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Internally and with bit torrent makes sense, and that's basically what BITS does for Microsoft. But there are plenty (or more than 0) of real bit torrent uses. None for kazzaa and limewire, et. al. which was what I meant by 'shady.'
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I think also the EVE online updater used to use torrents. Which also is a very legitimate business tool.
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I got the request from the head of HR to move my last boss from her private office to a shared one.  Initially the CEO bumped her so I could take her office. She was then assigned to a smaller one. Now due to our hosed up space planning any time someone gets hired that demands an office someone else has to get bumped. Since my old boss only comes to work twice a week that made her a prime candidate. The best part is that the HR VP must not have felt she needed to inform my old boss of this change, so when I approached her yesterday to assure her I'd have all of her equipment moved in time for Monday morning she looked confused. As I told her that she was getting bumped for a new person I saw the lightbulb go on over her head, an angry, hurt lightbulb. 
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Sep 26, 2014 18:58
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luminalflux posted:Facebook used to use bittorrent to distribute their binaries for their server farm. Or the new Thom York album. But my content filter and/or ISP can't really tell the difference. You want to get the album or legit software through BT? Great, do it at home like the rest of us.
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Sep 26, 2014 19:14
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Dick Trauma posted:I got the request from the head of HR to move my last boss from her private office to a shared one. You're enjoying this entirely way too much. Good.
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Dick Trauma posted:I got the request from the head of HR to move my last boss from her private office to a shared one. I can't keep track of who perpetrated what, is this boss one of the ones that jerked you around or scapegoated you for something?
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Sep 27, 2014 00:31
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Yes. She was my last boss and a micromanaging idiot. During the ambush meeting she sat on the phone literally silent from beginning to end.
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Sep 27, 2014 01:53
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Dick Trauma posted:Yes. She was my last boss and a micromanaging idiot. During the ambush meeting she sat on the phone literally silent from beginning to end. Then if I could do a passable TAS Joker laugh, I would be doing it now.
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Sep 27, 2014 04:16
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Someone just posted the following in our all-command-center chat:quote:Person A: Is anyone printing off the CCNA Official Cert Guide? I'm thinking it may have been cheaper to purchase the guide. Over 600 pages 
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PurpleButterfly posted:Someone just posted the following in our all-command-center chat: Current record when I was on the help desk is someone sent a 21000+ page report to a printer, and managed to go through 3 full reams of paper before they decided to call in and ask us to stop it. An AS/400 terminal is fantastic at providing all the rope you need to hang yourself.
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CitizenKain posted:Current record when I was on the help desk is someone sent a 21000+ page report to a printer, and managed to go through 3 full reams of paper before they decided to call in and ask us to stop it. What kind of person thinks it is acceptable to print 100+ page anything let alone 20,000+ pages?
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Depends on the printer. I'm guessing they chose poorly.
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SlayVus posted:What kind of person thinks it is acceptable to print 100+ page anything let alone 20,000+ pages? My first job in IT I had downloaded some thousand page PDF game manual(some open source pen and paper RPG) and my boss overheard me wishing I had a physical copy to read through, and I was told to just print it because who gives a poo poo. Of course, this was an HP 4050, and those things were tanks that would print forever. We didn't replace toner, we just pulled the cartridge and banged it around, put it back in and it had toner again.
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Sep 28, 2014 08:00
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SlayVus posted:What kind of person thinks it is acceptable to print 100+ page anything let alone 20,000+ pages? You're finance and you print antique dictionary sized monthly reports on greenbar. Takes one of those massive IBM printers hours to do.
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When I was a student worker at the university computer labs, printers were a big headache. Students would queue up hundreds of pages, go up to the printer, then not see their print job (because it was still spooling or they were behind in the queue or something), so they would just go back and hit print again. That, or people would use the lab as their own Kinkos and print 1000 fliers for their frat party, then get really upset and cry about their usage fees when we cancelled their jobs and pointed out the AUP. As a result, the computer lab employees paused any "large" jobs to ask the student if they really meant to print 1000 pages. A friend of mine decided to mess with me when I was on duty one night, so he queued up a txt file version of the KJV. He told me that I went from  to  in about 1 second.
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Sep 28, 2014 12:54
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CitizenKain posted:Current record when I was on the help desk is someone sent a 21000+ page report to a printer, and managed to go through 3 full reams of paper before they decided to call in and ask us to stop it. Back in 2003 when that Sobig or Mydoom or whatever worm it was that spread through network shares was going around, I got a call from one of our clients asking me to come quickly because the office laser printer was spitting out tonnes and tonnes of garbage pages. I mean, just random-looking characters all over the pages—nothing that resembled anything close to a regular document. It was the worm, trying to copy itself to the printer share. They filled up the paper tray twice before calling me.
