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If you say "jif" that's fine, I'll agree to disagree. "Gib" instead of "jib" is loving awful, though. It's from giblet, for gently caress's sake.
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Thanatosian posted:Is there a company that offers good laptop pricing for non-profits? The non-profit in question has unlimited licenses for Windows 7 Pro and Office, if they can get them without Windows licensing for cheaper. I know Dell just offers attractive lease terms. Techsoup has some laptops, Dell E7250, Lenovo, and HP options. It all includes an OS and limited support.
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May 5, 2016 02:07
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fishmech posted:Yes it is. He came up with the extension first with how to pronounce it, and then Compuserve, who was paying him to make it, wanted it to stand for something. so does he spell "jiffy" with a G?
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May 5, 2016 02:11
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President Ark posted:so does he spell "jiffy" with a G? It's not a pun when it's just the regular word.
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May 5, 2016 02:41
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nielsm posted:The logistics of a proper fix for MAX_PATH is insane, you have 30 years worth of software with hard buffer length assumptions. What's stopping Microsoft from doing something special with all new UWP Apps to meet this exact need?
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May 5, 2016 06:24
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Ozz81 posted:I. loving. LOATHE. Salespeople. Especially ones that think they're smarter than they are, and get engineers caught up in a bunch of bullshit with clients while simultaneously evading responsibility for it. I've had to deal with some crap sales dumps on us sometimes. Back when I worked desktops and laptops often enough Sales would sell the higher warranty as if it was a magic "you don't have to do anything!" support structure. We only have one kind of support like that and it's an add-on entitlement and costs a fuckton of money. I've only seen it once in over 4 years of working here. So we get people expecting us to just send a tech to work on their issue and get mad when we explain the actual warranty they actually got On the other hand, I get sick of cheapskates who buy the cheapest warranties with the cheapest hardware and demand the everything under the loving sun. Especially when it "inconveniences them". And wouldn't you know it, I got something pretty close to that today. Which leads me into: Thing's pissing me off: Customers who go cheap and put their servers into remote smart-hand data centers, don't want those hands to do anything except external reseating of parts as well as maybe memory, and expect us to make up the difference for free when poo poo hits the fan.
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May 5, 2016 12:49
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gently caress people who send all direct messages to people in Skype for Bussiness in a group chat using high importance. Everyone has Ego-Feed configured, and this chat requires us to respond to all alerts/occasionally tab in for updates as requested.
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May 5, 2016 15:02
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:gently caress people who send all direct messages to people in Skype for Bussiness in a group chat using high importance. Everyone has Ego-Feed configured, and this chat requires us to respond to all alerts/occasionally tab in for updates as requested. Yeah that wouldn't last long in my evironment. Its either high importance or its not. People abusing it would lose the privilege.
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May 5, 2016 15:13
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hihifellow posted:Oh cool, the scumbag of a desktop tech my boss is protecting for some reason has complained about me enough I'm starting to get blowback. I'm sorry you child abusing piece of poo poo, but I'm still gonna refuse to work with you. I feel like I'm missing some context here. I may have missed an earlier vent by you.
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May 5, 2016 15:24
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flosofl posted:I feel like I'm missing some context here. I may have missed an earlier vent by you. I haven't posted about this guy much since I'd rather not have anything to do with him, but to sum it all up: Desktop guy gets hired. People have reservations about him but he's friendly enough. Time goes on we find out he's dangerously incompetent, a pathological liar, a disgusting slob, and physically abusing his nephew. My boss, who is his as well, doesn't want to hear anything bad about him but will listen to his complaints about everyone who doesn't want to work with him for the reasons above. I'm just the latest person he's complained about.
