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Swink posted:It has come! After an eon of searching, our people can finally find peace. Jesus, what kind of round-about poo poo is this? Install the desktop experience so you can run disk cleanup? Why don't they just make Disk Cleanup part of the update? What the hell does Ink and handwriting have to do with this? Now and again you see something that makes you realise how much of a fragile mess Windows is. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 12:04 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 12:07
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Daylen Drazzi posted:Against the Goon Collective's better judgement I went ahead and spoke with the Robert Half minion. Strike One - he was ten minutes late to the Skype meeting he set up. Apparently there was an overturned car on the way to work and caused a minor traffic jam. Spoke with him about a position he has and apparently the incumbent left after 5 months and 1 week on a 6 months contract-to-hire to follow his wife to Alabama for her job. He's looking to fill the spot to fulfill the remaining 3 weeks of the contract, at which point he expects the company to extend an employment offer. Incumbent was making $52k. Okay, nothing too hinky so far - asked him to send me the job description, responsibilities, etc via email. Recruiter also wanted me to speak with the contract manager who was also more knowledgeable about the technical side of things, since anything beyond basic helldesk was beyond his CIS knowledge. Again, he suggests a time. The more likely scenario was that the robert half client was pissed that their worker left the contract before completion and now robert half wanted a warm body to stick in there for 3 weeks so they can continue to get paid. A 6 month contract to hire and someone else is suppose to come in those last 3 weeks and expect to get a full time gig out of it? Yeah right! The current response was to laugh hysterically at the recruiter because he was attempting to insult your intelligence.
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May 15, 2014 15:46
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HalloKitty posted:Jesus, what kind of round-about poo poo is this? Install the desktop experience so you can run disk cleanup? WinSXS in general is poo poo. A bunch of the people where I work have small (~25gb) Windows virtual machines (on 128gb SSDs) and those HDs keep filling up with SXS poo poo. One I saw yesterday had 11 gb in there.
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May 15, 2014 15:54
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poo poo that doesn't piss me off? PVS on fusionIO cards with a 10Gb backplane. poo poo that does piss me off? Citrix.... Man I miss view.
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May 15, 2014 16:19
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:poo poo that doesn't piss me off? PVS on fusionIO cards with a 10Gb backplane. We're in the middle of a switch from Citrix WinXP to View Win7, and man is it sweet. Dynamic window resizing! No terrible farm management! Remote connections! Clipboard use!
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Antioch posted:We're in the middle of a switch from Citrix WinXP to View Win7, and man is it sweet. Dynamic window resizing! No terrible farm management! Remote connections! Clipboard use! I love the wham bam thankyou ma'am of view. It's just so straight forward. Granted PCoIP tuning and app deliver is a bit of an eh... but in everything else view owns.
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May 15, 2014 17:30
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WinSxS cleanup? Pssh. That's for chumps who are allowed to patch servers ever. :killmenow:
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Sitting on a call while a paralegal picks apart a software agreement and a professional service agreement with a vendor. I could not do that for a living, I'd claw my eyes out.
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May 15, 2014 19:45
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Itomapot posted:Sitting on a call while a paralegal picks apart a software agreement and a professional service agreement with a vendor. I could not do that for a living, I'd claw my eyes out. I used to hate this, until I went through a few cycles with a good legal team. They found risk areas that we hadn't caught, and saved everyone invoked a lot of potential heartache down the road.
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May 15, 2014 20:13
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Ynglaur posted:I used to hate this, until I went through a few cycles with a good legal team. They found risk areas that we hadn't caught, and saved everyone invoked a lot of potential heartache down the road. There's absolutely no reason a software developer or PM should be responsible for anything outside of contacting a lawyer to draft a EULA.
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I hope you're being ironic. Lawyers rarely understand every subtlety of what a business is trying to accomplish.
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Ynglaur posted:I hope you're being ironic. Lawyers rarely understand every subtlety of what a business is trying to accomplish. I'm not being ironic in the least. Their understanding of your business's goals, as limited as it may be, greatly eclipses an engineering team's collective understanding of legal subtleties, the smallest of which can cause massive potential liability. Contact a lawyer, discuss the product to the lawyer's needs, review the EULA generated and ask them about it, but don't think you're qualified to write it. edit: reread that. I still stand by needing a legal professional to at minimum read and dissect agreements being handed to you.
