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Paladine_PSoT posted:I can only imagine it went like this: Was it a dream where you are standing in sorta sun god robes and a pyramid and thousands of naked women are throwing pickles at you?
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Agrikk posted:Was it a dream where you are standing in sorta sun god robes and a pyramid and thousands of naked women are throwing pickles at you? Little ones.
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 01:04 |
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AlexDeGruven posted:Little ones. At least I'm not the only one who has that dream.
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 01:05 |
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elcapjtk posted:As an IT pro, I never thought I'd spend a day fixing various lasers. Did you finally defeat Cobra? I honestly could never figure out why everyone on that cartoon was such a lousy shot when every single round was a tracer.
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 01:44 |
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stubblyhead posted:Did you finally defeat Cobra? I honestly could never figure out why everyone on that cartoon was such a lousy shot when every single round was a tracer. It's like the A-Team: My air-powered cabbage cannon with blast your car into cartwheeling and somersaulting over some kind of thing, and I will open up on you with my chrome AK, but the occupants of the vehicle will crawl away intact and all of my bullets will kick up dirt at your feet, forcing you to surrender. 80's TV was rad, somehow. /derail
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 01:47 |
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peak debt posted:Maybe you already know this but with the CLASSPATH environment variable you can install multiple Java runtimes on one computer and run each application on exactly the edition it requires without compromising system security (too much). I didn't know that! Is there a good guide on how to implement that?
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 01:50 |
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An alert came in... <server name> has alerts! Well that's informative, let's see what the monitoring software that triggers the alert software says(we have multiple layers of monitoring for our Unix environment, since our main monitoring tool is a Microsoft product). Filesystem capacity maxed out? Let's check which filesystem triggered it. /mnt/cdrom Why the gently caress would you monitor a DVD mount for capacity issues? And to make it better, the server was in Japan, and some fucknut kept ejecting the disc and reinserting it so the alarm came back every time I cleared out as pointless.
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 04:31 |
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My coworker and I just finished migrating file and VPN services to a new server we built for a client, and a couple emails came in:General Manager posted:Hi <coworker>, President posted:And <coworker>, can I just second that?! If <General Manager>'s happy, I'm REALLY happy. Something's wrong here. This can't be right.
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 05:22 |
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SamDabbers posted:My coworker and I just finished migrating file and VPN services to a new server we built for a client, and a couple emails came in: Did you take over for their old, incompetent consultants? Good job
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SamDabbers posted:My coworker and I just finished migrating file and VPN services to a new server we built for a client, and a couple emails came in: Every now and then I go back to finish off an invoice or close a case and see a note from an account manager or our phone-answering-person with a note from a customer saying everything is awesome and it makes me feel so
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 05:36 |
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citywok posted:Did you take over for their old, incompetent consultants? Yes we did, and thanks I'm just surprised that a) an executive actually followed all instructions, and b) they actually bothered to tell us that they're pleased.
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 05:41 |
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 07:13 |
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We're in the middle of our Windows 7 deployment, and one guy returned his old XP laptop with a thank you note and a box of Sees candy. It was kinda creepy.
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SamDabbers posted:Yes we did, and thanks Haha, not all customers are horrible. Just most :p Also, remember the distaste you have for the previous guy. Next time you think about a ghetto solution, just imagine what future-guy will be thinking about you, and be nice to future-yourself. If every developer coded for future-dev rather than themselves my life would be much, much easier :p
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 08:31 |
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Crowley posted:Right on the head! Dear Crowley, you quoted the wrong part of Caged's post. Here, let me help you. Caged posted:situations where you just want to hit people I believe that was what you meant to respond to....
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 08:44 |
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Potato Alley posted:I believe that was what you meant to respond to.... meh. That involves HR and all sorts of "explanations". The best thing my old boss did was take me to the gym and get me to join the boxing club. Boxing is a great stress reliever. Boxing against your boss is even better. Rhymenoserous posted:The next person that asks me about cloud backup solutions is getting punched in the dick. The required bandwith alone breaks the TCO.