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May 5, 2016 15:43
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pissing me off: Our loving engineers. These guys are brilliant, smarter than I am, except they come up with the stupidest loving ideas sometimes. We have a voip product that they've added lync functionality to. Instead of just using microsoft's standard API and published norms for downloading and applying normalization rules they've built some wonky one off bullshit app that downloads the dialing rules from Lync and uploads them to our device as an .xml file and THEN they want the device to also have a direct SIP connection to a local SBC so our device can decide on sending a call to lync or to the SBC directly. loving engineers. edit: oh, forgot the best thing: They only allowed a very small memory footprint for the dialing rules, so when they tested it with our corp rules (we only have 16, nothing by lync standards) it crashed the product. 
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May 5, 2016 16:29
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Bob Morales posted:I've seen issues like that on slower links because we had auto-negotiate turned on for that switch port, instead of locking it at 100mb poo poo pissing me off right now, the exact opposite of this. New AT&T fiber delivered for a customer that has their own corporate firewall working alongside our router for voice. There's a dumb switch between their existing modem and the two devices. AT&T now insists that their equipment MUST be set to 100/Full or their monitoring doesn't work properly. Beyond the absurdity of that claim in the first place, they're effectively telling me that I need to put a smart switch in this spot for no reason other than their system is lovely, because the dumb switch will try to autonegotiate and then ends up on half duplex when AT&T's box doesn't respond. Hardcoded interfaces are for when you're stuck with a lovely setup that doesn't work otherwise. Ancient but expensive equipment that can't be easily replaced, out-of-spec runs without budget to do it right, etc. Not for standard deployment where there's 3 feet of Cat6 between two brand new devices. How happy I will be when 100mbit handoffs are old news and everyone's using gigabit or better, where autonegotiation is mandatory.
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May 5, 2016 16:36
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wolrah posted:poo poo pissing me off right now, the exact opposite of this. New AT&T fiber delivered for a customer that has their own corporate firewall working alongside our router for voice. There's a dumb switch between their existing modem and the two devices. Our was AT&T too. They gave me some explanation of why and it made sense but I don't remember what it was. Set it to auto and watch how spiky the connection gets and how low it peaks out compared to setting it at 100. Weird.
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May 5, 2016 16:46
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DigitalMocking posted:pissing me off: Our loving engineers. This is why a good engineering manager is worth their weight in gold. You've gotta have someone who speaks both engineer and regular person.
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May 5, 2016 17:07
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Someone who takes the specifications from the customer, and takes them to the software engineers? Someone who has people skills, perhaps?
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May 5, 2016 17:23
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hihifellow posted:I haven't posted about this guy much since I'd rather not have anything to do with him, but to sum it all up: gently caress it, call social services or CPS anonymously on the rear end in a top hat desktop tech and watch the fireworks. If your boss still wants to stick up for the douche for whatever reason, that's on him, and now you've got documented proof that both are pieces of poo poo.
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May 5, 2016 17:24
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Pissing me off: our loving developers. These asshats still have an application that relies on .NET 1.1, don't hash passwords, and today are bitching at us that they have to interact with Server 2012. Sorry that you guys can't get used to an OS that came out 4 years ago, but you are .NET developers so maybe stay on top of what Microsoft is doing?
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May 5, 2016 18:20
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beepsandboops posted:Pissing me off: our loving developers.
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May 5, 2016 18:25
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poo poo pissing me off: Did you know you can get loving MONO at 34? I do now. Not pissing me off: Like a loving month of working from home because my team is really awesome.
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May 5, 2016 19:49
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Paladine_PSoT posted:poo poo pissing me off: Did you know you can get loving MONO at 34? I do now. Did you know, now that you have gotten mono, it has the potential to come back at any time, the virus just goes dormant in your system and stays with you forever! While you will generally not get symptoms again, if you wear your body/immune system down, you can get sick again and go through the hell again.
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May 5, 2016 19:55
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MF_James posted:Did you know, now that you have gotten mono, it has the potential to come back at any time, the virus just goes dormant in your system and stays with you forever! While you will generally not get symptoms again, if you wear your body/immune system down, you can get sick again and go through the hell again. You are also have the potential to be a vector for infection for the rest of your life as well!
