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2 x Dell P2414H here. One vertical, one horizontal.
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Jul 27, 2015 07:38
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Collateral Damage posted:If the screens have regular DisplayPort you just need a $10 mDP->DP cable. There's nothing magic about mDP, it's just a different form factor. If you want to do crazy stuff like two displays daisy-chained off one cable (DP MTS)[0], that still doesn't work with OSX (at least not in Yosemite in ~march) - you need to use both MiniDP outputs At work I have two Dell U2715H, next to each other in landscape. Portrait was just too weird with the height, I almost want to get a monitor arm and have two landscape one above each other since it's just too wide (especially with the laptop display). At home I just have two U2412M which is sometimes a better formfactor. [0] So you can run a thunderbolt gigabit adapter, 2 monitors and not have to use HDMI which was my use case
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Jul 27, 2015 07:47
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I had dual 1600x1200 20" HP LCDs in a job back in 2006. That was a great setup considering the amount of lovely 17" LCDs and low resolution 16:9 VGA monitors kicking around at the time.
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Jul 27, 2015 07:55
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An iPhone came in outta the spec bucket.  If it's really quiet in the room you can hear the colony whispering about labor rights and unionization.
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Jul 27, 2015 09:02
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Cleanse it with fire. There is no saving it.
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Jul 27, 2015 09:39
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Cleanse it with fire. There is no saving it. Support organization from another country cannot use services that you manage and provide, because workstations and IE security settings. Somehow I need to fix it. works fine from my point of view... My job description doesn't include the word "workstation" nevermind that they are in another country and not really the same company. happy monday ya'll!
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Jul 27, 2015 10:12
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Sirotan posted:You should be happy he quit on his own. I've been on my boss' back the last three weeks to have him fire the temp we brought in a couple months ago because she's so goddamn useless. Friday I gave her the task of sorting through a banker box of cables and it took her the entire day. I can only assume the cables were individual fibers from fiberoptics and you had cunningly tied them into some hellish gordian knot? Because my bits box is about that size and it takes all of ten minutes to rummage through to find what you want.
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Jul 27, 2015 12:21
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evobatman posted:An iPhone came in outta the spec bucket. Here we are, all, witnessing spec bucket 2.0 e: apparently, spoilers don't work with timg's
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Jul 27, 2015 13:37
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evobatman posted:An iPhone came in outta the spec bucket. It's oil, isn't it? Filthy Norwegians and your oil.
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Jul 27, 2015 14:26
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Thanks Ants posted:I had dual 1600x1200 20" HP LCDs in a job back in 2006. That was a great setup considering the amount of lovely 17" LCDs and low resolution 16:9 VGA monitors kicking around at the time. 5:4 is really nice for all the old lovely software we have that doesn't take advantage of the space of a 16:9 monitor, but then I'm stuck with old lovely monitors too.
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Jul 27, 2015 14:34
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The saga of the lovely offsite server having issues from Friday continues. I finally got someone to stop over and power the thing up for me, but now I get that lovely "trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed". A local admin account was either never setup, or it was disabled and now I have no way I know of to connect to the thing and try to get it fixed. I didn't want to just rejoin it to the domain and have it mess up file and print sharing for the users in that location. What are my options at this point? The users there can barely figure out how to power the thing up, let alone have me give them any help over the phone. I hate when poo poo like this happens, I always feel stupid like I'm missing something glaringly obvious. BaseballPCHiker fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Jul 27, 2015 |
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Jul 27, 2015 14:42
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Can love bloom at the Hell Desk?
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Jul 27, 2015 14:55
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Hungry Computer posted:Can love bloom at the Hell Desk? I love these. I decided to pull one from my junk mail. quote:Hello NOC EAST! You look amazing! Let me introduce myself!
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Jul 27, 2015 14:59
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Lightning Jim posted:That's actually the "virtual power drain" I mentioned, as that's how it does a "cold" reboot. RACADM obviously has the same thing since it uses IPMI commands in part (which the iDRAC's SSH server has as well). Considering the "iDRAC isn't responding" POST error, I doubt that the command would work even from the host. The iDRAC license got sorted eventually so it's back from the dead, I was waiting on a vendor specific license. Which I also eventually got five hours later. A lot of reboot cycles and enabling the Enterprise card in the BIOS eventually got it working, though now I can't get to the virtual console since it gives me a "connection failed" but iDRAC overall is working. I also found out via iDRAC that the two controllers are running two different versions of CentOS but with the same kernel so it works? The tech was working on a critical downed client but just decided to go AWOL instead of giving me a quick "hey I'm in the middle of something" e-mail. The BIOS issue is now in a "well you could do this but it might be best not to, I'll let you know first thing Monday". Still no response from the tech  . Sure I could flash to the 1.3.5 BIOS image from Dell but this vendor is a bit OEM crazy and I'm sure it would hilariously break something. Also both my OSMA stick and the Dell install tech's OSMA stick kernel panicked. Whoops But on the bright side the Nagios system for another client is finally up and running so the e-mail alerts have started. Just had to create a filter so my inbox isn't going to get flooded with non critical alerts. pr0digal fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Jul 27, 2015 |
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Jul 27, 2015 15:14
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Thanks Ants posted:16:10 supremacy This. I need my 120 pixels, unironically.
