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Merijn posted:We use svn What year is this?
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deimos posted:What year is this? The year that you learn that SVN is just fine for lots of companies. The learning hump for switching to a DVCS is significant and the added benefits will often be minimal.
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Oct 5, 2015 15:14
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Especially since there seems to be a new hot poo poo source control system cropping up every 18-24 months. It's like linux and audio subsystems. 
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Oct 5, 2015 15:26
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Supervisor's catch-phrase is alive and well. One of our creative designers came down to pick my brain about backup options for their department. I suggested Synology if they wanted something in-house, or a cloud service like Google Drive or AWS. We were discussing their options when supervisor walks by and has his little ears prickled by the sound of someone making a decision without his input. He blasts into my office and immediately starts bellowing as I was mid-sentence.  "You're currently using about 8TB of space so-" "What are y'all talking about?" "We're discussing backup options for the Promotions department. "What are you telling him?" "I suggested a Synology for in-house storage and a few cloud options. It'll depend on what their budget is and how they want to use the data." "You don't need all that. We'll just get you a Buffalo! They're really cheap!At this point, the creative designer and I both broke out in simultaneous raucous laughter. He, due to the absurdity of a Buffalo NAS unit for data retention, and I because my mind has finally snapped and I am beginning my slow decent into madness. Regardless, we literally laughed him out of the office. It was beautiful.
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Oct 5, 2015 16:32
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larchesdanrew posted:Regardless, we literally laughed him out of the office. I've never heard of someone loving such a lovely product so much. Does he have Buffalo stock or something?
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Oct 5, 2015 16:37
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He's probably just buying the cheapest crap he can find because he thinks it makes him look good when he's "saving a lot of money". The term Total Cost of Ownership is completely alien to him.
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Oct 5, 2015 16:42
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larchesdanrew posted:Supervisor's catch-phrase is alive and well. 16TB Synology + Crashplan Pro is probably the safest option within your nonexistant budget here btw. Also take into account the amount of data that's gonna get transferred for the initial backup.
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Oct 5, 2015 16:51
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A ticket came in: my headrest entertainment system is not working. Can you send someone to 30,000 feet ASAP, this is affecting (movie viewing) production. 
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Oct 5, 2015 16:57
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tomapot posted:A ticket came in: my headrest entertainment system is not working. Can you send someone to 30,000 feet ASAP, this is affecting (movie viewing) production.
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Oct 5, 2015 16:59
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tomapot posted:A ticket came in: my headrest entertainment system is not working. Can you send someone to 30,000 feet ASAP, this is affecting (movie viewing) production. TIL
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Oct 5, 2015 17:03
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tomapot posted:A ticket came in: my headrest entertainment system is not working. Can you send someone to 30,000 feet ASAP, this is affecting (movie viewing) production. You should report that dangerous boot attempt.
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Oct 5, 2015 17:04
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Collateral Damage posted:He's probably just buying the cheapest crap he can find because he thinks it makes him look good when he's "saving a lot of money". Bingo. I mentioned it before, but there's this bizarre competition between the CEs at all of our stations. If one CE comes up with a solution to something for $15, corporate will only alot for $15 for every other station should the same problem arise. If another CE manages to figure out a solution for $4, then everyone else is required to do the same thing because it's cheapest. So the engineer that comes up with the cheapest solution is some sort of frugal rockstar. Buffalos are the cheapest NAS available from our vendors, so guess what product every other station is required to use
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Oct 5, 2015 17:09
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tomapot posted:A ticket came in: my headrest entertainment system is not working. Can you send someone to 30,000 feet ASAP, this is affecting (movie viewing) production. "built 12:00:35, Nov. 19, 2004" 
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Oct 5, 2015 17:21
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Currently in the same room as a new hire. She's on the phone with the help desk and is really mad at them that her Citrix login doesn't work.....her Citrix login from her previous job at a different company. She does not understand why it doesn't work and is very mad at the help desk. "Don't give me all that computer mumbo jumbo, Citrix is Citrix and this worked for years, there's no reason for it to suddenly stop working now for no reason." I'm wondering if I should say something.
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Oct 5, 2015 17:31
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Xequecal posted:Currently in the same room as a new hire. She's on the phone with the help desk and is really mad at them that her Citrix login doesn't work.....her Citrix login from her previous job at a different company. She does not understand why it doesn't work and is very mad at the help desk. "Don't give me all that computer mumbo jumbo, Citrix is Citrix and this worked for years, there's no reason for it to suddenly stop working now for no reason." I'm wondering if I should say something. Is she an IT New Hire? Because that poo poo's ridiculous if so.
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Oct 5, 2015 17:32
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Mustache Ride posted:Is she an IT New Hire? That sounds like medical new hires from my experience...
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Oct 5, 2015 17:35
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Mustache Ride posted:Is she an IT New Hire? No, this is a hospital lab, she's one of the new group leads.
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Xequecal posted:No, this is a hospital lab, she's one of the new group leads. Bam.
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Oct 5, 2015 17:36
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nexxai posted:"built 12:00:35, Nov. 19, 2004" That's just the bootloader build date I think. What's wrong with old bootloaders?
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Oct 5, 2015 17:46
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This is funnier than it should be
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Oct 5, 2015 17:57
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and it's the OS for a back-of-seat video screen. Which is in all likelyhood not hooked up to anything related to keeping the plane in the air. Who cares if a video player is out of date?
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Oct 5, 2015 17:57
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Do they still give out headsets if there isn't any sound?
