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MC Fruit Stripe
Nov 26, 2002

around and around we go
Well hang on because that looks pretty cool, is that an app that pop-ups replies to your posts? That's pretty sweet.

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Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


For those who don't know who Dilbert as gently caress is and why he's mixing ketamines with alcohol, can we get an explanation of what is transpiring?

luminalflux
May 27, 2005



MC Fruit Stripe posted:

Well hang on because that looks pretty cool, is that an app that pop-ups replies to your posts? That's pretty sweet.

That's the new indie game Forum Simulator

MC Fruit Stripe
Nov 26, 2002

around and around we go

Potato Salad posted:

For those who don't know who Dilbert as gently caress is and why he's mixing ketamines with alcohol, can we get an explanation of what is transpiring?
Years ago I forgot my password for the 2+2 poker forums and I didn't have that email account anymore, so it was necessary to register a new username. I chose the name Potato Salad. Your posts are always a treat.

That's your gal durn explanation.

Does anyone have a recommendation for an RSS client? I know a million websites, but any good applications to pull down RSS to the desktop?

Dilbert As FUCK
Sep 8, 2007

by Cowcaster
Pillbug

Potato Salad posted:

For those who don't know who Dilbert as gently caress is and why he's mixing ketamines with alcohol, can we get an explanation of what is transpiring?

People told me to chill out, so I did so. It owns getting in shape and "hanging out". I talked DBA stuff at PAX, it was fun, then I think I met lowtax, not sure.... But drat I know I hung out with mega64.

Now I just travel with some vendors and they tell me to be X, I meet girls and have fun and still do IT, it is how I exhaust the poo poo that pisses me off.

Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 06:05 on May 6, 2015

luminalflux
May 27, 2005



shouldn't you be dead by now, or at least have your VCDX

dox
Mar 4, 2006

MC Fruit Stripe posted:

Does anyone have a recommendation for an RSS client? I know a million websites, but any good applications to pull down RSS to the desktop?

Feedly

Dilbert As FUCK
Sep 8, 2007

by Cowcaster
Pillbug

luminalflux posted:

shouldn't you be dead by now, or at least have your VCDX

Yeah Still on track by 26 bro

MC Fruit Stripe
Nov 26, 2002

around and around we go

dox posted:

Feedly
That's web based you charlatan. It is what I use, though. Want a client. Want to install something so badly.

MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 06:10 on May 6, 2015

luminalflux
May 27, 2005



Does thunderbird still do RSS?


poo poo pissing me off at work: Everything I touch recently all has to do with ASN.1 - LDAP, Kerberos, X.509 certs. I'd scream but it would probably cause a parser bug, or be picked up as a Vendor-Specific OID.

dox
Mar 4, 2006

MC Fruit Stripe posted:

That's web based you charlatan. It is what I use, though. Want a client. Want to install something so badly.

It's the best you're gonna get, fruity

You should join us in IRC, your daily struggles sound like they would fit right in

KennyTheFish
Jan 13, 2004

MC Fruit Stripe posted:

Does anyone have a recommendation for an RSS client? I know a million websites, but any good applications to pull down RSS to the desktop?

Outlook?

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

Hey 50 new posts, something hilarious or terrible must've happened

Oh it's just loving CF humblebragging and people taking the bait

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


If you don't hate Java, RSSOwl works. http://www.rssowl.org/

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Boothbro talk is really weird.

In other news, I'm going to be working on a Sunday so I can install a patch panel at a new client.

Swink
Apr 18, 2006
Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Roargasm posted:

Of course I'll help you format your 30-page Word document. After all, I did list Word expertise on my resume to get this office support job and I'm the best at using the space bar to format handbooks. Oh wait, that's you.

Holy poo poo this. My entire week is doing jobs that other people are specifically hired to do. Like process word documents and move files around.

I don't mind lending a hand wherever needed. The difference is I'm paid for my technical expertise but in practice I am just an extra warm body to print a document or move a desk.

NZAmoeba
Feb 14, 2005

It turns out it's MAN!
Hair Elf

AlternateAccount posted:

ACT is, and always has been utter garbage. In all of its forms since its inception.

I am not sure if ACT or Quickbooks is the champion of being a completely lovely product that people are married to due to simple inertia.

EoRaptor posted:

^^^^^ This too. If anybody has some alternatives, we are looking into options right now, so PM away.


The ACT client is garbage, and will happily show unrelated cached data. View -> Refresh should clear it up.