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When I was a student working in IT, I was often the only one on duty and had to stick around the office bored to tears until late in the evening. We had this huge color printer in the back of the helpdesk for some reason I don't even know, no one ever actually used it. Someone clued me in to the Canon papercrafting website, I went out and got some cardstock, and went to town. Someday, I'll actually put this thing together. http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/3152/phoenix-hall/index.html  
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hihifellow posted:You're finance and you print antique dictionary sized monthly reports on greenbar. Takes one of those massive IBM printers hours to do. I have one of those massive IBM printers next to my desk that prints onto greenbar. I made a project for myself earlier this year where all printed reports now goes to email. We haven't turned that printer on in 6 months.
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Volmarias posted:When I was a student worker at the university computer labs, printers were a big headache. Students would queue up hundreds of pages, go up to the printer, then not see their print job (because it was still spooling or they were behind in the queue or something), so they would just go back and hit print again. That, or people would use the lab as their own Kinkos and print 1000 fliers for their frat party, then get really upset and cry about their usage fees when we cancelled their jobs and pointed out the AUP. Yeah we had a lab with free printing for computer science/engineering students and naturally everyone used it to print out entire pirated textbooks.
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SEKCobra posted:I love people who think they need to tell everyone your torrent program is illegal. It was more pointing out that he had these apps on his work laptop & the company computer use form explicitly listed them as examples of illegal file sharing/P2P ones that could get the user & company in serious legal trouble. Hell, we had a day shift desktop support guy get shitcanned for using BitTorrent when the traffic got traced to his PC. Some people are just retarded, regardless of their position or salary. BOOTY-ADE fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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Woop! Our grey-eminence-making-my-life-living-hell finance lady just got busted doing something utterly unacceptable and got sent to a penal colony (some remote location where she will do something much less annoying for us). So good bye her dot matrix printer! Good bye 16 bit DOS applications that she can't live without! Good bye single Windows XP machine in the domain! Good bye stupid lists of people who will receive a loving cable adapter! Today is a good day.
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Sirotan posted:Yeah, I'm sure the guy was just using it to download Linux ISOs. Ozz81 was being totally unfair to him! We had to incorporate a torrent app to our production environment because a loving central European institutution decided that this is the go-to distribution mechanism for applications. Thank god we're a backwards sheep-herding backwater no name country so we only have to download 15 of them per year and not, say, Germany, who have to download a dozen a day. Man the dude who thought this up will get his house torched by an angry mob one day.
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Ozz81 posted:It was more pointing out that he had these apps on his work laptop & the company computer use form explicitly listed those 2 apps as examples of illegal file sharing/P2P ones that could get the user & company in serious legal trouble. Hell, we had a day shift desktop support guy get shitcanned for using BitTorrent when the traffic got traced to his PC. Some people are just retarded, regardless of their position or salary. This is like having porn/netflix/torrents/dating sites up on one screen while working on the other. I still don't understand why people do that if they plan to remain employed, honesty. Couldn't someone at least use the company phone's data plan to do that stuff?
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If you're running utorrent on your workstation I'm going to assume you're up to some poo poo unless it's a known utility for some weird work justification. We let a guy go not too long ago for seeding torrents from his desktop. Don't loving clog up the network.
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So I'm asked to check a laptop's harddrive and if possible to recover data off it. As expected, the harddrive is not reading correctly so I'm onto plan b  This was plan B. There was no way I was going to even attempt data recovery with this rig. I'll put that off for tomorrow with a power supply less likely to kill me.
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To jump into Torrent chat: the only justification I can see for needing a Torrent client in my line of work is for those Linux install ISOs that are available by torrent. However I can't see that ever being the norm, especially with most of the Linux Distros having the ISO for straight download as well. Is there any other legitimate reason to use torrents in the work place that aren't one-offs? I cannot for the life of me think of any others. EDIT ^^^ Jesus, dude. I can't blame you.
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PseudoFaux posted:So I'm asked to check a laptop's harddrive and if possible to recover data off it. As expected, the harddrive is not reading correctly so I'm onto plan b that's not gonna kill you you big baby, all the AC stuff is inside the metal box and all the stuff coming out is 12v or less.
