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One of my friends used to work as a laptop tech for Vestas. Apparently their techs would "accidentally" drop their laptops off the top of a wind turbine when they wanted a new one. A 100m drop onto any surface will kill any laptop, especially if it's open and turned on at the time. In the end the techs got too greedy and wrecked too many machines. The CTO got mad and mandated that no IT equipment could be brought into the turbines except for the approved (cheap) PDA.
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spankmeister posted:Re: space heaters. I have some scars on my arm from burns I got fighting an electrical fire caused by space heaters. (And accountants too dumb to draw breath that actually physically held down the breaker, causing a fire in a junction box in the ceiling. ) That…shouldn't be possible. Breakers trip internally regardless of what you do to the toggle on the front. I suppose it's possible you had some old-rear end wiring or the breaker was just hosed.
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May 13, 2014 14:39
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Bisse posted:Two work colleagues with almost-identical names, differing only by one letter in the last name. Lets call them Jonas and Jonah. Reminds me of when a project manager tried to "clean up" Active Directory for me by deleting all of the "old" computer objects, even a couple DCs. Never showed up late again
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May 13, 2014 14:39
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Your project managers are allowed to delete anything?
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May 13, 2014 14:44
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Project Manager checking in: I was on a gig where one of the Sys Admins gave me his credentials on a number of production boxes. Information was sent in an unencrypted email. I immediately forwarded said email to the CTO explaining why I would not be returning to the office until all production servers had been audited. All of this happened 3 weeks after a highly publicized security breach, which was why I was brought in to begin with. CTO was walked out of the building 2 weeks later -- I wasn't far behind.
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May 13, 2014 14:52
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Sarcasmatron posted:Project Manager checking in: You were walked out of the building or you quit?
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May 13, 2014 14:54
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Wasn't my AD, but a terrible environment that we were trying to unfuck (and ended up gutting entirely). I showed up an hour late and I found him with another admin (who has since been fired but not for this) clicking around in the server room.
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May 13, 2014 14:56
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spankmeister posted:Re: space heaters. I have some scars on my arm from burns I got fighting an electrical fire caused by space heaters. (And accountants too dumb to draw breath that actually physically held down the breaker, causing a fire in a junction box in the ceiling. ) People never cease to amaze. I actually had an administrator's secretary that used a space heater too close to her Hp DC5150. Over the course of a few months it melted the plastic front on it to the point where it looked like a Salvador Dali painting. She retired at the end of that year having never said a word about it.
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May 13, 2014 14:58
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guppy posted:Well, he didn't fill out a 27b/6. What does he expect? 
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May 13, 2014 15:01
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spankmeister posted:Re: space heaters. I have some scars on my arm from burns I got fighting an electrical fire caused by space heaters. (And accountants too dumb to draw breath that actually physically held down the breaker, causing a fire in a junction box in the ceiling. )  It's actions like this that convince me we need a capital punishment for stupidity.
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May 13, 2014 15:04
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demonachizer posted:You were walked out of the building or you quit? Walked out with all of the other people hired by the CTO.
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May 13, 2014 15:06
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Sarcasmatron posted:Walked out with all of the other people hired by the CTO. So you found something wrong, told the appropriate person, and then he and anyone he touched were promptly axed? 
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May 13, 2014 15:32
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guppy posted:The thing that gets me is that they'll deny all day long that they had anything to do with it. They have no idea what happened! It must have been aliens. That's the only explanation I see. THIS! Look I don't care, just don't bullshit me. Just say "Hey I accidentally dropped it". I understand poo poo happens, sales users are busy travelling all across the country, bags get thrown around. Just dont get pissy with me and blame the hardware or say we equip you with garbage. The worst was when we started getting the first line of the iPad Airs, and thin Dell Lattitude 7440s. Suddenly everyone's less then 1 year old iPad 4 and Lattitude 6330 was absolute GARBAGE! Unusable and how can I expect anyone to work with such filth? Ugh sales...
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May 13, 2014 15:33
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Ugh sales... When you lie for a living, it becomes a part of you, something you can't just turn off. Either that or most salespeople are just pathological liars to begin with. I can't decide which.
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May 13, 2014 15:35
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Wasn't my case but I've heard of one where when the sales person was fired they chucked the laptop at the manager's wall. Apparently was still fixable afterwards, just damaged casing.
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May 13, 2014 15:59
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Having been playing with PHP for ~5 years, today I've submitted my first PHP bug. Now I'm complete. (I know that it's not much, but I actually bothered, and supplied an irrefutable test case, and  )
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May 13, 2014 16:51
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Caged posted:That…shouldn't be possible. Breakers trip internally regardless of what you do to the toggle on the front. Well they went like this: *pop* (breaker pops) *click* (accountant woman resets breaker) *pop* *click* *pop* *click* *pop* *click* *pop* *click* *pop* *click* *pop* *click* *pop* *click* ..... Hey it stays on now.  It probably got fused or smth by doing that. 10 minutes later ... "what 's that smell? "(it was smouldering plastic) spankmeister fucked around with this message at 17:10 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 17:07
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RFC2324 posted:Someone called? I pressed decaf and it gave me uncaffeinated coffee, this is affecting produciton WHY DID IT NOT GIVE ME DECAF LIKE I ASKED Also, chiming in on the HVAC discussion from forever ago - my last job included a data center, and we were responsible for monitoring the cooler units for issues and reporting them to the facilities guy, which struck me as extraneous and way out of scope. Especially since the facilities guy got all the automatic alert emails, was the only guy who could open repair tickets for the company that supported them, etc. MJP fucked around with this message at 17:43 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 17:13
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MJP posted:I pressed decaf and it gave me uncaffeinated coffee, this is affecting produciton What's black and doesn't work? Decaf, you racist.
