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Tab8715 posted:People who don't use whiteboards as explain technical concepts that are several paragraphs deep. There's a reason we have or in every cube and every office. All our whiteboards were taken away. Also, visiting clients who only have a small drawing board or a burnt out plasma TV or wimpy projector. Just awesome.
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MrMoo posted:All our whiteboards were taken away. I was going to ask why, but then I thought about it for a second and remembered the whiteboards in my freshman dorm.
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May 20, 2015 21:05
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Bigass Moth posted:Bought the in-laws a new laptop, spend hours configuring and transferring files, find out today they're still using the old computer because they're scared of change. The only thing that worked with my parents (well technically my mom, my dad is cool with new tech), was when the primary computer (i.e. the only one my mom uses) broke and I refused to troubleshoot it over the phone and I bought them a shiny new Mac. My mom bitched and moaned for about a week, then suddenly it was her best friend EVAR! I figure the $1,000+ has already paid itself with the *zero* support calls from them since she started using it.
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May 20, 2015 21:07
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Inspector_666 posted:I was going to ask why, but then I thought about it for a second and remembered the whiteboards in my freshman dorm. In our new HQ I have a 160 sqft of wall directly behind me painted in that white board paint. It is loving fantastic.
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May 20, 2015 21:09
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flosofl posted:In our new HQ I have a 160 sqft of wall directly behind me painted in that white board paint. It is loving fantastic. I've got the same thing in most of our offices yet no one uses them?
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May 20, 2015 21:22
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Gyshall posted:This is one of the things that baffles me - you'll have a user that has issues and immediately goes "I'm not good with computers!!!!" even though it is a critical tool they use all day every day. God, I had this exact issue today with a user who was trying to migrate his Good Mobile account from one .mil domain to the AFNET domain. Spoke to him on the phone and email, telling him both times, that he had to have his old account deprovisioned before he could activate his new account. He tries to activate his new account, which I had helpfully gone ahead and created, and then called to complain that he was getting an error about the device already being used by another user. Queue 10 minutes of me explaining that, like I had told him in our previous phone call and the email I sent, he needed to have his old account deprovisioned first. "Well why can't you do it?" "Because it's on a domain we don't have any access or control over. But just to be a nice guy I'll try and get hold of someone at the other domain and get them to delete it." It all worked out in the end, but drat - people can't even read simple loving instructions or follow verbal instructions without screwing them up if technology is involved.
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May 20, 2015 21:39
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We took out all our whiteboards and replaced them with whiteboard wall paint. Except because of corporate branding, most of the walls are painted dark colors (the lightest is a dark yellow). So only like one marker out of every pack is visible unless we use the weird neon ones that don't cover as well. PLUS, on top of that, they either didn't sand the walls before applying the coating, or used too thick a roller, so the surface is all rough and doesn't erase very well. All in all, a huge fuckup.
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May 20, 2015 21:44
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Daylen Drazzi posted:God, I had this exact issue today with a user who was trying to migrate his Good Mobile
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May 20, 2015 22:07
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flosofl posted:In our new HQ I have a 160 sqft of wall directly behind me painted in that white board paint. It is loving fantastic. That sounds awesome. Is it magnetic as well?
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May 20, 2015 22:09
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good jovi posted:We took out all our whiteboards and replaced them with whiteboard wall paint. Except because of corporate branding, most of the walls are painted dark colors (the lightest is a dark yellow). So only like one marker out of every pack is visible unless we use the weird neon ones that don't cover as well. PLUS, on top of that, they either didn't sand the walls before applying the coating, or used too thick a roller, so the surface is all rough and doesn't erase very well. All in all, a huge fuckup. The rough surface is by design on ours (and it's not super rough). I asked the HQ project coordinator about that and she mumbled something about "reasons". Didn't make any sense to me at the time, but it's really not so terrible and I can use it without it irritating me and it's been erasing pretty well with the spray. Kazinsal posted:That sounds awesome. Is it magnetic as well? Sadly no. We asked for them to mount something really thin and metallic flush with the wall and paint over it. The afore mentioned project coordinator said "hey, that's a good idea, but too late to change plans."
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May 20, 2015 22:48
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We just write on the glass partitions with chalk pens.
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May 20, 2015 23:20
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Thanks Ants posted:We just write on the glass partitions with chalk pens. Your way is cooler.
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May 20, 2015 23:23
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Daylen Drazzi posted:God, I had this exact issue today with a user who was trying to migrate his Good Mobile account from one .mil domain to the AFNET domain. Spoke to him on the phone and email, telling him both times, that he had to have his old account deprovisioned before he could activate his new account. He tries to activate his new account, which I had helpfully gone ahead and created, and then called to complain that he was getting an error about the device already being used by another user. Queue 10 minutes of me explaining that, like I had told him in our previous phone call and the email I sent, he needed to have his old account deprovisioned first. He got you to do it for him. Sounds like his plan is working perfectly.
