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Virigoth posted:Yeah, usually you work with the 911 dispatch center by getting transferred to them by a non-emergency line call to your local station. Then you talk to the supervisor or whoever to let them know "number" is making 911 test calls and asking if it is a good time for them because you know, they love testing 911 calls when they have 50 active incidents going on and a rampaging gunman on the loose. It's actually even easier because on our phone system all you have to do is press *933<numbergoeshere> and an automated system will spit out the registered information. No need to harrass a real person.
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Feb 20, 2016 03:47
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This is where we started: http://www.amazon.com/DK-Workbooks-Computer-Coding/dp/146542685X Then when that was done he got: Python for Kids: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Kids-Playful-Introduction-Programming/dp/1593274076 Learn to program with Scratch: http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Program-Scratch-Introduction-Programming/dp/1593275439 I got him this as well but I don't think he's gotten into it yet: http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Raspberry-Carrie-Anne-Philbin/dp/1119046025
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Feb 20, 2016 06:17
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I wish I had those when I was a kid. I actually might just buy the Python one myself
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Feb 20, 2016 08:31
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Potato Alley posted:Now to see if I can Powershell up the emails themselves, because that's going to be pretty annoying. You probably already did this in about 2 minutes of googling, but... code:
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Feb 20, 2016 17:27
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Nnggg powershell... 
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Feb 20, 2016 17:33
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I wish I had those when I was a kid. There's also this: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
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Feb 20, 2016 18:37
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Antifreeze Head posted:There's also this: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ I'd recommend learning Python 3 instead of the 2.7 branch unless there's library that you really can't live without. As far as I know there's no going to be no more feature development for 2.7 through it's EOL in 2020. There's been a lot of movement over the last few years of the more popular libraries to 3.
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Feb 20, 2016 19:24
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flosofl posted:I'd recommend learning Python 3 instead of the 2.7 branch unless there's library that you really can't live without. As far as I know there's no going to be no more feature development for 2.7 through it's EOL in 2020. Yes that's true, I wasn't really paying attention to what thread I am in. I've been using the Hard Way website to reintroduce myself to programming because the last time I did anything significant that way was with GW-BASIC, so I need to work on some fundamentals. I find it useful to have anything to steer me away from GOTO, but most everyone else probably doesn't have that hang up.
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Feb 20, 2016 19:45
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Oh live a little, all the cool programmers are still using GOTO.
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Feb 20, 2016 20:28
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:A ticket came in from FIS. Apparently they sent an e-mail to us in error a while back that may have had some kind of critical data. Oops. "Returned or destroyed all copies..." You should forward the email back to them, saying "here is your email back". Then send it again saying, "hey! This appeared in my sent messages, so here is that copy as well." Keep doing this.
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Feb 20, 2016 20:57
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Agrikk posted:"Returned or destroyed all copies..." Print out the email, put it through a paper shredder, then mail it back to them?
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Feb 20, 2016 23:18
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Dragyn posted:This is fairly common practice in Health IT, they're not looking for you to prove it, they're looking for you to confirm it was deleted/destroyed and not retransmitted anywhere else. It's a CYA measure so that the person who sent the erroneous data can say "the breach was contained and eliminated". Right, but it's probably still a mistake to respond with anything other than "where do I send the bill to for our time spent on this?". I'm not going to go through tape backups of mail server's archive to remove an email that shouldn't have been sent to my org in the first place, and I'm definitely not going to open myself up to getting sued by saying I've deleted it only to discover it was still on a laptop that had cached exchange mode running and then got stolen or something. I might be inclined to do that as a favour to the IT/security team of a company that mine has a good working relationship with, or even that we don't providing they ask nicely, but someone I've never spoken to sending legalese like that is going right to the back of my queue.
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Feb 20, 2016 23:27
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"Since I could not send you confirmation without sending you an e-mail, I have now physically destroyed our mail server to remove all record of this transaction. Please find enclosed a bill for our new server."
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Feb 20, 2016 23:33
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An emergency ticket came it: I'm being hacked!! 
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Feb 21, 2016 00:16
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uPen posted:An emergency ticket came it: We had one of those and they typed in "FIREWALL NEEDS UPGRADATION"
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Feb 21, 2016 00:29
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uPen posted:An emergency ticket came it: We had one of those and they typed in "FIREWALL NEEDS UPGRADATION"
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Feb 21, 2016 00:29
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uPen posted:An emergency ticket came it: is this a real thing
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Feb 21, 2016 00:31
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Kashuno posted:is this a real thing This is what those microsoft support scammers from India do.
