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notwithoutmyanus posted:Thread: question, for those of you who work remotely but not at a desk, do you have any variant of a laptop-desk you use? My wife was looking at the dharma desk but $250 on a laptop desk made of plywood is excessive. Honestly if you're going to be working for any length of time it is going to be worth investing in a desk.
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quote:Every time I log into the corporate vpn it sends me a temporary password email. Can we turn that off? quote:No.
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frogbert posted:Honestly if you're going to be working for any length of time it is going to be worth investing in
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Malachite_Dragon posted:How much is this, where is it sold, and is it compatible with tablets/smartphones? Asking for... gently caress it, I'm asking for me, my enormous sausage fingers are terrible with touchscreens. There's a whole bunch of generic ones. Here's one that costs $20: http://www.amazon.com/FAVI-FE01-BL-...s=mini+wireless But if you want one to use with a phone or tablet, here's a bluetooth one that drops the touchpad and laser pointer: http://www.amazon.com/HDE-Bluetooth...=mini+bluetooth
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fishmech posted:But if you want one to use with a phone or tablet, here's a bluetooth one that drops the touchpad and laser pointer: Or one with all those things: http://www.amazon.com/Rii-Smartphone-mini-X1-BT/dp/B004I4RW8C
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Feb 4, 2016 01:47
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Heners_UK posted:Or one with all those things: http://www.amazon.com/Rii-Smartphone-mini-X1-BT/dp/B004I4RW8C I have that exact model, and love it.
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Feb 4, 2016 01:53
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:There are some people that make me wish I carried disposable rubber gloves around for when I need to use their keyboard or mouse. People that constantly put lotion on their hands are a big culprit of this.
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Feb 4, 2016 02:34
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pr0digal posted:I'll keep that in my back pocket for Windows but this is on Mac. The solution is That's a thing huh? I had this issue come up with some users last week, design dpt of 5 Macs, "random file locking issue, can't rename or move folders" All use InDesign/Adobe etc all use finder in column view with previews enabled. All my research indicated this was one of the leading culprits. I may need to make a phone call tomorrow..
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Feb 4, 2016 05:29
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:There are some people that make me wish I carried disposable rubber gloves around for when I need to use their keyboard or mouse. I'm guilty of this sometimes. I love white cheddar popcorn. I at least try to scrape it off when I notice afterward. I should get some cleaning wipes, that would be a lot easier.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I'm guilty of this sometimes. I love white cheddar popcorn. I at least try to scrape it off when I notice afterward. I should get some cleaning wipes, that would be a lot easier. Eat your popcorn with a spoon. You will look like a sociopath, but will have a clean keyboard.
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Moey posted:Eat your popcorn with a spoon. You will look like a sociopath, but will have a clean keyboard. So it's a win-win, then? Clean keyboard and people second-guess their decision when they walk up to my desk to ask for poo poo. For real, though, I never thought about this and I need to teach my 8 year old to do this. This or chopsticks.
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Feb 4, 2016 15:40
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Chopsticks is the way to go imo. Popcorn is a good food for learning to use them because of the repetition- and since you have to pick up one or two at a time it helps with portion control.
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Feb 4, 2016 15:48
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As odd as it sounds I think chopsticks would make you look less weird then a spoon. A spoon will make you look like someone that just wants to shovel it into their mouth.
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Feb 4, 2016 15:50
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Just pour the bag directly into your mouth and wipe any stray cheese powder bits that get on your hands onto your sleeves.
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I eat my popcorn with a straw
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Thread: question, for those of you who work remotely but not at a desk, do you have any variant of a laptop-desk you use? My wife was looking at the dharma desk but $250 on a laptop desk made of plywood is excessive. Milk crates. If you want a nice smooth surface you can put a bunch of 1ftx1ft squares of 3/4in whatever together with hinges. Work surface folds up nice and neat, fits inside one of the milk crates, and the rest of your "office" fits in the other milk crates. Butt pillow recommended. I did this for the better part of a year. Edit: I just realized you're working remotely from home... not temporarily at remote sites.
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Feb 4, 2016 16:00
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SeaborneClink posted:That's a thing huh? I had this issue come up with some users last week, design dpt of 5 Macs, "random file locking issue, can't rename or move folders" Are they running a SAN? Either Xsan or StorNext? If they are then sleeping/misconfigured fibre and metadata could be your culprit. It could also be the joys of POSIX since the default umask on OS X is 022 which gives Read/Write to owner and Read Only to group for new files created; super fun on shared storage. This can be changed pretty easily...if you're on a version of OS X that supports umask https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201684
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Feb 4, 2016 16:03
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There is precedent for this stuff:
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Inspector_666 posted:There is precedent for this stuff: High five buddy
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Feb 4, 2016 16:14
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Thanks Ants posted:How the gently caress did you even work out the "unplug from network, leave for a while" method was the actual fix? Had this sort of thing happen with a handheld scanner: doesn't turn on, swapping batteries doesn't work, putting it in the charging base doesn't work, pressing the reset switch doesn't work. If you remove the battery, press the reset switch, and then let it sit for at least 15 minutes, then put the battery back in, it turns on. The waiting 15 minutes is required for this fix; it's not documented in the manual on the device, it's just some weird loving quirk of the device.  Heners_UK posted:Or one with all those things: http://www.amazon.com/Rii-Smartphone-mini-X1-BT/dp/B004I4RW8C Currently unavailable.  No bluetooth, which was the point of "all those things". This one doesn't look half bad though. Mo_Steel fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Mo_Steel posted:Currently unavailable. http://www.amazon.com/Rii-Wireless-...d+with+touchpad
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Mo_Steel posted:Had this sort of thing happen with a handheld scanner: doesn't turn on, swapping batteries doesn't work, putting it in the charging base doesn't work, pressing the reset switch doesn't work. Sounds like they used the wrong type of capacitor when they built it. I've seen it happen with lovely chinese electronics, they company doing the assembly swaps out the capacitor the designer specified for a cheaper one... that doesn't have the same rating. Suddenly it takes far far longer for the capacitors to drain... and the units lifespan shrinks dramatically because it's passing too high of a voltage to the circuit.
