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ElGroucho posted:I... I can't tell if you are being funny or serious.
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Wasn't there a directx update that would just spam the gently caress out of your root with log files or something?
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We have so much AS400 work that requires RPG, we're probably going to hire a contract worker for a year. Amazing.
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And then there was EVE Online and a couple of other games where uninstalling them deleted your files or blew up the boot.ini file.
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mllaneza posted:And then there was EVE Online and a couple of other games where uninstalling them deleted your files or blew up the boot.ini file. It was actually a patch for EVE that deleted boot.ini, not uninstalling it.
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Inspector_666 posted:It was actually a patch for EVE that deleted boot.ini, not uninstalling it. That is just sheer hatred for your customers. I found and submitted a bug to SE where aborting an update to Final Fantasy XI at the wrong time would start nuking system32.
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Dec 5, 2013 23:06
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Paladine_PSoT posted:That is just sheer hatred for your customers. Nah, it's just CCP being CCP. They made this video about the aftermath.
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Agrikk posted:What, forget to copy/paste or offer out your IT services to friends? Yes.
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ElGroucho posted:Why do all electrical engineers write code that saves files directly to the root of c:\ ? Is there a special school they go to in order to learn bad programming habits? Electrical engineers and scientists are usually taught to quickly write code which accomplishes a particular task and not worry about wider concerns beyond does it compile? and does it compute *thing*? Behaving in a nice way on a system or respecting accepted practices doesn't come in to it.
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Inspector_666 posted:Nah, it's just CCP being CCP. They made this video about the aftermath. I quite enjoyed finding the 40gb error log eve somehow managed to generate on my system.
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MisterOblivious posted:I quite enjoyed finding the 40gb error log eve somehow managed to generate on my system. I think somebody did some packet tracing and found that EVE was sending 8MB TCP packets back to their server. No idea if that ever got dealt with.
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I was asked today if there's a way to put PHP in static HTML files. Apparently Facebook gives you a PHP snippet example for setting cache-control headers for your endpoint for some social plugin they have and they wanted to include it to speed up the facebook plugin. I explained that no, you can't run PHP in static HTML, but you can set cache-control headers in the web server by tweaking x and y settings. "Oh thank you since facebook JS is so slow to load here we want to speed it up this way"  No, you can't set cache-control headers, or any other headers for that matter, for content originating from Facebook's servers 
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ElGroucho posted:Why do all electrical engineers write code that saves files directly to the root of c:\ ? Is there a special school they go to in order to learn bad programming habits? It's our passive-aggressive way of making the company wish they'd shelled out the cash for Matlab instead 
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Entropic posted:Except links don't give you the Open With option in their context menu. If it were any other sort of file, I could see how they did it accidentally.  Yeah it does.
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anthonypants posted:It doesn't for me, but is that a .url or a .lnk?   It only shows up when you make a shortcut to a web page.
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mllaneza posted:And then there was EVE Online and a couple of other games where uninstalling them deleted your files or blew up the boot.ini file. There was also that antivirus where the uninstaller would clean its install directory by deleting all the files and folders in it. Turns out a bunch of people had it installed directly to C:\ 
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I guess not necessarily a ticket, but got a lot accomplished today! One of my coworkers was doing work on a laptop for a client that got hosed up with malware and trojans - after the laptop was clean of all infections, it couldn't browse the web. Wired and wireless would both show connected, but the machine flat out refused to get out to the web, through any browser. He'd tried reloading the wired/wireless drivers, checked all the TCP/IP settings, even tried a system restore and nothing worked. He was about to give up and tossed his hands up with an exasperated "I don't know what to do, I've tried everything!" Me: Just a gut feeling, but have you tried resetting the TCP/IP stack and winsock? Him: I haven't had to do that in AGES, what's the command again? Me: <rattles off the commands for both from memory> Him: Alright, needs to reboot, let's see what happens... Lo and behold, browsing is back and he's all set. A bit frustrated from spending a couple hours, but glad it was fixed.  Additionally, another client was working with a vendor to get some application loaded called ImmsLink that somehow works in conjunction with their GE Centricity 10 application. A nice hour long call in which I had to grant the outside company access remotely, along with setting up an SQL login so they could access the CPS 10 database. Thankfully one of the guys I work with has some experience with SQL and helped me walk through it, or I'd have been hosed. Felt nice to learn some new stuff though, wasn't nearly as complicated as I thought it would be. 
