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I used to have an HTC Desire phone which would randomly turn on several hours after it was turned off. Scared the poo poo out of me when it did it the first time at 3am.
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larchesdanrew posted:My neighbors have a giant loud-rear end 4-wheeler with a busted muffler that their teenage son drives nonstop all day every day up and down their driveway. He usually decides to really get going when my kids lay down for a nap and it pisses me off so much. I've asked them to keep it down and they basically told me to gently caress off. I live in the county and there's no noise ordinance so I can't make a complaint either. Another reason to move away from wherever you are at and to a better job. e: I see this has been already pointed out. KoRMaK fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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FreshFeesh posted:Does the thread have any recommendation for a knowledge base system? Current job uses Confluence, which seems pretty spiffy so far.
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Sep 17, 2015 21:23
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The Atlassian/Confluence stuff is nice but it gets a little expensive. It works really well though and has Sharepoint integration, if that's your thing. If your team is small (less than ten people) it's absurdly cheap, but anything past ten people ramps into the thousands, if memory serves.
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Sep 17, 2015 21:30
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Definitely less than 10 people; I'm looking for something roughly midway between flat files in a shared Dropbox hierarchy and something I'd have to actively maintain like a wiki
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Sep 17, 2015 21:50
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I am going to find who did this and I am going to do bad things to them. There are at least 15 cables like this.  Like what the gently caress. It's a loose cable, you don't need to ziptie it. pr0digal fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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Sep 17, 2015 21:55
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Collateral Damage posted:Ugh, people who don't understand how much data are in their datasets. We have users who keep complaining that running reports in one of our system is slow, and it's always because they try to include like 10 years of history which makes the report generation take several minutes. What do you mean it's going to take 45 days to upload my data? It's only 1 TB. (They're on a lovely DSL connection) FreshFeesh posted:Does the thread have any recommendation for a knowledge base system? Confluence.
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You can share users on JIRA and Confluence  $10 one time to host it yourself is an awesome deal, it's a Tomcat server that comes bundled with startup and config scripts. They will host it for $10, monthly
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"We swear this database program with confidential files installs on windows 7, that's what we use and it works ok." Disk contains an install of SQL Express 2005 which guess what doesn't work in windows 7 because the installer can't start the service. You have to have Express 2005 SP3 according to MS. The dumb installer won't work with that thought cause it has to know it installed it's version (that it can't) and so I'm stuck here repeating myself. I have a feeling they installed the correct version on their computers but the make a CD process pulls the old version out of somehwere. It's gotten to the point my client is like we have a file share system can we just use that. You know like smart people do in 2015 you loving backasswords bank.
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Sep 17, 2015 22:22
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larchesdanrew posted:I was out running an errand when a call from the GM came in. loving people.
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We're in the conference room and we don't have audio.
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pr0digal posted:I am going to find who did this and I am going to do bad things to them. There are at least 15 cables like this. As in, they tied your spares together? Don't you have any velcro cable ties or something? Or at least like, a wire twisty one?
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Sep 18, 2015 00:56
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ilkhan posted:http://imgur.com/gallery/H6hIm This is my face on most calls I get. Especially when they insist on telling me a 2 minute long story about how the error message came up. 
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pr0digal posted:I am going to find who did this and I am going to do bad things to them. There are at least 15 cables like this. my ex did this to all of the wires in our house once. ziptied EVERYTHING. She only did it once.
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Sep 18, 2015 01:15
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Inspector_666 posted:This is my face on most calls I get. Especially when they insist on telling me a 2 minute long story about how the error message came up. 10 minute story about all the totally work related things they were doing, then 5 minutes about how it's keeping them from doing anything. Then you ask what the message actually said. "Oh, I don't know, I clicked it off before I could read it FIX IT"
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Sep 18, 2015 01:25
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OwlFancier posted:As in, they tied your spares together? Yeah I went into the supply area at a client site as I needed to patch something and found this. They have plenty of velcro, we use it to tidy up our cable runs. Just someone was apparently "gently caress it". Probably that dude who was complaining about velcro when we were running cable.
