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Today I was given access to one of the vendor accounts to compile licensing information relating to our Microsoft audit: We are so hosed. edit: and now digisoft is down 
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Why the gently caress did Adobe go to the trouble of making flash able to auto-update in the background, but then insist on some stupid feature where it alerts you in case you want to upgrade sooner. gently caress off, I never want to see another update notification. You've been told to auto update silently, go and do it.
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Oct 21, 2014 21:19
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Ynglaur posted:I keep wanting "gently caress Java" to be our thread title. We already have the Coding Horrors thread...
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Oct 21, 2014 22:22
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Ynglaur posted:I keep wanting "gently caress Java" to be our thread title.
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Oct 21, 2014 22:54
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It's printers and Java in sweet sweet embrace.
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Oct 21, 2014 22:58
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KennyTheFish posted:It's printers and Java in sweet sweet embrace.  WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT WEB JETADMIN
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Oct 21, 2014 23:02
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Lord Dudeguy posted:
I clicked that link and the screen on my tablet shattered and it started to bleed out of the USB port and speakers.
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Oct 22, 2014 01:07
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Volmarias posted:I clicked that link and the screen on my tablet shattered and it started to bleed out of the USB port and speakers. My phone will not stop screaming.
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Oct 22, 2014 01:57
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I clicked that link and now my printer is printing out images of the Ask toolbar on human flesh, with detailed implications of me in the search box. I thought I opted out of this. i don't even own a printer what is going on
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Oct 22, 2014 03:55
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the java-printers have become self-aware-- there is no hope-- im hiding in my office-- they dont know im in here-- oh god i hear a paper feeder down the hallway-- doors wont hold--
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Oct 22, 2014 04:08
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Pissing me off: JIRA tickets and Cox cable " internet". JIRA: I told my boss I'd filed a ticket with a blocker status and she told me to downgrade it, then realized that I can't touch any of our databases now, and let it be. So yeah, I'm the person who locked myself out of a domain account today, but I still need to work. And that ticket is 5+ hours and counting. And gently caress Cox. Argh. What's the use of having a vpn so I can work occasionally from home when my home internet usually doesn't work?
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Oct 22, 2014 04:11
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Student Support teacher grabbed me today. Said she was going to need another toner cartridge for her printer soon. Strange, since I gave her a new one just before school started. She's the only one in the building with her own laser printer, since Student Support is basically the special snowflake group that gets to do their own purchasing and poo poo. Then she drops the printer bomb: "I know when I've gone through about 5 packages of paper, it's about time for a new one." 5 packages? 5 reams? In less than 2 months? This same building mysteriously 'lost' 7 full boxes of paper (it's what, 10 reams to a box?) last year because it all went to printers rather than the (significantly) cheaper copier. We've been telling staff for years to use our print shop because their printing costs are a fraction of any laser printer's, and you don't even need to send a physical copy for duplication anymore. Her excuse is that it's the Bridge curriculum, which doesn't really have textbooks but has lots of worksheets. But if you're printing off a 3-page worksheet for 30 kids, that's precisely what the printshop is for! But the office copier is too far away (less than 200 feet)! And the printshop turnaround time might be as long as 48 hours! Printing in advance? Pfft. It's going to be even worse this year thanks to a new principal and a new office manager (though she was secretary last year, and at least peripherally aware of the problem).
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Oct 22, 2014 08:15
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I've given up trying to make people think economically when it comes to printing. Laziness and stupidity trumps everything. As long as toner and paper doesn't come out of my budget I've stopped caring. Printer things actually pissing me off: People who can't load paper properly. The magazines are designed to fit a whole ream. Why would you open a ream and only put a third of it in the printer?
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Oct 22, 2014 08:46
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Coworker is out of critical tasks to do and is told to "prioritize tasks on his own". Why do we have two project managers, again? Oh, and apparently we're hiring a new programmer, without even informing the team (I found out about it second-hand). So much for letting us get to know this person before they're brought on... The sad part is that this new person is going to be my coworker's underling, supposedly. That on itself isn't sad, until you realize my coworker is a woman and we found the ad for this helper position. It had a minimum range of $6k more than she makes right now (and an upper bound of $26k more). 
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Oct 22, 2014 09:11
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Sounds like your coworker has some negotiation to do.
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Oct 22, 2014 10:03
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Zamujasa posted:Coworker is out of critical tasks to do and is told to "prioritize tasks on his own". Have her quit and apply for the new job.
