More shit that pisses you off: What does that say about the quality of your emails?

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vibur: Apr 23, 2004

Pissing me off - recruiters who don't send that follow-up e-mail they promised.

Not pissing me off - arriving for an interview and getting a phone call for another interview in the parking lot.

...the phone call was in the parking lot, not the interview

# ? Sep 26, 2014 15:31

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 13:37

KaneTW: Dec 2, 2011

Shellshock is a fun thing.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 16:14

Bloodborne: Sep 24, 2008

KaneTW posted:

Shellshock is a fun thing.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 16:29

Collateral Damage: Jun 13, 2009

KaneTW posted:

Shellshock is a fun thing.

I'm glad we only have 3 linux boxes and fixing it is as easy as running "yum update bash".

# ? Sep 26, 2014 17:06

Urit: Oct 22, 2010

Cenodoxus posted:

Is this your boss?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vfXoUNDYA

I can't watch Silicon Valley, it's basically my actual job. I used to not be able to laugh at Dilbert either because it was too realistic, but now it's Silicon Valley.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 18:11

KaneTW: Dec 2, 2011

Collateral Damage posted:

I'm glad we only have 3 linux boxes and fixing it is as easy as running "yum update bash".

Try

code:

env X='() { (a)=>\' bash -c "echo date"; cat echo

# ? Sep 26, 2014 18:14

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Cenodoxus posted:

Is this your boss?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vfXoUNDYA

His description of Chatroulette gets me every time.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 18:15

nitrogen: May 21, 2004; Oh, what's a 217°C difference between friends?

Sickening posted:

I have never understood how someone would have more than one boss. It just doesn't make any business sense.

I currently have "1.5" bosses. I have a dotted line to another team, so the other boss will usually either work with my real boss, or come to me directly. We all have a good relationship so it works out, but this is rare.

my "real" boss is also on the east coast, while my ".5" boss is in the office, so he can sometimes handle other boss related things easier than my real boss.

In short, it can work if all parties involved are mature adults, which is why i think it rarely works in the business world.

In other news, I get to argue about the difference between UTC and GMT in linux again today. (there is none)

The only reason it really matters is that our provisioning system will break if we use UTC vs GMT.

Smartass fucker thinks he can do this, and prove they are different:

code:

$ diff GMT UTC
Binary files GMT and UTC differ

Geek details:
The zoneinfo files have labels in them, along with the definitions.
You can see the actual definitions by doing this:

code:

$ zdump -v UTC
UTC  -9223372036854775808 = NULL
UTC  -9223372036854689408 = NULL
UTC  9223372036854689407 = NULL
UTC  9223372036854775807 = NULL
$ zdump -v GMT
GMT  -9223372036854775808 = NULL
GMT  -9223372036854689408 = NULL
GMT  9223372036854689407 = NULL
GMT  9223372036854775807 = NULL

[/spoiler]

I might have even ranted about this before, because it drives me crazy that:
1) people dont believe me. yes, I realize GMT and UTC are 2 different definitions. Not according to the zoneinfo file.
2) Our provisioning system wont let me easily shut people up about it.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 18:26

Bloodborne: Sep 24, 2008

Sickening posted:

I have never understood how someone would have more than one boss. It just doesn't make any business sense.

I have a technical lead and a director. The director is my actual boss while the tech lead is the guy I talk to and escalate things to day to day and who gives me direction on a task level if required.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 19:42

Blue Footed Booby: Oct 4, 2006; got those happy feet

My two bosses are in different companies. My machine has Visual FoxPro installed.

My phone has FoxPro in its autocorrect dictionary.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 20:28

luminalflux: May 27, 2005

I have my "local" boss on this assignment in Mexico and my "real" boss at home in Sweden.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 20:53

Ynglaur: Oct 9, 2013; The Malta Conference, anyone?

internet jerk posted:

Why would they be uploading script files to Sharepoint?

