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Unless Microsoft figures out a way to brainwash us all into accepting the Surface as our new personal savior. Desktop PCs will still have a place. Not to mention that the computer gaming industry probably does not want to adapt to a tablets more limited specs and input options.
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Kurieg posted:Unless Microsoft figures out a way to brainwash us all into accepting the Surface as our new personal savior. Desktop PCs will still have a place. Not to mention that the computer gaming industry probably does not want to adapt to a tablets more limited specs and input options. I really hope the tech does well. I'd love to have a tablet that can run PC games on a whim. I guess what I want is a standardized OS so if the specs work out I can load it on my tablet as well as my PC. At the very least this would make coding easier.
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Dec 16, 2014 16:30
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I've been wanting a phone that I can just plug my keyboard/mouse/monitors in and it doubles as a desktop PC. When smartphones happened, I thought it wasn't long now. I've been waiting for >5 years, and nobody even mentions that kind of functionality that except ubuntu phone which is vapourware 
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Dec 16, 2014 16:41
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Truga posted:I've been wanting a phone that I can just plug my keyboard/mouse/monitors in and it doubles as a desktop PC. Install a mini HD projector into my phone so I can project a 20"+ screen onto a flat surface and you got yourself my dream tech. Just get home and put my phone on a charge pad that instantly connects it to a mouse/keyboard and speakers. Projector turns on, or optional wireless video stream to a monitor already in place.
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Dec 16, 2014 16:45
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Support-wise, I don't see much a distinction between a laptop, desktop, or tablet these days. 95% of the work is software-related, not swapping out parts.Truga posted:I've been wanting a phone that I can just plug my keyboard/mouse/monitors in and it doubles as a desktop PC. Motorola made a phone that had a laptop dock thing, it was pretty much a netbook.
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Dec 16, 2014 16:52
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sfwarlock posted:I was way overqualified for my foot-in-the-door position at my next-to-last job. I just worked my way up. Maybe he's trying to pull the same thing. Overqualified in the sense they're not going to accept the rate HR is pushing  And as to the Cyber Security job I'm leaning towards the "nobody wants him" as there are some jobs listed on his resume that are less that 3 months.
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Dec 16, 2014 16:52
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sfwarlock posted:I was way overqualified for my foot-in-the-door position at my next-to-last job. I just worked my way up. Maybe he's trying to pull the same thing. Sometimes this can work, though its rare. My current gig, I was hired for a position iw as severely overqualified for, but the director of the hiring manager met with me during my interview and basically said, "you are overqualified for this, but there are openings that will happen in 6-9 months we want you for." Those openings came less than 3 months after I was hired, which was fine by me. You never know.
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Dec 16, 2014 17:07
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Kurieg posted:Unless Microsoft figures out a way to brainwash us all into accepting the Surface as our new personal savior. Desktop PCs will still have a place. Not to mention that the computer gaming industry probably does not want to adapt to a tablets more limited specs and input options. Thing is, the Surface Pro 3 loving owns. Too bad the first one had such a bad rep (and all that poo poo where there was the regular version and RT version didn't help either) that it soured a lot of people on it.
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Dec 16, 2014 18:00
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Thing is, the Surface Pro 3 loving owns. Too bad the first one had such a bad rep (and all that poo poo where there was the regular version and RT version didn't help either) that it soured a lot of people on it. Hmm, they rush hot garbage out the door, it performs like hot garbage, and after two more years of development that they should have spent in the first place they finally have a product worth a drat. Sounds familiar.
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Dec 16, 2014 18:03
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We have gotten Surface Pro 3's for execs at my job and it does indeed own. Not very drop proof though.
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Dec 16, 2014 18:04
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Che Delilas posted:Hmm, they rush hot garbage out the door, it performs like hot garbage, and after two more years of development that they should have spent in the first place they finally have a product worth a drat. Sounds familiar. Pretty much almost every hardware release ever in the last 5 years.
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Dec 16, 2014 18:05
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Rhymenoserous posted:Probably just wants to find a low key job for his salty years. We've got a guy like that, doing desktop support because retirement was boring. He knows his poo poo, doesn't stress about the job, and is great with users. The powers that be keep trying to promote him, but he just likes walking the halls and interacting with people.
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Dec 16, 2014 18:12
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Staffer walks up to our service counter, hands me a thing and asks if "I can wipe this old hard drive". No I cannot, because this is an optical drive and there's no data on it.
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Dec 16, 2014 18:18
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Weird request, maybe you guys know of a way to do this. So after my mass email fiasco I now have over 700 bounced emails from stale addresses in our environment. Is there a program or script that will go through each email and pull the email address into a text file? That way I can just do a compare against the list and remove all the stale addresses. I know there are sites out there that will scan my list but the boss doesn't want the email list to be released outside the company for privacy concerns.
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Dec 16, 2014 18:18
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m.hache posted:Weird request, maybe you guys know of a way to do this. just use a regex to find them!
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Dec 16, 2014 18:33
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This would work to make sure it's a valid syntax xxx@xxx.xxx. I have valid email syntax's with expired domains so they bounce.
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Dec 16, 2014 18:37
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m.hache posted:This would work to make sure it's a valid syntax xxx@xxx.xxx. I have valid email syntax's with expired domains so they bounce. Right, but if you run it against the bounced email you should find all of the email addresses?
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Dec 16, 2014 18:40
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m.hache posted:This would work to make sure it's a valid syntax xxx@xxx.xxx. I have valid email syntax's with expired domains so they bounce.
