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rolleyes posted:drat, jacking a laptop from a charity on your way out the door is pretty scummy. At every place I've worked there's a certain level of employee where you just don't give your laptop back
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rolleyes posted:To resume the earlier chat about having a common firstname.lastname@gmail.com address: You received someone else's psych profile exam and didn't set it to slobbering psychotic?
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# ? Nov 13, 2013 00:54 |
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Those things take way too loving long to do one as a joke.
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# ? Nov 13, 2013 04:53 |
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"This is unacceptable" and "I don't want to hear that." Maybe then you should have told me about this project last month when you found out instead of two days before rollout.
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rolleyes posted:To resume the earlier chat about having a common firstname.lastname@gmail.com address:
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Misogynist posted:So, uh, you're sure the HR person didn't just mistype it?
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Mercurius posted:Even if it was a mistake on their end, I'm sure rolleyes was professional enough to have sent a 'hey, this was mistakenly received' reply without any of his comments here. We use this thread as a way to vent about stupid stuff so we don't say or do those things to people at our jobs.
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# ? Nov 13, 2013 05:54 |
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So because I didn't tell the engineer who I helped save his project "what raid levels" should be deployed in his array he bought without finding out what the environment needs. He loaded the thing up with 600GB SAS decided since I asked "weel what metrics did you gather in your planning with X" and a response of "I didn't do that man 15k is fast just lemme know what raid level is best for Y/Z!' So he decides raid One raid 1, 1 4disk RAID 5, 8disk RAID 0+1 for the whole raid is best because 'it's somewhat more that the customer had with the old array'.... He comes back to me "poo poo man my raid 0+1 is complaining about low storage! can you fix this?" It's awesome because I discussed the requirements for their environment before hand with him and got a "yeah yeah well 15k = way to go" Apparently teir'ing storage is for nerds and "don't have time for that man". No, asking me what raid levels to deploy for customer WHILE I am helping you rack and boot the HP MSA is NOT how you do a successful deployment Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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Today I had to explain to a help desk technician that running Internet Explorer in administrator-mode will not magically resolve a domain name. I had to walk him through how SiteMinder changes URLs, but still had to humor him by typing in both the original URL, as well as what it should like under SiteMinder. Neither worked, of course, because the whole purpose of a VPN solution is to make it look like you can get access to what you need, without actually providing such access.
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# ? Nov 13, 2013 06:42 |
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Pissing me off: Being brought into discussions with co-workers about how poo poo our management is. It's different to this thread. At work I realise that the co-workers' problems are also mine. At least here I can close a tab
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# ? Nov 13, 2013 10:25 |
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Iphone 4s with broken wifi-chip (won't turn on / find networks) (known problem on 4s) User reported it, i told him to bring it to me and he'd get to borrow an older android phone. User brings it to me 30 days after he first told me about it, i reset it, update it, call Apple who wants me to give them a cc number before they'll fix it, then they tell me it went out of warranty 8 days earlier. Send it to the people we bought it from, they first quoted me €150 to fix it, turns out it's actually €380 (wtf), i tell them no and to return it, get to pay €80 just for freight.
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# ? Nov 13, 2013 11:07 |
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underlig posted:Iphone 4s with broken wifi-chip (won't turn on / find networks) (known problem on 4s) At least your company buys name brand devices with a chain of supply for parts, you could be in a world of generic cheap android knockoffs
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HalloKitty posted:gently caress, that was my first thought. Mine was "Why the gently caress is the sound defaulted to IRQ10? Everyone knows they come set to either 5 or 7". Then I realised that no-one knows that any more as it's irrelevant. I do kind of miss the days when I had much respect from my circle of friends as the person who could write a CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT suitable for any game they acquired, complete with pretty menus and everything.
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underlig posted:User brings it to me 30 days after he first told me about it, i reset it, update it, call Apple who wants me to give them a cc number before they'll fix it, then they tell me it went out of warranty 8 days earlier. How hard did you press the matter with Apple? Since you had documentation of the issue before the warranty expired it's possible they would have done it anyway.
