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The Fool posted:Just did a contract job for an out of state MSP. At least RAM is really quick to install. I've talked an out of country site with no IT staff through installing RAM using skype for business and a webcam. I could have easily talked them through it but they wanted to confirm visually.
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Our student helper has been creating some fillable pdf forms for one of our more notoriously picky people here. I question whether that's actually an IT responsibility or not, but I'm the only one that seems to object to stupid work here - but that's not the point. There are apparently some issues with the fillable forms. Namely, there's a field that the user can write as much as they want in. The more they write, the smaller the font gets so it can all fit in the box. People are apparently writing so much it becomes nearly illegible. The suggestion was that we can increase the text box size, but then it won't fit on the page - this is unacceptable. So we have to find a way to keep the text box the same size, but make sure the user can write as much as they want without decreasing text size.
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Nov 3, 2015 20:38
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:So we have to find a way to keep the text box the same size, but make sure the user can write as much as they want without decreasing text size. I believe they need some physics lessons
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Nov 3, 2015 20:40
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Our student helper has been creating some fillable pdf forms for one of our more notoriously picky people here. I question whether that's actually an IT responsibility or not, but I'm the only one that seems to object to stupid work here - but that's not the point. I've bitched about it before, but I have to deal with this all the time with these lovely order forms our sales department uses. They're just excel sheets, and the date field is always a point of confusion for everyone, since, when they print the form, it just shows ############# in the date field. The "###" spam means too much text is in the text field. They're always supremely pissed when I tell them they can't write the date out as "Tuesday November the 3rd of 2015."
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Nov 3, 2015 20:50
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quote:Dear client, quote:Hi Johnny, *opens log file* quote:ERROR 15-10 02:30:05,921 - Check for Error Results - Source folder/file [C:\Windows\system32\${JOBDIR}] can not be found!
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Nov 3, 2015 21:22
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JohnnyCanuck posted:*opens log file*
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Nov 3, 2015 21:29
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:
Next, draw seven red lines, all perpendicular to each other. Two red, two green, the others transparent.
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Nov 3, 2015 21:48
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Let's not rush into any hasty answers Anderson.
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Nov 3, 2015 21:56
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So a large portion of my companies users use Yahoo Instant Messanger for desktop which is as horrible as it seems. I've briefly shown people slack before and they love it, but a large number of our customers only use yim. Is there any sort of app integration with yim and Slack? Is Trillian still a thing? I think that would suck less than Yahoo's desktop app which has a straight out of the 90's UI and spams a ton of horrible flash ads and crapware plugins that users just cant help themselves and click on.
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Nov 3, 2015 21:59
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Trillian has a yim plugin, yes. And it's still a thing.Japanese Dating Sim posted:Let's not rush into any hasty answers Anderson. Now hold on a second here, can you use blue ink?
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Nov 3, 2015 22:08
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GreenNight posted:The problem is most likely the CEO wants to work on poo poo offsite and doesn't want to VPN in to access documents. There are various solutions for this though, with time and money. As always, the solution to this and all other problems is BuffaloBuffaloBuffaloBuffalo
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Nov 3, 2015 22:14
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BaseballPCHiker posted:So a large portion of my companies users use Yahoo Instant Messanger for desktop which is as horrible as it seems. I've briefly shown people slack before and they love it, but a large number of our customers only use yim. Is there any sort of app integration with yim and Slack? Is Trillian still a thing? I think that would suck less than Yahoo's desktop app which has a straight out of the 90's UI and spams a ton of horrible flash ads and crapware plugins that users just cant help themselves and click on. If you're going to use a 3rd party app I would recommend Pidgin over Trillian.
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Nov 3, 2015 22:18
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Inspector_666 posted:If you're going to use a 3rd party app I would recommend Pidgin over Trillian.  Trillian is terrible garbage, don't ever use it.
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Nov 3, 2015 22:22
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I quite like Trillian.
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Nov 3, 2015 22:28
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I used to really like trillian. It really sucks these days though.
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Nov 3, 2015 22:28
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"OK I have the system over here, and the wall port is over there, my cable can't reach. What should I do?" "...Get a longer cable." Some regional manager also wanted us to train them on the system even though their account had been access denied for non payment. We said you pay the reinstatement fee and what you owe and was can get to training. Nope, not good enough, training first then we decide if we want to pay and use your system.
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Nov 3, 2015 22:30
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Khisanth Magus posted:I used to really like trillian. It really sucks these days though. I dunno. As a cross-platform unified messaging service where I can start a conversation on one device and continue it on another (i.e. start chatting on my laptop and then move seamlessly to my smartphone) It's pretty handy. Also the fact that it unifies all my notifications for my social media accounts and my email accounts is pretty great. It doesn't consume a lot of resources and the crazy skin stuff is gone. I bought a lifetime Pro account a few years ago and don't regret it at all.