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May 13, 2014 17:48
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spankmeister posted:Re: space heaters. I have some scars on my arm from burns I got fighting an electrical fire caused by space heaters. (And accountants too dumb to draw breath that actually physically held down the breaker, causing a fire in a junction box in the ceiling. ) You tried to bold the dumbest part where the biggest dummy does something dumb, but you missed. Here, I fixed it. Don't fight fires, call 911.
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May 13, 2014 18:11
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I'm kinda curious how you get burns from grabbing a fire extinguisher and giving whatever's smouldering a blast of CO2.
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May 13, 2014 18:25
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Collateral Damage posted:I'm kinda curious how you get burns from grabbing a fire extinguisher and giving whatever's smouldering a blast of CO2. I don't either. Can those things reach from across the street from my building? Because that is where I will be.
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May 13, 2014 18:26
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Collateral Damage posted:I'm kinda curious how you get burns from grabbing a fire extinguisher and giving whatever's smouldering a blast of CO2. Molten plastic/ceiling material dripping on you from above?
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May 13, 2014 18:28
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Sirotan posted:Molten plastic/ceiling material dripping on you from above? Small burns on your arm from holding the responsible accountant's face to the fire, literally?
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May 13, 2014 18:37
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Erwin posted:You tried to bold the dumbest part where the biggest dummy does something dumb, but you missed. Here, I fixed it. Don't fight fires, call 911. So I think one should always try to put out small fires if you can do it safely, before it escalates. The fire was small and I thought it was manageable. I misjudged. I probably would try to put out a fire again, just not ceiling fires.  Sirotan posted:Molten plastic/ceiling material dripping on you from above? This is what happened.
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May 13, 2014 18:42
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Sirotan posted:Molten plastic/ceiling material dripping on you from above? I trust you filed a workers compensation claim or similar.
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May 13, 2014 20:11
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About two years ago all of our computers got replaced. I'm not really sure why as the old ones were fine and the type of work we do barely gets more complicated than Word/browsers. I have some shitbox of an old laptop that works perfectly fine and they can pry it from my cold dead hands. I have never understood the whole "latest and greatest" fad when it comes to technology. I don't care if Bob in accounting has something else than me.
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May 13, 2014 20:57
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Blue_monday posted:About two years ago all of our computers got replaced. I'm not really sure why as the old ones were fine and the type of work we do barely gets more complicated than Word/browsers. I have some shitbox of an old laptop that works perfectly fine and they can pry it from my cold dead hands. I have never understood the whole "latest and greatest" fad when it comes to technology. I don't care if Bob in accounting has something else than me. This is all true except for monitors. Monitors should be replaced as soon as fiscally possible. We still have people with Haswells using 1280x1024 lovely <18" TN panel LCDs. deimos fucked around with this message at 21:17 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 21:12
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deimos posted:This is all true except for monitors. Monitors should be replaced as soon as humanly possible. We still have people with Haswells using 1280x1024 lovely <18" TN panel LCDs. All our standard monitors that we buy now are 20" HP that are 1600x900. Yay... Big upgrade over the 17" HP's that most people have on their desks.
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May 13, 2014 21:13
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Heh. We still have CRT monitors in the backs of a lot our classrooms. Never mind the fact we have proven that they will save money switching to newer models. Donations of those terrible old 17" monitors accepted.
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May 13, 2014 21:56
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We still use the 17" ones in our manufacturing facilities until they are 100% dead. We don't upgrade people until we need additional 17" monitors.
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May 13, 2014 21:59
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spankmeister posted:Nice post/av combo. We just had the fire training last week at work. Long story short, if it's bigger than a trashcan fire or if getting the extinguisher puts you farther from the exit, they want us to pull the alarm and get our asses out.
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May 13, 2014 22:24
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Back in the day I had a Sony FW900 Trinitron. One of the best monitors I ever owned.
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May 13, 2014 22:27
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Firechat Unless you are a fireman and your job description is literally putting out fires, then don't. Every place I have worked have a written procedure for fires of trigger alarm, get to the safe assembly point and ensure fire brigade is called. There were obviously extinguishers etc around but the instructions for them was only in situations to aid another person or to ensure safe passage out. Preferably used by people actually trained in their use.
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May 13, 2014 22:54
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Crowley posted:Apparently their techs would "accidentally" drop their laptops off the top of a wind turbine when they wanted a new one. One of the first things I made users aware of at my work is that any abused/lost item would be promptly replaced with something from my "special stash". The look on a doctor's face when his laptop was replaced with one 5 years older than it... I told him his next upgrade would be a Tandy. Luckily he was old enough to understand the implication.
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May 13, 2014 23:17
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So I just got asked out of the blue to copy files from an old windows 2003 server. Will USB drives (under 2TB) even work with a win2k3 server? We're talking a gen 3 proliant.
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May 13, 2014 23:47
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So long as they present as a generic USB mass storage device (and pretty much everything USB storage related does) yes. Windows will probably complain about not being able to run the disk at USB 2 speeds. You'll be stuck at about 1 megabyte/sec throughput.
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May 13, 2014 23:56
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Zero VGS posted:One of the first things I made users aware of at my work is that any abused/lost item would be promptly replaced with something from my "special stash". Chapter 2 in this story is called "In which Prima Donna Doctor gets IT Guy disciplined for negatively affecting patient care."
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notwithoutmyanus posted:So I just got asked out of the blue to copy files from an old windows 2003 server. Will USB drives (under 2TB) even work with a win2k3 server? We're talking a gen 3 proliant. Yeah, it'll work, but you might get better performance copying the files to a network share rather than directly over old, slow USB.
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It's an environment without internet, due to hilarious stupidity (small business/bad decisions).
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