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Our company website needs to be migrated to Joomla, this so marketing can edit the website without contacting IT. Joomla is a piece of poo poo. The website has four tlds because of four languages, the website has a special menu, the website has been migrated once from some lovely .aspx to static html when we took over hosting from the ad-agency that billed us $50 to just add an image. The website has to look the same as it did before and that's the main problem. The person who's going to be updating the website is going to be trained in Joomla on monday, so i basically have today and the weekend to get this loving piece of poo poo to work and look exactly the same as before. Why the training has to be on monday is unknown, why this project even has to be done this week is also unknown.
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I finally got a chance to tidy up the rack I inherited two years ago. It's not perfect, but it's a darn sight better than it was! Before:  After: 
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Daveh posted:Wires That looks downright sexy, man.
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Latitude E6400 decided to die on us a few days ago. Hard drive spins and the activity light blinks for about two seconds before staying off. The screen never turns on and the fan just sits there. It doesn't smell like it burnt up, so I'm at a loss. Google is unhelpful on this and keeps finding posts by people talking about rebooting. Probably just going to replace this, but I am curious what happened.
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Daveh posted:I finally got a chance to tidy up the rack I inherited two years ago. It's not perfect, but it's a darn sight better than it was! Hot dawg, that looks great. I just started a new job, and one of my first projects is "update and upgrade the network and its security". Okay, no problem, let's see what we've got here... ~~3 days of Telnet/LLDP/CDP/exploring later~~ Welp, a couple Cisco devices, the rest HP; SSH enabled on all of ONE device (the rest Telnet); the Cisco devices have a "cisco"/"cisco123" login, no login/password at all on the HP switches; everything in the building is on VLAN 1; no HTTPS, no passwords on any web interfaces; a slapdash bunch of wireless APs that have no rhyme or reason aside from "this division wanted wireless so we put an AP in around here"... and a slew of other things.  Hey, at least I've got plenty to keep me busy! Want to learn to look on the bright side of things? Pursue a lovely career in the field of Information Technology.
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QPZIL posted:
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Shalhavet posted:Latitude E6400 decided to die on us a few days ago. Hard drive spins and the activity light blinks for about two seconds before staying off. The screen never turns on and the fan just sits there. It doesn't smell like it burnt up, so I'm at a loss. Google is unhelpful on this and keeps finding posts by people talking about rebooting. Blown cap even if you don't smell anything. Those are either warranty fix or toss. I have an E6410 that needs a new keyboard for like 6 months now.
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Is there any way to tell a user they have hot doo-doo cock breath without coming off like a jerk?
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ElGroucho posted:Is there any way to tell a user they have hot doo-doo cock breath without coming off like a jerk? Offer them some gum.. that's the general subtle way to do it.
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I found the Fedora VM in all its glory and it turns out they have eDirectory. Half of their office is HP desktops with XP, P4s, and 1.5GB of RAM. I told their site manager that they would spend a lot less if they just buy new desktops instead of pay us to fix this mess and still need new desktops anyway. Question: I can't seem to be able to access the fileshares on the Novell boxes using my Windows 2008 server. I was just going to yank all the data onto the Windows server and get rid of the Novell boxes but I can't get at it. Any ideas? Edit Bonus Content: They complained to their HQ about their dhcp issues and the response was that the Sonicwall and Win 2008r2 server were both giving out DHCP and we should know better. The Win 2008r2 server was unplugged :V (someone brought in router from home and it got dry-walled in).