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Sep 18, 2015 01:33
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The velcro ones don't hold too well but I'm sure they can manage to keep a drawer tidy. I love nailing my cables to the wall if they're not supposed to move but it's annoying to do it with ones you're going to change, like the spares. Why doesn't he like the velcro?
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Sep 18, 2015 01:35
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OwlFancier posted:The velcro ones don't hold too well but I'm sure they can manage to keep a drawer tidy. I love nailing my cables to the wall if they're not supposed to move but it's annoying to do it with ones you're going to change, like the spares. I'm not really sure, he just spent 10 minutes bitching about it. We use velcro because we're constantly either running new cable along existing cable runs or re-racking poo poo and moving a lot of cable. Speaking of which too long fibre cables make me very very sad. They're such a pain to trace when they span four racks, in a bundle of a million other cables and are a hundred feet long 
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Client needed some software updated on their server, but the installer threw up an error message saying "not enough disk space, you need 700Mb to install". I check and only half the 100Gb C drive is in use. I get in touch with the software company I was asked how much space was left, said "about fifty". Was asked to be precise, said "48.3GB". Apparently it's a known bug that the update will fail if the amount of free space on the drive in Gb is a multiple of four. I made a sceptical face, copy pasted the installer a bunch of times to bring the space down to 47Gb and ran again. It worked  I can't imagine how that could work and sometimes wonder if I know anything at all.
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gently caress people who ziptie cables super tight! That drives me up the wall. I hate when they clinch is so tight you cant even get a knife blade in there for when you will have to inevitably cut it to move a cable around. So you're left trying to saw the drat thing and hope you dont cut into the cable. Those velcor straps work just as well and can be easily removed. The only place for zipties is in outdoor cable installations.
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bitterandtwisted posted:Client needed some software updated on their server, but the installer threw up an error message saying "not enough disk space, you need 700Mb to install". I check and only half the 100Gb C drive is in use. I get in touch with the software company 4 GB just so happens to be the largest number 32 bit can represent. So the free size is supposed to be represented as a 64 bit number. However, if you take 48.3 GB represented as a 64 bit number, and chop off the high 32 bit, truncating it to a 32 bit number, you instead get a value that looks like 300 MB. 48.3 GB = 0x0000000C'12C00000 bytes Truncate the upper 32 bit = 0x12C00000 bytes = 314572800 bytes = 300 MB IOW. idiot programmers stuck in 1995.
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nielsm posted:4 GB just so happens to be the largest number 32 bit can represent. So the free size is supposed to be represented as a 64 bit number. Now you mention it, I did know about the file size limitation on fat32 being 4GB so maybe that number should have rang a bell. Thanks for that explanation! 
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Sep 18, 2015 14:02
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BaseballPCHiker posted:The only place for zipties is in detaining suspects. FTFY
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BaseballPCHiker posted:gently caress people who ziptie cables super tight! That drives me up the wall. I hate when they clinch is so tight you cant even get a knife blade in there for when you will have to inevitably cut it to move a cable around. So you're left trying to saw the drat thing and hope you dont cut into the cable. Those velcor straps work just as well and can be easily removed. The only place for zipties is in outdoor cable installations. The best is when the zipties are around the power cables and you can't unplug them before you need to move them!
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nielsm posted:4 GB just so happens to be the largest number 32 bit can represent. So the free size is supposed to be represented as a 64 bit number.  I think I have a new rule of software: "every bug is probably a 32-bit overflow"
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Sep 18, 2015 14:13
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BaseballPCHiker posted:gently caress people who ziptie cables super tight! That drives me up the wall. I hate when they clinch is so tight you cant even get a knife blade in there for when you will have to inevitably cut it to move a cable around. So you're left trying to saw the drat thing and hope you dont cut into the cable. Those velcor straps work just as well and can be easily removed. The only place for zipties is in outdoor cable installations. Then we show up and they've of course hooked it up wrong, threaded the cables through holes in the racks and zip tied everything tight. Instead of spending a day trying to reroute everything we just cut the connectors off the incorrect cables so we could pull them out without having to gently caress with it, then put new cables in place.
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a new signature came in All the poo poo that's usually at the end of an e-mail All the poo poo no one reads Your name Your position I... but... just... 
