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blackswordca posted:so it leaves me in a "well you guys did it before" situation. Which your manager is paid to resolve. Sounds like it isn't your problem any more - you've discovered a potential issue that could possibly have landed your employer with legal issues. Obviously it won't play out that way.
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SamDabbers posted:Highlighted the problem. They probably don't have even $100 in the budget to get new wireless cards or a wireless bridge. The teacher stresses pretty hard that they have to work with what they have, which is sad considering the machines are so old that they can't hop on a modern wireless network. Oh. Right. A school being a school there's no money for anything and if you had the money you would have upgraded the wireless cards. It's been a while since I've done any work in a school.
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Agrikk posted:Oh. Right. It's not that there's no money for anything, but that what money there is has already been committed. If you need wireless cards, they have to be specifically added to the budget for next year. This is why a school will be able to spend tens of thousands of dollars to upgrade the campus wireless network, but won't be able to buy $100 worth of wireless cards for old machines once someone realizes, after the new APs have been installed, that the old machines can't connect to them.
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Oct 8, 2013 19:47
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How big is that library that a computer in the center can't be connected by Ethernet, and why can't a school that can afford a 10 acre library not afford modern PCs? 
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Oct 8, 2013 19:51
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Caged posted:Which your manager is paid to resolve. Sounds like it isn't your problem any more - you've discovered a potential issue that could possibly have landed your employer with legal issues. Obviously it won't play out that way. Unfortunately, you forgot the most important part of the situation:
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SamDabbers posted:It's not that there's no money for anything, but that what money there is has already been committed. If you need wireless cards, they have to be specifically added to the budget for next year. This is why a school will be able to spend tens of thousands of dollars to upgrade the campus wireless network, but won't be able to buy $100 worth of wireless cards for old machines once someone realizes, after the new APs have been installed, that the old machines can't connect to them. E-Rate funds. The infrastructure is upgraded using E-Rate funding from the federal government, but since it has to be spent on very specific infrastructure related items, none of it can actually be used for PCs or other network endpoints.
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Oct 8, 2013 19:55
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Unfortunately, you forgot the most important part of the situation: Hah! I haven't heard back from anyone as of yet, either the customer after the original phone call or from any managers or account leads who I have informed. To be fair, it is lunch time and that does take priority over everything else.
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Oct 8, 2013 19:57
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Caged posted:iOS 7 does an activation lock - you can't set the phone up unless the previous user enters their Apple ID. Yep. I currently have two iPhones in for repair just sitting there, waiting for their users to deactivate the unit in their account. this has got to be something an Authorized repair center will be getting the tools to reset. It's just a PR disaster waiting to happen.
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Oct 8, 2013 20:42
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I'd take that or the ability to assign the phones to a master corporate account as well as letting people use their own personal iTunes stuff. Like how the MS Passport parent accounts worked back in the day.
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Oct 8, 2013 21:13
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New record phone bill by our international sales director guy ELEVEN GRAND month before last TEN GRAND last month. Apparently AT+T blames him for enabling roaming data (which is tied to enabling roaming calls) and using 8300mb.
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Oct 8, 2013 21:23
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Crowley posted:It's just a PR disaster waiting to happen. Apple have bluffed this out several times now (PR disasters waiting to happen I mean) and nothing sticks! Even with Jobs long gone the infamous RDF is still in place as far as I can see.
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Oct 8, 2013 21:23
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drukqs posted:New record phone bill by our international sales director guy 21 thousand dollars for 8.3GB? That's loving ridiculous. Expected--it's AT&T--but ridiculous nonetheless.
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drukqs posted:Apparently AT+T blames him for enabling roaming data (which is tied to enabling roaming calls) and using 8300mb. Roaming voice and roaming data are separate options on my phone.
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Oct 8, 2013 21:45
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Record we have here is $37,000 in one month, due to a guy travelling abroad with his blackberry and not taking the roaming package and doing ~something~ that ate up a few gigs. Bell charges $5 a mb if its not on a plan
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I've always been curious who is in the chain of providers and their international agreements actually gets that money. Is it your local telecom reaming you because they can or are they just passing on what they get charged by the telecom in wherever you're roaming?
