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OwlFancier posted:Wait sorry you work in a news place and the people there don't know how to use a camera? Pretty sure you'd be able to figure it out, it's not like the switches aren't labeled with FOCUS: Man /Auto. bitterandtwisted posted:I tried to install some software on a user's computer and got an error message telling me to check the OS version. Looked in system properties and right enough it was Win7 32 bit. With 8GB ram installed. We're going in to a new round of workstation replacement, about 700 machines going from HP/Compaq dc8000s with core2duo E8400s/4gig ram to newer HP boxes with i5-4590s and 8 gigs of ram. ...Our desktop image is still win7 32 bit 
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the chief engineers at both the cbs affiliate and a local radio group are gigantic loving packrats too. im sorry no i really dont think your giant dust covered pile of broken poo poo is interesting!
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Gwaihir posted:Pretty sure you'd be able to figure it out, it's not like the switches aren't labeled with FOCUS: Man /Auto. We have both JVC and Panasonic field cameras and both have this switch on the bottom side of the zoom bar area so it's not exactly hard to find either.
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Feelin' pretty good today. Came in at nine to twelve things in the entire company's queue. Only analyst here today. Alright: Bam.
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My supervisor, who is "in charge" of inventory*, is a hoarder. He won't recycle anything on the off chance that we'll need something. We never do. So I always jump at the chance when our manager decides he's had enough and wants help cleaning up the inventory room. Get rid of a bunch of poo poo that way! *yesterday manager said he wants me in charge of inventory now. But to ease in to it, and it was very light on actual details
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Vicas posted:Please post later today to assure us that you're still alive Still here, but he's not. No one knows where he is. He's supposed to be here. A year ago, he'd have been here at 6:00 am with bells on. He's officially just given up on this job, I believe. I think the thing he'll be the most pissed about, and I wish i was joking, was an old Maxwell coffee container with three paintbrushes in it that we used to repaint the chroma wall over eight months ago. He was supposed to clean that up, but he just stashed it on a desk and immediately covered it with a bunch of busted cables and boxes and I forgot about it. I found it yesterday. There was still something resembling the water we had the brushes soaking in. It was the unmistakable bright chroma green we have in the studio, except it was literally a solid mass of mold. The brushes were molded halfway up the handle. It smelled like a rotten lovely armpit filled with old cheese. I thought about cleaning them, but then remembered that those brushes came in a pack of 3 for $10. I just chucked the whole mess. We still have about 20 decrepit, half-rotted paintbrushes in the basement, but I think it'll be those three he'll miss the most. Other notable finds:
Please point out anything that seems entirely valuable I was out of line for disposing that I have previously specifically been told not to throw away.
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I don't get hoarding, the worst I keep is my old SNES and N64 as well as some games, and the bits box which has a bunch of internal power cables and various connectors in case I need a spare, mostly just because I don't want to have to buy them. But I don't think anybody needs a bunch of ancient technology because it's actually useful, unless it's an ornament what's the point? larchesdanrew posted:Please point out anything that seems entirely valuable I was out of line for disposing that I have previously specifically been told not to throw away. Hey now if you got all the screws and old cables together and combed them with a magnet you might be able to get a pretty good haul of pure metal scrap out of that heap! OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Apr 17, 2015 |
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OwlFancier posted:Hey now if you got all the screws and old cables together and combed them with a magnet you might be able to get a pretty good haul of pure metal scrap out of that heap! Thought about it. The nearest scrap yard is an hour away and there wasn't enough to be worth it. I donated it to my wife's auto shop for their scrap pile they buy pizza with every month in exchange for some of the pizza when they get it  OwlFancier posted:But I don't think anybody needs a bunch of ancient technology because it's actually useful, unless it's an ornament what's the point? We have a maze in the basement made from stacks of obsolete and broken equipment. Stuff so old that it would be actually impossible to interface with our current equipment. Parts for a satellite truck we haven't used in a decade and sold several years ago, old non-functioning switchboards, a literal wall of CRT monitors. It's textbook hoarding and drives me insane. The chief engineer seems convinced that it will be useful SOMEDAY. Granted, this is the same guy that got mad I made a Christmas wreath out of PC100 RAM and spoke about how valuable it was, even though we don't have a single machine in this building it would fit in. Then some goon in the thread pointed out that you can buy them on ebay for about 25 cents. I'll post pictures of the hoard if there's any interest. A Frosty Witch fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Apr 17, 2015 |
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larchesdanrew posted:Still here, but he's not. No one knows where he is. He's supposed to be here. A year ago, he'd have been here at 6:00 am with bells on. He's officially just given up on this job, I believe. my body started shaking uncontrollably and my face sorta contorted as I read that
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larchesdanrew posted:Thought about it. The nearest scrap yard is an hour away and there wasn't enough to be worth it. I donated it to my wife's auto shop for their scrap pile they buy pizza with every month in exchange for some of the pizza when they get it This is the best solution!