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Feb 21, 2016 00:32
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spankmeister posted:This is what those microsoft support scammers from India do. Just take pre:computer is at risk security is breached network hacked e-mail has a virus boston , ohio network found 5697 virus, trojans found
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Feb 21, 2016 00:56
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Just take Yea I know but what I'm saying is that one of their tactics is to open up a command window and pasting ot typing in poo poo like this to scare the mark
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Feb 21, 2016 01:08
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spankmeister posted:This is what those microsoft support scammers from India do. Before I did b2b sales for MS, I took support calls. The amount of people who spent thousands for "Microsoft support" is embarrassing. Like you could easily buy multiple computers for these support fees
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Feb 21, 2016 01:14
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Scikar posted:Right, but it's probably still a mistake to respond with anything. Fixed that for you. By responding to this email you are tacitly acknowledging the premise of the message, and are therefore sharing the responsibility of the leaked data. Sorry, pal. You ain't getting poo poo from me. Like others have said- maybe I'll track down emails and delete them out of inboxes and trash, but there's no way I'm responding. If pressed they'll get a terse, one line, "we'll do what we can but not promising anything." message.
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Feb 21, 2016 02:16
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spankmeister posted:Yea I know but what I'm saying is that one of their tactics is to open up a command window and pasting ot typing in poo poo like this to scare the mark This is the only time I've seen that which is why I grabbed the screenshot. More often they open up the event log and go 'Look at all these horrible problems!' The guy that did the command prompt also pulled up 'webcam photos' of the 'Russian and Chinese' hackers trying to break into this PC. Client closed those unfortunately, just left the command prompt open.
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Feb 21, 2016 02:36
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uPen posted:An emergency ticket came it: drat that is ghetto. The ones I see at least have the decency to make a batch file and run that to trick people. code:
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Feb 21, 2016 03:57
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Seriously. I feel like that's almost performance art, where they're trying to see how bad a job they can do and still get marks.
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Feb 21, 2016 04:02
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Cactus Jack posted:drat that is ghetto. The ones I see at least have the decency to make a batch file and run that to trick people. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3564747&pagenumber=635&perpage=40#post449445320
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Feb 21, 2016 04:14
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Volmarias posted:Seriously. I feel like that's almost performance art, where they're trying to see how bad a job they can do and still get marks. http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/WhyFromNigeria.pdf It's intentionally bad. They're seeking out the dumbest, most gullible people.
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Feb 21, 2016 04:42
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/WhyFromNigeria.pdf I don't know, not every thing scammers do is some brilliant game theory meta game move. If someone has already let them on the computer then that is the majority of the work done. You aren't working on trying to catch a mark, you've already caught them. In other news, I kept working on that batch file I posted from earlier and it is the most fun thing I've done in awhile. The ascii dickbutt I put in at the end is the pièce de résistance. 
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Feb 21, 2016 05:34
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Cactus Jack posted:I don't know, not every thing scammers do is some brilliant game theory meta game move. If someone has already let them on the computer then that is the majority of the work done. You aren't working on trying to catch a mark, you've already caught them. Gonna be using this on the next person that I simply don't care for. I'm going to have the "legitimate version" for the "go the hell away" moments and the dickbutt version for when I want them to know I don't like them.
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Feb 21, 2016 05:54
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/WhyFromNigeria.pdf If they're on the computer, they're 99% there already, they must need to finish the deal at that point. They don't need to get their targets to self select any further. At that point, it's just showmanship and salesmanship.
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Feb 21, 2016 08:13
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So this one is just too hilarious not to post about. (Note: I'm tier 1 hell desk right now) In the last couple hours I had a customer calling in wanting to sync data from their computer to their shiny new Apple 6s (always a red flag for me). So I do the normal things like ask what version of Windows or Mac they are on and everything. This is where it gets interesting, it's not always easy to get some older customers to remember or find what version of Windows they are running. So I ask is the start button a circle or a square. Their answer it's a rectangle.... I'm like OH they are probably running XP. No big deal still supported technically (you have to dig up a very specific version of iTunes 12 tho for it). So we get it and start downloading it and then it errors out and won't even start. That's pretty odd but not unheard of so I get them to double check their windows version.... drum roll please... Windows 98  Thankfully I quickly noped right out after informing them that their brand new $900 phone won't work with their 20 year old piece of poo computer.
