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Ynglaur posted:Large video conferences are pissing me off. How loving hard is it to mute yourself when you're not talking so that everyone doesn't need to hear echoes and feedback? Do you have something like this: http://www.biamp.com/products/nexia/nexia_vc.aspx They take some tweaking, but they've made a world of difference for us.
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Bagpuss_UK posted:"E for Elephant, B for Bravo, 5, K for.... Knee" G as in Gnome H as in Honor K as in Knight M as in Mnemonic P as in Phone W as in Write
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Jun 12, 2015 15:49
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Bagpuss_UK posted:Pissing me off: colleagues who still haven't learnt to put new accounts in the correct OU. Reminds me of the alphabet from the other thread Paladine_PSoT posted:Just go with silent letters, alternate letter spellings, homonyms, and words made up of two letter sounds.
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Jun 12, 2015 15:49
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Never not use the Cockney phonetic alphabet. A for 'orses B for mutton C for yourself D for ential E for Adam
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Jun 12, 2015 16:17
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Inspector_666 posted:The people who run the WiFi at Newark Airport expect me to pay to use it. In 2015 like there's not LTE coverage As with hotel wifi, it's like this because it's not about you. The target is business travelers, the ones who fly in and out on project every week, because the company will pay for it so they don't give a poo poo. There's a lot of them. You and I are rounding errors in the business model.
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Jun 12, 2015 16:48
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guppy posted:As with hotel wifi, it's like this because it's not about you. The target is business travelers, the ones who fly in and out on project every week, because the company will pay for it so they don't give a poo poo. There's a lot of them. You and I are rounding errors in the business model. I have my own Wi-Fi hotspot as a business traveler, so the only time I use airport or hotel Wi-Fi is when it's free. That part of their business model isn't working either.
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Jun 12, 2015 16:58
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:This lady keeps referring to her laptop as a "lap top." Does the same thing for "desk tops." Once she even just called it a "lap." The subject of an email I've been responding to is "Lap top" and it's so hard for me to not correct it before I reply back. Lead by example, do this by using complete sentences as if you were in a 3rd grade English class.  Why is the screen on my lap top turning off??? The screen on your laptop is turning off because...Granted, this is a subtle method that will not work on some people, but it's better than nothing, and it's also better than making an obvious point of correcting them and risking antagonism.
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Jun 12, 2015 17:19
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Che Delilas posted:Lead by example, do this by using complete sentences as if you were in a 3rd grade English class. I've only stopped short of changing the title of the email in my response (and yeah, directly correcting her). Other than that, yeah I've been using the correct format of the word. I don't have much confidence in this being successful, though, as every other instance of the word that this person has encountered would have presumably been the compound word format and not whatever this is. Anyway the issue's over with, she now has her "lap top" and all is well!
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Jun 12, 2015 17:51
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You should clearly replace her inferior lap top with a lab top.
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Jun 12, 2015 17:54
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I would rather see lap top instead of "lappy." MY LAPPY IS BROKEN 
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Jun 12, 2015 17:57
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J posted:I would rather see lap top instead of "lappy." MY LAPPY IS BROKEN I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe you should take it to the vet?
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Jun 12, 2015 18:20
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J posted:I would rather see lap top instead of "lappy." MY LAPPY IS BROKEN I'm sorry you can't handle the Lappy 486. 
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Jun 12, 2015 18:54
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J posted:I would rather see lap top instead of "lappy." MY LAPPY IS BROKEN Aww! 
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Jun 12, 2015 19:37
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Lightning Jim posted:I'm sorry you can't handle the Lappy 486. The answer to fat neckbearded IT people was right in front of us the whole time. Make laptops stupidly heavy! Work while you work out!
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Jun 12, 2015 19:45
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Gonna start ending my emails with "Sincerely Crap," now.
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Jun 12, 2015 19:49
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Wow, hello childhood. Oh my god I just checked, strongbad emails are still going.
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Jun 12, 2015 20:02
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Pissing me off: A power spike fried some hardware component, which caused the link between our two data centers to bounce. We'll be cleaning up related tickets all day today and tomorrow. Not pissing me off: Our local VP, aware of the situation, ordered pizza for the whole command center. 
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Jun 12, 2015 20:24
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Sister site had someone on their team get layed off. Then they try to steal one of our guys because their lead is pissed and they want to placate them. Cue several hours of people arguing and discussing and my lead getting caught in the middle of it all. It's so batshit and distracting. And as a result my lead is doing their tickets remotely to help out, which causes him to ignore our tickets and gets my happy rear end paged at 8pm on a Friday over a ticket that came in at 2pm. I was off for the afternoon for a graduation.
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Jun 13, 2015 19:21
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Mogomra posted:The answer to fat neckbearded IT people was right in front of us the whole time. Make laptops stupidly heavy! Work while you work out! uh, so make laptops into desktops.. Why not just skip the middleman & get a massive desktop system if that is your cup of tea???? Did that in Highschool & it worked out just fine. Granted, I am pretty much exclusively a laptops only guy nowadays but i'm aware that it is a way that works & everything
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Jun 13, 2015 19:32
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Collateral Damage posted:I think he means that they're called mobile phones in the UK, not cell phones. They are but we see enough American media to know what an American means when he says 'cell'.
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Jun 13, 2015 21:01
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Crowley posted:Our "Give every schoolkid a computer/tablet" got the attention of the media, and now I'm sitting here reading the comments section on one of the national IT-News sites. Apparently we're doing everything wrong and.. Do you have (a) a way to stop the kids browsing for porn, that they can't trivially circumvent in a way you can't detect and (b) some form of inventory tracking so that tablets don't just "vanish" untraceably?