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larchesdanrew posted:We have a maze in the basement made from stacks of obsolete and broken equipment. Stuff so old that it would be actually impossible to interface with our current equipment. Parts for a satellite truck we haven't used in a decade and sold several years ago, old non-functioning switchboards, a literal wall of CRT monitors. It's textbook hoarding and drives me insane. The chief engineer seems convinced that it will be useful SOMEDAY. Granted, this is the same guy that got mad I made a Christmas wreath out of PC100 RAM and spoke about how valuable it was, even though we don't have a single machine in this building it would fit in. Then some goon in the thread pointed out that you can buy them on ebay for about 25 cents. Oh my god I would have so much fun with that, I would redecorate my bedroom like the bridge of the starship enterprise and it would be glorious. You should film pirate episodes of Blake's 7 down there or something. I would be interested in pics certainly if you're willing to share. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Apr 17, 2015 |
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larchesdanrew posted:
It's like Santa's sack for all the IT boys and girls who have been naughty this year.
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larchesdanrew posted:We have a maze in the basement made from stacks of obsolete and broken equipment. Stuff so old that it would be actually impossible to interface with our current equipment. Parts for a satellite truck we haven't used in a decade and sold several years ago, old non-functioning switchboards, a literal wall of CRT monitors. It's textbook hoarding and drives me insane. The chief engineer seems convinced that it will be useful SOMEDAY. Granted, this is the same guy that got mad I made a Christmas wreath out of PC100 RAM and spoke about how valuable it was, even though we don't have a single machine in this building it would fit in. Then some goon in the thread pointed out that you can buy them on ebay for about 25 cents. Yes, there is interest.
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We're decommissioning large parts of our datacenter in a few months. Want me to film me throwing a rack worth of 4Gb FC SAN equipment, assorted Cisco gear and a couple of dozen HP servers into a metal shredder? You could show it to him and see if he has a meltdown.
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Collateral Damage posted:We're decommissioning large parts of our datacenter in a few months. Want me to film me throwing a rack worth of 4Gb FC SAN equipment, assorted Cisco gear and a couple of dozen HP servers into a metal shredder? You could show it to him and see if he has a meltdown. You should film that just for fun. I'd watch it. Pictures incoming
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Hoarding is a product of mental illness. I posted here years ago about having to cover for the mailroom guy and finally discovering the source of the foul smell that loomed over that part of the office: a treasure trove of half eaten rotting yogurts, partially consumed cans of beans, mostly empty juice bottles... all stashed under his counter. There were hundreds of supermarket plastic bags stuffed down there, as well as literally a few hundred pounds of misdelivered mail, most of which was gossip magazines and other newsprint crap. I threw out every bit of it and then began a mighty scrubbing of every surface in there, including using bleach wipes to scrape the gunge off of his keyboard. It was disgusting. When he returned I could see that for about ten seconds he was considering losing his poo poo over what I'd done, but then he probably recognized that we were all about to toss him off the balcony into the canal for bringing such an odious mess into our workspace. From then on I patrolled the mailroom regularly to make sure he never backslid. I feel like the office version of Elise, from the hospital horror stories thread: you might not survive, but by God you will die clean EDIT: Flashback Friday! This is only the first part of Tony's massive stash of worthless poo poo that I threw out. By that point I didn't give a gently caress what he thought about anything and so felt free to discard almost everything that was in the storage space. 
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larchesdanrew posted:I'll post pictures of the hoard if there's any interest. Yes, please. Collateral Damage posted:We're decommissioning large parts of our datacenter in a few months. Want me to film me throwing a rack worth of 4Gb FC SAN equipment, assorted Cisco gear and a couple of dozen HP servers into a metal shredder? You could show it to him and see if he has a meltdown. Yes, please. Every few months, we gather up all the broken and EOL terminals we pull out of our merchant's locations and I haul them off to a recycling center. I just did this a few days ago. I decided to keep a still working Tranz 330 and a Way 5000, both with partnered printers, and start a museum of antiques.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Yahoo! had 7.5 billion dollars in profit for 2014. No idea where they're getting it from but they definitely ain't in trouble these days. Fantasy Football. Have you seen their new datacenter? I did work on it last year.  The white building(s) on the left is their current datacenter. The one on the right is part of their new one - imagine that building copy-pasted 2 more times, and you have an idea. Also, that big open space in the top left? Check back in a couple of years. Edit: They wouldn't let me take pictures inside the facility (and I signed an NDA), but they did let me take one of their awesome purple couch! I'll upload it when I'm at home.