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Oct 5, 2015 18:11
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tomapot posted:A ticket came in: my headrest entertainment system is not working. Can you send someone to 30,000 feet ASAP, this is affecting (movie viewing) production. Please tell me you at least work for that airline.
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Oct 5, 2015 18:36
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Kurieg posted:and it's the OS for a back-of-seat video screen. Which is in all likelyhood not hooked up to anything related to keeping the plane in the air. Who cares if a video player is out of date? As has been shown in pentests recently, you might think that's the case, but probably isn't.
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Oct 5, 2015 18:37
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Kurieg posted:and it's the OS for a back-of-seat video screen. Which is in all likelyhood not hooked up to anything related to keeping the plane in the air. Who cares if a video player is out of date? Have you ever used one of the old clunky in-flight entertaining systems? It is mildly annoying my good sir.
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Oct 5, 2015 18:44
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ponzicar posted:Please tell me you at least work for that airline. No, just a traveler. After the reboot it never came back up. It did play the safety video though.
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Oct 5, 2015 19:18
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ Came up today in our company chat.
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Oct 5, 2015 19:31
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I massively prefer the "use your iPad with our in flight Wi-Fi" option that a lot of airlines are using now to the barely responsive tiny low res pieces of poo poo in the back of the seats. As long as they provide USB ports for charging stuff. Either that or the huge TVs that you get up front, but that tends to never really happen.
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So I'm about done spending time with this issue but I thought I'd mention it here in case anyone has some ideas: User's mechanical keyboardS (only uses one at a time, but happens with multiple different keyboards) that he picked up on his own dime (which is okay here) sporadically and frequently lose wired USB connection on his Windows 7 Enterprise desktop machine. Problem does not reoccur if keyboard is used on another computer in a different room. Problem also does not occur if his computer is installed in a different room. He has his own budget, and requested that we spend some money out of it to purchase him a new computer. Okay, fine - we did so (I told him this would almost definitely not resolve the problem), with one of our standard models (his was getting old anyway), a Dell Optiplex 9020 Small form-factor, imaged with our standard image that never has this issue - and performed a USMT scanstate on his old machine. Got the new PC set up with loadstate and installed it in his office and, while I was there for about 10 minutes just waiting to hear if the keyboard lost connection, it never did. That was Friday, while he was gone - today, he got in, and the problem is still there. At this point I'm all but convinced that it's some sort of weird issue with the room's electricity, which is well beyond my knowledge set, but I did replace the surge protector he was using and replaced power cables, to no avail. Is there anything stupid I'm possibly missing? The keyboard just uses standard drivers, and no devices are missing their drivers. No other USB devices ever appear to lose connectivity. I'm probably going to have some electricians come out and see if his room has some power fluctuations or something because I have no other ideas now.
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Oct 5, 2015 19:36
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OWLS! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ Came up today in our company chat. You might need this then too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
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Oct 5, 2015 19:42
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:So I'm about done spending time with this issue but I thought I'd mention it here in case anyone has some ideas: Has it ever failed with you around? Because if not, he's unplugging it and claiming there's something wrong with the room because he wants to move rooms? Alternatively: His desk setup is making him kick the wire.
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Oct 5, 2015 19:54
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tomapot posted:No, just a traveler. After the reboot it never came back up. It did play the safety video though. Ah, I thought you meant that someone else was on the plane, and expected you to fix it. Maybe I've been reading this thread too much.
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Oct 5, 2015 19:54
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Mech. KB Shenanigans I'm kinda wondering if it's something with Dell systems. I've had a 9010 and a 9020 have issues occasionally dropping my mechanical keyboards. I've tried both a Kinesis Advantage and now my Code. Both occasionally drop and re-connect. Doesn't seem to happen with the cheapy rubber domes that come with the Dells. USB selective suspend is disabled on all systems. I've also used both of these keyboards at home and never had this issue on my personal machine (non-Dell, homebuilt). 
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Oct 5, 2015 20:02
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A ticket came in:quote:When I was out shooting football on Friday night it was raining. I had the camera covered up and everything was working fine while I was shooting my first game. However when I tried turning the camera back on to shoot my second game, the camera started acting funny. It would cut on, but I couldn't see out of the view finder or record anything. I went to ask the reporter in question about it. So you had the camera covered up? Yes. You had it completely covered the entire time? Yeah. You had the rain gear completely sealed up and no part of the camera was exposed to rain, even when you weren't recording? I wasn't using rain gear. You just said you had the camera covered. Yeah, I put a towel over it. There's no way it could get wet.
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OwlFancier posted:Has it ever failed with you around? Check to make sure in device settings that the USB root hub has the following setting unchecked: 
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Oct 5, 2015 20:06
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Plug it into a powered USB hub
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Oct 5, 2015 20:07
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Thanks Ants posted:Plug it into a powered USB hub Hm, hadn't thought of this. I'll try this, seems like a near-guaranteed fix if it's not a short on the keyboard itself. And yeah I've seen it happen first-hand. Happen even if no one's doing anything on the computer. Thanks for the suggestions guys.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:So I'm about done spending time with this issue but I thought I'd mention it here in case anyone has some ideas: Brought this up with my boss since this was a headscratcher and he suggested moving the phone away from the keyboard, if it's nearby. He seems to think that the keyboard's causing some kind of bizarre interference.
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Today's XKCD is on-topic: http://xkcd.com/1586/
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nexxai posted:As has been shown in pentests recently, you might think that's the case, but probably isn't. He has a bad habit of greatly exaggerating what he can do / did do. Combined with the usual press distortions, it sounds like he did something really scary when in actuality he did nothing too crazy or possibly nothing at all and is making it all up.
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