA routine tied to "OnCellChange" (or whatever the event is called) to fix capitalization...and then complaints about "Excel is so slow!".
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Sep 13, 2013 09:52
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tarbrush posted:Price and link please Really not cheap. $149 if you're American http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/fs-savant-elite.htm I use it in combination with this keyboard, which I absolutely adore after loving up my fingers in the late 90s. http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/advantage.htm The foot switch is a little odd, the software for programming it is terrible, but it actually uses something called X-Keys internally, so I managed to blag the X-Keys developer into sending me links to their programming stuff which works a lot better, the default software works fine for actual data input but certain keys get mapped incorrectly when DirectInput is involved. http://xkeys.com/software.php Lum fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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Sep 13, 2013 09:57
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X-Keys is the industry standard for broadcasting equipment. The latest iteration of their drives are actually pretty good, but the springs on the keys tend to wear out after a few years.
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