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Kazinsal posted:I use a pair of old SCSI hard drives that I had nothing better to do with. I use the phone book which for some reason they still deliver 100 copies of in TYOOL 2015...
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I stopped getting phone books around the same time I stopped having a landline at home. Maybe coincidence, but at the same time, maybe not.
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Apr 13, 2015 18:26
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Tailored Sauce posted:Have any of you guys left your jobs because you felt morally compromised? That's the road I feel I'm going down. The job I mentioned before that I quit was a really terrible job stresswise, but one of the things that motivated me to quit was that we had a project that I didn't feel comfortable doing. It was a emergency paging system with some life safety applications. We were switching out an old analog system for a new VOIP based on, and I really felt like it was incredible dangerous and irresponsible. I voiced those concerns and was basically told "it's fine, we can guarantee uptime so it's ok" but I was actually configuring the servers and there wasn't any sort of high available component at all. Their idea was to just have two identical servers and if one died, just switch to the other one, but we had no clear plan how to switch, and the software didn't actually do it. It was a nightmare project that I worked on for nights and weekends for a couple months, and then when faced with another six months of it, I couldn't deal with it and found a new job.
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Apr 13, 2015 18:46
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Collateral Damage posted:I nicked a pair of outdated law books from our legal department to prop my monitors up. I've had to replace 3 monitors in the last year internally here and I couldn't find any with an adjustable mount. They were all static bases. I had to find some old manuals to prop them up.
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Apr 13, 2015 19:03
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Spazz posted:In the short term: Grab some unwanted text books/technical manuals and raise your monitors. Looking down like that will gently caress your neck up over time and can cause serious posture problems. I hit up Fry's for some small desk stands that have helped out a fair bit already. I also grabbed some poster boards to throw up over the top of my desk to cut down on the glaring overhead florescent lights. As to your second statement: Oh I am already considering it. Just can't figure out a good way to get the almost 20K of non vested 401K money. Might have to hold out a year. HFX fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Apr 13, 2015 |
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Apr 13, 2015 20:02
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 this is how your workstation should be set up. you really don't want to be looking up at your monitors.
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Apr 13, 2015 21:23
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I had one of my monitors propped up on a couple of reams of paper until somebody got mad that it was ugly so they bought me a proper stand.
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Apr 13, 2015 21:42
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Phoneposting, so no source, but I'm pretty sure sitting upright is bad for your back. 135 degrees is supposed to be healthier. I know my back feels better after hours of leaning back than sitting at 90 degrees. Doesn't have to do with monitor height, just that illustration.
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Apr 13, 2015 21:42
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Phoneposting, so no source, but I'm pretty sure sitting upright is bad for your back. 135 degrees is supposed to be healthier. I know my back feels better after hours of leaning back than sitting at 90 degrees. Yep this was definitely proven a little while ago, but I now can't remember the source either.
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Apr 13, 2015 21:54
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The best position is the next one. Move around. No matter the position it's going to be bad for you if you stay in it for several hours.
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Apr 13, 2015 21:56
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Technically, sitting for most of your day in any position is bad for you, if you want to be like that.
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Apr 13, 2015 22:02
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Well yeah, standing is a position.  I probably shift between sitting and standing a dozen times in a day.
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Apr 13, 2015 22:11
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nitrogen posted:
Neutral wrist position is the most important thing by far imo! The rest of your body follows suit if you plant your feet firmly on the ground, but working with bad wrist flexion can cause a lifetime of problems. I took a whole course on workplace ergonomics in college, it was way more engaging than I thought it would be.
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Apr 13, 2015 22:12
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poo poo that pisses me off at home: The Netflix web client is locked to 720p (3000 kbps) max, and in the case of some movies, 480p (1750 kbps). The Windows 8 Netflix app, however, does 1080p (5000+ kbps) no problem. Fucks sakes, Netflix. Get it together. This isn't 2010, we can stream 5mbit in browser now.