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It's like putting the milk at the furthest end of a store, they want to make sure people at least have to skim over their legal bullshit and "please consider the environment before printing this email" crapola before they get to your name. Be a rebel, put your name first.
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Collateral Damage posted:Be a rebel, put your name first. Most people will probably do this
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Sep 18, 2015 15:04
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Citrix and Java are bastard programs made by nightmare people. Especially when I have to roll back java to j7u56 and multiple hours troubleshooting it to get it to work. Remind me to just Uninstall java with JavaRa in the future.
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Migishu posted:a new signature came in Ignore it. It's what I've done for years and no one of any consequence has ever mentioned it. My branding consists of the company name in normal sized text and hyper link the company website. None of the other cruft marketing wants us to put there like the bajillion social media icons and the ginormous logo. And no, I'm not putting all my certification badges in my signature. That's almost as tacky as all those drat social icons.
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problem is, i can't ignore it. management will have a shitstorm if even one signature is non-compliant
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Migishu posted:problem is, i can't ignore it. management will have a shitstorm if even one signature is non-compliant It's all pointless anyway, given that any legalese that occurs at the end of the message is utterly unenforceable as the recipient has already read the body of the text by the time they come it it.
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spog posted:It's all pointless anyway, given that any legalese that occurs at the end of the message is utterly unenforceable as the recipient has already read the body of the text by the time they come it it. Solution? Put everything at the front of the message.
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I recall a customer sending me a superman-like image with a tie on it. I set it as my profile image for a while, proud of the customer who had thanked me for my years of help - shortly after I moved into IT. As to be expected, IT dept flipped the gently caress out and basically said "no can do!" As if internal profile icons meant something, while a bunch of people had their own that weren't linkedin profile pics and nobody gave a poo poo. The things some workplaces care about. It was about as aggressive/unsensitive as this image or so, roughly: .
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notwithoutmyanus posted:I recall a customer sending me a superman-like image with a tie on it. I set it as my profile image for a while, proud of the customer who had thanked me for my years of help - shortly after I moved into IT. As to be expected, IT dept flipped the gently caress out and basically said "no can do!" As if internal profile icons meant something, while a bunch of people had their own that weren't linkedin profile pics and nobody gave a poo poo. The things some workplaces care about. It was about as aggressive/unsensitive as this image or so, roughly: This is my Lync/Skype for Business/O365 avatar: 
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notwithoutmyanus posted:I recall a customer sending me a superman-like image with a tie on it. I set it as my profile image for a while, proud of the customer who had thanked me for my years of help - shortly after I moved into IT. As to be expected, IT dept flipped the gently caress out and basically said "no can do!" As if internal profile icons meant something, while a bunch of people had their own that weren't linkedin profile pics and nobody gave a poo poo. The things some workplaces care about. It was about as aggressive/unsensitive as this image or so, roughly: Fun? In my workplace? It's more likely than you might think. Click here to learn how to abolish fun from your work environment.
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A busted permissions structure came in... We have a very large file server with a bunch of points where inheritance got changed or broken, SIDs got orphaned, etc. over the years at my new job. My initial task was to see what sense we can make of it. After a bunch of tools showing huge, basically un-workable outputs of text or CSVs that ran to 10gb of output, my boss gave me the go-ahead to see what tools we could look into to manage the mess. I can't be the first sysadmin in this situation. Anyone have recommendations for solutions that work well at managing big broken swaths of perms? Decent, readable reports are helpful, but even more helpful are actions that the solution could take to enact bulk changes. I can work this into next year's budget, too, so if I can justify the cost and preferably make it a single capex rather than a recurring expense, my boss will be able to sell it more easily to the finance organization. I can't be the first sysadmin in this situation. I've worked with Varonis DatAdvantage in the past and really liked it - what I couldn't put together on my own, I was able to do with their support. Any suggestions?
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flosofl posted:This is my Lync/Skype for Business/O365 avatar: I had the Get Out frog as mine for years before anyone commented on it. And as for email sigs the first thing I did with the corporate "approved" one was strip out the logo. And my email address. And the corporate website address. And my fax number. And the disclaimer. And the notice about not printing to protect the environment.
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my confluence avatar is Rick from Rick and morty. Problem is, now everyone else on my team has a different rick avatar. we're just silly that way.
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