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Lum posted:Mine was "Why the gently caress is the sound defaulted to IRQ10? Everyone knows they come set to either 5 or 7". Then I realised that no-one knows that any more as it's irrelevant. Thank god I wasn't the only who thought that. So many years in that blue menu on grey background setup.exe setting sound card IRQs and DMAs it's permanently etched into my brain.
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There was some reason the COM ports had to be on different IRQs. I can't remember what it was (maybe mouse driver?). IRQs 3/4/5/9 were the only settings the card allowed, and 7 was already used for the on-board parallel port and couldn't be disabled. So 10 was the only free IRQ for the sound. Setting up your perfect fantasy IRQ allocation is easy. In real life you have to work with what you've got, and work around the restrictions.
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Sweevo posted:There was some reason the COM ports had to be on different IRQs. I can't remember what it was (maybe mouse driver?). IRQs 3/4/5/9 were the only settings the card allowed, and 7 was already used for the on-board parallel port and couldn't be disabled. So 10 was the only free IRQ for the sound. I do remember having internal modem on COM3 and mouse on COM1 used to cause issues. I just set it to IRQ2/9 (and yes I can remember why 2&9 are the same thing!), with the SoundBlaster on IRQ7. IRQ10 was for the third IDE controller I happened to have, since in those days having a CD burner sharing with any other device would screw things up. I think the Gravis UltraSound may have defaulted to 10, but I was never rich enough to own one of those, and back in those days you either owned a SoundBlaster compatible card, or you didn't get sound in half of your games. hihifellow posted:Thank god I wasn't the only who thought that. So many years in that blue menu on grey background setup.exe setting sound card IRQs and DMAs it's permanently etched into my brain. SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 Only for 99% of games to ignore that and demand manual configuration. Lum fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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Fiddling with EMS and XMS and trying to free up enough memory was more annoying than setting IRQ/DMA.
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MrBling posted:Fiddling with EMS and XMS and trying to free up enough memory was more annoying than setting IRQ/DMA.
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Lum posted:Mine was "Why the gently caress is the sound defaulted to IRQ10? Everyone knows they come set to either 5 or 7". Then I realised that no-one knows that any more as it's irrelevant. I had a sound card fairly late, but I do remember having to change jumpers on various devices to adjust the IRQ. Then again, I enjoyed PC Speaker music. Especially when you had a decent driver, not just a stupid buzzer like today. I also once had a motherboard that lacked a CMOS battery (it was soldered on and had been torn off to remove the password), and no auto-detect for the HDD, so I had to remember the parameters on every cold boot for my cavernous 245MB HDD. Glorious times... kind of.
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HalloKitty posted:I had a sound card fairly late, but I do remember having to change jumpers on various devices to adjust the IRQ. Then again, I enjoyed PC Speaker music. Especially when you had a decent driver, not just a stupid buzzer like today. PC speaker has always been 'just a buzzer'. And there was never 'PC speaker music'
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Bob Morales posted:PC speaker has always been 'just a buzzer'. And there was never 'PC speaker music' Tell that to Pinball Fantasies. Or Lotus III. Or Monkey Island. Or Leisure Suit Larry. I played plenty of DOS games that modulated the basic IBM PC speaker to be something that elevated it far above "beep". Hell, I even had a Windows programme that could take a proper WAV file and output through PC speaker (albeit mangled to hell because of the inherit limitations). HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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Lum posted:I think the Gravis UltraSound may have defaulted to 10, but I was never rich enough to own one of those, and back in those days you either owned a SoundBlaster compatible card, or you didn't get sound in half of your games. Bob Morales posted:PC speaker has always been 'just a buzzer'. And there was never 'PC speaker music' Either you're being sarcastic about the quality, or else you never played PC games before Adlib cards became popular (I also remember there being a "PC Speaker" soundcard driver for Windows 3.1 though it's been so long that I can't remember if it was 1st or 3rd party.) ookiimarukochan fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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Bob Morales posted:PC speaker has always been 'just a buzzer'. And there was never 'PC speaker music' Yeah, they've always been buzzers, but the frequency has always been modulateable. Old dos-based games pre-sound card era definitely took advantage of this. Hell, I had a piano program that would play tones over the PC-speaker on my 8088. Kings quest had a whole soundtrack that played over this, and they even tried to give the ogres and whatnot voices by doing rapid modulation of the frequency to make it sound like they were talking.