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Oct 22, 2014 11:35
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I just got a spam email with an attached Word doc. With a Word macro virus. In TYOOL 2014. It's so cute!
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Oct 22, 2014 11:44
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Collateral Damage posted:I've given up trying to make people think economically when it comes to printing. Laziness and stupidity trumps everything. As long as toner and paper doesn't come out of my budget I've stopped caring. We have an A1 colour plotter in the office for making glossy posters and what not for Conferences and what not. Someone tried to be clever about this time last year and used it to print christmas wrapping paper hoping no one would notice. Cue Global Marketing Director walking in at 6am for a meeting with the UK team. Speaking of Marketing I have had to ask them when I got in about an hour ago why they feel the need to send me emails asking me to talk to someone on their team about a project. You are on the same loving team, talk to each other. In fact you are both on the West Coast so it is not even a timezone thing!
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Oct 22, 2014 13:29
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BigPaddy posted:We have an A1 colour plotter in the office for making glossy posters and what not for Conferences and what not. Someone tried to be clever about this time last year and used it to print christmas wrapping paper hoping no one would notice.  That's about the same level of idiocy as a guy who would call his own mobile phone from the work phone and just leave it off hook for hours, because he had a plan that gave him tiny amounts of bonus credit when he received a call.. He racked up hundreds of euros in phone charges for the company just to gain something like 15 euro worth of call time. If you're going to steal from the company at least do it in a way that isn't completely idiotic. Of course he was quickly found out and sacked.
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Oct 22, 2014 13:46
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BigPaddy posted:We have an A1 colour plotter in the office for making glossy posters and what not for Conferences and what not. Someone tried to be clever about this time last year and used it to print christmas wrapping paper hoping no one would notice. Cue Global Marketing Director walking in at 6am for a meeting with the UK team. We have an A0 plotter for engineering drawings that somebody once sent about 40 pages of watches and jewellery from the Argos website to. The office manager stuck them all to an internal window and sent a site-wide email advising whoever did it where to collect their prints. Nobody ever came forward. poo poo pissing me off: I'm in the UK, my manager is in California. Our work day finishes at 8.30am PST which means we get at most 30 minutes to make any calls without staying late.
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Oct 22, 2014 14:22
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 Hi! I'm trying to log into your website but I have forgotten my password.  Are you at the login page of the site now? Yes. Do you see the link under the password field that says "Forgot your Password?" Yes.::seven seconds of silence:: Never loving call here again
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Oct 22, 2014 15:19
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That Guy From Pearldiver posted:
They didn't click the link and then read the webpage to you? That's what people always do with me.
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Oct 22, 2014 15:22
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Pyroclastic posted:Student Support teacher grabbed me today. Said she was going to need another toner cartridge for her printer soon. Strange, since I gave her a new one just before school started. She's the only one in the building with her own laser printer, since Student Support is basically the special snowflake group that gets to do their own purchasing and poo poo. At my school in Japan, the teachers all printed off worksheets basically every day. So something like 1500 pages a day, give or take. The paper used was cheap recycled stock, basically slightly thicker than tissue paper and yellow as all hell. The copiers used were basically mini newspaper printers that made an image onto a roller and just went to town. Get her one of those 
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Oct 22, 2014 16:14
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DigitalRaven posted:I just got a spam email with an attached Word doc. With a Word macro virus. In TYOOL 2014. I got one of those on Monday too... I almost fired up Word 2003 to see what it would do.
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Oct 22, 2014 16:55
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One of my coworkers has been telling people that Outlook's auto-archive is buggy and broken and I have never been at a place where that has been the case. Right now he is telling a user how he keeps his Inbox folder completely empty and uses pst files, plural, on his laptop for everything.
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Oct 22, 2014 18:00
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That Guy From Pearldiver posted:
I get that almost every day... plus this... Hi! I didn't get my forgot-password email Ok, let me look it up for you. (Notice it was requested 30 seconds ago, wait a couple minutes) I sent another, check again Got it, thx!
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Oct 22, 2014 20:01
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Welp, gotta reboot the Dark Lord of Mordor again. Doesn't even have any goddamned devices to manage. This poo poo hits 100% CPU for no good damned reason and makes vSphere go "Uh, excuse me? poo poo's hosed. Fix it or punt it."