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Apr 13, 2015 22:30
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Kazinsal posted:poo poo that pisses me off at home: The Netflix web client is locked to 720p (3000 kbps) max, and in the case of some movies, 480p (1750 kbps). The Windows 8 Netflix app, however, does 1080p (5000+ kbps) no problem. There might be really dumb licensing reasons for this.
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Apr 13, 2015 22:51
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Volmarias posted:There might be really dumb licensing reasons for this. Probably. I know I can't watch half the poo poo on Hulu on my Roku due to some lovely licensing.
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Apr 13, 2015 22:52
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Collateral Damage posted:The best position is the next one. Move around. No matter the position it's going to be bad for you if you stay in it for several hours. Cue some company making a chair that constantly morphs into several different positions.
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Apr 13, 2015 23:02
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rolleyes posted:Yep this was definitely proven a little while ago, but I now can't remember the source either. -Waseem Amir Bashir, MBChB, clinical fellow in the department of radiology and diagnostic imaging at the University of Alberta Hospital, Canada. Annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Chicago. Nov. 26-Dec. 1, 2006. News release, Radiological Society of North America. Here's something on the BBC right around when the paper was presented. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6187080.stm quote:Rishi Loatey of the British Chiropractic Association said: "One in three people suffer from lower back pain and to sit for long periods of time certainly contributes to this, as our bodies are not designed to be so sedentary." I sit like this all the time, and it's super comfortable after you get used to fact that you are not going to fall over backward.
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Apr 13, 2015 23:11
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the littlest prince posted:Cue some company making a chair that constantly morphs into several different positions. That would be pretty cool. I'm envisioning a VR future where you just climb into one of those back injury traction things and pop on a headset, and while you're computing it just wiggles your body.
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Apr 13, 2015 23:48
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TopherCStone posted:That would be pretty cool. I'm envisioning a VR future where you just climb into one of those back injury traction things and pop on a headset, and while you're computing it just wiggles your body. Well, if you're just looking for something to wiggle your body while you sit, you could get a hawaii chair. 
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Apr 14, 2015 02:44
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Not pissing me off: First day at the new job and it was… relaxing. I'm amazed. I did not come home angry (which I did not even realize until today that I had been, lightbulb moment). There's real projects, with real budgets, and real direction. There are issues, but we know about them and are prepared to fix them. This is… weird, but in a good way. 
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Apr 14, 2015 03:58
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Good to know about that study on posture. I'm honestly considering replacing my chair with an exercise ball -- I think it'll keep me from fidgeting as much during boring tasks because otherwise I'll fall off. poo poo not pissing me off: I got a promotion and I'm now handling engineering escalations for the whole company. poo poo pissing me off: The guy I replaced didn't document poo poo, didn't give me a clean handoff on anything, and there's absolutely no notes on his progress for almost every open escalation. No logs, shelved some but not all changes in TFS, etc. This is also the same guy who (almost proudly) said "I usually just give the fastest answer, even if it's not the right one." I'm going to basically have to start at square one with the majority of these. The silver lining is that our completely hosed up escalation process is now mine to own and fix, and I can design it the way it should be.
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Apr 14, 2015 12:43
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RyuHimora posted:Well, if you're just looking for something to wiggle your body while you sit, you could get a hawaii chair. I want something where I don't have to expend effort and also I want it to move literally every part of my body. The VR is important because nobody would want to look that ridiculous unless everyone else around them had something covering their eyes.
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Apr 14, 2015 13:08
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Kazinsal posted:I stopped getting phone books around the same time I stopped having a landline at home. I was standing outside one day, this guy hopped out of a truck, threw a plastic bag with a phone book on to my porch, and walked away.
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Apr 14, 2015 13:14
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Bob Morales posted:I was standing outside one day, this guy hopped out of a truck, threw a plastic bag with a phone book on to my porch, and walked away. Did he come back for his truck?
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Apr 14, 2015 13:19
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Mmmmm, that's good punchline!