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peak debt posted:How big is that library that a computer in the center can't be connected by Ethernet, and why can't a school that can afford a 10 acre library not afford modern PCs? Also people remember using books when they were in school.
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Oct 8, 2013 22:24
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Day two of new job, and I've already seen my first "do the needful"!
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Entropic posted:I've always been curious who is in the chain of providers and their international agreements actually gets that money. Is it your local telecom reaming you because they can or are they just passing on what they get charged by the telecom in wherever you're roaming? Both, and every bandwidth provider between the two networks.
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forwarded this to my boss while he was being reamed out for not seeing this coming...  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403693,00.asp the problem is, the sales guy is really fussy and JUST went through a whole complicated process getting a 5S with gayt+t this article says verizon will only do this with a 4S
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A ticket went to my boss from a very important client of ours "URGENT NEED SUPPORT ASAP FOR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT" Sub: Blah blah poo poo broke, can we have dilbert come fix stuff again? Blah blah It's 10am issues, piggers game not loading. My boss: Hey dilbert can you go to $VIP client$ Me: Okay, sure lemme catch up on the email string to see what is going on -reads email, its UNIX issues and Vmware issues- Me: Yeah this is going to take me a couple hours 'Supervisor': Dilbert I need you to try your hardest get back here before 2, like unless they absolutely need you come back before 2. Me: Well not sure if I can do but I'll try, it is a high priority issue some services are down. -1:30ish close to finishing, calls super to say I am going to be in after 2, but it goes to VM" No answer to call so I call/IM the guy who sits next to him telling him I am running over and will be an hour or so late. Then an IM from my super comes in, I explain the issue, no chatting for 5min or so and the onsite IT guy needs to login to some server to test some poo poo on my laptop. It's at this moment he sent me a "what time are you going to be back" but because my laptop was being used pretty heavily, I text on my company phone to his company phone "going to be around 2:45-3:00". He then pings me back after the onsite guy is finished on my PC, right as a "Well I guess if you aren't going to talk to me I assume you'll be running late..."  Did you get my text? I don't check my (company phone that is for work) at work, for text messages The great this is that it is an iphone which buzzes and leaves the last txt up for a bit.
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The CFO came to me because he was trying to install something and doesn't have admin rights. So I walk down to his office to take care of it and see what he's installing: LEAGUE OF LEGENDS  Turns out our company is looking to do some sort of business with Riot and he said he wanted to understand what Riot's big product is. At least that's his story...
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Oct 8, 2013 23:56
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I once had someone in a marketing team back in like 2007 wanting to trade her thin and light laptop in for a thin and light laptop that could also play Second Life. That was an interesting discussion.
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Oct 8, 2013 23:58
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Dick Trauma posted:The CFO came to me because he was trying to install something and doesn't have admin rights. So I walk down to his office to take care of it and see what he's installing:
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anthonypants posted:Did you berate him with meme humor and racist comments until he left? If he didn't, the Riot people probably will. Maybe sexist comments instead.
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Entropic posted:I've always been curious who is in the chain of providers and their international agreements actually gets that money. Is it your local telecom reaming you because they can or are they just passing on what they get charged by the telecom in wherever you're roaming?
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Kyrosiris posted:If he didn't, the Riot people probably will. Maybe sexist comments instead. Their art department though...
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Caged posted:I once had someone in a marketing team back in like 2007 wanting to trade her thin and light laptop in for a thin and light laptop that could also play Second Life. That was an interesting discussion. The last company I was at used Second Life as a "virtual training" software instead of just a 8-hour droning conference call with a powerpoint deck in Lync. I'm not sure which is actually worse.
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teethgrinder posted:Riot themselves seem to be firmly against such behaviour. Nah, S2 Worlds nixed that idea, between Phreak's "well if girls just played more, they'd be here instead!" poo poo, having noted rape apologist HotshotGG on the commentary desk constantly, and Rivington's constant "X is raping Y!" crap.
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Urit posted:The last company I was at used Second Life as a "virtual training" software instead of just a 8-hour droning conference call with a powerpoint deck in Lync. I'm not sure which is actually worse. With Lync there isn't the chance that a flying penis could waft in and interrupt things.
