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I guess I'm glad I've never had to use real XML then. This is pretty close to any xml I've ever come across, including the few games that used it in configs: http://steamcommunity.com/id/SEKCobra?xml=1
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I just use service stack and let you guys decide what the gently caress you want for return value serialization.
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Jul 13, 2014 14:32
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If you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO send someone your 90000000000000000000000000000000000000 rows of serialized data via XML, provide the XSD. 
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Jul 13, 2014 18:26
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meanieface posted:If you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO send someone your 90000000000000000000000000000000000000 rows of serialized data via XML, provide the XSD. I think it was in this thread where some guy had to manually create a WSDL for an endpoint based on PDF documentation and some XSD files because of "security issues" or something like that on the vendor's server. This just reminded me of it, 'tis all.
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I recently asked a large international vendor for the XSD to their XML-config and the answer was basically "Durr" and "It should be human readable". It is human readable you fuckers, but I don't need your config in my head, I need it in a database for another application you're integrated with to work. And you've broken something in the config in some new release so the import tool we had no longer works with the new configs.  And yet they express dissapointed surprise when the integration test they scheduled without consulting us cannot proceed and they've burned air-fares and hotel fees to be on site to no avail. 
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Jul 13, 2014 19:49
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Pissing me off: not knowing how to do things. Anyone have a good primer on the Activity Monitor in SSMS? I need to know how to read it better, how to tell when rebuilding an index would be a great idea, when a missing index is absolutely killing something, etc.
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Jul 13, 2014 21:56
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More poo poo that pisses you off: XML is the Perl of configuration languages.
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Jul 14, 2014 01:29
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That would imply you could get something accomplished in one line of XML.
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Jul 14, 2014 03:43
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Yes, you are blocked from sending emails out to our company wide distribution list. We have offices on 3 continents, you do not need to be asking all of those people if you can borrow an old land line phone to test your home connection. Now you know why we block them because there are too many people, like yourself, that don't actually see a problem with trying to do this.
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Jul 14, 2014 07:29
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No you blasted morons, Excel is not a proper data format for M2M communication. 
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Jul 14, 2014 17:01
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One of the VPs insisted on having an office and a cubicle, both set up with dual monitors, laptop dock, etc. This is the same guy that managed to get Cryptolocker on both his desktop and laptop within a couple of days of one another. Anyway he's now responsible for doing something stupid that I've never seen before, and considering how long I've been doing this that's an accomplishment. In his office he's taken to sitting on the guest side of his desk. The monitors are on an arm and he's swung them around so he can sit on the wrong side of his desk. This puts his back up against the wall, which is glass, so everyone passing by in the corridor gets to see his weirdness on display. Also he never turns the lights on so you just see these two big glowing monitors and the back of this dumbass slouched down in his chair.
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Jul 14, 2014 17:09
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Dick Trauma posted:In his office he's taken to sitting on the guest side of his desk. The monitors are on an arm and he's swung them around so he can sit on the wrong side of his desk. This puts his back up against the wall, which is glass, so everyone passing by in the corridor gets to see his weirdness on display. Also he never turns the lights on so you just see these two big glowing monitors and the back of this dumbass slouched down in his chair. This rules
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Jul 14, 2014 17:15
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You should 180 his desk after he leaves and see if he notices tomorrow.
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Jul 14, 2014 17:51
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Remove the glass.
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Jul 14, 2014 17:53
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Change his start page to pornhub.
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Jul 14, 2014 18:01
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Murder him in his sleep.
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Jul 14, 2014 18:02
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JK just maim him a bit.
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Jul 14, 2014 18:02
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I am finally caught up in threads! Jeez. A PM decided to complain to my boss that I declined a meeting scheduled during my lunch. My current boss is pretty awesome and usually forwards them to me with "LOL" appended. There's a reason I schedule my lunch in my calendar. Current project manager manager (yeah, the manager of the project managers, what a mouthful) sent me a request for a project resource. This request was all kinds of messed up. Servers didnt meet our naming convention, IP address space was all wrong, so I asked him wtf was up. "This is for ${old_environment_that_another_group_handles}. So i ask, "hey, didnt you mean to send this to the other group?" "NO! I was told to send it to you, quit questioning me! I was told to do it this way!" Uhm. Okay. I have another project manager that never seems to get it through his thick skull that for anything he wants to assign to my team, he needs a few things: 1) A problem statement (something we need to fix, do, or solve) 2) a link to the project visio 3) a clear statement as to which server or servers (or other devices) the problem statement pertains to. You'd think this is common sense, but we have to keep going back to him to fill much of this information in. We've been doing this for about 4 months now. Last week, we started just cancelling work orders that do not have the proper information in it. Strangely enough, now a lot more work orders have the proper information in them...
