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Sep 11, 2014 21:04
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Sep 11, 2014 21:06
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jim truds posted:email has been down for certain users for 4 days now. If they're in the office they can't connect, over VPN they can. Network team is in a pissing contest to avoid work. I'm at 2 months now waiting for a network guy in India to fix multicast on a switch in Texas. Last update was the tedious "when was it last working" question, it is the first switch in the entire company I have found that doesn't support multicast. All our core products use multicast, it isn't that new and different.
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Sep 11, 2014 21:11
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My signature is "//$firstname". If I'm talking with a vendor or something for the first time i'll include a title I make up and my phone number.
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Sep 11, 2014 21:32
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I wish I could find some sort of definitive standard for acceptable name abbreviation/"amerification" that I could point to when this guy inevitably complains.  <edit> drat. wizard eliminated the accented A... Screw it/yolo etcetera Lamar Smith R-TX fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Sep 11, 2014 21:36
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Is there some special definition of "initials" I missed? That should be "H.S." or "H.C.S." or "H.C.F.S.".
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Sep 11, 2014 21:43
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poo poo not pissing me off: I found a gravity simulating web site and haven't been able to stop playing with it for literally hours. My latest creation, while rudimentary, took forever to get just right.   I wish I could post a recording. Watching my two little guys accelerate towards each other and juuuuust missing every time is hypnotic.
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Sep 11, 2014 21:44
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Agrikk posted:poo poo not pissing me off: Homokaasu.org used to have a fun flash game like that, where you shoot a particle through a field of gravitational objects and it has to last X seconds. Unfortunately the site seems to have shut down. 
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Sep 11, 2014 21:54
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This is going to take up so much of my time.
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Sep 11, 2014 21:58
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dogstile posted:This is going to take up so much of my time. Heh. I had four different browser sessions open watching my own little solar systems unfold on each until firefox crashed and I lost all of my pretty tracers.  Nice part is that you can kick off a system, learn if it's stable in the first few minutes and then let the thing run for hours to get the cool tracer patterns...
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Sep 11, 2014 22:01
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MrMoo posted:Is there some special definition of "initials" I missed? That should be "H.S." or "H.C.S." or "H.C.F.S.". I would assume the initial for his middle name. Unfortunately Spaniards have two first names and two last names. Or something.
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Sep 11, 2014 22:18
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MrMoo posted:Is there some special definition of "initials" I missed? That should be "H.S." or "H.C.S." or "H.C.F.S.". Yea I bet that wont fly. I deal with names on accounts and every single part of the name is important. Oh, and you cannot be certain that it is First, Middle, Middle, Last. It might be non hyphenated last names, or 2 first names or etc. Our system can have 30 characters in a full name, incuding the # we use to signal breaks between first/middle/last. We get alot of angry customers.
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Sep 11, 2014 22:28
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Dick Trauma posted:I just noticed my Sprint rep's signature graphic and it makes the advertising side of me want to choke someone. "Companies such as Cannibal Systems LTD"
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Sep 11, 2014 22:33
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TyrsHTML posted:Yea I bet that wont fly. I deal with names on accounts and every single part of the name is important. Oh, and you cannot be certain that it is First, Middle, Middle, Last. It might be non hyphenated last names, or 2 first names or etc. I've always assumed that because the "initials" box appears in the middle they intend for you just to enter a single M.I. It takes what is inside that "initials" box and plops it into the users full name, so if my name is James Jimmy Joe Sampson and i put in a full set of initials the name would show up below as James JJJS. Sampson which I'm pretty sure is improper Lamar Smith R-TX fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Sep 11, 2014 22:39
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luminalflux posted:My signature is "//$firstname". If I'm talking with a vendor or something for the first time i'll include a title I make up and my phone number. Hell, after 5 years I just now discovered I have an actual HR given job title. Up until then we've just been putting whatever. To be honest, I'll probably just be making it up going forward, as well. The HR title is pretty... blah. "PROF INFORMATION PROTECTION" Doesn't even make sense. I've decided I am a Professor of Information Protection.
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Sep 12, 2014 03:57
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flosofl posted:Hell, after 5 years I just now discovered I have an actual HR given job title. Up until then we've just been putting whatever. To be honest, I'll probably just be making it up going forward, as well. The HR title is pretty... blah. "PROF INFORMATION PROTECTION" Doesn't even make sense. I've decided I am a Professor of Information Protection. You're a pip
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Sep 12, 2014 05:47
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Greg Jackson posted:You're a pip Oh, yes. That's much better.
