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Crowley posted:I've never had a 5.25" disk not work - even if it was stored on top of an unshielded speaker, next to an MRI scanner, or in the control room in Pripyat. 3.5" disks however, will fail if they're not shielded from the Earth's magnetic field. I'm going to qualify that with 'later-manufacture 3.5 disks' The early runs were lovely and reliable and you could pull them out of storage after a few years, blow the dust off and they would work fine. Then there seemed to be a change to make them lovely and unreliable to the point where you had to check every disk fresh out of the box and assume that 20% would fail within the first week.
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Crowley posted:I've never had a 5.25" disk not work - even if it was stored on top of an unshielded speaker, next to an MRI scanner, or in the control room in Pripyat. 3.5" disks however, will fail if they're not shielded from the Earth's magnetic field. I had MicroZine disks failing after a few years back with an Apple II 
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jammyozzy posted:poo poo pissing me off: Our official company training material referring to staff as 'resource' e.g. "raise your concerns with an appropriate company resource." New gig - I had a one-on-one with the Senior VP of our division. He referred to staff members as resources throughout our discussion. At the end, he asked me if I had any other questions. I asked him if he would mind not referring to people as resources in my presence, as I found it personally offensive. He asked me how he should refer to them. I suggested "people". Off to a good start 
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Sarcasmatron posted:New gig - I had a one-on-one with the Senior VP of our division. He referred to staff members as resources throughout our discussion. At the end, he asked me if I had any other questions.  Fight the good fight, dude. I would probably have not done the same, but I would've wanted to.
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Apparently the backup software we use has a DST bug... It sends out a daily email reminder at 4PM to a handful of people reminding them to change the backup disk. At 1:59AM, when the clock rolled back to 1AM, it somehow triggered the app to start sending the reminder email about once every second until the time came back around to 1:59AM again. I woke up Sunday morning with a little over 3,000 emails reminding me to change the backup disk.
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Nov 3, 2014 15:34
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stevewm posted:Apparently the backup software we use has a DST bug... Well, did you change the disk?
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Nov 3, 2014 15:57
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Found out the 100% write tape drive in our security DVR isn't as much tape as it is a 4 gig IDE platter. She was a little hot and dusty after 6 years.
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Nov 3, 2014 16:23
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Our Everfocus DVRs are the same way. It's just a computer that continually writes to the HDD inside and you just pray that the thing doesn't bite the dust either through the hard drive dying or the firmware randomly breaking itself.
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Can we just stop jumping the loving clock forward and backwards every 6 months?
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Griffon posted:Can we just stop jumping the loving clock forward and backwards every 6 months? Pretty please? DST is the worst
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KaneTW posted:Pretty please? DST is the worst It saves a lot of energy and is easily changed, most devices do it automatically. I'm pro 'Saving Energy Without Changing My Lifestyle' myself.
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Nov 3, 2014 18:07
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Is DST summer or winter? I can never remember. I like winter time better.
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Apparently it starts in spring and ends in fall, which always confused me, wouldn't you want to save daylight when there is less of it? Remove DST, remove timezones, this system is so dumb. e: also DST kills people
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Mrit posted:It saves a lot of energy and is easily changed, most devices do it automatically. I'm pro 'Saving Energy Without Changing My Lifestyle' myself. It doesn't actually save any energy and is stupid and pointless.
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Inspector_666 posted:It doesn't actually save any energy and is stupid and pointless. And still in TYOOL 2014 there are apps that don't use utc internally. Enjoy 80 ambulances freezing on the map for an hour because the dispatch system thinks the position updates they're sending are older than the positions it already has and discards them.
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Che Delilas posted:Take it from someone who has seen this kind of thing before: you are working for a narcissist/egomaniac. It doesn't matter that you were professional and not dickish. What matters to her is that you defied her authority; she wanted you to do something and you told her that you had something that was more important to do right this minute. It was a direct challenge to her, her authority, and her very identity, because these people can never be wrong. Likewise, their decisions can never be affected by new information, because they already know everything important. God help you if you were in a place where other people could hear the conversation. This, this, this, a million times this. Every action you take will now be viewed through a lens of your "habitual insubordination." If you respond by becoming a puppet who does absolutely nothing other than what they're explicitly telling you to do, you will then be "deliberately feigning a lack of initiative" in an "insubordinate manner." Immediately prioritize getting a new job, everything else is a distant second. If it helps, your career where you currently are is already effectively over because you will never be promoted/get a positive review ever, ever again.
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DST is the best, never not spring forward.
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spog posted:I'm going to qualify that with 'later-manufacture 3.5 disks' For a long long time my F6 driver floppies were a set of 3 discs that originally contained drivers for an "Elephant" branded Aliance Promotion based graphics card for Windows 3.11 but landed in my possession back in 1994 filled with Doom WADs. I last used them to install Dell PERC4? drivers while reinstalling Server 2003 on fleet of PowerEdges (2450 and 1450 I think)... in 2011. No idea where they've gone now. Hopefully we're finally at a point where I don't need them. Feels like there was some sort of conspiracy to kill off floppies. I'd put my tinfoil hat on but the resulting static would probably wipe any surviving data on the later discs.
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Sheep posted:Our Everfocus DVRs are the same way. It's just a computer that continually writes to the HDD inside and you just pray that the thing doesn't bite the dust either through the hard drive dying or the firmware randomly breaking itself. Actually, I've changed the hard drive in an old lovely Everfocus. Just had to google up the model number of the Seagate drive inside and get a replacement. It was a bit more expensive than a plain consumer drive, but not much. loving things were running on a SATA->IDE converter bolted on to the front of the drive, though. What a piece of poo poo.
