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Crowley posted:X-Keys is the industry standard for broadcasting equipment. The one I linked only uses the X-Keys control hardware. The pedals and stuff they make themselves. I probably haven't used it as much as broadcast stuff uses, but it's about 5 years old now and still going.
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JohnnyCanuck posted:A call came in!
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Sep 13, 2013 11:49
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Call Blocking is built into Samsung phones, as well as Cyanogenmod for what it's worth. I know Tasker is infinitely customisable, but the built-in stuff is simple to use. I like them specifically because I can still allow certain callers to wake me.
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Sep 13, 2013 12:07
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Someone just opened the box for a new waste toner bottle, pulled the bag (that the old waste toner bottle goes into) out of it, dumped all of the waste toner out of the full bottle into the bag, and then put the old waste toner bottle back into the machine, leaving an open bag full of toner and a box with a never-used waste toner bottle in the copy room.
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Sep 13, 2013 14:10
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"Sorry boss, gotta go home. Don't wanna risk getting lung cancer."
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Sep 13, 2013 14:21
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Walter_Sobchak posted:"Sorry boss, gotta go home. Don't wanna risk getting lung cancer." Seriously. That poo poo needs a hazmat team.
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Sep 13, 2013 14:23
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I got an email from my boss this morning. He's in a meeting with the grand poobahs and he wants to know if I know why a projector in the conference room isn't working. The answer is that it was replaced by TVs a long time ago. When it did eventually break -- I don't even remember how we found out it broke since we don't use it anymore -- we asked management if they wanted it replaced. They said no. This was over a year ago. My boss should know this already because I kept him appraised of the situation at the time. The people he's meeting with should know because they're the ones who made the decision. Did everyone wake up extra crazy this week?
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Sep 13, 2013 14:33
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guppy posted:I got an email from my boss this morning. He's in a meeting with the grand poobahs and he wants to know if I know why a projector in the conference room isn't working. The answer is that it was replaced by TVs a long time ago. When it did eventually break -- I don't even remember how we found out it broke since we don't use it anymore -- we asked management if they wanted it replaced. They said no. This was over a year ago. My boss should know this already because I kept him appraised of the situation at the time. The people he's meeting with should know because they're the ones who made the decision. Did everyone wake up extra crazy this week? He probably does know it, just wanted written confirmation by you.
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Sep 13, 2013 14:34
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Raining, almost got T-boned on my way in to work and now I just got chewed out by my boss because my point of contact with a client has apparently not been talking to his own bosses at all about the application changes he's requested / things I've informed him of (ie. "This isn't working fully but we're working on it"). Gunna be a good day 
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Sep 13, 2013 15:01
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I don't care about drinking at work, the few times I've tried to have a couple drinks at lunch all I wanted to do was sleep the rest of the day. I want to know about grills! Where do you work that trusts cube drones to walk through the building with raw meat? Big multi-national corp here, facilities guy was putting together outdoor furniture the other day, I told him he shut put a grill out there too. He thought that kicked rear end but said there's no was it'd be allowed. A friend used to be a dealer tech and seems like every time I'd go over there to bs or use a lift they'd be cooking steaks.
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Sep 13, 2013 15:17
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I work at a small start-up -- anything goes. Our office actually opens out onto the roof of the rest of the building. That's where the grill is. We did check with the landlord prior. It used to also be the smoking room, but it appears that everyone has quit finally.
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Sep 13, 2013 15:20
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Most cities have laws in place to prevent grills and similar devices within a certain distance (10' is common) of occupied multi-residence and office buildings.
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Sep 13, 2013 15:25
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Vin BioEthanol posted:I don't care about drinking at work, the few times I've tried to have a couple drinks at lunch all I wanted to do was sleep the rest of the day. I want to know about grills! Where do you work that trusts cube drones to walk through the building with raw meat? I'm not calling you out personally but poo poo like this post is what has been pissing me off lately. If you're phone postin' and using swiftkey or w/e check your god drat posts to make sure they actually parse correctly.
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Sep 13, 2013 15:37
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Rohaq posted:This. This is like a goddamned unicorn. Hold onto this moment forever. No kidding. Like I said before, I'm not directly in the same department, but I interface heavily with them. Morale has been terrible for months, hemorrhaging talent like crazy. Yesterday it was a party atmosphere. Today, it still is. This was a real chop-the-head-off-the-snake kind of move too. Of all the people who got the axe, the least important had a Director's title.
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Sep 13, 2013 15:51
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Can't say I am a fan of drinking with work related people, it usually ends badly...
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Sep 13, 2013 15:58
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quote:Uppercase / lowercase excel solutions I kinda figured there were automated ways to uppercase the first letter. Still, she can use her drat shift key. I just thought that was the most ridiculous request I've received yet. It's a list of like 30 people, so it's not like she has to copy/paste thousands of unformatted names and fix them.
