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larchesdanrew posted:I mentioned this before, but it bears repeating. This is how a lot of 3-D print shops work, they buy one, and the first thing they do is use it to make others. Once they have enough, they can either simultaneously produce parts for a product, or run multiple different products.
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Anyone finding Word 2013 randomly freezing up after recent updates?
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Feb 11, 2016 18:45
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Also on the 3d printer subject, they are going to make space travel a lot easier and cheaper in the future. Instead of having to ship up 2-4 of a part they just have the raw materials and make the part. They are actually testing this right now on the ISS. Except their 3d printer cost a bit more then $3k.
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Feb 11, 2016 18:52
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AlexDeGruven posted:Lulzbot already makes a good portion of their plastic parts on their own printers. Was a really cool How It's Made about it. Isn't that show originally produced in French and then overdubbed to English later? I'm very tickled by the idea of the narrator referring to it as le bot des lulz.
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Feb 11, 2016 19:00
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stubblyhead posted:Isn't that show originally produced in French and then overdubbed to English later? I'm very tickled by the idea of the narrator referring to it as le bot des lulz. It's Canadian so I'm assuming they have to record the audio in both languages.
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Feb 11, 2016 19:05
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stubblyhead posted:Isn't that show originally produced in French and then overdubbed to English later? I'm very tickled by the idea of the narrator referring to it as le bot des lulz. Do French-speakers really do that with even established brand names? I could see Lulzbot doing something like that. But I'd be surprised if the show renamed something that is defined like that. And I don't know, to answer your actual question. I just have Sci running above my head all day at work (They're doing cranberries right now).
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Feb 11, 2016 19:09
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Nobody speaks English in Canada, everything we say is translated by our great firewall
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Feb 11, 2016 19:11
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I don't know about that. My new team lead is Canadian and he doesn't speak French (I can literally see Canada from my desk, and there's no wall, on fire or otherwise). Or so he'd have us believe.
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Feb 11, 2016 19:13
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Wilford Cutlery posted:Anyone finding Word 2013 randomly freezing up after recent updates? Yep, uninstall KB3114717
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Feb 11, 2016 19:20
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A ticket.. started. The primary kerberos key server is down. Great so the whole domain is not authenticating anything. Awesome. Oh what's that, the Kerberos box is having a panic and is in complete lockdown you say? Not even local admin access? Well then. Guess it's going to be one of those days.
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RadicalR posted:Yep, uninstall KB3114717 Thanks!
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Feb 11, 2016 19:23
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mewse posted:Nobody speaks English in Canada, everything we say is translated by our great firewall In western Canada hardly anyone speaks french, at least when I visited. From what I understand there are two very distinct Canada's and then I guess Quebec is the third/weird Canada.
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So it's one of those days I'm very glad I'm in the team that supports our clinical EPR /appointment system and not main IT. Last night (Wednesday) a senior doctor working from home on hospital laptop. Gets an email, with an odd spreadsheet attachment. Opens said attachment... yep it's a virus alright. They see that something is wrong and does the natural thing, email it all in to IT + some colleagues. So it's now inside the network and of course, someone opens it and the virus is out there. Thankfully it can only hit Win XP machines. However we still have 400+ of them, whole key departments like our Pathology Labs still run on XP because of their lab machines. Not sure which virus it is, but it's one that gives takes a fake AV pop up about "malware activity" and prompts the users to report, once they do, black screen of death. That and just general rebooting. So nearly every single one of our XP machines is now a brick. From what I've overheard, flatten and reinstall is the fix, which is going to cause such a headache for main IT. They're looking at other things, but are still expected to have major issues by the morning, if not in to the weekend. My boss (as an Associate Director of IT) is having a very bad day and will probably be having a very bad day tomorrow as well. Somehow, we've avoided having the hospital grind to a complete halt, but only just. This is going to be interesting when the weekly newsletter goes round.
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DroneRiff posted:So it's one of those days I'm very glad I'm in the team that supports our clinical EPR /appointment system and not main IT. 
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I know, I know. There are lots of terrible reasons. Like key clinical hardware/software that only works with XP, lack of money, having an outsourced IT supplier that we don't really like and it's the UK National Health Service. So for any UK goons in the thread ... come work for the NHS, it's great!
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Feb 11, 2016 20:48
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I thought nationalization made everything better and more efficient.
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See, now this is something more people should do around holiday weekends:quote:
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DroneRiff posted:So for any UK goons in the thread ... come work for the NHS, it's great! So some reason, all the junior doctors standing around outside my local hospital today don't seem to share this belief.
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spog posted:So some reason, all the junior doctors standing around outside my local hospital today don't seem to share this belief. Well, that too. I love the NHS, but it's getting shafted on all sides  I'm waiting for the next rounds of cuts at my Trust...
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Doctor Bombadil posted:We got a new client, so i remote to their DC to check some things. I think I've mentioned this before, but the State of California signed a contract so that everyone can only buy certain models of printers, with the goal of standardizing equipment across agencies. Pretty much all of these printers are horrible Samsungs, because they offered them to the State at a dirt-cheap price. And now a year into this all the fusers and image drums are going out, and the price they're charging for replacement components is more than just buying a new printer at the state rate. So now our higher-ups want us to buy a printer, use it until the fuser's burnt out, then toss it out and buy a new printer. I get that it's cheaper, but I'm still surprised no one outside IT seems to see an issue with how horrifically wasteful it is.