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Apr 14, 2015 14:14
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Bob Morales posted:I was standing outside one day, this guy hopped out of a truck, threw a plastic bag with a phone book on to my porch, and walked away. Volmarias posted:Did he come back for his truck? 
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Apr 14, 2015 15:28
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Someone set a printer up on a static IP that was already "assigned" to someone else's computer. Now I have to move the computer to a new static IP because nobody can physically locate this printer.
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Apr 14, 2015 16:12
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Maniaman posted:Someone set a printer up on a static IP that was already "assigned" to someone else's computer. Now I have to move the computer to a new static IP because nobody can physically locate this printer. just keep printing something to it that says 'low toner, please call IT' and someone will ring soon enough
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Apr 14, 2015 16:45
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What the everloving gently caress is the point of a printer no one can find?
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Apr 14, 2015 16:45
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Maniaman posted:Someone set a printer up on a static IP that was already "assigned" to someone else's computer. Now I have to move the computer to a new static IP because nobody can physically locate this printer. Are all these switches unmanaged? Seems like something that could be figured out in a few minutes.
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Apr 14, 2015 16:47
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Kazinsal posted:What the everloving gently caress is the point of a printer no one can find? I print sensitive documents that can't go to the main photocopier, also my office is locked also I'm never in my office
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Apr 14, 2015 16:48
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Maniaman posted:Someone set a printer up on a static IP that was already "assigned" to someone else's computer. Now I have to move the computer to a new static IP because nobody can physically locate this printer. Worst haunting ever.
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Apr 14, 2015 16:50
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mewse posted:I print sensitive documents that can't go to the main photocopier, also my office is locked also I'm never in my office "Hey, you're an IT guy, could you print this document for me?"
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Apr 14, 2015 16:53
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Kazinsal posted:What the everloving gently caress is the point of a printer no one can find? How about a printer everyone can find? I once installed a VOIP PBX for a small brokerage firm that had all public IPs on everything. This included their eight PCs and two network printers.
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Apr 14, 2015 17:17
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Kazinsal posted:"Hey, you're an IT guy, could you print this document for me?" Sure thing. While we're busy doing jobs that aren't our own, here are my car keys. Please have my car pulled around at 5:00pm sharp.
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Apr 14, 2015 17:21
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Ynglaur posted:Sure thing. While we're busy doing jobs that aren't our own, here are my car keys. Please have my car pulled around at 5:00pm sharp. I have so many stories. Sorry to keep telling anecdotes, but one time a hedge fund I worked for called me at 6am. I happened to be at another client nearby. The elevator had broken so they couldn't get into their office. There was a door by the back entrance up the fire stairs, but it didn't open from the outside. The guy said "I don't care what you have to do, but we need to get into the office so we can trade!" I asked him why he called his IT guy of all people, and his answer was basically "you solve problems. so solve this one." I ended up getting a sludge hammer (there was construction going on in another floor) and beating their door down so they could enter the office. I made sure the owner was there, so when the alarm went off and the police arrived I wasn't arrested.
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Apr 14, 2015 17:25
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:I have so many stories. Sorry to keep telling anecdotes, but one time a hedge fund I worked for called me at 6am. I happened to be at another client nearby. The elevator had broken so they couldn't get into their office. There was a door by the back entrance up the fire stairs, but it didn't open from the outside. The guy said "I don't care what you have to do, but we need to get into the office so we can trade!" I asked him why he called his IT guy of all people, and his answer was basically "you solve problems. so solve this one." You know, sometimes there are tasks outside of our job scope that are worth doing.
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Apr 14, 2015 17:31
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:his answer was basically "you solve problems. so solve this one." Hey, look, buddy. I'm an
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m.hache posted:You know, sometimes there are tasks outside of our job scope that are worth doing. I know, I used to have a screen shot of the ticket printed out. 1HR: Beat down fire door with sludge hammer. Collateral Damage posted:Hey, look, buddy. I'm an The ticket for that one was equally interesting: 4HR: Watched a video of a bag blowing around by a brick wall until I cried.
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