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Jul 27, 2015 15:42
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Renegret posted:I love these. I decided to pull one from my junk mail. Changing my name to NOC EAST brb
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Jul 27, 2015 16:23
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Renegret posted:I love these. I decided to pull one from my junk mail. Well as the NOC, one would assume you are all about normal communication. But the relationship only lasts as long as you're the shortest route.
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Jul 27, 2015 16:27
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GreenBuckanneer posted:This. I need my 120 pixels, unironically. Meh, I can live with 1440p, 16:9 is OK as long as I have >1200 vertical pixels.
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Jul 27, 2015 16:30
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Wibla posted:Meh, I can live with 1440p, 16:9 is OK as long as I have >1200 vertical pixels. I was agreeing with you. I think. Anyways I wish 1200p was the standard, not 1080. Frustrating when things are designed around a "tv" standard, but that's neither here nor there.
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Jul 27, 2015 17:09
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You know, I just buy a monitor I think looks cool for the price I am willing to pay. I haven't given a thought to what resolution it displays beyond when I dial it to the max after it is installed. Am I a monster?
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Jul 27, 2015 17:11
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My home monitor is a 1440x900 19" Hanns-G I bought in... 2007? And at work I have a Dell 23" at 1920x1080. It's IPS so the contrast is lovely but the glossy screen is an annoyance. I've never had a dual monitor setup.
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Jul 27, 2015 17:16
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Dick Trauma posted:I've never had a dual monitor setup. Your employers are monsters you poor son of a bitch
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Jul 27, 2015 17:38
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rocking 2 U2412m and an older 16:10 21" for random things 16:10 SUPREMACY
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Jul 27, 2015 18:11
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27+15 (laptop) at work. 2x24 at home. The 27 is great for remote work, fits everything on screen without scaling.
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Jul 27, 2015 18:59
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Hungry Computer posted:Can love bloom at the Hell Desk? The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware / Software Crap > A ticket came in - Relationship between a man and a woman is always happiness
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Jul 27, 2015 20:09
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24" 1920x1200 at home 2x22" 1080p at work two 1366x768 laptops at work 
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Jul 27, 2015 20:36
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Relationship between a man and a woman can wait, servers/storage/network cannot.
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Jul 27, 2015 20:40
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I have been trying to reach a user whose account we suspended for spamming (it was hijacked by way of an infected machine, not deliberate on the user's part) for most of the day, starting first thing this morning. I had to leave for a while, and left contact info for someone else in my absence. I didn't hear anything further, so when I got back the first thing I did was call and try to follow up to see if it had been resolved. No answer. I finally get out to lunch in mid-afternoon, and while I'm finishing eating I get a nastygram from her boss telling me that her user has been locked out all day, and this is unacceptable, and who is my supervisor, and she says she is planning to complain to our CIO. She also called our helpdesk; there's not a lot that the helpdesk can do for her, but the person working it knows me and sent me an email to make sure I was aware, which is more than they really have to do. This is apparently a problem because "you can't have a helpdesk that won't offer any help." I move mountains for these people. To suggest that I am somehow not doing enough, when there is literally no way I could be any more responsive, is beyond galling. I pulled in a couple of people above me to give them a heads up and to tell them I need them to pay the user a visit and go to bat for me. I don't expect anything to come of it, really, I'm just venting. But I am tired of the ingratitude of people for whom I consistently go above and beyond.
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Jul 27, 2015 20:44
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larchesdanrew posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware / Software Crap > A ticket came in - Relationship between a man and a woman is always happiness This has not been my experience
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Jul 27, 2015 20:50
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It's from Russia, I'm pretty sure that happiness and drunkenness are the same word, just like vodka means water.