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Mo_Steel posted:Currently unavailable. I think I found the one you want on Deal Extreme: http://www.dx.com/p/rii-k02-bluetooth-touchpad-mini-wireless-keyboard-mouse-combo-271140#.VrODB7IrJaQ Looks like it matches the model number.
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Feb 4, 2016 18:01
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How can I set one folder in Outlook to have its messages displayed in plain text? Or alternatively, messages to a specific email address (a distro group)?
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Feb 4, 2016 18:23
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Mo_Steel posted:No bluetooth, which was the point of "all those things". This one doesn't look half bad though. It comes with the bluetooth dongle (or, are you saying you don't want bluetooth?).
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A series of tickets, from the same teacher, regarding her students' email addresses: Monday:  I need x, y and z's email addresses. They're the same as the log in name, which is first.last. Ok, thanks.Tuesday: I need x's email address. It's the same as her login name, first.last, just like everybody. OkWednesday: I need w's email address. first.last, same as everybody.Today: I need x's email address. first.lastI don't drink but some of these people make me reconsider. At least I'm not in maintenance though; they have some good stories, like this gem. Problem - classroom is too cold. Issue: Lava lamp and coffee maker are plugged in and running right underneath the thermostat. Mini-fridge, space heater, and microwave a little further away, all plugged into same power bar. Teacher refuses to reorganize desk and move any of that.
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It's me, I'm the user filing three tickets on my third day on the job, two of which are just asking for more equipment. Sorry, whoever got assigned them. There's a nonzero chance you're reading this, too
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Speaking of emails, literally everything I have done today has involved email addresses. First is the librarian of the campus library wanting a list of every students' email addresses. Simple enough, but I'm not sure what the policy is for divulging student information, so I need director approval but he's out until Monday and she just can't wait so she'll just send about eleventy-thousand angry emails about how I'm holding her up. Next is that Spiceworks isn't scraping my AD for user information, and the culprit seems to be that for Spiceworks to actually pull user info they have to have an email address listed, which none of our users do. So I either get to manually input 300+ emails or come up with a script that will transfer the information from a .csv file. It'd be really loving simple since we do firstletter.lastname@domain.com except students have a 16 or 17 included depending on what year they graduate and the domain groups aren't split into class years.
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Feb 4, 2016 21:53
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larchesdanrew posted:Speaking of emails, literally everything I have done today has involved email addresses. Powershell should be able to do the whole transfer from CSV thing.
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Feb 4, 2016 21:57
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Powershell that poo poo, should be pretty simple assuming your input data is accurate.
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Feb 4, 2016 21:57
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Yeah, PowerShell for sure. Just need to actually write the damned thing.
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Feb 4, 2016 21:59
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larchesdanrew posted:Yeah, PowerShell for sure. Just need to actually test the damned thing. Just modifying that for any potential LOLs
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Feb 4, 2016 22:21
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Ran a -WhatIf and it just showed a picture of me holding my hands out to CE
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The last time I ran -what if, it spit out a termination notice with my name on it. Powershell is scary, yo.
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Is it cool to ask questions here? I have a user with Android 5.1.1, syncing calendars through our Exchange. He has 2 calendars right now setup in Outlook and when he pulls them down they just get jumbled under one account and not separated. We tried in the stock, S Calendar and also Google Calendar, both apps see everything as just one account. Ive tried removing and re-adding the Exchange account but it doesnt seem to work.
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Our helpdesk techs keep 'solving' issues where an Outlook client doesn't reflect the actual mailbox contents by turning off Cached Exchange Mode. For laptop users, with Office 365.
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Thanks Ants posted:Our helpdesk techs keep 'solving' issues where an Outlook client doesn't reflect the actual mailbox contents by turning off Cached Exchange Mode. For laptop users, with Office 365. I almost want to say that's better than just telling them to use OWA and not actually fixing anything. Almost.
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Vintersorg posted:Is it cool to ask questions here? No. This is like a teacher's lounge from the 70's where the teachers go to smoke cigarettes, drink coffee, call each other by their first name and bitch about their students. No outsiders allowed. We are on break. 
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larchesdanrew posted:Ran a -WhatIf and it just showed a picture of me holding my hands out to CE Speaking of, has his issue been resolved yet or is the station still baying for his blood? 
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