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May 15, 2014 20:26
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J posted:When you figure this out, I wouldn't mind hearing what caused it. I haven't yet worked with SQL 2012 but I've had SQL 2008 installs crap out on me like that with a really cryptic error message. Turns out the problem was installing another application beforehand that installed SQL Server Native Client as part of the package. For all the pre-install checks it does, SQL 2008 wouldn't catch this and would refuse to install until I removed the native client first. Unfortunately, I think it was just a bad iso download despite having the correct file size listed on the volume licensing site. I would love it if Microsoft would add md5 hashes or something similar to it. tomapot posted:I run an enterprise level SharePoint service, all our SQL servers are physical boxes. All the rest of the servers can be VMs but we have never had good results with SharePoint SQL servers on VM. I should have mentioned that my SQL Server error and the Sharepoint frustrations are separate from each other. I'm rebuilding our SCCM machine to System Center 2012 which is where SQL Server is coming in. Sharepoint is only coming in to the mix because I noticed we were lacking a groupware system and wanted to do something with Project.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:I'm not being ironic in the least. Their understanding of your business's goals, as limited as it may be, greatly eclipses an engineering team's collective understanding of legal subtleties, the smallest of which can cause massive potential liability. Contact a lawyer, discuss the product to the lawyer's needs, review the EULA generated and ask them about it, but don't think you're qualified to write it. I think we're actually agreeing with each other. My point was that you need both "the business" (I hate that term, but it works) and a good legal team to properly craft a good EULA, MSA, SOW, etc.
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May 15, 2014 22:02
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Ynglaur posted:I think we're actually agreeing with each other. My point was that you need both "the business" (I hate that term, but it works) and a good legal team to properly craft a good EULA, MSA, SOW, etc. True, we have a legal team just for IT. They may not know everything but they've seen enough of these that they can ask the right questions.
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Ynglaur posted:"the business" Ugh. Quite often I've been given a spec to implement that was incomplete, and when I've asked the person who assigned it to me who I should talk to to flesh out the missing details they've said "talk to the business". gently caress off, I'm not a mind reader, I can't tell you mean Pamela from accounting unless you tell me.
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Ynglaur posted:I think we're actually agreeing with each other. Yes.
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Ynglaur posted:I hope you're being ironic. Lawyers rarely understand every subtlety of what a business is trying to accomplish. On the flip side, I am not a lawyer, I'm a software developer. Reading through legal agreements is as much my department as plumbing, and lets not even get started on writing them. If you lawyers can't understand what your business is tasking them to do, you have lovely lawyers, get new ones.
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I took a vacation day yesterday "because i'm hungover since my sendoff party and i need to pack anyway, see y'all friday". Sent from my phone, at 9:30am. No questions asked. Edit: might as well give full context:  , but not really. I'm moving to Mexico City tomorrow for a 6 month stint on an internal temporary transfer to work on our Mexican website. It runs on the same platform that my sites run on here, and i've worked with it for over 6 years. Instead of being a sysadmin I'll be writing code (again) for a change. What's pissing me off is that today is the first day in 3 weeks the weather in Stockholm is non-lovely. It makes me sad that I'll miss the only reason living in this town is bearable - May-September kicks rear end and i'll return in November which is the shittiest time of the year. luminalflux fucked around with this message at 10:07 on May 16, 2014 |
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May 16, 2014 10:01
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poo poo not pissing me off because i'm lazy but probably should: My managers boss has told the admin team i'm not allowed to go on any installs anymore, meaning I don't have to work on weekends! I'm fairly sure however, that this is because i'm growing a beard, as the only other person he's said that can't go on installs also has a beard. Yesterday my manager also mentioned that he was surprised that he hadn't mentioned the beards to us. Result? Beards stop unwanted overtime 
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May 16, 2014 11:06
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How is morale on the set of season 2 of Mad Men any way?
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I'm actually having a blast, you sort of just laugh at how ridiculous everything is and i've managed to get myself into a spot where the first line team keeps asking for my help, but if its out of my knowledge I can raise to second line. Second line likes me enough to show me what I don't know. I'll also have another raise coming through in about 2 months, i'm planning on getting my own car just after that. Once that's done its a case of finding a decent job, right now i'm stuck to ones near train stations. I'm not in an amazing rush, as i'm also working on certs and the workplace has decided to mostly just let me get on and work. There are the odd couple of annoyances, but that's more on the "Really? You still don't trust me to do that" and the "Why the hell is the manager questioning why i'm not at my desk when he wrote up the lunch schedule" (Yes, there's a lunch schedule, its stupid).