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Sep 12, 2014 06:12
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Greg Jackson posted:You're a pip
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Sep 12, 2014 12:00
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"product name here" engineer. Yup. That's the title.
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Sep 12, 2014 13:20
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Dick Trauma posted:I just noticed my Sprint rep's signature graphic and it makes the advertising side of me want to choke someone. I had a Juniper account manager mail me, the text in his signature was in Comic Sans...
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Sep 12, 2014 14:00
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#define _MX6Q_PAD_CSI0_DAT17__UART4_CTS IOMUX_PAD(0x066C, 0x029C, 3, 0x0934, 1, 0) See that? SEE THAT? 5 days of searching, 5 days of hunting down registers, 5 days of checking and double checking and trying to figure out why bluetooth isn't working on the board I am developing on. All because Freescales TRM is incorrect. It should have been: #define _MX6Q_PAD_CSI0_DAT17__UART4_CTS IOMUX_PAD(0x066C, 0x029C, 3, 0, 0, 0) Thanks Freescale! 
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Sep 12, 2014 17:10
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Dick Trauma posted:I just noticed my Sprint rep's signature graphic and it makes the advertising side of me want to choke someone. I dont know how sprint is in your area, but in my area it is the perfect cellphone service for companies with people in them that never use their phones for voice or data.
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Sep 12, 2014 20:11
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Dick Trauma posted:I just noticed my Sprint rep's signature graphic and it makes the advertising side of me want to choke someone. This reminds me of that law firm's add, where a client gave this glowing testimonial: "The partners were like real people."
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Sep 12, 2014 21:15
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Telephony is going to be the death of me; - A few days ago some guy's IP phone was inoperable, and after a bunch of head scratching I got the VOIP provider to re-provision the phone to working order. - Yesterday the same happened to another phone, similar process except I had to swap a DDI with another unused phone to get it going in a hurry, then I'm told this is a problem because a girl from marketing said they just ordered a poo poo load of business cards with the old DDI number on it... poo poo - Today to get this resolved I was going to swap the DDI again with another phone that actually has the exact same DDI in the first place (I have absolutely no idea why), but the easier solution was just to physically swap the phones and change the assigned agents on the cloud platform. - Then one of the shitheel field sales drops by to harass my non-techie colleague to solve why his iPhone can't bring up the keypad, I come by with my lunch, close all the open apps, keypad opens, hand back, sit down. I'm really hating the fact we don't purely use softphones, when people have options poo poo goes wrong; Everyone is supposed to use the web dialler app, not the friggin' handset, that makes management get uppity when it comes to call recordings and stats.
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Sep 12, 2014 21:30
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Oh hey look a convenient telephony conversation. So word just came down that we're getting a Shoretel system to replace our prehistoric Mitel piece of crap. They didn't bother consulting me, because I have too much other poo poo to worry about. They're right, but I'm still pissed. I'll get over it. How hosed are we with Shoretel, and what should we be looking out for when the contractors come in?
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Sep 12, 2014 22:36
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All phone systems are sold by phone vendors no matter how much they would like you to think that this is the new age of IP and they've changed. It's still a world of feature licenses, terrible support, and barely functional products. Oh, and paying through the nose for it.
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Sep 12, 2014 22:43
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Shoretel can work well but I still find their web based interfaces clunky. Not IP Office clunky, but not as easy as it should be. The sets are pretty reliable, the switches are ok. I've had a few get wonky with CPU usage over bridged call appearances which Shoretel seems to choke on. I have it rolled out to about a dozen offices in three cities and two states, 100 or so users. Most sites have their own Shoretel switch and I have a hot spare in our datacenter. We have one distributed voicemail server at HQ and a second up north in S.F.
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Sep 12, 2014 22:46
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Not sure which thread this goes in, but I just found out one of my minions has been "resolving" cannot-log-in tickets (in a domain environment) by creating the user a local account and relinking them to their network shares using domain admin creds. While grousing about "what stupid poo poo this domain nonsense is, it just makes my job harder." Long story short, we're now hiring...