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Did a quick basement runthrough. Sorry about the picture quality. If you notice anything that would identify the station I work for, please let me know so I don't lose this poo poo job.  This is our wing of the basement. It's like a loving Eye Spy book. Fun fact: 98% of this stuff either doesn't work or is older than 15 years.  Those two computers do something. He won't tell me what, but they're apparently integral to our operation.   Those are all WindowsME machines.    All of these cameras are film/SD. Functionally worthless to us.  A pile of broken tripods.     Piles of out of commission studio lights. They will never be used again.   Look at all these loving screens. There are so many more stashed away in other rooms.  Another fun fact, these computer control every facet of playback for three different channels. They are dumped unceremoniously on a plastic card table in the basement.  I personally removed that stack of machines from our server room last year. They are completely inoperable. Bonus 3rd row seating from some van. I've slept on it. I found out yesterday the lead director did the nasty on it with one of the producers 5 years ago  Yup.  This is the box pile. All boxes get put here. You are not allowed to throw any boxes away in case we need to ship something out.  An array of DSL modems that provide static IPs to different servers. Fun fact 3: The basement floods whenever it rains. The water usually stops about 6 or 7 feet from this area.  A daisy chain of UPSs, all plugged into each other. We didn't do this. This is mandated by our internet provider. I don't know what the gently caress. There you go. Just some of my lovely basement.
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Gwaihir posted:Pretty sure you'd be able to figure it out, it's not like the switches aren't labeled with FOCUS: Man /Auto. That's the switch for whether you're filming cars or people, right?
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 Although there's room to walk those pictures rate very high on the "volume of stuff to percentage of worthless crap" scale. If you're within 400 miles I will drive there and help you recycle all of it. ALL OF IT.
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My God, it's beautiful.
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OwlFancier posted:Take the bin of crap to a scrapyard, ask them to crush it into a cube for you, bring it back into work and give it to him, tell him you upgraded the compression on his hardware archive. 
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It's even more amazing/terrifying than I had imagined.
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drat I can't even decide what I like best about those pictures.
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Holy Jesus that's terrifying. The monitors look like you interrupted them having a conference or something, are you sure they're in the same position every time you come down? Also, what is that... object... on top of the Performa box? Why do you have a vaguely menacing "Thy Will Be Done" sign next to the functional computers? Does the basement contain a busted electronics golem or something? OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Apr 17, 2015 |
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J posted:drat I can't even decide what I like best about those pictures. Everything. Every single thing about them. I mean, it doesn't have "Workstation_rack_tetris.jpg," but it's even better for sheer quantity and quality of old poo poo.
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OwlFancier posted:Also, what is that... object... on top of the Performa box? Just went to check.  Why, it's just a small cardboard box. Wonder what's inside?  Oh! That's where they stored all the extra wallpaper from when they redecorated the sales offices in 1988. OwlFancier posted:Why do you have a vaguely menacing "Thy Will Be Done" sign next to the functional computers? Does the basement contain a busted electronics golem or something? I'm not really sure. I do believe the old chief engineer was a huge bible thumper, but that doesn't explain why that's still hanging up.
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Do I see a U-matic deck in there? Or are those all Beta of some flavor?
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Gunjin posted:Do I see a U-matic deck in there? Or are those all Beta of some flavor? I promise you if you look close enough you'll find both, probably. I know there are a handful of Betamax units in there. Yet another fun fact: we still have several Betamax units in service because we actually have clients that ship in footage on them. I poo poo you not. Upstairs, we have every episode of The Simpsons up to season 17, every episode of Andy Griffith, and every episode of In the Heat of the Night on Beta.
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OwlFancier posted:Why do you have a vaguely menacing "Thy Will Be Done" sign next to the functional computers? Does the basement contain a busted electronics golem or something? "Yeah so when it's done, change this global variable from emet to met."
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spankmeister posted:If the shipping wouldn't be ridiculous I'd take one of those PVM's off of you Sorry, bud, none of this is for sale. We will definitely have need for all of this at some point.
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spankmeister posted:If the shipping wouldn't be ridiculous I'd take one of those PVM's off of you Over that supervisor's cold, dead body you would.
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HDCAM/HDCAM SR I hope? Or Betacam SX, I know some news organizations still use that.
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larchesdanrew posted:Did a quick basement runthrough. Sorry about the picture quality. If you notice anything that would identify the station I work for, please let me know so I don't lose this poo poo job.
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Kurieg posted:"Yeah so when it's done, change this global variable from emet to met." gently caress yes, I love this.
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larchesdanrew posted:There you go. Just some of my lovely basement. I'd fire myself if I created a mess like that.
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