Maybe they're using SharePoint as a poor man's version control system?

# ? Sep 26, 2014 20:58

OWLS!: Sep 17, 2009; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

My boss is literally Dilbert as gently caress about twenty years down the line.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 01:06

Syano: Jul 13, 2005

OWLS! posted:

My boss is literally Dilbert as gently caress about twenty years down the line.

You mean still not a VCDX?

# ? Sep 27, 2014 02:43

Dilbert As FUCK: Sep 8, 2007; by Cowcaster; Pillbug

Syano posted:

You mean still not a VCDX?

Hope he is a DCD then.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 02:53

FlapYoJacks: Feb 12, 2009

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

Hope he is a DCD then.

The more I read your posts the more I think you are PHB as gently caress.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 02:57

Dilbert As FUCK: Sep 8, 2007; by Cowcaster; Pillbug

ratbert90 posted:

The more I read your posts the more I think you are PHB as gently caress.

Nah if it isn't new engineering challenges I wouldn't take the job, titles and money are stupid to go after at this point.

Ontopic: PVS in AWS pisses me off for a 20K user environment, our vendors have told us they haven't done it before; and wow does AWS suck in terms of SLA and logs.

"hey why did my IP change for this SFTP?"
Uhh looking into that, response at some point
"Hey why won't my vCenter connection work?"
Uhh looking into that, response at some point
"Hey why can't I get console access like in VHCS?"
Coming soon****

man aws sucks; still can't believe our larger most respected vendor hasn't done PVS or Xenapp deploys in AWS. Like really?

# ? Sep 27, 2014 03:06

jaegerx: Sep 10, 2012; Maybe this post will get me on your ignore list!

OWLS! posted:

My boss is literally Dilbert as gently caress about twenty years down the line.

Jesus. You called him out. Now he's gonna get drunk and post about how his VMware skills are saving the world.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 03:08

Dilbert As FUCK: Sep 8, 2007; by Cowcaster; Pillbug

jaegerx posted:

Jesus. You called him out. Now he's gonna get drunk and post about how his VMware skills are saving the world.

Didn't plan on doing that. However you are free to project on poo poo.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 03:12

Feral Bueller: Apr 23, 2004; Fun is important.; Nap Ghost

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

Didn't plan on doing that. However you are free to project on poo poo.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/banlist.php?userid=123883

# ? Sep 27, 2014 03:25

Agrikk: Oct 17, 2003; Take care with that! We have not fully ascertained its function, and the ticking is accelerating.

Scaramouche posted:

I posted this in the Coding Horrors thread, but figured it'll be a better audience here. AWS is rebooting their entire cloud this weekend to deal with the Xen/bash vuln:
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2014/09/25/amazon_readies_global_glory_reboot/

So... good luck if you have mission critical stuff on AWS I guess?

Not all of it. Only a fraction of the hosts delivering EC2-based services: EC2, RDS, EMR, ELB, etc.

But you should be following well-architected best practices and not be limiting your infrastructure to 1 AZ andhhahhah the world burns...

ConfusedUs posted:

Huh.

This affect S3?

Nope.

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

PVS in AWS pisses me off for a 20K user environment

Persistent Vegetative State?

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

and wow does AWS suck in terms of SLA and logs.

Yep.

Pissing me off: The fact that AWS is patching a fraction of the fleet this weekend. No sleep for me!

Agrikk fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Sep 27, 2014

# ? Sep 27, 2014 03:41

evol262: Nov 30, 2010; #!/usr/bin/perl

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

Nah if it isn't new engineering challenges I wouldn't take the job, titles and money are stupid to go after at this point.

Ontopic: PVS in AWS pisses me off for a 20K user environment, our vendors have told us they haven't done it before; and wow does AWS suck in terms of SLA and logs.

