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The loving cord won't act up so I can replace it  I have the new one still in its packaging right next to the computer to swap them at a moments' notice and nope, it's been smooth sailing all day. Goddammit, computer, if you're going to break, at least be consistent about it!
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Zephirus posted:poo poo that was irritating today, Vendor panicked and sent over an order of tapes, at 4pm, on a Friday, without telling anyone.  How much data do you back up daily?Alternatively, how many aeons are your retention periods?
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canis minor posted:a colleague of mine did that when the boss told him that he didn't like the choice of font used, when creating some kind of report. I would have done this...
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ConfusedUs posted:Pissing me off: departments that don't use our established Support processes.
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Collateral Damage posted:
Forever. It's for online media storage - telly programmes and the like. We're burning thought a couple of tapes every day or so. Those tapes will just live in the library and expand the storage pool.
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Dick Trauma posted:the HR VP just called to offer me the job I've been chasing. A little late to the party : Super congrats DT ! I don't post often but I read the 3 threads religiously and I can say that you definitely are worth every single penny of the salary and every single letter of the title of the job you just landed ! yaaaayyyy
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dennyk posted:You can tell us '80s Florida kids because we're the ones with the logo of our moms' cars permanently branded onto our hands from the metal seat belt buckles. I travel from NJ to Orlando every couple of months for work. What I'm saying is I get the worst of both places. Congrats DT, you deserve it!
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That said, I'll take that any day over snow. Water freezing outside all by itself is some kind of unnatural voodoo witchcraft and I don't like it one bit, no sir. 
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Che Delilas posted:Pretty much. What sticks out in my memory the most is just how FAST it happens. The second you step out the door, BAM, flop sweat over every inch of you, and I'm not exaggerating for effect here - it was literally one second. I'd much rather have the occasional aggressive dryness that we get up here in winters, you can put lotion on if you need to. Friends don't let friends live down south.
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dennyk posted:When the humidity drops below 50%, my nose starts bleeding and my fingers turn to sandpaper. Get a humidifier, I suppose. I have a Sharp air purifier that also humidifies. Seems to help now, because without it, some points in the day fall to 30% or so relative humidity. Of course, I have to almost constantly fill the water tank (and clean the filters), but hey, it makes for a more pleasant environment. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Mar 1, 2015 |
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Mar 1, 2015 20:18
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Get your nose cauterized too, it only takes a few minutes at the ENT
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Bob Morales posted:Get your nose cauterized too, it only takes a few minutes at the ENT I really need to go get this done someday. I swear my left nostril's stem cells didn't get the message they weren't meant to menstruate.
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Bob Morales posted:Get your nose cauterized too, it only takes a few minutes at the ENT Is this a real thing? We've discussed it at the boxing gym but I don't know anybody who's had it done recently, just old-timers talking about jamming irons up their nostrils.
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Yeah, I'm curious now too  I'm prone to nosebleeds because of my medications, but it's never been so bad that I thought about paying someone to sear the inside of my nose.
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I had bloody noses since I was a kid. Especially in the winter. This winter has been very very cold and the heat at my apartment runs nearly 24/7, and it's very dry. I bought a humidifier for my room, but being at work with the dry heat there as well, it hasn't helped this year at all. I'm talking massive nose bleeds just gushing when i would bend over to tie my shoes or get in the shower. I'd be 20 minutes late for work. Ruining shirts when it'd bleed from my turning my head around too fast. Always from the right side. Experimenting with cocaine in my 20's basically 'fixed' the left nostril since that was the side I did it on. It's a natural cauterizer! Anyways, a few weeks back I went to the ENT, he took two seconds too look up my nose and said "woah, I can see exactly where the problem is, there's so much scarring there you've been having problems for a long, long time". He came back with a long matchstick looking thing (it has aluminum oxide or something on it), jammed it in my nose a few times (no heat or electricity which is what I thought they would do). It tickled really bad and made me sneeze and made my eyes water and nose run for a bit. Got some ointment to put on it for a week and now I'm nosebleed-free.
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Late to the party, as usual. Congratulations, DT. Now please change that avatar. 
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Crowley posted:Late to the party, as usual. Why should he change it, the avatar clearly shows that trauma to the dick is clearly over. He is now protecting himself in spiked briefs.
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I can't remember my last nosebleed so obviously that part of winter doesn't bother me. Couple of summers ago I was living in an apartment without terribly good insulation and I spent the entirelty of a 100+ degree summer with my apartment at about 85 with the AC on full. Floors were hot enough to be uncomfortable to walk on. gently caress a lot of that noise. When power goes out in winter I can bundle up and get a blanket and sit with my dog. That summer I was miserable every single day, never felt clean from the sweating, and was still shelling out 100 extra bucks a month trying to cool the place despite knowing it was futility. When it wants to be hot there really isn't anything you can do about it and it sucks.