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swampcow posted:I'm responsible for my windshield. The windshield is my configuration file, OK. The car is the operating system, the steering wheel my keyboard. Stick is the mouse, seats are memory. Seat covers are like ECC, insurance is the same as a sysadmin.  E: I have a victory and an annoyance to report. Me and another co-worker have successfully argued that as we are in 20 minutes early every day, if we're late in due to train times they shouldn't use our annual leave to make up for us being late. The annoyance that I have today is that my manager just told me he doesn't think i'll be able to figure out why a server is being slow. Like I haven't done it a hundred times before at this point 
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I'm not the only one who has thought about doing it, but has anyone actually filtered off email from a person or group of people? I think I am just about done with receiving email from 2 people in another department...dogstile posted:if we're late in due to train times they shouldn't use our annual leave to make up for us being late I'm depressed both because your company does that, and because there's really nothing anyone can do about it. 'Merica.
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Jul 15, 2014 16:44
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Whoooooaaaaa Not if you're in the UK like Dogstile and I are! 
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Whoooooaaaaa Somewhere in the corporate offices there's a jar of nickels and dimes that grows every time they do this. Every coin represents an hour of effectively lost work time because of the resentment employees build up when this is done to them. But at least they got those nickels and dimes.
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Jul 15, 2014 18:19
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I'm depressed both because your company does that, and because there's really nothing anyone can do about it. 'Merica. There is something you can do about it. Tell a company that nickels and dimes you on time to go gently caress themselves and work elsewhere. Assuming you aren't a lovely employee that they would be glad to be rid of.
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Jul 15, 2014 20:52
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Listen here John Kruk who uses a 1986 Topps rookie card from the Padres even though you're obviously best known for your stint with the Phillies, your approach assumes that you're not just going to get screwed everywhere. There are far fewer jobs that will not screw you than there are people who know to look for them.
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/07/15/331681041/comcast-embarrassed-by-the-service-call-making-internet-rounds Ah Comcast never change! Just had an experience with them where they somehow managed to cancel a line that we were having problems with. That's one way to fix your horrible service, thanks Comcast!
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John Kruk posted:There is something you can do about it. Tell a company that nickels and dimes you on time to go gently caress themselves and work elsewhere. Assuming you aren't a lovely employee that they would be glad to be rid of. Thanks for the Bootstraps advice! We all forgot that Just Picking A Perfect Job is an easy thing to do; most of us wrote down "gently caress us up the rear" for the challenge, and because we enjoy whining. BlackswordCA could have done this at any time, but was a great sport and stuck out his awful job for our amusement.  I'm actually at the perfect job
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:Not if you're in the UK like Dogstile and I are! If they were doing that in the UK then that's all kinds of illegal. Presumably that's how you managed to get them to stop, but that poo poo is shady.
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   Some how I got the nickname hippie.... It annoys me.
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Second day into my new job, common jack of all trades sys admin/computer tech but I do have help, and the previous person left a mess. Luckily our net admin helped this person out quite a bit and everything the net admin touched was done well. We had an out of warranty computer acting up which appeared to be the hard drive. Get a spare and image it, no spares. No money for spares, right? Nope, he just never asked. Look at inventory and see what software the computer has, no inventory! It's got Office 2003 on it, so what key are they using? Who knows, that's the fun of it, break out your key finder everybody! So now I'm getting us to use the inventory system that already exists. Somebody did go around and found all the computers already so at least I don't have to do that. Speaking of keyfinders I keep finding VMs with a keyfinder installed on it. I don't get it.  Imaging, there's a lot of ways to do it; they decided to go with a USB stick with Macrium Free on it. So now I'm setting up a PXE server and getting MDT to replace it. Very little documentation. None of the servers are named after what they do so I can't even guess what they might do without going in and seeing what services are running on the system. Documentation that does exist is wrong. We have a subnet that's been labeled to only have servers on it, the number of printers and end user PCs outnumber the number of servers on this subnet. Speaking of that, the only IP documentation came from the net admin. Again, there's already a documentation wiki in place which we'll be using. I wonder what tomorrow will bring. Dilbert As gently caress posted:Some how I got the nickname hippie....
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I'm not the only one who has thought about doing it, but has anyone actually filtered off email from a person or group of people? I think I am just about done with receiving email from 2 people in another department... Not quite there yet, but I do block people on Lync after the second time they IM me with something that should have gone to helpdesk@company.com
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The dean of my university has been on my block list for years. Not the only one, but certainly the most important. If you want me to pay attention to your emails, don't send repeatedly send emails to every software engineering student in the university that open with "if you are not a final year honors student please ignore this!". I've generally found it has no impact. People who go on my block list never send anything of merit anyway, you can excuse the occasional aberration by saying "I can't find it in my inbox, must have gotten lost in the mail, try sending it to my backup address, see if it gets through there?"