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Dec 16, 2014 18:41
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Right, but if you run it against the bounced email you should find all of the email addresses? I suppose I mis-interpreted the tool. I didn't realize I could run it against 600 email messages and it'd strip the emails from the headers.
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Dec 16, 2014 18:43
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m.hache posted:I suppose I mis-interpreted the tool. I didn't realize I could run it against 600 email messages and it'd strip the emails from the headers. I mostly-jokingly linked to the regular expression to find most-all email addresses in an arbitrary string. Finding email addresses is kind of a pain in the rear end. You would need to dump the headers to a text file and write a regex parser to find everything.
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:I mostly-jokingly linked to the regular expression to find most-all email addresses in an arbitrary string. Finding email addresses is kind of a pain in the rear end. You've put me on a roller coaster ride of emotion. EDIT: So I just figured out I can export all the bouncebacks into a CSV and it pulls all the emails. Strip out the columns I don't need, run a text compare on my list and BAM, cleaned out list. m.hache fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Dec 16, 2014 |
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A ticket came in, but thankfully not to my unit, every single network drive is down. The server team says it's due to a "hardware failure", and they'll be down for the next several hours. In the mean time I guess I'll be sitting around a bunch since all our driver packages, tracking spreadsheets, and just about everything else we need are on those drives. Thankfully the Internet proxy's still up. On top of that every bathroom in the building was out of order for about two hours this morning because the sewer line backed up, but luckily no one called IT for that.
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Dec 16, 2014 21:49
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Knormal posted:On top of that every bathroom in the building was out of order for about two hours this morning because the sewer line backed up, but luckily no one called IT for that. 
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Dec 16, 2014 22:05
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THIS IS AFFECTING DEFECATION!
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That should be the day where you make an anonymous coffee donation to the office. Just to watch the world burn.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:We've got a guy like that, doing desktop support because retirement was boring. He knows his poo poo, doesn't stress about the job, and is great with users. The powers that be keep trying to promote him, but he just likes walking the halls and interacting with people. I would seriously do this if I won the lotto
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Dec 16, 2014 23:23
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m.hache posted:That should be the day where you make an anonymous coffee donation to the office. 5lb bag of sugar free gummi bears, surely.
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Inspector_666 posted:Support-wise, I don't see much a distinction between a laptop, desktop, or tablet these days. 95% of the work is software-related, not swapping out parts. A very poo poo netbook. The Atrix is what soured me on android phones being usable (and yes, I know it's lightyears better now, but I have a solution and workflow that work for me)
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Lum posted:5lb bag of sugar free gummi bears, surely. Sugar free gummi bears are the best gummi bears. 
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Inspector_666 posted:Support-wise, I don't see much a distinction between a laptop, desktop, or tablet these days. 95% of the work is software-related, not swapping out parts. ..that and to hear the lamentation of your users "why is this stuff so hard?", when you tell them they have to fill in their email and password to get their BYOD onto the network. DONT TOUCH THE PC fucked around with this message at 12:04 on Dec 17, 2014 |
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IndustrialApe posted:..that and to hear the lamentation of your users "why is this stuff so hard?", when you tell them they have to fill in their email and password to get their BYOD onto the network. Your reply should be: "You're a university student, you should have the mental faculties to deal with this."
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...even better is when you can go "you're a CS student, have a *little* pride!". Best people are the biology students who basically want their notebook to have a fuzzy fur, some ears and to make squeaky noises when they pet it.
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Dec 17, 2014 12:11
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Truga posted:I've been wanting a phone that I can just plug my keyboard/mouse/monitors in and it doubles as a desktop PC. Motorola did this a while ago, but any of the phones that actually supported Webtop are either really old, or had the feature removed when their Android version was upgraded. It was a separate Ubuntu environment. You could get a dock exactly like you describe, and there was also a Lapdock, so you could basically dock your phone into a netbook shell.
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Yeah, I remember those and wanting to buy them, but reading everywhere that they were bad (also, as you say, broken after android updated).
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"Can I get my personal phone enabled to use the company wifi while I'm aboard for work." "Sure, what's it's name so I can set permissions." "Daddies iphone." Had to stifle a giggle there. I'm such a child.
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IndustrialApe posted:Best people are the biology students who basically want their notebook to have a fuzzy fur, some ears and to make squeaky noises when they pet it. 
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Dec 17, 2014 13:50
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drat you. Now I need to find this for my wife.
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This is weird, why are there 4000 sent items in the mailbox for our cloud hosted service desk system. Should be only a few dozen. Oh, it appears someone (I know exactly who) logged a call with the user as the name of mailbox, which has a bunch of auto-reply rules set up. When they closed the call an email was sent to the helpdesk address informing it that it's call is closed. However the system cannot update closed calls, and has a rule to reply as such informing the user. Which is the helpdesk. Who can't update that call because it's closed and will now reply informing them as such. Repeat every minute. Time to fire off incident 45 with our vendor asking them to fix the rules, as I'm not allowed access to them. I'm fairly sure by this point I'm actually on their poo poo list and another forum somewhere else someone is posting, "That loving asshat has sent ANOTHER email about his busted servicedesk. If only they loving set it up right in the first place they wouldn't have so many issues." He would be correct, but that's the joy of inheriting a system with zero documentation set up by someone who has left!
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LordVorbis posted:This is weird, why are there 4000 sent items in the mailbox for our cloud hosted service desk system. Should be only a few dozen. Send them this: http://www.iana.org/assignments/auto-submitted-keywords/auto-submitted-keywords.xhtml I bet they aren't properly following that, nobody really does.
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Nerdrock posted:drat you. Now I need to find this for my wife.
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