If it sticks beyond that, it might also be a more subtle instance of ACT re-using a ContactID. It won't happen within the same database, but the algorithm that generates them is not very random, so duplication is completely possible, though admittedly unlikely. N

Xero has some basic CRM functionality called Smart Lists, or you could just use one of the many add-ons available. Then you'd also be using cloud based stuff and never have to manage a crappy local install of an application ever again. It also just happens to be really good accounting software too so that's nice.

Partycat
Oct 25, 2004

Moey posted:

We have the complete opposite with projectors. I am at a pretty high elevation. Thin air doesn't allow them to cool properly. We have been buying ones that have a "high altitude" setting (aka blast the fan). Our lifespan seems to be about a year. Bulbs explode all the time and just destroy the projectors.

I have been pushing for (with some success) adding large LCDs to conference rooms.

Mitsubishi seems to have some pretty big monitors that work well. Christie is also showing off a laser driven projector - no bulbs there!

Roargasm
Oct 21, 2010

Hate to sound sleazy
But tease me
I don't want it if it's that easy

Potato Salad posted:

For those who don't know who Dilbert as gently caress is and why he's mixing ketamines with alcohol, can we get an explanation of what is transpiring?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2S4y-u0o5Y

Partycat
Oct 25, 2004

WOW missed that ... whatever that was. Space dandy indeed.

nitrogen
May 21, 2004

Oh, what's a 217°C difference between friends?
India thought it'd be a good idea to write a script to create local users on a bunch of machines
with the customers' passwords in plain text
AND THEN LEAVE THEM ON THE SERVER.

I can't even.

Gothmog1065
May 14, 2009
poo poo not pissing me off but a coworker: He's getting right down angry that a teacher put in "Some of the computers in the lab aren't working". Mind you in this school, in the past month, we just got the teachers actually using the helpdesk system.

I offered to cover for him so he could cool off.

e: This is the guy who can't assign tickets, update tickets or really do anything but leave them open even after they're done.

poo poo pissing me off: O2013 please install you stupid loving program.

Gothmog1065 fucked around with this message at 14:45 on May 6, 2015

icehewk
Jul 7, 2003

Congratulations on not getting fit in 2011!

MC Fruit Stripe posted:

That's web based you charlatan. It is what I use, though. Want a client. Want to install something so badly.

You could install Bluestacks and run Feedly's app through that.

Adult Sword Owner
Jun 19, 2011

u deserve diploma for sublime comedy expertise
Dev over and over stated that he is an ~Apache configuration expert~ so I let him configure mod_proxy_balancer to do 2x4 balancing

Looks like he's in fact just an idiot because he did the most basic config (IE just listed the App servers in a <Proxy balancer> stanza) and it's absolute garbage and if an App server dies it still tries to route traffic for a noticeable amount of minutes but hey at least we're not using the F5's we already pay for right???

Lightning Jim
Nov 18, 2006

Just a mad weather-ologist :science:
I love it when some customers choose to use a non-Enterprise level OS to run in their environment, and then find issues getting OS level issues resolved.

Example: Customer is trying to use OpenSUSE and having network loss that seems to stem from the driver that came prebundled.
I mean, at least CentOS is supposed to be Enterprise-grade, even if it's only community supported. Ubuntu and Debian do want to try to be Enterprise but eh. But when I see customers with Gentoo, Fedora, etc., what?

Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012

The honey moon is over. I sure do wish I got to 3 months before becoming disillusioned. We got told today that we now need to close tickets as solved instead of using pending or hold. Even if something is actively being worked on. The entire team is pissed, including my boss, but his boss does not understand why this is lying or why it invalidates having a ticketing system.

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


jim truds posted:

The honey moon is over. I sure do wish I got to 3 months before becoming disillusioned. We got told today that we now need to close tickets as solved instead of using pending or hold. Even if something is actively being worked on. The entire team is pissed, including my boss, but his boss does not understand why this is lying or why it invalidates having a ticketing system.

"There is no problem." --Your boss's boss to his/her peers.

meanieface
Mar 27, 2012

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Is there a legitimate medical condition that would make someone incapable of minding their own drat business? Because it's coming to the point where I think my rear end in a top hat coworker is somehow seriously damaged.

I mean, drat. Can you just NOT be an rear end in a top hat for three minutes? Maybe five?

I'm so loving over him hosting meetings that are basically smokescreens for making someone else (especially me) look bad. What a jackass.

Sheep
Jul 24, 2003

Gothmog1065 posted:

poo poo pissing me off: O2013 please install you stupid loving program.

I've been wrangling with Office 2013 for months and every time it is mentioned I nearly have an aneurysm because the whole licensing setup is so pants on head retarded. We have a dummy account specifically to hold the Microsoft Account & Office License connection because that's apparently a hoop that needs jumping through every time I install this goddamn software.