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rolleyes posted:If they were doing that in the UK then that's all kinds of illegal. Presumably that's how you managed to get them to stop, but that poo poo is shady. I actually just told them that as I get to work 20 minutes early each day (trains, if i get the later one or my first train is late, i'm late by 10 minutes) i'd just start claiming every morning I got in early and started working. That shut them up quick. I had a feeling it was illegal but i've not been able to find the specific law about it. You wouldn't happen to know what its called would you?
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dogstile posted:I actually just told them that as I get to work 20 minutes early each day (trains, if i get the later one or my first train is late, i'm late by 10 minutes) i'd just start claiming every morning I got in early and started working. That shut them up quick. http://www.theguardian.com/money/work-blog/2012/aug/10/can-employer-dock-pay Not a specific answer to your situation, but sounds like an Employment Rights Act 1996 breach. EDIT: oh wait, here's the answer: http://businessdatabase.indicator.co.uk/business_advice_directory/articles/deductions/lateness_and_deductions_from_pay/UKTAPSAR_EU102203 quote:So let’s go back to deducting pay for lateness. Is there a clause in the contract allowing this or, if not, did the employee agree to the deduction in advance of it being made? If the answer to both these is “no”, any deduction from the employee’s pay will be unlawful and they will be entitled to ask a tribunal to order a full repayment. Amend your contracts to include a right to deduct pay for poor timekeeping.
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spog posted:http://www.theguardian.com/money/work-blog/2012/aug/10/can-employer-dock-pay Looks like i'll have to give my contract another read. I don't think there is anything in there regarding that, which means i'm covered if they change their mind later. Thanks for that, I appreciate it.
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dogstile posted:Looks like i'll have to give my contract another read. I don't think there is anything in there regarding that, which means i'm covered if they change their mind later. Thanks for that, I appreciate it. One thing to keep in mind: don't know how it's handled in the UK, but in the US, vacation/leave time is neither mandatory nor considered "pay" and an employer can generally deduct it for any reason they want, as long as it doesn't go against their own written policies and isn't applied in such a way as to discriminate against a protected class (race, religion, gender, etc.). If leave time is treated in a similar fashion in the UK, it's possible that it could be perfectly legal for them to deduct vacation time for being late (although once you run out of leave time, they can't start deducting actual pay).
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dennyk posted:...but in the US, vacation/leave time is neither mandatory nor considered "pay" and an employer can generally deduct it for any reason they want, as long as it doesn't go against their own written policies and isn't applied in such a way as to discriminate against a protected class (race, religion, gender, etc.). See my last company forcing me to take a full day of what measly PTO I had for a snowstorm. A snowstorm in which the county issued a countywide travel ban. I'm salaried you greedy sons of bitches. Edit: they are well within labor laws to do so, but it's pretty shameful. Yes, I could've refused and taken it as unpaid time off.
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our QA people are beyond incompetent. "Your documention on sharepoint has the following errors, please fix it asap." "Uh, no it doesnt, they all match and everything looks good" "I just checked again and its wrong"[this goes on for a week I finally head down to the office wher ethe QA folks work on the other side of town] "Ok, show me what you are doing" Ok, so you are working on customer X, so I go to sharepoint, find the url..." "Ok, so far so good..." ok, then this is for this customer, so I go to explorer and look for that folder and open the visio..." "WAIT. You go to explorer, did you download the latest version of the visio?" "it does that automatically." "no it doesnt! SEE?" [sharepoint shows a change date of 7/15, modification date on the workstation is 7/12]  EDIT: And another story of PM incompetence. The way our policies work, my team will do initial network change requests that come from the customer during the kickoff call/meeting. Anything simple after that, the PM writes up the request for the network group. I have a PM that had a very simple request (allow ssh TCP/22 from network A to network B) and he refuses to do it. He called me yesterday trying to get me to do it. When I referred him to the policy, he called a colleague and tried to get him to do it. I then notified everyone on the team that a PM was trying to shirk duties and not to accept the task. He's called/emailed everyone on the team as of this morning. Had he done it when I told him, the change would ahve been peer reviewed and already done as of this morning. nitrogen fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Jul 16, 2014 |
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Work's guest wifi allows port 443 for HTTPS and port 143 for IMAP but not port 993 for IMAPS or 465 for SMTPS, because security issues. I can understand 465 for not allowing outgoing email, but blocking 993 and allowing 143 for "security" is loving stupid. I tried to point out how the data on 443 was indeestinguishable to the data on 993 but the IT guy I was speaking to didn't know what I was talking about with all of these fancy protocols and ports so I kind of gave up. On the upside, the good IT guy I'm BFFs with laughed along with me when I told him about it.
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I love being told by staff at a remote site that "oh we don't use that printer", then getting the bill today and see they've made 75k prints in the last 3 months.
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