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SamDabbers posted:My coworker and I just finished migrating file and VPN services to a new server we built for a client, and a couple emails came in: That's right. You did an amazing job, but your manager gets the raise.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I didn't know that! Is there a good guide on how to implement that? You install the JRE you need to get that application to run on some throwaway VM. Then you zip up the contents of c:\program files\java and unzip it on your real work PC under c:\crappyjavaversion so that there is a bin and a lib subdirectory directly under that. Then, make a batch file that starts your Java app, like: code:
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 15:01 |
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stubblyhead posted:Did you finally defeat Cobra? I honestly could never figure out why everyone on that cartoon was such a lousy shot when every single round was a tracer. The only (notably the lamest) characters who ever died actually elected to "stay behind in the alternate dimension". Nobody in that show could hit a goddamned thing. Knormal posted:We're in the middle of our Windows 7 deployment, and one guy returned his old XP laptop with a thank you note and a box of Sees candy. It was kinda creepy.
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 15:22 |
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So the power went out... And the UPS' didn't fail over to battery power for the generator, uh ohhh.
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Loose Ifer posted:So the power went out... We have a UPS in our server room that's been sitting in there for about 2 years. We recently discovered it wasn't plugged in.
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Glans Dillzig posted:We have a UPS in our server room that's been sitting in there for about 2 years. Oddly enough that was also our problem. Looks like when they did some cable cleanup, not all of the cables made it back in.
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And now about 5% of desktops are freezing when the users log in. Nothing in the event logs. Trying to set up the network capture, but by the time i set them up, the PCs are working. Boss says figure out, per usual. Guess I'll just keep working the ticket queue....
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 20:14 |
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Anyone ever had a tpm module fail? I setup a new laptop with bitlocker full disk a couple weeks ago for a guy, today it won't boot, wants the key. when you enter the key and boot up windows, windows is bitching about a tpm module could not be found. Going into bios there's no "security chip" option at all like the other laptops have. Update bios, same thing. I read something about tpms maybe going into a lockout mode if they think they're being attacked and will unlock after 20 hours or something but surely that wouldn't make the option disappear in bios? Lenovo's sending a guy to replace the board tomorrow and they usually are pretty sure of themselves before paying a guy to install a $$ board next day.
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Vin BioEthanol posted:Anyone ever had a tpm module fail? I setup a new laptop with bitlocker full disk a couple weeks ago for a guy, today it won't boot, wants the key. when you enter the key and boot up windows, windows is bitching about a tpm module could not be found. Interesting. I suppose anything's possible to fail. You can boot with the key and decrypt the drive?
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Interesting. I suppose anything's possible to fail. You can boot with the key and decrypt the drive? Yep, well not decrypt but I have it suspended and everything's working fine.
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Sirotan posted:On the subject of autocomplete, a voicemail came in from someone with the same name as one of our employees. Some months back our employee was a moron and gave out her own personal email address wrong to a bunch of people. Then those people started emailing work email to that address, and the recipient emailed them back and told them to stop. Eventually it got back to me and I just blocked that address as a recipient altogether in our firewall, and instructed our employees how to remove her from their contacts AND the Outlook autocomplete. As a follow up to this, because I always forget and figure it might remind someone else too, I had blocked firstname.lastname@gmail.com in our firewall, but forgot that while Gmail treats it the same as firstnamelastname@gmail.com, our firewall does not.
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 21:53 |
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Sirotan posted:
Drop a batch file into their startup folder that kills the nk2 then itself. Edit: never mind, I see this is old and no nk2 files around anymore. Still batch files in startup that kill things then themsleves are p-cool. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Nov 19, 2013 |
# ? Nov 19, 2013 21:56 |
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So I have been trying to get a hold of the account lead to follow up with him on the possible hardware failure on the backup server and the issues with the internet upgrade here but I haven't been able to get a hold of him. I talk to one of the other guys in the office and it turns out he left for Cuba this morning. He will be back in December. That is... fantastic.
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I've seen a few TPM modules fail (T410). But that's like... 5 modules out of thousands of laptops.
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 22:26 |
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blackswordca posted:So I have been trying to get a hold of the account lead to follow up with him on the possible hardware failure on the backup server and the issues with the internet upgrade here but I haven't been able to get a hold of him. I talk to one of the other guys in the office and it turns out he left for Cuba this morning. He will be back in December. Ticket Update: Waiting on reply from account lead.