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Sep 12, 2014 23:39
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Dick Trauma posted:Shoretel can work well but I still find their web based interfaces clunky. Not IP Office clunky, but not as easy as it should be. The sets are pretty reliable, the switches are ok. I've had a few get wonky with CPU usage over bridged call appearances which Shoretel seems to choke on. I've worked supported a Shoretel system. Their web interfaces indeed suck, and they probably haven't finished the upgrade they were promising me back in January. That said, their support is excellent and once you get your head around the web interface you can do a lot with call flow and autoattendants. Anything that can't be handled through the web UI is just a quick phone call away.
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Sep 12, 2014 23:49
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sfwarlock posted:Not sure which thread this goes in, but I just found out one of my minions has been "resolving" cannot-log-in tickets (in a domain environment) by creating the user a local account and relinking them to their network shares using domain admin creds. While grousing about "what stupid poo poo this domain nonsense is, it just makes my job harder." How did he slip through the cracks?
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Sep 12, 2014 23:52
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sfwarlock posted:Not sure which thread this goes in, but I just found out one of my minions has been "resolving" cannot-log-in tickets (in a domain environment) by creating the user a local account and relinking them to their network shares using domain admin creds. While grousing about "what stupid poo poo this domain nonsense is, it just makes my job harder." Haha what the gently caress? 
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Sep 12, 2014 23:57
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mllaneza posted:I've worked supported a Shoretel system. Their web interfaces indeed suck, and they probably haven't finished the upgrade they were promising me back in January. That said, their support is excellent and once you get your head around the web interface you can do a lot with call flow and autoattendants. Anything that can't be handled through the web UI is just a quick phone call away. I've never had their endpoints get anything other than a "well I suppose if that's what they look like" response from anyone. By far the ugliest, perhaps with the exception of Splicecom.
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Sep 13, 2014 00:06
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Oh look updates to all my open questions and cases with various vendors arriving at 4:59 pm on a Friday pulling the "We need the logs again..." card.
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Sep 13, 2014 00:25
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When you have a good vendor, ShoreTel is not bad. We are okay with it lately.
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Sep 13, 2014 01:52
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A full server backup to an external drive failed. Doesn't look like it copied anything and failed right out of the gate, too. Guess I get to babysit it until it's done, since it's an important production server that has a terabyte and a half of data sitting on it. Did I mention it's backing up over USB 2? 
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Sep 13, 2014 03:38
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kensei posted:When you have a good vendor, ShoreTel is not bad. We are okay with it lately. There's only one vendor for ShoreTel in my region and it kinda sucks. They hooked me up with some free training tho
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Sep 13, 2014 03:41
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Priss In Plate posted:A full server backup to an external drive failed. Doesn't look like it copied anything and failed right out of the gate, too. Guess I get to babysit it until it's done, since it's an important production server that has a terabyte and a half of data sitting on it. Hope you don't have weekend plans. In October.
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Sep 13, 2014 04:07
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Priss In Plate posted:A full server backup to an external drive failed. Doesn't look like it copied anything and failed right out of the gate, too. Guess I get to babysit it until it's done, since it's an important production server that has a terabyte and a half of data sitting on it. Haha I had a customer the other day who was OUTRAGED that his restore from his local backups on an external hdd was going so slow. He restored from the cloud and it was super fast! WHY IS THE CLOUD FASTER THAN LOCAL THIS MAKES NO SENSE YOUR poo poo IS BROKEN RARG RAGE RAAAAAAAAAAH! Drive was plugged into an ancient server with USB1. One.
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Sep 13, 2014 04:12
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Greg Jackson posted:There's only one vendor for ShoreTel in my region and it kinda sucks. They hooked me up with some free training tho Hmmm I got access to the support forums but Google seems to do just as well.
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Sep 13, 2014 04:29
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Dick Trauma posted:Shoretel can work well but I still find their web based interfaces clunky. Not IP Office clunky, but not as easy as it should be. mllaneza posted:I've worked supported a Shoretel system. Their web interfaces indeed suck, and they probably haven't finished the upgrade they were promising me back in January. That said, their support is excellent and once you get your head around the web interface you can do a lot with call flow and autoattendants. Anything that can't be handled through the web UI is just a quick phone call away. kensei posted:When you have a good vendor, ShoreTel is not bad. We are okay with it lately. Thank you for the reassuring words. For some reason I'd filed them in the "oh hell no, avoid!" category. Was probably thinking of another somethingtel.
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Sep 13, 2014 04:50
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