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blackswordca posted:I think you have to have a "last name" in there and probably need to drop the numbers. Barfolomew?
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Ticket came in.. projector fault. OK, this actually has a happy ending. It's a 3-year old NEC, but is just inside the standard 3-year warranty. I call up, I get only one prompt, which sends me to the correct department.. "first in the queue".. 30 seconds later, a guy picks up. A clearly British guy in a call centre here. I give him the details, he knows how to fix one of the problems I was having, then sends out packaging so the fault projector could be collected, no post cost. For a 3-year old, relatively budget projector. We've had worse service with countless other items, and for what it's worth, NEC just got a lot more interesting to me. A call centre in the country you are calling from with a technically minded person immediately? I shouldn't be surprised, but I was, pleasantly. I guess they're just one of those companies that's been around for ages making decent kit with solid support, not exactly in the consumer product spotlight. vvvv Good god what the gently caress HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Feb 10, 2014 |
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Feb 10, 2014 19:14
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Our very important, used-by-everyone, NAS corrupted today because, apparently, my supervisor's preferred rebooting strategy is to just pull the power cord out of the thing and then plug it back in. Now he wants to recover the data. Thank goodness it's a RAID setup. Wait... no... it's RAID0. 
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Feb 10, 2014 19:17
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Panasonic's business projectors have a 3 year de-install re-install warranty, so someone comes out to you, removes the projector from the ceiling and takes it off to be fixed, then puts it back up when they are done. It's insane.
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Feb 10, 2014 19:18
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Caged posted:Panasonic's business projectors have a 3 year de-install re-install warranty, so someone comes out to you, removes the projector from the ceiling and takes it off to be fixed, then puts it back up when they are done. It's insane. That's pretty glorious, and it's nice to hear about good support. These NECs were just budget ones, probably about £300 a piece, so they don't come with that lavish support, which is why I found a totally respectable process with no postage cost on my end refreshing.
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Feb 10, 2014 19:20
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Name chat: A bit of interesting trivia on transgendered names. In the city of San Francisco, due to the rules allowing anyone on the ballot for a special election after the Moscone-Milk assassinations, a number of people ran under pseudonyms including Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra. It is now illegal to run for public office in SF under anything other than your legal name. Apply murky transgender naming rules/treatments to that and see a ticking timebomb of a lawsuit waiting to explode. No tickets came in as unemployment entered its 6th week today 
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Feb 10, 2014 19:21
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HalloKitty posted:That's pretty glorious, and it's nice to hear about good support. These NECs were just budget ones, probably about £300 a piece, so they don't come with that lavish support, which is why I found a totally respectable process with no postage cost on my end refreshing.
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Feb 10, 2014 19:22
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larchesdanrew posted:Our very important, used-by-everyone, NAS corrupted today because, apparently, my supervisor's preferred rebooting strategy is to just pull the power cord out of the thing and then plug it back in. I wish I still had that pic from my first job of a 12disk RAID 0 array, it ran backups to itself on a raid 0... It was pure idiocity; apparently they stalled on my advice for 5 months after I left FINALLY changed the array to 5 + 2 soft drives and hours later they had their first of two drives fail.
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Feb 10, 2014 19:23
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larchesdanrew posted:Our very important, used-by-everyone, NAS corrupted today because, apparently, my supervisor's preferred rebooting strategy is to just pull the power cord out of the thing and then plug it back in. What the goddamned hell? Hope you got backups.
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Feb 10, 2014 19:23
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:I wish I still had that pic from my first job of a 12disk RAID 0 array, it ran backups to itself on a raid 0... And then they blamed you for the drive failure? "It was working until you messed with it!"
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Penguissimo posted:And then they blamed you for the drive failure? Nope I was out of there by the time it happened; had the issue documented two ways to tuesday so if/when %dick% wanted to blame me for it I had it on the books for several months and was no way my fault.
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Feb 10, 2014 19:35
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Paladine_PSoT posted:No tickets came in as unemployment entered its 6th week today Wanna move back to Portland?