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Lum posted:Feels like there was some sort of conspiracy to kill off floppies. The implacable march of time?
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Yeah, I think a lot of people tend to forget that people used floppies for 30 years without major problems. It was only when the quality went to poo poo in the late 90s/early 2000s that the thing about them being bad out of the box became true. I've got boxes of Amiga floppies in the loft that all still work fine.
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AlternateAccount posted:Actually, I've changed the hard drive in an old lovely Everfocus. Just had to google up the model number of the Seagate drive inside and get a replacement. It was a bit more expensive than a plain consumer drive, but not much. loving things were running on a SATA->IDE converter bolted on to the front of the drive, though. What a piece of poo poo. Quite a few of the early SATA drives actually had one of those converter chips soldered onto the bloody board! poo poo that pissed you off daily... 2000s edition.
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Lum posted:poo poo that pissed you off daily... 2000s edition. "Ugh, goddamn hard coded poo poo." *subst a: b:*
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Sarcasmatron posted:New gig - I had a one-on-one with the Senior VP of our division. He referred to staff members as resources throughout our discussion. At the end, he asked me if I had any other questions. "People, employees, staff members, workers, team members (  ), techs, experts, professionals." Just off the top of my head. It's amazing how many words there are, none of them particularly difficult to say, that don't imply that a person is a fungible asset that can be ordered prefab from a warehouse.
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How are you supposed to impress your new friends in the management club if you aren't using the latest deliberately abstract term to refer to the people you are supposed to be responsible for
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Crowley posted:"Ugh, goddamn hard coded poo poo." "I need to swap out this memory/nic/drive/other easily replaced part" *finishes job, non-tech looks at your hands and trys to get you to see someone about self harm*
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Lum posted:"I need to swap out this memory/nic/drive/other easily replaced part" Molex power connectors. Those were the absolute worst.
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funk_mata posted:Molex power connectors. Those were the absolute worst. Combined with cheap-rear end beige box cases, I swear to god that was worse than sticking your hand in a bucket of razor wire.
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Lum posted:"I need to swap out this memory/nic/drive/other easily replaced part" I'm convinced the GX240 was designed to remove the tips of your fingers when closing the case.
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funk_mata posted:Molex power connectors. Those were the absolute worst. My hate for Molex power connectors is as deep as the Challenger Deep and as ugly as anything you would find there.
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rolleyes posted:Combined with cheap-rear end beige box cases, I swear to god that was worse than sticking your hand in a bucket of razor wire. That time my boss asked me to write a procedure for troubleshooting IRQ conflicts Nope.. that's something you do by feel / gut instinct. Ended up handing him an envelope with "bugger about with it until you find a combination that works" scrawled on the back.
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mewse posted:How are you supposed to impress your new friends in the management club if you aren't using the latest deliberately abstract term to refer to the people you are supposed to be responsible for Besides the more you dehumanize them the easier you'll sleep at night when the time comes to out source all their work and lay them off. Fake edit: Oh who am I kidding sociopaths sleep like proverbial(as opposed to actual) babies.
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mewse posted:How are you supposed to impress your new friends in the management club if you aren't using the latest deliberately abstract term to refer to the people you are supposed to be responsible for Being completely serious, I think this is a big part of it. The problem is that the word is insidious. Otherwise decent people take up the popular terminology and then its dehumanizing nature goes to work on their subconscious. Enough of that over time and they turn into actual sociopaths who don't see humans anymore; they see cogs and costs and problems.
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Lum posted:Feels like there was some sort of conspiracy to kill off floppies. I'd put my tinfoil hat on but the resulting static would probably wipe any surviving data on the later discs. It's more that once boxed software distribution by floppies died off, all the floppy makers lost a huge market of customers that absolutely needed high quality disks, and a lot of floppy manufacturers simply quit doing it all together, often still selling floppies but as resellers from cheaper factories.
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funk_mata posted:Molex power connectors. Those were the absolute worst. Parallell ports. gently caress the parallell port interface. Actually, gently caress ALL D-sub connectors. Especially VGA.
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Collateral Damage posted:Especially the cheap ones where the pins never lined up right. Not all. RS232 over DE-9 is OK. Ideally the male plug should have been on the cable instead of the appliance, but that's a minor flaw.
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KozmoNaut posted:Not all. RS232 over DE-9 is OK. Ideally the male plug should have been on the cable instead of the appliance, but that's a minor flaw. I've seen too many VGA plugs forcefully stuffed into RS232 sockets to agree with you on that.
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Crowley posted:I've seen too many VGA plugs forcefully stuffed into RS232 sockets to agree with you on that. I've seen a full size firewire connector forcibly plugged in backwards destroying a £5000 piece of equipment. Can't blame it on the connector, just users.
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Not pissing me off: last time I was at the beer store I dropped my name in this contest thing I forgot about. Today I got an email letting me know that I won the tickets to a craft beer tasting!  Negative content: speaking of connectors, our embedded platforms have a few connectors on them, all molex 2x3s, one is for 28V power supply, the other is RS232. Oops. Lum posted:Can't blame it on the connector, just users. It is me, I am the user.
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Che Delilas posted:Being completely serious, I think this is a big part of it. The problem is that the word is insidious. Otherwise decent people take up the popular terminology and then its dehumanizing nature goes to work on their subconscious. Enough of that over time and they turn into actual sociopaths who don't see humans anymore; they see cogs and costs and problems. This. Just because I'm in senior management and have to make difficult decisions doesn't mean that I get to deflect the difficulty of those decisions by objectifying the people who are impacted by said decisions.
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