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Jun 13, 2015 22:05
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ookiimarukochan posted:Do you have (a) a way to stop the kids browsing for porn, that they can't trivially circumvent in a way you can't detect and (b) some form of inventory tracking so that tablets don't just "vanish" untraceably? a) No. Politicians, headmasters, teachers, and parents' representatives dismissed that idea as silly, and doubly so when they found out what it would cost to implement a half-decent solution, and how easy it's circumvented (Google translate). There was a tiny little peep from an overly zealous politician some months ago, but when I dug out the price sheet the rest of his party told him to stuff a sock in it. b) Of course.
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Jun 13, 2015 23:01
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Unrelated to anything, but a fun part of my job is calling customers to tell them their DS0 is down and hearing "what's a DS0?" or "those still exist?!" 56kbps is enough for Out-Of-Band signalling.
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Jun 14, 2015 19:32
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Hey companies out there: When you put an anti-theft tag on your laptops that are randomly handed in to me at my unrelated company, and nobody answers the phone number that's tagged on this almost brand new Thinkpad that does not have BIOS or harddrive password protection, the laptop in question becomes my new porn browsing machine at home. Thanks for the free Windows 8 Pro license too!
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Jun 15, 2015 07:20
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evobatman posted:Hey companies out there: When you put an anti-theft tag on your laptops that are randomly handed in to me at my unrelated company, and nobody answers the phone number that's tagged on this almost brand new Thinkpad that does not have BIOS or harddrive password protection, the laptop in question becomes my new porn browsing machine at home. Thanks for the free Windows 8 Pro license too! I remember you posting this the first time. How long ago was that?
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Jun 15, 2015 07:27
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less than three posted:I remember you posting this the first time. How long ago was that? Last week? Couple of weeks? Long enough for me to lose sympathy with an IT department that doesn't pick up the phone and doesn't password protect their hardware. For comparison, computers at my company are BIOS setup locked with password so that settings can't be changed, the motherboard is password protected so that it can't boot any device without password, and the harddrives are locked so that you can't access them or format them. There are of course tools to get around these things if you know what you are doing, but it keeps random lost and stolen computers from being accessed easily. evobatman fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Jun 15, 2015 |
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Lightning Jim posted:I'm sorry you can't handle the Lappy 486. I'm pretty sure I own this computer.
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Jun 15, 2015 09:53
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This email conversation made me irrationally angry, because why read a loving email? Office manager A: Can you let me know what time your flight lands and what time you expect to be in the office, so I can let the outsourced help know what time to show up? Me: I'll be landing in the afternoon and I won't be at the office until 5 pm so I won't be needing outsourced help that day. Office manager B replying to me: Ok, so your plane lands in the afternoon. What time will you be in the office and will you be needing the outsourced help? I wish I could write an email that starts with "Time to quote myself" and then quote myself, but it's so passive aggressive I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror.
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Jun 15, 2015 13:32
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"Hi manager, as I have mentioned in my last email, I won't be in until 5pm. So I won't be needing outsourced help that day." Kill them with kindness.
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Jun 15, 2015 13:36
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I see they're employing the management strategy of reading the first part of an email and immediately acting on that information
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0KB issue is not deadlock related. Trace flags 1222 and 1204 gave me nothing when it happened last week. Back to square one... 
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Jun 15, 2015 14:53
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"Please see highlighted section below." Add a passive-aggressive smiley face.
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Jun 15, 2015 15:06
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USPS for losing three packages from both Amazon and Newegg that were reportedly delivered on the same day at the same time.
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Jesus gently caress, So, I had a terrible awful no good bad project about a year ago for a giant company full of VP's (Because only VP's are allowed potential access to customer data, so naturally all of IT is VPs), just found out that the PM on their side who disappeared and originally was thought to have been suddenly shown the door for slighting someone.. Well, nope, that wasn't it. He hit his limit and ate a shotgun. Goddamn. It's just computers people, god drat.
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AutoArgus posted:It's just computers people, god drat. I highly doubt it was the computers that caused him to do this.
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Jun 15, 2015 18:13
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Ynglaur posted:"Please see highlighted section below." Add a passive-aggressive smiley face. +1 to this. The smarminess is optional but really puts the button on it lol.
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Gothmog1065 posted:I highly doubt it was the computers that caused him to do this. It is telling that he immediately assumed it was.  Take a vacation, AutoArgus!
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RFC2324 posted:It is telling that he immediately assumed it was. I think AutoArgus was trying to imply "It's just computers, please don't let yourself get stressed to the point of killing yourself over them."
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taiyoko posted:I think AutoArgus was trying to imply "It's just computers, please don't let yourself get stressed to the point of killing yourself over them." And my point is that it is just computers, why would you think anyone actually did off themselves over it?
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RFC2324 posted:And my point is that it is just computers, why would you think anyone actually did off themselves over it? He was the 4th PM on their side to disappear from the project, their managers were being absolute despots over every aspect of it (Combination of a heavily silo'd -massive- IT department where 'winning' technologies got the bulk of the budget along with an attitude of 'We spend the big bucks so we get to be demanding and need to show it'). Notes to Exchange, so the old notes department was being gutted (and very publicly so), the AD team was trying to make a land-grab, the windows datacenter team saw it as a threat to their holdings, etc etc etc.. and at the end of it all the PM's were getting screamed at on a day to day basis for things they had no control over. It was a proxy battle and the project managers were convenient whipping boys. Ive learned since this morning there may have been some health issues he was covering up in the midst of it too, but still, dude was getting shat on every day for a project that was well into 6 figures over budget before it was even halfway done. Don't know if it was one of those screaming sessions that put him over his limit, but still. Guy had enough of it apparently.
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