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Jul 27, 2015 20:57
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Crowley posted:2 x Dell P2414H here. One vertical, one horizontal.  Hell yeah, same here - picked up off Woot for $170 each refurbished, colors are fantastic, no dead pixels, everything looks so purdy compared to my old lovely Acer 21". That's the one thing I like with IPS panels, the color clarity/vibrance is amazing on them.
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Jul 27, 2015 20:57
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home - dual 21.5" Acer monitors. Current job - dual "holy poo poo those are some old mismatched LCDs" New job - They are shipping me dual 27" Asus screens to go with the MBP since I will be working from home for a while I'm so in love with new job so far
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Jul 27, 2015 23:47
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guppy posted:I have been trying to reach a user whose account we suspended for spamming (it was hijacked by way of an infected machine, not deliberate on the user's part) for most of the day, starting first thing this morning. I had to leave for a while, and left contact info for someone else in my absence. I didn't hear anything further, so when I got back the first thing I did was call and try to follow up to see if it had been resolved. No answer. Pull the call logs so you have something to CYA with if required.
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Jul 28, 2015 00:57
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Workspace Chat : This photo is a little outdated, but not much. On the right is now a 13" 2014 Retina Macbook Pro connected to the 27" iMac in target display mode and a 23" apple cinema display. I'm satisfied with it. Taken during a 'casual friday' during some winter break or whatever when the olympic hockeys were happening 
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Jul 28, 2015 01:11
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Does that dog get closer and closer every time you reboot the surface?
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Jul 28, 2015 01:14
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guppy posted:People not understanding other people have issues to be fixed. I think that this is standard for all organisations. The "You there, filthy IT monkey, fix my computer" can get a little annoying when you are trying to get to the person but they don't leave any notice of where they are, their calendar says they're free and they won't respond to any form of communication. A couple of months back one user sent though a ticket that said their Citrix wasn't working on their laptop they didn't need for a week (we knew what the issue was and we have told people to switch to IE from Chrome due to the NPAPI plugin been disabled and going to be removed soon). I wasn't able to get to the user for two days (was at another office and didn't have access to emails one day and tried several times throughout the day the second), the next day as I walk in to reception half an hour early to get to some work from the previous day and the person puts the laptop on the reception counter next to me saying fix the issue right now. I set IE to be the default browser and the person walks away. Two days later my boss asks to have a meeting and says that the person has complained to our general manager as I have been unresponsive to their requests. I explained what happened and he said that he knows I wouldn't be rude, that if any requests come from them he can take care of them for a while and if anyone was to complain it was going to be from that team. I go to see them about what the issue they had complained about was and it was for another PC that was in an office that at the time had no staff for me to walk through the problem with. I worry about people sometimes.
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Jul 28, 2015 01:34
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IT Professional = Computer guy = magical wizard who makes willing it to be true So if you don't make it all better instantly, its deliberate.
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Jul 28, 2015 02:01
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RFC2324 posted:IT Professional = Computer guy = magical wizard who makes willing it to be true 
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Jul 28, 2015 02:12
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anthonypants posted:Yeah, well, I wish my shop's advertisements were only as cheesy as that.
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Jul 28, 2015 02:22
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I've been on the other end of the conversation for the last couple of days. The tech I've been working with at one of our vendors has been terrible at keeping in contact. There were four or five hour stretches yesterday where I didn't hear anything even though I asked a question and we had a client who was running at half capacity. Today he was down to two or three hours stretches  Turns out he was working with a "critical downed client" so he was "tied up". Okay that's a good reason but this was never communicated to me so I was wondering what the hell was going on. Even better he totally misunderstood me about a BIOS question (he though I wanted to backrev an OEM BIOS, not upgrade an OEM BIOS) so that added another couple hours of silence from him. I e-mailed him three times and called him twice until he sent me a link to the wrong BIOS installer and I had to start all over again. Long story short my boss and I got fed up and started to escalate this up the vendor chain. Eventually we get up to the VP Of Service. So after another period of silence I get an e-mail from him saying it's a half hour past his shift and can he hand it off to another team. He then decided to include this gem with both my boss and his boss on the cc chain: quote:I wanted to take care of this because my manager asked me to continue effort because your manager called my manager complaining that there was not enough progress being made The reason we complained friendo is because your communication and reading comprehension were so abysmal that you wasted my time and the clients time. It took eight hours for him to get me a configuration file and it ended up being the wrong file anyway. Multiple times he either misread or didn't read my e-mails and then went MIA. And then after he said he was going to hand it off I don't get any communication from him saying it's been handed off, just silence. Bottom line: communication is key.
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