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blackswordca posted:Offer them some gum.. that's the general subtle way to do it. When in the company of many people, offer them some gum. Don't offer it to anyone else and don't take a stick out for yourself first. Sterling_Archer posted:(someone brought in router from home and it got dry-walled in). Is that what happened or is that your guess?
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[quote=""ElGroucho"" post=""422825590""] Is there any way to tell a user they have hot doo-doo cock breath without coming off like a jerk? [/quote] Requesting a thread title update.
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Sterling_Archer posted:I found the Fedora VM in all its glory and it turns out they have eDirectory. Half of their office is HP desktops with XP, P4s, and 1.5GB of RAM. I told their site manager that they would spend a lot less if they just buy new desktops instead of pay us to fix this mess and still need new desktops anyway. You probably would need the Novell Client on the Windows server to access it. Might be easier to just see if you can connect a usb 1TB external drive.
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demonachizer posted:
Considering we found it, I would not call it a guess.
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Daveh posted:cabling Nice work. I've never understood people who won't loom long cables. I understand that sometimes all you have is a 7' cable for a one foot run, but it is possible to make the run look tidy by velcroing the slack out of the way. News flash: according to the way some cages look in my colo, some people take pride in their work and others give no shits.
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Let's hope this works... Guy stopped by on Wednesday "Here's my old docking station, drukqs!!" "Oh leave that in Matt's cube he has storage space for that kind of stuff" then today I have his old power brick and some other douchers unwanted monitor... 
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Sterling_Archer posted:Considering we found it, I would not call it a guess. I love poo poo like that. Servers getting walled in to the back of a closet, random equipment in a room that is bricked over, poo poo like that.
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luminalflux posted:I was asked today if there's a way to put PHP in static HTML files. Apparently Facebook gives you a PHP snippet example for setting cache-control headers for your endpoint for some social plugin they have and they wanted to include it to speed up the facebook plugin. I explained that no, you can't run PHP in static HTML, but you can set cache-control headers in the web server by tweaking x and y settings. Anything dealing with someones website and facebook is just a rabbit hole you don't want to go down. What is worse, is that due to the large amount of local servers facebook has. It can be FATNASTIC for you, but horrible for the customer, or their end users. TLDR, avoid facebook.
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demonachizer posted:I love poo poo like that. Servers getting walled in to the back of a closet, random equipment in a room that is bricked over.. ... a fixed cupboard with marble work top being built up to a telephone point so you cant even unplug the ADSL filter, good luck to the BT engineer wanting to swap the face plate as part of a FTTC ADSL upgrade, poo poo like that.
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demonachizer posted:I love poo poo like that. Servers getting walled in to the back of a closet, random equipment in a room that is bricked over, poo poo like that. When I was in the Navy, there were legends about workshops and hallways being accidentally sealed off on the Kitty Hawk. One guy claimed that he discovered a hallway of offices that could only be accessed via a vertical shaft. If I found something like that, I'd have wired up a telephone and given myself an office.
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hihifellow posted:A ticket came in! Confession time, I've actually done that once. Basic thought process was: Ok I need to leave for $site in 10 minutes, I've just finished $bigtask... I know I'll call the helldesk and get them to do this trivial little thing. Call them from my work mobile, since I'm a homeworker 10 minutes on hold later, and I'm getting into the car, still on hold.. phone transfers over to bluetooth handsfree. 20 minutes of driving later, somebody finally bothers to pick up. HalloKitty posted:Also, something about that is hilarious, because strong beer in the UK has classically been associated with tramps. That word has a rather different meaning to the US people reading this.
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An email from the CEO came in.quote:I am thinking I want the waiting room TV hooked up to net flix so we can run g rated movies. wa27, make this happen. It is too time consuming to deal with getting more stuff on that TV. Do this asap please Nevermind bandwidth issues, commercial use issues, and finding a way to make Netflix play a playlist, just make it happen. I'm trying to talk her into an antenna and PBS instead.
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