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Nov 3, 2015 22:35
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JohnnyCanuck posted:I dunno. As a cross-platform unified messaging service where I can start a conversation on one device and continue it on another (i.e. start chatting on my laptop and then move seamlessly to my smartphone) It's pretty handy. Also the fact that it unifies all my notifications for my social media accounts and my email accounts is pretty great. It doesn't consume a lot of resources and the crazy skin stuff is gone. I bought a lifetime Pro account a few years ago and don't regret it at all. Maybe it has been improved since I last used it a year or 2 ago. The main thing I've used it for is its web based client for talking with my wife while at work.
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Nov 3, 2015 22:41
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A passive-aggressive comic came in. Supervisor walked in and, laughing, pinned this to my bulletin board:  I'm going to change the text in the second panel to "It really sucks when you try for two years to do anything, but your rear end in a top hat supervisor cockblocks you every step of the way because he's an insecure autist." I'm going to title it "2 weeks notice." We have a plan, ladies and gentlemen.
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Nov 3, 2015 23:40
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I wonder if he thinks he's Wally or Alice.
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Nov 3, 2015 23:43
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larchesdanrew posted:A passive-aggressive comic came in. *itshappening.gif*
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Nov 3, 2015 23:57
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Next, draw seven red lines, all perpendicular to each other. Two red, two green, the others transparent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7MIJP90biM
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Nov 4, 2015 00:10
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At the risk of being picky he didn't use transparent ink and he didn't draw parallel lines:quote:In three-dimensional Euclidean space, parallel lines not only fail to intersect, but also maintain a constant separation between points closest to each other on the two lines. Therefore, parallel lines in three-space lie in a single plane (Kern and Blank 1948, p. 9). Lines in three-space which are not parallel but do not intersect are called skew lines. Plus, that looked more like a chipmunk than a kitten.
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Nov 4, 2015 00:37
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spog posted:At the risk of being picky he didn't use transparent ink and he didn't draw parallel lines: While perhaps technically correct, the only thing that matters is if you can convince the clients that their requirements are satisfied. Chance of clients asking for requirements like these while simultaneously understanding what they mean? Functionally zero, or they wouldn't be asking for them in the first place.
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Nov 4, 2015 01:07
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larchesdanrew posted:A passive-aggressive comic came in. Write on it "Thanks for the Call him Wally at every opportunity from then on.
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Nov 4, 2015 01:28
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larchesdanrew posted:A passive-aggressive comic came in. It's like watching a trainwreck in slow-motion. Except the train is filled with everything you hate, and you're sprawled across a chaise lounge on the top of a nearby hill, eating grapes and sipping wine.
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Nov 4, 2015 02:02
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Next, draw seven red lines, all perpendicular to each other. Two red, two green, the others transparent. Serves me right for not browsing SA at all today.
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Nov 4, 2015 03:50
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Tonight is the big election coverage night for state elections. The newsroom is full of reporters inputting election information into the database. They are receiving the numbers through emailed photographs of number sheets or some poo poo. Anyways, all the pictures they are receiving were photographed sideways. Rather than saving the photos and rotating the pictures, every reporter is cocking their heads ninety degrees and transcribing. It's literally a room filled with adults with their heads laying on their shoulders.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:58
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I've been using Trillian for drat near forever and I've been happy with it. and like said I can carry conversations between my phone, PC, and the web client pretty easy which is good given how much I switch around.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:58
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He's wally right? He knows hes wally. or is he really saying that landschrew is wally?
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Nov 4, 2015 05:12
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He knows he's Wally, and he's been actively sabotaging larchesandrew for daring to upset the gravy train of zero effort with some ambition to competence.
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Nov 4, 2015 05:20
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Supremely self-aware for such a historic idiot
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rndmnmbr posted:He knows he's Wally, and he's been actively sabotaging larchesandrew for daring to upset the gravy train of zero effort with some ambition to competence. This is a beautiful summary of every competent person's experience in this shithole.
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The amusing part of that is that I saw that strip this morning, since I get Dilbert emailed to me daily (yeah I know Scott Adams is a turd, but I like office humor). Seeing your de facto IT director clip from a newspaper instead of print from an email somehow tickles me.
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Nov 4, 2015 05:38
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Print? Mail? Am I the only one to has a stable "open all these tabs" of comics every morning? 
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Crowley posted:Print? Mail? Am I the only one to has a stable "open all these tabs" of comics every morning?  open saved tabs buddy.Lotsa  in this thread
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Nov 4, 2015 13:51
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Y'all need to learn rss.
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Nov 4, 2015 13:57
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GreenNight posted:Y'all need to learn rss. Google Reader RIP
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evol262 posted:Google Reader RIP I can't believe I am about to link this but Digg made a Reader that is just as good (and some say better). http://digg.com/reader
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It's really to bad there isnt some way that I can force yahoo messenger to work with Slack since people in house love that. Apparently in my companies industry yim is so thoroughly entrenched that it'll never go away. Looking into pidgen and trillian for now. This is sort of low hanging fruit so the company doesnt want to spend any money which limits my options. Also for RSS I've had decent luck with Feedly. Not as good but it does the job. Unfortunately more and more sites are abandoning RSS. Even now a lot of times the RSS feed for a site doesnt show the full article or page and is just a single line with a link to the content.
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