"hey why did my IP change for this SFTP?"
Uhh looking into that, response at some point
"Hey why won't my vCenter connection work?"
Uhh looking into that, response at some point
"Hey why can't I get console access like in VHCS?"
Coming soon****

man aws sucks; still can't believe our larger most respected vendor hasn't done PVS or Xenapp deploys in AWS. Like really?

Not having a console is intentional. It's the cloud. If it fucks up, shoot it in the head and build a new one.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 05:31

Dilbert As FUCK: Sep 8, 2007; by Cowcaster; Pillbug

evol262 posted:

Not having a console is intentional. It's the cloud. If it fucks up, shoot it in the head and build a new one.

I know it is but seriously, can you not design around a JVM plugin for an RDP plugin? like seriously.... You PGP the password, and then download and .rpd file how is it "that much more" to allow a JVM console connection.

I guess my anger is to the 3 letter above my boss titles that say "do this"

glad I worked at MSP/VAR to understand the whole TCO/ROI/Design implements/etc and explain it to them

Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Sep 27, 2014

# ? Sep 27, 2014 05:42

Gumball Gumption: Jan 7, 2012

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

I know it is but seriously, can you not design around a JVM plugin for an RDP plugin? like seriously.... You PGP the password, and then download and .rpd file how is it "that much more" to allow a JVM console connection.

I guess my anger is to the 3 letter above my boss titles that say "do this"

glad I worked at MSP/VAR to understand the whole TCO/ROI/Design implements/etc and explain it to them

The number of acronyms in IT pisses me off.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 14:10

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

I think you mean "IPMO." :colbert:

# ? Sep 27, 2014 14:28

OWLS!: Sep 17, 2009; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

IHTFP.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 15:10

Volmarias: Dec 31, 2002; EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

Let's go AWOL and eat at IHOP.

Am I doing it right?

# ? Sep 27, 2014 16:01

J: Jun 10, 2001

WTB IT to fix my .PST. PST!

# ? Sep 27, 2014 16:54

FlapYoJacks: Feb 12, 2009

J posted:

WTB IT to fix my .PST. PST!

Can you to it asap? Tyvmia np ttyl!

# ? Sep 27, 2014 17:03

Sirotan: Oct 17, 2006; Sirotan is a seal.

GTFO, tia.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 17:12

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; <img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-jammyozzy.gif"><br>Is that a challenge?

I have a colleague who will constantly use "ppt" instead of powerpoint or presentation or any other name. I'm tempted to start describing all the work I do in terms of file formats. "Oh yeah I ran these numbers through an xls and pasted them into a docx, next I'm gonna update this SLDPRT and check the SLDASM it feeds into. I'll poo poo out a ppt when I'm done."

# ? Sep 27, 2014 17:42

evol262: Nov 30, 2010; #!/usr/bin/perl

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

I know it is but seriously, can you not design around a JVM plugin for an RDP plugin? like seriously.... You PGP the password, and then download and .rpd file how is it "that much more" to allow a JVM console connection.

I guess my anger is to the 3 letter above my boss titles that say "do this"

glad I worked at MSP/VAR to understand the whole TCO/ROI/Design implements/etc and explain it to them

They reportedly have a console available internally. It's really easy with novnc or spice, and openstack/libvirt support it no problem. Amazon doesn't want you to do it, and I kind of agree. Same reason it doesn't do migration. It's technically possible (and easy), but they're cattle.

It enforces the paradigm. Show anyone who doesn't get it CERNs presentation and start using hybrid cloud management if you need pets (which aren't suitable for aws except in mounting volumes)

# ? Sep 27, 2014 18:08

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Sirotan posted:

GTFO, tia.

You can't beat DSLAM. :black101:

# ? Sep 27, 2014 18:11

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

Dick Trauma posted:

You can't beat DSLAM.

"The Nation of DSLAM" is a character I once used in an Eclipse Phase game.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 18:20

totalnewbie: Nov 13, 2005; I was born and raised in China, lived in Japan, and now hold a US passport.

I am wrong in every way, all the damn time.

Ask me about my tattoos.