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Sep 13, 2013 15:58
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So the merger finished last weekend. 6 remote sites, 5 servers, 100GB of e-mail merged in, file services, etc... I'm finding it difficult to come down from the rage/stress... probably because: - Acquired company employees were local shared-account admins on Intel i7 workstations and we're putting them on VDI so "WHY IS IT SO SLOOOOW". Oh, and they're required to remember passwords now. - Now that the merger was "successful" (firefighting notwithstanding) all of a sudden all put-off large projects have a due-date of "Today" because "Well the merger is OVER so you're not doing anything". - Co-worker managed to take down the entire VDI cluster while adding a host to it. - Boss is lord of Scope Creep, so what was "You get a desktop and e-mail access only", turned into "And SQL access, and software access, and a pony..." and so forth. I mentioned before that we were given 18 hours to cut everything over. That didn't happen. We were actually given 9 hours, because departments started shuffling in first thing on the day we were given to flip everything. We "cheated" and let ourselves into the remote locations at end-of-business. The lawyers were not happy. I've been going flat-out since 9/2. Very little sleep. No breaks. No comp time. Two days off isn't going to help me get down from this stress-pile I'm sitting on.
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Sep 13, 2013 16:16
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JohnnyCanuck posted:NEVER let your clients have your cellphone number - even if it is a business phone - and I've been giving out my Google Voice number and have Do Not Disturb set up to turn on after work hours and on weekends. I've had more than one person complain that they called me six times one weekend (about how to install a font) and wasn't able to get through.
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Fess up: http://screenshotsofdespair.tumblr.com/post/60884087423/blissoncloudnine-printers 
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It's kind of pathetic that I can instantly recognize that it's an HP 2430. Also: http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/jetdirecthack
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Sep 13, 2013 16:55
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teethgrinder posted:Fess up: I wish the print dialogue in Windows asked this. I have one user who prints out every single email she sends or receives and puts them all in a gigantic binder so she "has a paper trail and can find something if it gets deleted".
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Sep 13, 2013 17:34
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:Can't say I am a fan of drinking with work related people, it usually ends badly... You mean like that one Xmas party that resulted one of the techs dancing to Dancing Queen all by himself then later on getting groped by his manager? Edit: his manager was a guy, not that there is anything wrong with that except it wasn't consensual tomapot fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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Sep 13, 2013 17:39
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tomapot posted:You mean like that one Xmas party that resulted one of the techs dancing to Dancing Queen all by himself then later on getting groped by his manager? Apparently a couple years ago some marketing girls got absolutely trashed and ended up throwing up in public. I think this was a different year than one of them getting up on the table and dancing. While wearing a skirt, of course.
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Sep 13, 2013 17:42
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This is probably a dumb question, I got off the phone with the ISP support that i mentioned earlier in the thread. The internet connection is shared between all government departments in the same building and somebody is being a bandwidth hog. The ISP cant narrow it down to an I. The site has a speed cap of 22 mbit and their policy is when a node goes over its downstream cap is to start dropping packets... is that normal procedure for an ISP?
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Bunch of servers go down. Co-worker comes out of the DC: "I was tracing some network cables and unplugged the iSCSI switch."
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Sep 13, 2013 17:50
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:I kinda figured there were automated ways to uppercase the first letter. Still, she can use her drat shift key. I just thought that was the most ridiculous request I've received yet. It's a list of like 30 people, so it's not like she has to copy/paste thousands of unformatted names and fix them. Plus, even if it was a long list, paste the list with each name on its own line into Word, select all, Alt O, E. Choose sentence case. (You know, if you don't need a proper solution.) I use word to transpose the case of stuff all the time, even if it still fails to make Title Case half the time.
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Sep 13, 2013 18:11
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tomapot posted:You mean like that one Xmas party that resulted one of the techs dancing to Dancing Queen all by himself then later on getting groped by his manager? I never understand how this happens. Inability to behave professionally aside, by the time a person has finished college I really expect them to have learned to drink like an adult. How hard is it to grasp that getting blitzed at a work function is a bad idea? Hell, it's not a great idea at non-work functions either. If you want to drink your way to liver disease in private, that's your business -- and god knows I understand how this industry can drive you there sometimes -- but Christ, learn to operate in public like you're old enough to vote.
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Sep 13, 2013 18:13
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blackswordca posted:This is probably a dumb question, If the traffic is being policed, any excess is dropped. If the traffic is being shaped, it may be getting dropped depending on buffer space and queues. With it being a single site, it's very likely there is some sort of NAT being employed for all the departments. This would make it impossible for the ISP to tell who is the hog and police/shape only their traffic.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:The worst thing for me is when you're trying to help someone choose a password. The part that makes that even more annoying is that whenever I see someone doing this, they're staring at the keys when they type. Then, they look up at the screen to use the mouse to hit the "OK" button. How do they totally miss that there's missing characters? They're looking at the screen! Then, of course, they get all huffy and mutter something like "stupid computer" (Yeah, it's the computer...) and slowly hunt & peck their password again. ***edit*** Inspector_71 posted: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. 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. TWBalls fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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I know I'm not a full on IT person, but I just  .Going from a network affiliate to the county tv station that is planning on doing a major overhaul of their systems. According to the managers that interviewed me, it's going to be a multi-year upgrade process. Hopefully between this new position and getting more IT certs, I think my resume should look pretty good. Not much of a raise, but it should mean no more weekend or shift work, holidays off, and better benefits.