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Feb 11, 2016 21:31
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That's a strange policy considering it's California as well
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Knormal posted:And now a year into this all the fusers and image drums are going out, and the price they're charging for replacement components is more than just buying a new printer at the state rate. I made the mistake about 7-8 years ago purchasing a Samsung Multi-function Laser for the home office. Less than a year after I bought it the scanner just up and stopped working (scanning or coping would result in a blank page, the light and motor was all working, and printing was fine too) so I contacted Samsung about warranty and repair. I got the absolute run around from their support, they took the hard line that it was a user replaceable part and a consumable part, despite not being able to provide said part number, so there was no warranty claim. I finally had them give me a name of a local authorized repair tech and contacted them, they tried to get a part for me as well with no luck. In the end I actually must have liked the sales rep at the retail store I bought it from so I bought the store's extended warranty. Took it to the store got immediate store credit for the original purchase price and walked out with a Canon ImageCLASS that is still working fine today.
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DroneRiff posted:Well, that too. I love the NHS, but it's getting shafted on all sides Hey, that insurance industry lobby
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PCOS Bill posted:I thought nationalization made everything better and more efficient. DroneRiff posted:outsourced IT supplier Oh look its the for profit private industry bit that's shite
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jre posted:Oh look its the for profit private industry bit that's shite Yep, funny that. Thankfully I'm an NHS employee through and through. Still get people thinking I work for said outsourced IT firm or a contractor. My bit gets stuff done and makes the most of a bad system (Cerner). In other news, I on call for my team this week. Still waiting for a user to call me saying they can't get in to EPR, rather than "Oh my PC is hosed, I'll call main IT." DroneRiff fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Feb 11, 2016 |
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Client's InfoSec department has an instance of Lieberman Enterprise Random Password Manager to rotate out their admin passwords every 90 days. This is great from a security perspective, especially in such a large organization. What's not so great is when we (the consultants) are not told about it and suddenly find ourselves locked out of all the computers that we support. Now I get to wait around for someone in InfoSec to re-set my AD password and give me access to the right password set. The joys of being an outside agency.
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Knormal posted:Did they install printers on their DC then share them out as some kind of makeshift print server? My god. Why not have a DC/Print Server? My coworker refuses to let go of a 2003 box that is a Application/SQL/File/Print server. It am pretty sure he uses it like a workstation too with Adobe Reader and Java installed on there.
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Feb 11, 2016 23:36
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Make sure you open it to the web so you can remote to it from home.
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Swink posted:Make sure you open it to the web so you can remote to it from home. It is my personal policy that if I see a printer that I can remotely print to from the web, I print horse porn.
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Moey posted:Why not have a DC/Print Server? Also the fact that there's several printers that are disabled but still shared out doesn't give me a lot of confidence in whoever previously maintained that enviroment. I'm curious if they installed the full driver package with all the HP postcard-making bloatware, if you even can install that stuff on a server OS.
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nitrogen posted:See, now this is something more people should do around holiday weekends: Is that actually effective, though? I have to imagine most users would see the following: quote:
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KillHour posted:It is my personal policy that if I see a printer that I can remotely print to from the web, I print horse porn. I'm cracking up picturing this as official company policy. "We still bound by that horse porn clause?" Yes, sir. "Very well."
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J posted:Is that actually effective, though? I have to imagine most users would see the following: In my experience a percentage will read it. If someone doesn't read it and complains you can point to the email and say you were proactive about the issue.
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J posted:Is that actually effective, though? I have to imagine most users would see the following: It is effective in that on Tuesday morning when someone is ranting about the lost productivity you can point them to that email they ignored. Then you get written up for entrapment.
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Knormal posted:I'm curious if they installed the full driver package with all the HP postcard-making bloatware, if you even can install that stuff on a server OS. You can, and on print servers it has a lovely habit of completely crashing the print spooler. To the point where it won't come back up until you remove the driver. I've got a few "enterprise" deskjets that get dumped on the print server of shame (our old win2003 print server) where they're free to gently caress themselves up as much as they like.
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Varkk posted:It is effective in that on Tuesday morning when someone is ranting about the lost productivity you can point them to that email they ignored. In a similar situation, our company decided to charge all of our clients a one-time $99 fee for upgrading everyone's equipment to deal with the EMV switch over. The charge was to happen at the end of January. November rolls around and we send out a letter and an email stating that "we're going to be charging this fee. Please expect to see it on your January statement. If you have any questions, please call us." December comes by and we send out a notice in the end-of-month statement saying " we're going to charge this fee. If you object, call us. If you don't contact us, you are signifying that you agree to the fee." This week rolls around and our phones have been ringing off the hook with people pissed off that we're charging them a fee, all of which had no clue that we were going to charge them, and all of them want a refund.
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Today I happened upon a network share in which people put "--" in front of folder and file names. This makes terminal commands not work since they parse it as an argument. 
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pr0digal posted:Today I happened upon a network share in which people put "--" in front of folder and file names. IIRC you put '--' in the command and it treats everything after it as 'not a command line option'. e.g. code:
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Stelas posted:IIRC you put '--' in the command and it treats everything after it as 'not a command line option'. You are a wonderful person. This will save me some headache.
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So another paycheck came in. Many months ago I posted about a moonlighting gig that came in and I was paid to stand up a database cluster and then agreed to a retainer to support it. Well things have moved on and the project got stalled as it took the destination company forever to get through a code/infrastructure freeze and get around to racking it. As it turns out that company ended up misplacing the server and they can't find it anywhere. So my contact came back to me asking if I would build them a new server. I was willing to do it for less, because I kept all the SQL Server install scripts from the last go-round, but instead I let them make the first offer. And they came in with another setup fee that was higher than the first "for my inconvenience". 
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