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Oct 23, 2014 01:31
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So continuing my bitching about dealing with some lovely cabling, we got to a site that has 0 drops labeled. 90+ drops, not a single loving label on the jack. I found a notebook in their server room that listed ports on their patch panel with things like "Erica's Office West Wall." Which would be great if there was anyone named Erica there. Or lists rooms that are 2 remodels old. How the gently caress do you run an IT department but not label a single goddamn drop? I suspect this person has a list on their computer, but they are out this week and their last day is next Friday, so the amount of the fucks they give is probably smaller then 0.
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Oct 23, 2014 03:43
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CitizenKain posted:So continuing my bitching about dealing with some lovely cabling, we got to a site that has 0 drops labeled. 90+ drops, not a single loving label on the jack. I found a notebook in their server room that listed ports on their patch panel with things like "Erica's Office West Wall." Which would be great if there was anyone named Erica there. Or lists rooms that are 2 remodels old. My first job's office was wired like that. We would unplug and replug equipment to a drop and then go to the switch's logs to see which port was going up and down. It was loving ridiculous.
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Oct 23, 2014 04:12
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Lord Dudeguy posted:Welp, gotta reboot the Dark Lord of Mordor again. But it's ~*award-winning print management software*~, so it's gotta be good, right?  (Literally everything related to all printers everywhere is hosed up and aneurism-inducing)
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Oct 23, 2014 08:13
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mewse posted:My first job's office was wired like that. We would unplug and replug equipment to a drop and then go to the switch's logs to see which port was going up and down. It was loving ridiculous.
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Oct 23, 2014 09:57
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Edit: too specific Basically, being told how to do my job by someone who doesn't have a clue, and that £2.50 is too expensive for a USB flash drive. GargleBlaster fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Oct 23, 2014 10:40
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CitizenKain posted:So continuing my bitching about dealing with some lovely cabling, we got to a site that has 0 drops labeled. 90+ drops, not a single loving label on the jack. I found a notebook in their server room that listed ports on their patch panel with things like "Erica's Office West Wall." Which would be great if there was anyone named Erica there. Or lists rooms that are 2 remodels old. That's what induction amplifiers and tone generators are for. Oh and a label maker.
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Oct 23, 2014 13:01
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CitizenKain posted:So continuing my bitching about dealing with some lovely cabling, we got to a site that has 0 drops labeled. 90+ drops, not a single loving label on the jack. I found a notebook in their server room that listed ports on their patch panel with things like "Erica's Office West Wall." Which would be great if there was anyone named Erica there. Or lists rooms that are 2 remodels old. They are remodeling our upstairs office. Herman Miller came in and specced out all these triple-cubicle island things and made an open layout. Like $50,000 worth of stuff, nothing too crazy. They came back yesterday and decided it wasn't worth the $3,000 or whatever it would cost to run new ethernet lines in the floor, and power, so they re-designed it all with traditional cubes on the wall. "just use extension cords"
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Oct 23, 2014 13:44
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Bob Morales posted:They came back yesterday and decided it wasn't worth the $3,000 or whatever it would cost to run new ethernet lines in the floor, and power, so they re-designed it all with traditional cubes on the wall. "just use extension cords"
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Oct 23, 2014 13:54
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I got a kind of weird email early this morning:quote:Hello Bob, have a question. I replied with, "No." So the 70-year old owner of the company comes down to see me. He's got two newspaper clippings from the early 2000's, and he has a paragraph highlighted. "Experts recommend removing unnecessary desktop shortcuts to keep your computer running as fast as possible." So of course I'm a drat fool and he's right and he told me I have ten too many shortcuts on my desktop. I have like 20. Then he said if everyone has 5 extra in the company that really adds up and the next thing you know I'm asking to buy a new server. 
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Oct 23, 2014 14:06
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Bob Morales posted:I got a kind of weird email early this morning: "Oh, don't worry about that. In 2005 Microsoft released a patch for Windows that fixed the slowdown that extra icons caused. Now you can have as many as you want!"
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Oct 23, 2014 14:08
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Volmarias posted:"Oh, don't worry about that. In 2005 Microsoft released a patch for Windows that fixed the slowdown that extra icons caused. Now you can have as many as you want!" I'm always too honest to think of good solutions like this. I want to be smart like this.
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Oct 23, 2014 14:17
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Ynglaur posted:I'm always too honest to think of good solutions like this. I want to be smart like this. It took me five minutes to think of this. I too would be standing there with my fly open and flapping in the wind like you.
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Oct 23, 2014 14:24
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Has that every been true? I can't recall any issues with an excess of shortcuts.
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