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Caged posted:I once had someone in a marketing team back in like 2007 wanting to trade her thin and light laptop in for a thin and light laptop that could also play Second Life. That was an interesting discussion.
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Kyrosiris posted:Nah, S2 Worlds nixed that idea, between Phreak's "well if girls just played more, they'd be here instead!" poo poo, having noted rape apologist HotshotGG on the commentary desk constantly, and Rivington's constant "X is raping Y!" crap. Which is kind of hilarious too ... the forum was full of people constantly claiming Riot screwed them over, that they should never have been banned ... then a Riot employee offers the full case/chatlog which is always strewn with racism/homophobia/etc.
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MJP posted:We use Fiberlink MaaS360. It's good once it's up and running with some nicely granular support. I don't know how much it costs so it may be worth looking into 2012 R2's mobile device management if you can spin off a VM for testing/futzing. gently caress Fiberlink. Their lovely product is loving horrendous to troubleshoot. Chances are, if something's hosed up with a users laptop, it's because of Fiberlink. Granted, we only ever used the Laptop MaaS client, not the mobile, but I wouldn't touch anything from them again if I could help it.
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Galler posted:I worked at a university library around that time period and the dean of the library latched onto second life and thought it was the wave of the future. She wanted to use it for conference calls and virtual conferences and poo poo with other libraries. She ended up quietly dropping it after putting a lot of effort into getting a bunch of other libraries on board with it. I assume someone took her aside and showed her some of the furry rape dungeons and whatnot that made up the core of the second life community. A director at my previous job (coincidentally also at a university) wasted tens of thousands of dollars on getting on-campus buildings modelled in Second Life (now instead of going to the real English lit building you can meet at something that vaguely resembles it in Second Life!). He presented all this crap with such enthusiasm at one of our all-hands meetings, nobody else thought it had any point at all, and any mention of it was quietly disappeared.
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Urit posted:The last company I was at used Second Life as a "virtual training" software instead of just a 8-hour droning conference call with a powerpoint deck in Lync. I'm not sure which is actually worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RedLyae4b2s&t=20s (NSFW after 1:15 into the video) Did they make people make new SL accounts, or use their existing ones? I'm imagining a corporate event filled with the default newbie avatar. Not sure I'd fancy explaining my SL avatar (looks basically the same as my forums avatar, only longer hair) to some corporate suit running a training course, and now I'm remembering some of the goon ones from back in the day. Lum fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Oct 9, 2013 |
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Migishu posted:gently caress Fiberlink. Their lovely product is loving horrendous to troubleshoot. Chances are, if something's hosed up with a users laptop, it's because of Fiberlink. The mobile client's only real issue is that it's huge for what it does - like 45ish megs - and I'm not sure if it's just our company's Exchange environment/requirements or if it's just Fiberlink, but we had to use Touchdown for mail instead of the native Android mail/contacts/calendar. It also slowed down my Galaxy S Relay 4G while I had it on there. I updated the phone to JB and when it wanted to encrypt my external SD card, I figured I was done with BYOD. Which wasn't doing much anyway since despite having MaaS installed, I was still expected to carry a Blackberry. :logic:
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Also the web UI is complete poo poo
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Caged posted:web UI is complete poo poo Broadened that for you.
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Oh good loving lord. My boss just told me to start looking at Hyper-V to replace our 4 node VMWare cluster because it would save us $12,000 a year in licensing.
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I have a really nice Server 2012 Root/Intermediate Certificate structure. I issue all our internal certificates from it. Our new intranet, of course, gets it's shiny new 2048 bit certificate from there. A majority of our branch users (the main intranet audience) uses Citrix. The god damned citrix servers are on Server 2003 SP2, on a different domain in a different forest. This means when I imported the Root and Intermediate CA over to this other forest, the Citrix servers went "Huh? No that certificate can't be valid, look at all those numbers". Server 2003 SP2 is what, 6+ years old? End of Life on that poo poo was years ago. But there's a hotfix at least. That I can put on manually. Because it doesn't come as an msi, but as an exe.
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Antioch posted:Server 2003 SP2 is what, 6+ years old? End of Life on that poo poo was years ago. Isn't it end of life next year?
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