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Feb 22, 2016 04:17
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fewyn posted:So this one is just too hilarious not to post about. (Note: I'm tier 1 hell desk right now) I'm always impressed when something that old is still alive considering most of the people I deal with have trashed their poo poo in less than 3 years. Computers were made of stronger stuff way back when. I don't believe this would have helped you with this particular computer, but I prefer Windows key + Pause over the start button method when trying to ascertain what version of Windows it is. "Windows key is in the bottom left of the keyboard, looks like 4 boxes or 4 wavy boxes. Okay hold that down and press the pause key. The pause key is in the upper right of the keyboard." If you can describe things in shapes and locations life gets easier dealing with the public. That and knowing the NATO phonetic alphabet.
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Feb 22, 2016 04:38
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Cactus Jack posted:I'm always impressed when something that old is still alive considering most of the people I deal with have trashed their poo poo in less than 3 years. Computers were made of stronger stuff way back when. Yeah Win + Pause break is what I normally use but this specific customer did not have a Windows key on their keyboard. Don't think that started becoming standard on keyboards until the Windows XP era really.
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Cactus Jack posted:I'm always impressed when something that old is still alive considering most of the people I deal with have trashed their poo poo in less than 3 years. Computers were made of stronger stuff way back when. I had a customer who was using a primarily MS DOS (had 3.11 on it) version of quicken(books? something) for her personal accounting uses. She backed everything up on floppies. When the computer died, she wanted us to import all of those floppies into a version of quicken that was at least 10 years newer than hers, then got upset that it wouldn't import properly.
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Feb 22, 2016 06:14
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fewyn posted:Yeah Win + Pause break is what I normally use but this specific customer did not have a Windows key on their keyboard. Don't think that started becoming standard on keyboards until the Windows XP era really. Ctrl-Esc opens the start menu as well, not sure if it would have done that with Win98 tho
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Feb 22, 2016 06:25
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mewse posted:Ctrl-Esc opens the start menu as well, not sure if it would have done that with Win98 tho Literally a question on the A+ exam three years ago
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Feb 22, 2016 15:06
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larchesdanrew posted:Literally a question on the A+ exam three years ago And yet I did not know that 
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Feb 22, 2016 15:25
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:And yet I did not know that Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens task manager, very useful for not having to get a stupid GUI to open task manager. Its faster then Right clicking the taskbar or going through the Task Manager / Lock / Logout fluff they added. (use your thumb for ctrl+shift to do it one handed)
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:And yet I did not know that Didn't mean that to sound so insulting. I mean the A+ exam a mere three years ago was asking for keyboard shortcuts to open the start menu in Windows 98. Here's a story about my predecessor: Apparently, the guy I replaced was actually Ferris Bueller. I was lamenting to some colleagues about how I've only been here a month and I feel guilty that I've already had to use two sick days (fun fact: The first 8 hours of consecutive sick time gets taken from personal time here and then anything over 8 hours per occurrence starts deducting from sick time. ) and I've taken a few long lunches to get personal, divorce-related affairs in order.The principal told me not to worry because I'm miles ahead of my predecessor, we'll call him Mark. Well, Mark was playing the longest con I've ever seen. He worked here for five years, and, when he started, he immediately began fostering a de facto rule that if his door was shut, he was not to be disturbed. His door would only be shut if he was on the phone, in the bathroom, or out on campus. Pretty much the grounds I have been trying to impress upon people. Now it makes sense why the director has been so pissy about my door being shut. Here's why: Mark had a house a few blocks away. Mark was always at his house. Mark was never here. Mark had his office Buellered the gently caress out to make it SEEM like he was in, though. He had his computer set to play a random selection of sound files of himself talking on the phone. Last week, I discovered the timer he had installed at one point to turn the bathroom fan on and off to make it seem like he was taking a poo poo. He had his office phone set to forward all calls to his cell phone. He insisted on parking across campus instead of his designated spot next to the building. He claimed he preferred to walk and get the exercise, but he was a fat, lazy piece of poo poo and this was completely unbelievable. He parked across campus so no one could check to see if his car was actually here. He would stay at home a good 80% of the day and have his automated office trick people into thinking he was inside, but no one would dare even knock on the door if he was on the phone, lest they face his wrath. The man was a diabolical genius. A Frosty Witch fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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