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May 20, 2015 23:29
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guppy posted:He got you to do it for him. Sounds like his plan is working perfectly. Actually he didn't. I emailed the other domain Good Mobile admin and he replied back there was no account with the user's name on his server. Our Good Mobile admin, his backup, and myself were all scratching our heads trying to figure out where the account went, since we saw it 30 minutes earlier on their server. Somehow or another the account was deleted and the user was able to activate his device. 
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May 21, 2015 02:19
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:IT related but not necessarily work. If you use Windows 8 for any amount of time Windows 7 will seem lacking. There are a lot of advantages to new software that don't become apparent until you use it for a while and then go back.
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May 21, 2015 02:41
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lampey posted:If you use Windows 8 for any amount of time Windows 7 will seem lacking. There are a lot of advantages to new software that don't become apparent until you use it for a while and then go back. Ehh I'm between 7 and 8 depending on what system I'm using and on the balance still prefer 7. The performance and battery life advantages just aren't significant (or even noticeable) and the UI on 8.1 is still rough and inconsistent.
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May 21, 2015 02:45
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lampey posted:If you use Windows 8 for any amount of time Windows 7 will seem lacking. There are a lot of advantages to new software that don't become apparent until you use it for a while and then go back. What's so appealing about 8?
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May 21, 2015 03:28
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Tab8715 posted:What's so appealing about 8? 8.1 is pretty friendly. Once you get past the metro bullshit, it's an iteratively better OS. It just feels more polished after you've used it for a bit. Now, 2012 vs 2008 is much more cut and dried in terms of the improvements. The only knock on 2012 is why they felt they had to slap a UI developed for touchscreens on a goddamned server OS, but outside of that dodgy notion (and after disabling it) I can't think of anything that isn't better in 2012.
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OAquinas posted:8.1 is pretty friendly. Once you get past the metro bullshit, it's an iteratively better OS. It just feels more polished after you've used it for a bit. I very rarely wander into the realm of server OSs, but I admit the first time I fired up 2012 I had no goddamn idea what I was doing. Still don't actually, but it was a hell of a shock from 2008 in the UI look and feel. But yea, touch screen design for a server, good idea microsoft. I've spent the last 3 days clearing out old equipment from racks at some offices we acquired a year or so ago. Its gone pretty well, aside from their hub site and their DR site, most sites only had a router and some switches. At their main site though, they had a variety of servers, some were old Dell 1650s up to what looks like a yearish old EMC SAN. I had thought all this equipment was going to be powered off by our server group, but I guess they never got around to it. So I've been just hitting the power button, or in the case of the EMC, just pulling the cables. Graceful shutdown? Not today comrade. It is surprising cathartic though. CitizenKain fucked around with this message at 05:18 on May 21, 2015 |
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OAquinas posted:8.1 is pretty friendly. Once you get past the metro bullshit, it's an iteratively better OS. It just feels more polished after you've used it for a bit. That is a complete matter of opinion. While I do agree 8.1 has some UI improvements in some places overall it is far less polished than 7 was simply because it's so inconsistent.
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OAquinas posted:a UI developed for touchscreens on a goddamned server OS Pissing me off: People who still obsessively RDP into servers in TYOOL 2015. E: Instead of using powershell remoting or literally any other remote server management tools. Not so much because they're voluntarily obsoleting themselves, but because they usually sledgehammer a bunch of other legacy garbage into prod along with it and you end up having to debug their SQL 2000 agent job that calls a .bat script that calls a vbs script that calls back into a stored procedure that calls back out to another loving .bat script. All of which could've been handled in a 3-step SSIS data flow which is itself 10 year old tech, but still too new and scary.
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I would not want to administer a large ADDS server via powershell remoting. I will use powershell remoting for any maintenance task, but not if it involves ADDS. Also doing GPOs in powershell is either a massive pain or not really possible, I have never tried it (and I never want to).
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May 21, 2015 08:04
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How the poo poo am I suppose to be on call and not go to Cons and workout out to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0E4Rwx5gPg I get /fit/ because I am bored studying and people told me I needed a hobby. Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 08:11 on May 21, 2015 |
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Someone didn't think we'd need an Enterprise license for the VMware cluster that handles School IT. No DRS is sad in general, and loving annoying when I'm patching the hosts. 
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Feels like the entire world is pissing me off today. Yay for closing the office door and listening to tunes while programming. Also pissing me off (or me pissing it off?) : my right knee. Still too early to push myself on the bike without at least two rest days. Ugh.