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mewse posted:Is this a real thing? We've discussed it at the boxing gym but I don't know anybody who's had it done recently, just old-timers talking about jamming irons up their nostrils. The EENT sprays your nose with, what is basically, a higher concentration of one of those nasal sprays you buy at the drugstore. The he/she sticks a scope up your nose to look around. They go all the way back so it feels a little weird when it hits your post-nasal cavity. Once they find the trouble spots, they do one of two things. Either touch it with some silver nitrate (the matchstick) to chemically cauterize it or use a hyfrecator to electrically cauterize it (this is for more problematic trouble spots). If you bleed after having that done, you can be absolutely sure it's not from the same spot.
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Being from New Orleans we love to relate to people how getting out of the shower in the summer is futility incarnate because you're already sweating and as you dry off you're never really dry. So enjoy being moist all day.
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I had my nose cauterized with silver nitrate and it is awesome not to have to deal with that anymore. Why yes, I would love to wake up swallowing blood, thanks!
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MJBuddy posted:So enjoy being moist all day. 
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poo poo pissing me off: Remote desktop to Windows Server 2012. I'm regularly working on servers on the other side of the continent and having a mouse pointer that lags noticeably behind my actual mouse movement is pissing me off more than any user ever could. When remoting to 2003 or 2008 the pointer is rendered client side, but on 2012 it's server side. Is it possible to change it back to client side? Google has been exceptionally unhelpful. edit: Of course, just after I posted I found the solution. Turn off Mouse Shadow in the mouse settings on the server. Because that isn't obscure at all.
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totalnewbie posted:I had my nose cauterized with silver nitrate and it is awesome not to have to deal with that anymore. Why yes, I would love to wake up swallowing blood, thanks! I like pulling the blood clots out of your throat like 
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Bob Morales posted:I like pulling the blood clots out of your throat like The charm of that wore off at the end of middle school.
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Sirotan posted:Oh dear, I think my Dell tech is having a bad day: m.hache posted:That man/women hates their job. And yeah, considedring how Client ProSupport runs you through the grinder, I'm not surprised. Think Call Center Help Desk with people across the country contacting you instead of just your company. And yes, metrics must be met.  Anyways: keep getting weird cases. Never before in my life have I seen some devices on the processor being set with the wrong/invalid Vendor ID. And as it turns out that caused the VM Farm host to not recognize the server properly. And of course, the Vendor ID is set at time of manufacturing, so WTF. Lightning Jim fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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This nosebleed stuff is so weird to me. I'd have to do some pretty loving aggressive nose-picking to even think about a nosebleed. I can count the number of times I've had one just pop up on one hand.
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Pissing me off: Moving from Google Apps to Office 365 with no clear idea what's happening here. Yay mergers. I can't wait to hand in my notice.
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Rhymenoserous posted:This nosebleed stuff is so weird to me. I'd have to do some pretty loving aggressive nose-picking to even think about a nosebleed. I can count the number of times I've had one just pop up on one hand. Basically this. My roommate in college got them so bad that he'd go from sitting quietly to completely ruined shirt in seconds, and as a result he never really owned nice shirts since they were ruined on the regular. Poor guy. The last time I had enough of a nosebleed to even need a single tissue was the result of hitting my face on a rail in the rain and that doesn't really even count. Guess we're lucky.
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Rhymenoserous posted:This nosebleed stuff is so weird to me. I'd have to do some pretty loving aggressive nose-picking to even think about a nosebleed. I can count the number of times I've had one just pop up on one hand. Yeah I don't think I've had a nosebleed since the early-mid 90s and that includes when my nose (and eye socket) were broken by a softball.
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I've also never had a nose bleed, though I do have a bunch of Silver Nitrate sticks. They are mainly for when I accidentally cut my dogs quicks or when they nick their ears, since those just bleed forever. I've used them on my own minor cuts to stop the bleeding but never would have thought to shove it up someones nose to stop a nose bleed. It is, however, fun to use them to draw on someones skin. It won't show up at first but next day it will be there and won't disappear until you shed that layer of skin! My girlfriend had a frowny face on her palm for 2 weeks or so. poo poo pissing me off: Excel. gently caress you Excel (specifically 2013). We use it for everything and have so many issues with it. I currently have a user who's reporting that opening/printing Excel documents takes forever (which I've witnessed). Couldn't find any hardware issues, reinstalling Office didn't work, so I re-imaged her machine. Worked fine for 2-3 weeks and now it's back to being poo poo. She's opening small local files, printing to an Oki on the local network and the only one out of 5 other users with the exact same hardware/software with issues. I'm out of ideas and really sick of reinstalling Office for people. Wouldn't be so bad if she was the only one, but at our other site, I've had 5 other users this month with various Excel/Office issues. Edit: vvv Thanks. I will try that. A c E fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Mar 2, 2015 |
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Uninstall the office file validation add in
