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Rhymenoserous posted:Just to show my age, I used to steal mouseballs. Likewise, we once tried to turn a CRT monitor upside down while reversing the picture back to right side up in the driver, but it made the monitor go all wonky and purply and we had to run the degauss about a dozen times to sort it out. Whoops. :[
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Rhymenoserous posted:Just to show my age, I used to steal mouseballs. Believe it or not, we still have some systems using old mice with mouseballs. I was reminded of why I hated them as soon as I tried to use it and it started skipping/stuttering because the rollers were dirty.
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Apr 15, 2014 17:46
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I used to keep a USB ball mouse on hand because my old CEO loved clear glass conference tables.
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I took a sick pleasure in cleaning the rollers, so they were nice and clean and lint-free. Until they needed cleaning again a few days later.
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Apr 15, 2014 18:52
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Paladine_PSoT posted:I used to keep a USB ball mouse on hand because my old CEO loved clear glass conference tables. This makes way more sense than keeping a $2 mousepad.
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I remember in school when the staff would superglue the mice shut, to prevent us stealing the balls. Either way, the mouse ended up unusable fairly quickly.
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Apr 15, 2014 19:36
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I have to clean out mouse ball rollers more often than I really should ever have to in 2014.
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Apr 15, 2014 19:39
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We don't throw away keyboards, so I end up cleaning between keys with rubbing alcohol. Good times.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:I used to keep a USB ball mouse on hand because my old CEO loved clear glass conference tables. 90% sure there are optical nice that work on glass now. Also: clear glass tables/desks are the worst thing.
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mng posted:I took a sick pleasure in cleaning the rollers, so they were nice and clean and lint-free. Until they needed cleaning again a few days later. And even when you get all the crud off the rollers there's still that little wheel in the corner that gets all gunked up too and is way way harder to clean.
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AlternateAccount posted:Also: clear glass tables/desks are the worst thing. Clear glass sinks are the worst thing.
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GreenNight posted:We don't throw away keyboards, so I end up cleaning between keys with rubbing alcohol. Good times. I've run them through the company dishwasher and they come up lovely.
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spog posted:I've run them through the company dishwasher and they come up lovely. poo poo, you guys have a company dishwasher?!
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deimos posted:This makes way more sense than keeping a $2 mousepad. That would require a mousepad on the pretty conference table.
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A tower came in... I took one look and assumed it was a donation for the electronics recycling scrap pile and started joking about how it had seen better days. Whereupon they tell me their house burned down and they want to see if they can get pictures off it. Now I feel like a complete rear end in a top hat.
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Apr 15, 2014 20:50
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Entropic posted:A tower came in... Very little chance smoke didn't destroy the drive, much less the heat. Good luck. 
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Apr 15, 2014 20:52
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Welp, I don't think you'll be able to salvage that.
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Sickening posted:Very little chance smoke didn't destroy the drive, much less the heat. Good luck. Eh, smoke wouldn't do much to a turned-off drive, heat on the other hand...
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Sickening posted:Very little chance smoke didn't destroy the drive, much less the heat. Good luck. edit:  The Importance Of Off-Site Backups dot Jay Pee Gee Entropic fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Apr 15, 2014 |
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Entropic posted:Yeah, I told them we can look, but it's unfortunately very unlikely we'll be able to salvage anything. I haven't cracked it open yet so I don't even know if the drive is physically intact. I really doubt it. Holy poo poo! Did the tower start the fire?
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Roargasm posted:Holy poo poo! Did the tower start the fire? This was a ruse to give Entropic the evidence. You're scroogled now, entropic, sorry.
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Entropic posted:Yeah, I told them we can look, but it's unfortunately very unlikely we'll be able to salvage anything. I haven't cracked it open yet so I don't even know if the drive is physically intact. I really doubt it. Sheeeeeeeeeit.
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Roargasm posted:Holy poo poo! Did the tower start the fire? It was always burning.
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Apr 15, 2014 21:34
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Since the drives been turning.
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deimos posted:Eh, smoke wouldn't do much to a turned-off drive, heat on the other hand... With that much smoke damage? I would bet those platters are pretty stained up.
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Sickening posted:With that much smoke damage? I would bet those platters are pretty stained up. What platters? Think they're more of a lump now.
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The best thing I can say about the drive at this point is that's it's still basically rectangular.
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Entropic posted:Yeah, I told them we can look, but it's unfortunately very unlikely we'll be able to salvage anything. I haven't cracked it open yet so I don't even know if the drive is physically intact. I really doubt it. TheReasonMyJobExists.jpg more like it! Back your stuff up folks!
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Sickening posted:Same thing I was thinking. This workplace is putting actual time, effort, and money into finding out who is taking a poo poo. Does this make them literal shitlords? I think you'll find shitlord is an ableist word and you'll find yourself on the end of an EEOC complaint, sir. 
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Even if the heat didn't outright mangle the drive, wouldn't being kicked up well past its tolerance cause some magnetic poo poo to happen and data loss anyway?
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Someone wanted a shared calendar for their group. So it got made: All Public Folders > Company > Division > Group > "Calendar" (keep in mind that there are a half dozen independent dozen companies each with at least half a dozen divisions here, so if there was no organization it'd be a logistical clusterfuck) Feedback came back: "  It's too many clicks to get there." Too bad, whiner. Ain't gettin' changed just because you have to click your mouse six times to see your group's calendar.
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wintermuteCF posted:Someone wanted a shared calendar for their group. So it got made: 
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Entropic posted:A tower came in... Clear the remains from within, clean up the inside only, load with
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AlternateAccount posted:Even if the heat didn't outright mangle the drive, wouldn't being kicked up well past its tolerance cause some magnetic poo poo to happen and data loss anyway? A fireproof document safe is usually rated to keep the inner temperature below 180C for a period of time, which is the temperature where paper starts to char. It won't keep magnetic media safe though.
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so an email came in. A bunch of potential clients for our 'cloud service' are in the office tomorrow so it is suit required dress code. Thank god I'm at the client site this week.
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blackswordca posted:so an email came in. Your bosses know people generally need things like audit trails in cloud services, right? I mean, it's p. much common practice. I'm actually still trying to figure out what cloud services they would offer. I'm fairly convinced you work for compuglobalhypermeganet.
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An email came in:Infrastructure Guy posted:"Last Friday around 4:30 pm our team received an alert that the switch that services the network and telephone for the second floor of the [Graduate School] Building had become unreachable. I just don't even...
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Your bosses know people generally need things like audit trails in cloud services, right? I mean, it's p. much common practice. this is the part I know. Each,client gets an sbs2012 virtual server with Ts access from our noc. I think there are some backup plans as well. blackswordca fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Apr 16, 2014 |
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Collateral Damage posted:A fireproof document safe is usually rated to keep the inner temperature below 180C for a period of time, which is the temperature where paper starts to char. It won't keep magnetic media safe though. Wait, what? I've been keeping my backup HDD in a fireproof safe in case of fire. Is this useless?
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Depends on the rating of the safe. It should be printed somewhere, probably on the inside of the door. There are basically two ratings, P and D (or DIS for some manufacturers) for paper and data respectively, prefixed by a number. A rating like 60P means the safe is designed to keep the inside temperature below 180C for 60 minutes. D rated safes are much beefier. Edit: Apparently ratings are somewhat different in the US. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe (or just ask your vendor what it's rated for) Collateral Damage fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Apr 16, 2014 |
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