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keseph posted:Pissing me off: People who still obsessively RDP into servers in TYOOL 2015. E: Instead of using powershell remoting or literally any other remote server management tools.
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May 21, 2015 10:17
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You're supposed to use server manager on the client OS when it's not practical to use powershell. Nobody is making gpos with powershell. I looking forward to the next versions of windows client and server OS so we can finally stop bitching about this topic.
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Mogomra posted:Holy smokes, I had to stay late because the sales guy decided an hour before quitting time that the "non-critical nice to have in the future" feature from Monday was all of a sudden hyper-critical for tomorrow's demo. As a Project Manager believe me I ask myself the same question all too frequently. Management says exactly that. Then the sales guy calls his drinking buddy the CEO.
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Kazinsal posted:Also doing GPOs in powershell is either a massive pain or not really possible, I have never tried it (and I never want to). You don't want to (it's bad (you can't even set most preference items (it's much better at analytical reports of GPOs though)))
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Swink posted:You're supposed to use server manager on the client OS when it's not practical to use powershell. Nobody is making gpos with powershell. I think that only Win 8 clients can use server manager that works for 2012. If you're on win 7, there's no compatible server manager to connecting to 2012 servers. Or at least, I couldn't find one.
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Kazinsal posted:I would not want to administer a large ADDS server via powershell remoting. I will use powershell remoting for any maintenance task, but not if it involves ADDS. I honestly use powershell for automation and not much else. If I am going to perform a small task I am either going to use a remote tool or *gasp* rdp into the machine to perform said small task. If I attempted to use powershell for every task I do throughout my day it would be horribly inefficient.
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dissss posted:That is a complete matter of opinion. While I do agree 8.1 has some UI improvements in some places overall it is far less polished than 7 was simply because it's so inconsistent. It's easy to be polished when the only significant changes you've made to the UI in the last 2 decades have been pallette changes. 8.1 is inconsistent, maybe, but they're trying something new.
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Whiteboards are great low tech that will never have a good digital high tech equivalent, discuss.
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Sickening posted:I honestly use powershell for automation and not much else. If I am going to perform a small task I am either going to use a remote tool or *gasp* rdp into the machine to perform said small task. If I attempted to use powershell for every task I do throughout my day it would be horribly inefficient. This. Powershell is awesome and incredibly useful, but there are some things that are just easier for me to do through RDP on to the machine. This might be sacrilege even but if I only have to edit or create one or two users in AD and exchange I don't use Powershell. Please forgive me!
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Gyshall posted:Whiteboards are great low tech that will never have a good digital high tech equivalent, discuss. Smartboards and projectors are pretty loving awesome and you can do neat poo poo like record your drawings, strokes and things like that for later use or presentations. We just got a few of the Epson Interactive projectors in. Take the SmartBoard down and you now have a whiteboard AND a screen you can write on/with!
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LordVorbis posted:I think that only Win 8 clients can use server manager that works for 2012. If you're on win 7, there's no compatible server manager to connecting to 2012 servers. Or at least, I couldn't find one. "Your tools machine" needn't strictly be your laptop/desktop. It could be a TS server, and should be if you're needing to work with a higher security environment. Overall, though, the majority of the server management GUI tools can work against a remote server just as easily as the local one and the example of managing GPOs is a great one because anyone RDPing into a Domain Controller just to fire up AD Users and Computers or Group Policy Editor (or better yet, firing up IE and browsing facebook) is objectively doing it wrong.
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keseph posted:"Your tools machine" needn't strictly be your laptop/desktop. It could be a TS server, and should be if you're needing to work with a higher security environment. Overall, though, the majority of the server management GUI tools can work against a remote server just as easily as the local one and the example of managing GPOs is a great one because anyone RDPing into a Domain Controller just to fire up AD Users and Computers or Group Policy Editor (or better yet, firing up IE and browsing facebook) is objectively doing it wrong. Using LMI to hop on DCs to do everything is SOP where I work since we generally don't have VPN links to our client sites 
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Gothmog1065 posted:Smartboards and projectors are pretty loving awesome and you can do neat poo poo like record your drawings, strokes and things like that for later use or presentations. My community college had smartboards. The teachers had to recalibrate them nearly every class. You never need to recalibrate a whiteboard.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:IT related but not necessarily work. This. Dear software vendors everywhere: We don't use 90% of your "feature rich" solution. Make it fast and motherfucking bombproof and you'll have me for life. Notepad++ is awesome, but no, I don't need to upgrade the FTP client while I'm scanning a log file so stop loving bothering me.
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