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I switched to Open Office/Libreoffice years and haven't looked back once. I remember I managed the transition at the last big place I worked (~150 people) and there was this one clueless jerkwad who just kept argling bargling about it wasn't as good as excel, I can't work any more, this is impacting product, etc. I knew the most complicated things he ever did were VLOOKUPs (because he'd me ask how to do them once a week), so I uninstalled Excel on his machine, installed LibreOffice, and said "Hey new special version of Excel just for you!". I changed the Icon Resource graphic to look like excel on the shortcuts and document types 
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I hate computers and everything I touch turns into pure poo poo. Couple of weeks ago I bought a new case, Fractal R5 (sweet case, btw). Obviously had to move everything from my old Stacker into the new case and, obviously, took every precaution not to gently caress up anything. My SSD is new, got a new GTX970 and everything else is working and runs poo poo fine after 5 years of constant use and seeing how Skylake is somewhat around the corner it would be a kick in the nuts to fry something and have to replace it. Huge waste of money no matter what. Turning on the PC I was greeted with a black screen after POST. Windows logo wasn't showing up and I was left pretty much devastated thinking I hosed something up big time. After a bit of BIOS fuckery I ended up loading setup defaults, which in turn made my Marvell controller switch from AHCI to IDE. My motherboard is a P7P55-D Pro, which is one of the first to include SATA3 and USB 3.0, so the 2 SATA3 ports are separate from the 6 SATA2 ports. My storage drives work in IDE mode while SSD is using AHCI. Could be a part of the problem, but that remains to be seen. I ended up somehow booting my PC in IDE mode (wouldn't accept AHCI anymore), not sure how to be honest, I think it involved booting with a Win 8.1 USB stick, doing some "bootrec /fixboot" shenanigans, trying to "unlock" my perfectly fine already-unlocked SSD and refreshing the Win 8.1 installation. The PC at that moment was working fine with a couple of "minor" kinks: - Every time I turn on my PC it won't boot straight away, reaches the Windows logo/loading screen but remains black until I restart it, then proceed to boot normally, effectively booting twice each time I turn it on. - Black screen on the Windows loading screen if I have ASUS Express Gate thing disabled in BIOS, some sort of mini-OS that I never and will never have any use for. Enabling it gives me a short message when I turn my PC on which slows down boot by 5 seconds. No biggie. - The weirdest issue of them all: my SSD only works if I have a specific SATA cable used to connect it to my mobo. Tried couple of others, nope, my system either freezes, crashes on boot or simply gets stuck trying to initialize the SSD. poo poo was primed and ready for the Haus, but I wanted to try everything I could to unfuck it myself. After some googling I found a way to make Windows accept the switch back from IDE to AHCI without formatting it. Now it boots properly, and all those nifty things Samsung Magician wants enabled are actually enabled. IDE was working fine, though, but it just bugged me to no end. I still have to keep Express Gate enabled and I'll leave the cables alone for now. So it is definitely a mobo issue and thankfully not the SSD, and I'll eventually need to replace it. Still not sure what caused all of this, might've been my 5 yo PSU (Corsair 750HX) so just to be sure I got a new one because hey I got money to throw away so why not. Weird that it happened right during the case switching, might've been a user error anyway. 
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After this software engineering class, I have an appreciation for how annoying it is for devs to validate user input. That being said, it's still your loving job that you're being paid $120,000 a year to do and it's more annoying for me to create signatures and rules to validate your lovely application's input, so loving do it anyway you assholes.
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When I get emails such as: "I have a problem with [program] can you look into it" "I tried to open [program] and got an error" "My email doesn't work." or I get an email from a PM like this tagged with high importance as always:  "Employee can't access their email. This needs to be resolved ASAP."I get at least one of these daily with no information. Either that or I get half my company TYPING IN ALL CAPS FOR NO GOOD REASON. 
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I like when a client e-mails just me after hours and I can completely ignore them until 9AM the next day, when I just forward it off to the support e-mail.
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This one was fun. I am a contractor to company 1 (from company 0, my workplace) that has me at company 2 basically running everything IT. So my contract was due for renewal. I got a warning message to myself and my boss at company 1 about 2 months ago. I replied to my boss at company 1 and made sure he had seen the email and that everything was ok. He told me everything was ok. Of course everything was not ok. Company 0 forgot to ok the contract to company 1 and company 1 never bothered to check why company 0 never did anything about it. While My boss at company 1 thought everything was ok for some reason. So yesterday all my access was revoked and the system behaves as I do not work here anymore. I cannot even log in to my computer. It was of course up to me to cry to my boss at company 0 do do her job and then to company 1 boss to do his job. Now I have to wait at least one week before I can access anything again. While this is happening company 2 expects me to be able to work. I have made all the workarounds that I can but I can still not access my email or company 1 resources so lets all hope that no high incident server bs show up now because there is 0 chance of me being able to do anything about that. Perfect storm of incompetence.
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I think it's telling of how inbred the IT market is here that I'm pretty sure I know which company 2 and company 1 are (Three sausages, right?), and that I've been in a similar situation myself with those companies.
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Collateral Damage posted:I think it's telling of how inbred the IT market is here that I'm pretty sure I know which company 2 and company 1 are (Three sausages, right?), and that I've been in a similar situation myself with those companies. You are correct. Also Company 0 where I am employed tried screwing me out of a lot of money recently, probably due to incompetence though so my confidence in them is lower than 0, but I do not hate them for being malicious (yet).
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