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Feb 10, 2014 19:36
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:I wish I still had that pic from my first job of a 12disk RAID 0 array, it ran backups to itself on a raid 0... Oh man, I totally didn't remember you posting anything about it running backups to itself. That makes it even better, which I didn't think was possible.
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Inspector_666 posted:Oh man, I totally didn't remember you posting anything about it running backups to itself. That makes it even better, which I didn't think was possible. Yeah that was their only storage device I'll dig back through the old thread I thought I remember saying that at some point.
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ConfusedUs posted:What the goddamned hell? Hahaha, that's a good one. I suggested we set it up as a mirrored volume IF we ever get the data recovered.  Why would I do that? We need the speed from RAID0!There isn't a big enough. Everything we have RAIDed is set up as RAID0.
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If only there was a RAID level that was as quick as RAID0 but with some sort of redundancy
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RAID 10? Although, I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this. ***edit*** dammit, too slow to reply
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Lum posted:At the risk of going all Tumblr here... this ^^^ If you want to be a nice guy, call her Vanessa (and her) no matter what the other fucks say. It's actually pretty rude to "misgender" people when they've asked specifically to be seen a certain way. You might not approve, or understand it, but it's a nice courtesy to give someone. Unless you want to be a complete rear end in a top hat, then go for it. EDIT: Meant to respond to Daylen Drazzi, not Lum. Oops.
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Yeah, its a pretty simple thing to do. So long as they understand that you will occasionally slip up and refer to her as a he when you're focusing on something else, that's a reasonable request. Hell, I do it for a friend who changed his gender a while ago from a she to a he. Occasionally i'll slip because physically he still looks female, but he understands that because durr, for 20 years i've been calling people him/her based solely on appearance, its not exactly something that you can just snap out of. People who get pissy at people for messing up their pronouns once despite them making an effort to remember are assholes and alienating those who want to help. That last sentence is in fact, tumblr.
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larchesdanrew posted:Our very important, used-by-everyone, NAS corrupted today because, apparently, my supervisor's preferred rebooting strategy is to just pull the power cord out of the thing and then plug it back in. There ought to be some kind of certification for being allowed to use RAID-0. Like, if you want to enable RAID-0 on a card, you have to first enter your certification code, like how Professional Engineers have their PE# on their stamp when they approve building plans. Wait, no. The precious tears of people whose entire world has collapsed along with their r0 array is worth letting them do it.
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Feb 10, 2014 20:49
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kensei posted:Wanna move back to Portland? It's not off the table, but I haven't gotten to the potentially relocate phase of the hunt yet.
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Feb 10, 2014 20:55
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Paladine_PSoT posted:It's not off the table, but I haven't gotten to the potentially relocate phase of the hunt yet. Doesn't Intel have a pretty good outpost where you live? I know oracle is hiring for stuff but I'd avoid them like the pleague unless you want to ensure a liver transplant. The poo poo my sister has told me erks me.
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I... I need to get out of helldesk. I've spent a good 6 years here (since I graduated college with a BA in networking/information systems). My dept has evolved into the whipping post for every system outage (SharePoint/Office/Exchange 2013) that's been happening on a bi-daily basis now. My entire team is running on fumes and morale is at an all time low for the 3 years I've spent in this particular job. We've been under a torrential downpour of work since December. I'm thinking of applying for a position in IT Training just to get away from helldesk. Has anyone found any good skills to develop to get out of this lowly generalist role? I'm seriously starting to feel myself lose it. I'm on the fast track to alcoholism and resenting the human race. I'm the type of person who'll delve into any subject matter but I typically need to find some sort of "project" so I can get interested. I've dabbled in Powershell/Perl, and other easy scripting languages (GUI design in Autohotkey). I'm trying to reverse this outlook and get interested in something so I can apply it to what I do.
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kareltherobot posted:I... I need to get out of helldesk. The longer you at the helldesk, the harder it is to get out. Seeing 6+ years at a helldesk is a major red flag on your resume to anybody that isn't in HR.