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AdLib for life... I know people hate printers, but executive assistants have to be a close second place.
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There were some wizards who could push that tiny little speaker to its limits. The PC game Ghostbusters II even had a passable "I, VIGO, THE SCOURGE OF CARPATHIA" that scared the hell out of a 7 year old me.
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Dick Trauma posted:I know people hate printers, but executive assistants have to be a close second place. One usually leads to the other.
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Bob Morales posted:PC speaker has always been 'just a buzzer'. And there was never 'PC speaker music' This is incorrect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealSound <-- this was a thing. I remember playing Mean Streets with this on it. EDIT: Beaten. it happens when I have to do real work while browsing the forums nitrogen fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Kings quest had a whole soundtrack that played over this, and they even tried to give the ogres and whatnot voices by doing rapid modulation of the frequency to make it sound like they were talking.
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nitrogen posted:This is incorrect. The link on that Wiki is great. A treasure chest of PC speaker at far beyond the designed purpose. http://www.oldskool.org/sound/pc/#digitized I would always take the proper large speaker from my older PCs to my newer ones. Toss away those silly piezo buzzers that came with cheap later cases. Well, not any more of course, boards come with them onboard or not even at all, and now you'd have no use for it. DOSbox can emulate PC speaker anyhow. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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HalloKitty posted:The link on that Wiki is great. A treasure chest of PC speaker at far beyond the designed purpose. I wonder if PWM still works natively... Mute doesn't effect the onboard pc speaker, so I just got an idea for a hilarious prank.
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HalloKitty posted:Tell that to Pinball Fantasies. Or Lotus III. Or Monkey Island. Or Leisure Suit Larry. I knew that you *could* but I just didn't remember any games actually doing it - it was mostly just bleeps and bloops but I remember downloading little one-trick programs that would play a terrible rendition of certain songs or noises through PC speaker. Once I got my first 8-bit Soundblaster card I was blown away.
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Lum posted:I do remember having internal modem on COM3 and mouse on COM1 used to cause issues. I just set it to IRQ2/9 (and yes I can remember why 2&9 are the same thing!), with the SoundBlaster on IRQ7. IRQ10 was for the third IDE controller I happened to have, since in those days having a CD burner sharing with any other device would screw things up. Didn't you also need "T4" or something in there? I'm sure mine used to have it in.
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In the middle of a semester where I have to be in constant contact with over 700 students, our IT switched the faculty email system from Novell Groupwise (which was an enormous piece of poo poo) to Outlook & Office 365 (which is so much worse that I want to go back in time and stop Microsoft from existing). Why, why does the Outlook Web App have to be so goddamned lovely? Do they not have a half dozen competent programmers at Microsoft?
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Fil5000 posted:Didn't you also need "T4" or something in there? I'm sure mine used to have it in. code:
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Misogynist posted:Days of my young life, wasted loving with EMM386.EXE so Ultima VII or whatever would run. Messing with PC config files got me started on the path that let me to an IT career. I am not sure if that is good or bad.
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As has been briefly mentioned, the PC speaker was not only capable of playing music, but Pinball Fantasies even used it to play back 3-track MOD files.
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poo poo pissing me off for the last year: FGLRX. 200$ for a Nvidia card and a power supply for my PC at work? gently caress that! Use this Radeon instead!
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ratbert90 posted:poo poo pissing me off for the last year: FGLRX. fglrx mostly works these days, but the open radeon driver is good enough that you only need fglrx for CAD work, essentially.
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