Our sales people have to make sales forecasts. Here is how they are trained in making the forecast:

Over 10 years, determine the quarterly volume for each part number. This goes in a "Summary" sheet in Excel.
Copy/paste the quarterly volume into a "Monthly" sheet in Excel.
Manually, in each cell, change it from

12345

to

=SUM(12345/3)

Copy/paste that cell into the next two months' cells.

Repeat, ad nauseum, for dozens of part numbers for multiple quarters.

Why is there a SUM? I don't know.
Why do they do it manually instead of using a macro or something? I don't know.
Why don't they just do the whole column and then drag it over the next two months? I don't know.

Apparently, one girl spent FOUR HOURS doing this.

I was chatting to one of the sales people about this, at 7 on a Friday, and she was complaining about how long it was taking her. I showed her how to do all of that with a macro in Notepad++ (she didn't want to do anything in Excel for fear of messing up the spreadsheet or whatever). Took her 10 minutes to finish.

The sales group is constantly complaining about how much time they have to spend doing their forecasts. How loving stupid.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 19:10

Pyroclastic: Jan 4, 2010

I was woken by a phone call this morning from a client. Last night she said she was browsing walmart.com and got a big security alert that she couldn't close out of. She panicked and called the number it displayed, and they remoted in, showed her 'times she had been hacked', cleared her event logs, and charged her $200. She's the sweetest woman, and it sucks that didn't call me first. Especially since she's got an old tax return sitting on her desktop complete with SSN.

Anyway, it's got a twist I haven't heard of before. She had to electronically sign a statement saying that she was satisfied with the services and authorized them to close the case. They left a copy of the PDF on her desktop. It's got a DocuSign Envelope ID at the top and the bottom has a clickable signature that takes you to trust.docusign.com, but it doesn't seem to point to an actual verified link. There's a code beneath the signature, but it's incomplete, ending in '...'. DocuSign's Access Document link doesn't like the incomplete code and I don't see any other way to validate it. Adobe Reader seems to think the signature is valid. I've never dealt with DocuSign; is there some way I should be able to verify this isn't just an faked-up document? Should clicking the sig take me to an actual verification page?
I'm already worried they're going to retaliate if her bank agrees to dispute the charge (didn't find any malware apart from the adware that prompted the scare ad). The last thing she needs would be for the scammer to try and force a legally signed agreement to be binding.

The scammer:
http://expertsupportlive.net
Site is 11 days old according to whois, and runs out of a NYC apartment. Has a phone number that appears on another tech support scammer site that is registered in India.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 19:42

mllaneza: Apr 28, 2007; Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952

Pyroclastic posted:

I'm already worried they're going to retaliate if her bank agrees to dispute the charge (didn't find any malware apart from the adware that prompted the scare ad). The last thing she needs would be for the scammer to try and force a legally signed agreement to be binding.

The scammer:
http://expertsupportlive.net
Site is 11 days old according to whois, and runs out of a NYC apartment. Has a phone number that appears on another tech support scammer site that is registered in India.

Rebuild her machine, quickly. You can't be sure there isn't something your scan didn't find. Back up, flatten it, reinstall. That removes retaliation as an easy option for the scammers. The bank will undoubtedly take her side and refund the charge.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 20:14

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Isn't there a federal body going after these people? The FTC or something?

# ? Sep 27, 2014 20:50

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Inspector_666 posted:

Isn't there a federal body going after these people? The FTC or something?

The federal government would never deign to impair free market capitalism in the form of these brave entrepreneurs.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 20:58

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 13:37

Proteus Jones: Feb 28, 2013

anthonypants posted:

The federal government would never deign to impair free market capitalism in the form of these brave entrepreneurs.

Yeah, that or it's an overseas group, registering short lived domains using addresses pulled out of a phone book. Using skype or some other insanely cheap calling method to contact marks.

But yours is way edgier and more counter-culture, so there's that.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 21:04

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