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Loose Ifer posted:And now about 5% of desktops are freezing when the users log in. Nothing in the event logs. Trying to set up the network capture, but by the time i set them up, the PCs are working. Boss says figure out, per usual. Guess I'll just keep working the ticket queue.... To what kind of switch are they connected? I've had switches in a stack behave really wonky with random temporary slowdowns within a single switch and in connections going cross-stack. Turns out re-flashing the firmware for every switch in the stack via the stack manager with the same exact firmware cleared up the issue in our case.
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Vin BioEthanol posted:Anyone ever had a tpm module fail? I setup a new laptop with bitlocker full disk a couple weeks ago for a guy, today it won't boot, wants the key. when you enter the key and boot up windows, windows is bitching about a tpm module could not be found. Hoo boy, we run T420s here and something is up with the TPM chips here. I get a laptop that will work fine until one day, it decides to lock out. I actually witnessed this. The person took out the laptop and typed the code in correctly and the TPM locked out. Clearing out the security chip only fixes the problem temporary. I usually have to call Lenovo with a new system board.
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Jeoh posted:I've seen a few TPM modules fail (T410). But that's like... 5 modules out of thousands of laptops. What kind of fan and dock connector failure rate you have on t410s? I only have about 50 of those, about 150 400s and 150 420s but I've probably called in close to every 410 for fan and dock connector. 400s and 420s are perfect. We just started t430s that's what my TPM fail was on. Edit aww poo poo lenovo crew up ITT. Why do they have a lady from Wisconsin welcoming you to the call center in atlanta Georgia where it's their goal to insure you're extremely satisfied? Edit again they could've afforded Nelly. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Nov 19, 2013 |
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blackswordca posted:So I have been trying to get a hold of the account lead to follow up with him on the possible hardware failure on the backup server and the issues with the internet upgrade here but I haven't been able to get a hold of him. I talk to one of the other guys in the office and it turns out he left for Cuba this morning. He will be back in December. Suuuure he'll be back in December. /me is awaiting the discovery of empty accounts where budgets once lived.
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Suuuure he'll be back in December. With luck I wont have to deal with it. A position I applied for closes tomorrow and I have a recommendation from one of the managers in the same department, so here is hoping.
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# ? Nov 19, 2013 23:58 |
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We also use Lenovos. Except M82s and T530s. With the occasional X230 for the special snowflake who thinks a T530 is 'too big and heavy'
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Alctel posted:We also use Lenovos. Except M82s and T530s. With the occasional X230 for the special snowflake who thinks a T530 is 'too big and heavy' Yep we have the x230 as an option for a certain level and up. Thin executive wrists. A couple t530s for special power-user snowflakes. I do like those. (Actually something like an x230 would be pretty nice for me as my personal laptop that I use for nothing but chrome, putty and mstsc'ing into my godbox if it didn't have that poo poo resolution.) Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Nov 20, 2013 |
# ? Nov 20, 2013 00:19 |
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Have kind of a ridiculous request from our VP of sales... "I need an Apple product ideally, a [bluetooth speakerphone] with multiple remote mics" "We have 12+ people sitting around an oblong table and it is awkward and difficult for them to have their voices heard from a single unit" He says that he used a cellular device designed for this purpose and it cost over $4500 to have an hour long meeting, so he wants something that he can connect to his Macbook Pro that has multiple remote mics. Insanity. Anybody have any suggestions? <edit> Polycom sales chat was quite competent and responsive.. SoundStation EX2, 2 pack of remote mics and their "mobile device conference cable" something to that effect. I'm just glad I'm not going to be the one lugging all this junk around the world with me... drukqs fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Nov 20, 2013 |
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I try to be sympathetic when ridiculous requests come in, it's pretty difficult for someone who's not very technical to understand what is and isn't reasonable. Communicate with a room full of people 2000 miles away as if they're in the same room: Reasonable Sort through 20 Million Records to find the specific customer we're looking for: Reasonable Multiple remote microphones for a speakerphone: That might be tricky
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