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Sep 13, 2013 18:29
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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. Like I've said 100 times in these threads, by trying to find some ridiculously complex and technical solution to a very simple human problem, you're only making things more difficult on yourself because you are validating her behaviour as acceptable. If they have a problem doing something as basic as pressing the Shift key, that is something that you need to bring up with their superior, and not something you should be spending ANY time on researching beyond that.
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nexxai posted:Ok, how is your first and only response anything other than "tough"? Agreed 100%. You're going to see poo poo like this a lot and you gotta call it out to their manager or you're going to be spending all day researching stupid crap that doesn't matter. What is costing the company more? Her pushing the god drat shift key or you spending two days figuring out a workaround?
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Opening a new branch location in the coming months. Have 2 choices of ISPs; Frontier or Comcast. Frontier has a horrible reputation in this area for slow speeds and awful customer service. While Comcast on the otherhand is the complete opposite. So I already have my mind made up which service I will be getting. New location had its ground breaking yesterday.. Boss comes in today and hands me a Frontier business card. I guess 2 local Frontier techs attended the groundbreaking, and because of them he wants me to give Frontier "serious consideration" when choosing a provider. I am to mention the tech's name when calling for a quote. I tried in vein to explain that whatever call center lackey I get when I do call them is not going to care nor even likely to know who this person is. He would have none of it. Kept saying "it only makes good business sense to give them a chance!" Ughh....  I have been on a mission to get rid of Frontier at all our branches and finally achieved just that last week. Now it looks like I am going to be forced to go back to them. 
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guppy posted:I never understand how this happens. Inability to behave professionally aside, by the time a person has finished college I really expect them to have learned to drink like an adult. How hard is it to grasp that getting blitzed at a work function is a bad idea? Hell, it's not a great idea at non-work functions either. If you want to drink your way to liver disease in private, that's your business -- and god knows I understand how this industry can drive you there sometimes -- but Christ, learn to operate in public like you're old enough to vote. We had a party to celebrate a long conversion at a rented conference room at a hotel. One of the PM's gave a short speech thanking everyone and about a minute in I realized she was drat near falling on her rear end drunk. I guess some people figure in front of all the people you work with is a good time to cut loose.
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stevewm posted:Opening a new branch location in the coming months. Have 2 choices of ISPs; Frontier or Comcast. Frontier has a horrible reputation in this area for slow speeds and awful customer service. While Comcast on the otherhand is the complete opposite. So I already have my mind made up which service I will be getting.
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Vin BioEthanol posted:I don't care about drinking at work, the few times I've tried to have a couple drinks at lunch all I wanted to do was sleep the rest of the day. I want to know about grills! Where do you work that trusts cube drones to walk through the building with raw meat?  Stevewm posted:Frontier or Comcast. *= I don't actually know, as I've never had to deal with them. TWBalls fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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Today I had my first run in with Crystal Reports. I was trying to simply switch a manager from doing reporting against production to a test server whilst the quote to get him a dedicated reporting DB snails its way through the paper mill (20 hours spent, we're almost ready to maybe send him an tentative offer on monday. For one (1) VM with SQL server and logshipping). His queries have ground production to a halt twice. You would think it'd be as easy as setting up a new ODBC on his machine and telling crystal reports to run the same reports against the new data scource. It isn't. 
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nexxai posted:Ok, how is your first and only response anything other than "tough"? That was the response. Even now knowing simple ways to achieve that, I'm not one to promote that sort of behavior and I'm not going to forward them. When people stop me in the halls and ask a question that takes more than a modicum of effort, I refer them to the helpdesk; when someone hands me their personal laptop, I tell them my private rates, and when I get a request like that (or a lot far more reasonable) I have no problem saying 'no'. I'm just sharing the worst ticket I've seen, and I've gotten requests to fix toilets. At least with toilet tickets, there's an actual problem, and it's easy enough to forward to the maintenance department.
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tomapot posted:You mean like that one Xmas party that resulted one of the techs dancing to Dancing Queen all by himself then later on getting groped by his manager? No like "no one wants to talk about computers or work" so it usually ends up with me talking aloud or drawing idea's down or browsing something computer or cartoon related stuff. I mean I'll make small talk and be sociable but you can only small talk before so long were it's like can we please get back to talking about technology?
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:No like "no one wants to talk about computers or work" so it usually ends up with me talking aloud or drawing idea's down or browsing something computer or cartoon related stuff. I mean I'll make small talk and be sociable but you can only small talk before so long were it's like can we please get back to talking about technology? Oh, god. This is me. I'm pretty much socially retarded. I've slowly been working on changing that (for well over 10 years now). Saab669 posted:The guys in my office are always trying to get together after work, but yea, absolutely nothing to talk about with them. It's terrible, and then I get "flak" for not going. Cool dudes to work with, but I don't want to spend even more of my time with them. They're all sports and own houses and have kids. Young, single, heavy gamer. Zero common ground unless we're talking current events or politics. TWBalls fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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