BaseballPCHiker
Jan 16, 2006

Rolling out Office 2013 should justify to your superiors the need to get volume licensing so you dont have to put up with that crap. Just get it without software assurance and the price should come pretty close.

Sheep
Jul 24, 2003
The question then becomes what do we do with our existing 50ish H&B licenses? Can we import them into a new VLK scheme for $zero?

Edit: also it turns out one of our local vendors has been supplying grey market licenses, woop best Wednesday ever.

Sheep fucked around with this message at 18:37 on May 6, 2015

dox
Mar 4, 2006

Sheep posted:

The question then becomes what do we do with our existing 50ish H&B licenses? Can we import them into a new VLK scheme for $zero?

Edit: also it turns out one of our local vendors has been supplying grey market licenses, woop best Wednesday ever.

The only way I have been able to manage 2013 retail (H&B, H&S) is to make a spreadsheet for each client with the serial number of the machine and the actual "CD key" that is listed as a "Product Key" within the office.com/setup dashboard. Then activate with slmgr.vbs. The license is tied to the hardware anyway. It also doesn't add the newest key added to the top or the bottom of the list, so you have to make sure that all of the existing products added are already in a spreadsheet/document. And you can only add somewhere between 20-40 keys per account.

The more frustrating part is sales selling this to clients and management shrugging it off... guess that's what I get working for a small business MSP.

dox fucked around with this message at 19:06 on May 6, 2015

Sheep
Jul 24, 2003
Yeah we have a spreadsheet going to keep track of our 2013 licenses/accounts as well.

We only have like 40 or 50 Office licenses in the company and the last time I spoke with a Microsoft Licensing Specialist they didn't give us any options that would have been remotely doable within budget (they tried to pitch VLK with SA which just wasn't going to happen).

SyNack Sassimov
May 4, 2006

Let the robot win.
            --Captain James T. Vader


NZAmoeba posted:

Xero xero xero xero xero


xero


xeroxeroxeroheyheygetxero

I mean I think at this point everyone's aware that you work for them, and having checked it out briefly in the past I don't think you're wrong to claim it has advantages over Quickbooks et al, but it might still be nice if you threw in a brief disclaimer for when you pimp your own product, which you've usually done in past posts and probably why it struck me that you didn't this time. Don't see evol nominating RHEL every time someone says "I need an OS" or Agrikk selling us all on AWS (in fact, I'm more impressed that when I asked what the cattle model does for me he straight up said it's not the best choice for my workloads, which I'd already concluded to myself).

Trastion
Jul 24, 2003
The one and only.

dox posted:

dox: keep drunk posting
dox: plz
Dilbert as gently caress: What drunk posting?

I don't think he is drunk posting. I used to think that too because his posts are so hard to comprehend. But I have come to the conclusion that he is just retarded.

Orcs and Ostriches
Aug 26, 2010


The Great Twist

Trastion posted:

I don't think he is drunk posting. I used to think that too because his posts are so hard to comprehend. But I have come to the conclusion that he is just retarded.

Nah, not retarded. Just rich and buff and gives no fucks.

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
Jokes on us, we're not cosplaying as Pepiroth

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

Nah, not retarded. Just rich and buff and gives no fucks.

Dilbert as gently caress, your posts don't make any sense!

:clint: I aint got time to make sense.

Super-NintendoUser
Jan 16, 2004

COWABUNGERDER COMPADRES
Soiled Meat
poo poo not pissing me off: I've been assigned to project at LARGE-EURO-BANK for the past few months, today I was reassigned to LARGE-AMERICAN-BANK. The old bank is on a sustainability kick, and gives you a plastic reusable cup when you get onboarded, but they don't have any paper cups anywhere. This new bank just has cups everywhere. I feel like Caligula with all these cups. Its beautiful.

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Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

dox posted:

The only way I have been able to manage 2013 retail (H&B, H&S) is to make a spreadsheet for each client with the serial number of the machine and the actual "CD key" that is listed as a "Product Key" within the office.com/setup dashboard. Then activate with slmgr.vbs. The license is tied to the hardware anyway. It also doesn't add the newest key added to the top or the bottom of the list, so you have to make sure that all of the existing products added are already in a spreadsheet/document. And you can only add somewhere between 20-40 keys per account.

The more frustrating part is sales selling this to clients and management shrugging it off... guess that's what I get working for a small business MSP.

I wrote a Filemaker DB that holds all my hardware and software. Each software license can be linked to a machine so I can open a machine's entry in the db and see all the software attached to it, then click on the software and be taken to the entry in the software table.

Works great when you have hordes of single user licenses.

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