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kareltherobot posted:helldesk. I don't know how you're not already there. I would say pick a path and get appropriately certified. Like if you like networking, go Cisco. Servers, Red Hat Enterprise or Microsoft plus some sort of virtualization experience. A recruiter told me just before I got my current job: "Get certs in CCNA, VMWare, RHEL. Then I can find you five jobs in a week."
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Sickening posted:The longer you at the helldesk, the harder it is to get out. Seeing 6+ years at a helldesk is a major red flag on your resume to anybody that isn't in HR. In interest of full disclosure, it was 2 years as "Application Support Engineer" and 1 year of "Installation and Licensing" support equaling 3/6 years of proprietary software support and the other 3/6 years in helldesk.
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:Doesn't Intel have a pretty good outpost where you live? I know oracle is hiring for stuff but I'd avoid them like the pleague unless you want to ensure a liver transplant. The poo poo my sister has told me erks me. It's worth noting that Intel used stack ranking some years ago. I don't know if they still do but it might be worth looking into that; I'd personally consider that alone a deal breaker if they're still using it. (This was the Portland campus)
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Che Delilas posted:It's worth noting that Intel used stack ranking some years ago. I don't know if they still do but it might be worth looking into that; I'd personally consider that alone a deal breaker if they're still using it. (This was the Portland campus) Microsoft JUST killed its own stack ranking. Thank god I didn't ever have to deal with that poo poo.
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Today I got the dumbest email I have ever gotten. (That statement includes the user who asked us to install Notepad.exe and the user that asked us to downgrade to Windows XP.) Earlier this week we purchased five Macbook Airs, which are going to a community center in the city. For this reason, we requested that she find and approve some security cases (with Kensington locks) that we could install. They were little black glossy cases that we physically installed onto the machines. Today I got an email that stated, and this is a direct quote, that we were to "...return the cases, as they are not feminine and accessible enough." The title of the email was "Important Color Issue RE: Macbooks." My boss told her that we absolutely were not going to do that, so here's what she did. I am not making this up. She popped the detachable (not secured) covers off the screens, and told us she intends to SPRAY PAINT THEM DIFFERENT COLORS, AND COVER THEM IN COLORFUL STICKERS. Well... at least they don't belong to my department...
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Way to turn the clock back on equality 50 years. "Females won't be able to use the computer unless it looks like a kitchen and is pink in colour" What is wrong with some people?
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Re: Important Color Issue RE: Macbooks. Sod off. They're metal colored. Deal with it. Regards, IT.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Microsoft JUST killed its own stack ranking. Thank god I didn't ever have to deal with that poo poo. Which is probably the biggest reason I never applied to Microsoft in the past. semiavrage posted:My boss told her that we absolutely were not going to do that, so here's what she did. I am not making this up. She popped the detachable (not secured) covers off the screens, and told us she intends to SPRAY PAINT THEM DIFFERENT COLORS, AND COVER THEM IN COLORFUL STICKERS. Yes because the best way to get people to use computers correctly is to distract the poo poo out of them with a bunch of visual noise at the periphery of their focus. Che Delilas fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Feb 11, 2014 |
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Caged posted:Way to turn the clock back on equality 50 years. They aren't even for women in particular, they're going to a community outreach program. This woman is very, very, strange. She's told me in the past that in her house she has 10 or 20 rabbits. Not in cages, running free. I know this because she complained about "rabbits knocking my power cables out."
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Caged posted:I dread to think what the condition that carpet is in One time I was working on her printer while she was meeting with someone in her office. Somehow she steered the conversation toward rabbits, where it stayed for the next five painful minutes. TL;DR: Bitch loves rabbits.
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semiavrage posted:One time I was working on her printer while she was meeting with someone in her office. Somehow she steered the conversation toward rabbits, where it stayed for the next five painful minutes. RE: A ticket came in... Bitch loves rabbits. Thanking mods in advance.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:RE: A ticket came in... Bitch loves rabbits. Please do the needful.
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Rabbit season.
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