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Caconym posted:Welcome to hell. Slow, stupid stupid bugs and a horrible UI. We're using 2012 version 7.1.something. I don't know that I've had as many of the annoying UI problems your running into. But we also took some time getting it up and customizing the views, which was a pain in the rear end. There's just so much that can be tweaked and changed that it can be a bit overwhelming. Have you integrated orchestrater into it at all? That is one thing I want to get up and running soon. poo poo pissing me off. Users complaining about Lync meetings again. They just don't get how to use it and everyone wants to go back to WebEx. Cue huge departmental meetings where the mouth breathers in marketing and sales are demanding we switch back. Never mind that they bitched relentlessly about WebEx too.
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If the director says working from home today is fine, your reply to the email I sent saying working from home is fine, and my status is "working from home". Why would you call me at 830am and ask me where I am?
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:If the director says working from home today is fine, your reply to the email I sent saying working from home is fine, and my status is "working from home". "while you have the freedom to work from home, it's expected that you show restraint and come in to the office all days" (I've seen logic like that applied before)
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:If the director says working from home today is fine, your reply to the email I sent saying working from home is fine, and my status is "working from home". I would assume that they know you're home, but they want greater detail. So you could say "still in bed" or "cooking breakfast" or possibly "on the back deck enjoying a wake-and-bake."
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dorkanoid posted:"while you have the freedom to work from home, it's expected that you show restraint and come in to the office all days" I don't have any problem coming in, but.... 
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Today's weird CIO pet project: Let's use Sonos devices to play music all around the office! He sent the project to my boss who immediately decided that I'm the perfect fit for it, possibly because I am being punished for some sins I committed in a prior life. I could be improving our network infrastructure or making sure all our SIP phones are up to date, but no. No. Today I'm trying to make an overpriced home music system work behind a corporate firewall.
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What sort of broken corp logic thinks it's a good idea to pipe music throughout the office? Isn't that why people go postal?
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May 16, 2014 16:53
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The decision to go to a locked down Maven artifact system. Can only use projects and versions from the approved list. No we can't white list by license because the libraries have dependencies that change. Why the gently caress are we using Maven and Artifactory then? All I keep getting pushed is to use propriety vendor X's item for which I can't even find documentation. Yes I love wasting time on conference call with engineers from their team that eats up a day rather then looking up the open source solution on stack exchange and fixing it in an hour. I'm ready to just say lets ditch Java and go .Net. At least I expect to pay out the rear end in that world. Maybe I can have a still currently supported VM version also.
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dogstile posted:Result? Beards stop unwanted overtime Can I call the indirect discrimination card here? 
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Pissing me off this week? Having to use polling for communication with the application manger I'm writing instead of SignalR real time two way communication because management thinks that Server 2012 can only run in load balancing mode. We can't use load balancing mode because it would violate our licencing with one of our vendors.
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May 16, 2014 17:21
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dorkanoid posted:"while you have the freedom to work from home, it's expected that you show restraint and come in to the office all days" You see, Brian over there has 37 pieces of flair. If you only want to do the bare minimum, that's 15. But Brian has 37. Okay?
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Che Delilas posted:You see, Brian over there has 37 pieces of flair. If you only want to do the bare minimum, that's 15. But Brian has 37. Okay? Why don't you just make 37 the minimum?
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For the last time adding more vCPU's to your VM will not make it faster... No I am not going to deploy virtual desktops with 2 cores, do you want the environment to come to a grinding halt? loving vendors are the thorn in my side this week.
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:I don't have any problem coming in, but.... I thought I would be fine driving to work this morning, but the freaking beltway itself was flooded. So I turned around and went home.
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swampcow posted:I thought I would be fine driving to work this morning, but the freaking beltway itself was flooded. So I turned around and went home. Did it look like a swamp?
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Lum posted:Can I call the indirect discrimination card here? Nothing is stopping you from growing a beard if you want. They can inject these hormones, and ... 
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Fortis posted:Today's weird CIO pet project: Let's use Sonos devices to play music all around the office! He sent the project to my boss who immediately decided that I'm the perfect fit for it, possibly because I am being punished for some sins I committed in a prior life. If you're in the US hope he's paid off ASCAP for the license.
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