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Lightning Jim posted:To jump into Torrent chat: the only justification I can see for needing a Torrent client in my line of work is for those Linux install ISOs that are available by torrent. However I can't see that ever being the norm, especially with most of the Linux Distros having the ISO for straight download as well. back in college i went to a twitter tech talk where they said they use a bit torrent program to roll out upgrades to their servers. I'm guessing they still do that but idk
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PseudoFaux posted:So I'm asked to check a laptop's harddrive and if possible to recover data off it. As expected, the harddrive is not reading correctly so I'm onto plan b What the holy hell is going on there and why is the drive not just hooked up to a normal USB SATA adapter on a working PC?
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PseudoFaux posted:So I'm asked to check a laptop's harddrive and if possible to recover data off it. As expected, the harddrive is not reading correctly so I'm onto plan b What are you talking about? Besides the tangled cord I can't see any issues with this? Have you never jumpered a PSU before?
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PseudoFaux posted:So I'm asked to check a laptop's harddrive and if possible to recover data off it. As expected, the harddrive is not reading correctly so I'm onto plan b That's basically how I power stuff when I'm playing with microcontrollers and other low powered devices. I put an actual switch between the pins, but the setup is the same. Stay out of the metal box and you'll be fine. It's also how a lot of people test basic power supply functionality (fans, etc).
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I have one of those on my workbench complete with unbent paperclip jumper I use as a test supply. Plan B, best plan.
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spankmeister posted:that's not gonna kill you you big baby, all the AC stuff is inside the metal box and all the stuff coming out is 12v or less. SEKCobra posted:What are you talking about? Besides the tangled cord I can't see any issues with this? Have you never jumpered a PSU before? I've left work with enough open cuts and scrapes from jury rigged server stacks. It's hard to convince me my job isn't trying to kill me on some days.
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you can buy PSU "jumpers" but its the same thing. Anyone doing actual hardware support should have a SATA > USB adapter though. http://www.frozencpu.com/psu-173.html
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ZetsurinPower posted:you can buy PSU "jumpers" but its the same thing. Anyone doing actual hardware support should have a SATA > USB adapter though. You still need power, and the included brick isnt always what you need.
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ZetsurinPower posted:you can buy PSU "jumpers" but its the same thing. Anyone doing actual hardware support should have a SATA > USB adapter though. I have a sata to usb cable at home but it has its own power adapter with a switch, not a jumped PSU which I did end up tuning on anyway to find out that no, the drive is true dead without a more thorough attempt at recovery. On the topic of work. I was tasked with setting up a user with one of the new tablets we've spent the last year deploying to our laptop users, to output to a second monitor. I suggested a simple usb to vga adpater. It's cheap easy to deploy and won't impact spreadsheets and word processors. What I wasn't told was that they had a docking station for the tablet and that they wanted two monitors, not one. They already tried display port to vga and found out the dock didn't output video. In the end, this issue never gets resolved to my knowledge but I found out that dell's stance on display port is if the device is not functioning to contact the manufacturer. Dell manufactures both the tablet and the dock so they're the ones we needed to contact to which they say they only support DP to DP connections. We have a box of 100 dp to vga cables sitting in a back closet that will never get used because of this. Last I heard there were talks of buying every tablet user that used a multi monitor setup brand new monitors with DP ports.
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No tickets came in... because I just started a new job today and they have no ticket system. I proposed Spiceworks since I set it up at my last job, but the exec asked me if it could be hosted offsite and if I could run it on Linux. I know I can do both but my last job I hosted it locally on a 2003 server. What would you guys recommend for general server hosting? Can I just get something like Amazon AWS and chuck a server on it? The execs seem to want to run everything offsite. Fake edit: They also have 150 users on a workgroup... is there any way to do cloud Active Directory and have it not suck?
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I can't think of a better place to put this: https://twitter.com/Swati_THN/status/515051736017297408/photo/1
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A ticket didn't come in, and it pissed me off! I'm the Lead on the support desk, but some of my guys are you doing onsites or sick today, so I'm the only one here who knows anything about $SUPPORTED_PRODUCT. One of my L1 guys took a call while I was away from my desk, and was still on it by the time I came back. I was told the client couldn't run any reports in $SUPPORTED_PRODUCT, which is an issue, but it's no system down or mad panic. I had other poo poo to do, so I asked the client to submit the error message they were getting via email to our automated ticketing system. We could then work on it ASAP. Instead, the client texts my VP, who used to be the Support Lead. My VP, being a nice guy, troubleshoots with the client via text, and gets him the answer to his issue. THe client then responds: quote:That worked!! Btw I was just was told by JohnnyCanuck to email him the error and he would get back to me this afternoon but we could not print reports.  I only know this because my VP sent the texts to me. ...I think I was very polite in my response, don't you? quote:Hi $CLIENT,
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