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May 5, 2016 20:12
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Today... Sonicwall and Verizon... Discovered today that back on April 17th one of the Sonicwall routers at a branch location moved everything over to the backup internet connection even though the primary wasn't dead. It generated no type of alert, as it normally does when these events happen. It also did not generate the standard log messages that normally occur when it fails over. So no alert in Greylog either... Fast forward today, I get a call from the store that their connection is down; this shouldn't happen because we have a backup! Right? Wrong! First indication something is wrong is that I was able to connect to the router via the primary connection just fine, which should not happen if it had failed over... I log into the router and find that it is routing ALL traffic via the backup, except of course ICMP and admin traffic. The backup had dropped out, thus the store lost connection. After checking all settings and seeing nothing wrong, I restart it. No dice, still pushing everything to the backup. So I had the store unplug it. Presto it starts working correctly. WTF is all I can say. The Verizon 4G backup connections are charged at $10USD per GB... Logged into our Verizon account and see they have $430 in charges racked up  Did Verizon send any alert? Nope! They do for all our other lines, but these backup lines are apparently special and have no alerting functionality. Made it abundantly clear with our VZ rep we where not happy with the fact these lines cannot send overage alerts. They are possibly going to discount the charges..
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May 5, 2016 20:13
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Greatbacon posted:You are also have the potential to be a vector for infection for the rest of your life as well! Yup, when the virus activates again, you may not show symptoms, but you can infect everyone! By the time you're in your 30s you likely already have the virus in your system (it's like HPV except for the rest of your body!), at least based on the stuff that I've read and the opinions of researchers/doctors.
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May 5, 2016 20:13
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Doesn't mono just make you sleepy and you lose a bunch of weight? Between that and everybody knowing you're out there kissing folks it seems pretty great!
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May 5, 2016 20:42
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Inspector_666 posted:Doesn't mono just make you sleepy and you lose a bunch of weight? Between that and everybody knowing you're out there kissing folks it seems pretty great! There's like a 5% chance of death due to ruptured spleen.
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May 5, 2016 20:48
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How bad is your unread mail?
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May 5, 2016 22:29
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Paladine_PSoT posted:How bad is your unread mail? 32 unread items and I leave everything in the inbox.  If it's unread, that's my flag for action-needed items.
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May 5, 2016 23:05
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I haven't worked out how to deal with large volumes of email yet and am just thankful that I don't get that many - I'm not on any ticket alert stuff, monitoring systems etc. I still get enough that the Clutter feature gets to be genuinely useful.
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May 5, 2016 23:07
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I'm an unorganized person so I actually started archiving everything and only keeping things that need to be addressed in my inbox. I won't call it "Inbox Zero" because that's a dumb name and I never have 0 things to do. It's nice because I haven't missed an email since starting this.
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May 5, 2016 23:10
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Thanks Ants posted:I haven't worked out how to deal with large volumes of email yet and am just thankful that I don't get that many - I'm not on any ticket alert stuff, monitoring systems etc. I still get enough that the Clutter feature gets to be genuinely useful. If your monitoring software is sending that much email its no longer an alert system, its a log file.
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May 5, 2016 23:10
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Which is why I am glad I don't receive the emails, because I more or less work for a bunch of clowns. Last week someone decided to have a Sonicwall they look after send an email on every alert and dropped the logging level to warning or something. The obvious thing happened.
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May 5, 2016 23:14
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Bob Morales posted:Our was AT&T too. They gave me some explanation of why and it made sense but I don't remember what it was. I don't understand why there isn't a hybrid mode. The autonegotiation FLP "packets" have individual bits for each mode supported, why not still broadcast an autonegotiation that just has the one mode set as available? Then autonegotiation will work anyways but you still get your fixed mode with no chance of failing to a lower mode. Everyone wins.
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Probably for the same reason that they set the port speed and duplex manually in the first place - there was an issue 20 years ago that manually overriding the port speed solved and it's been part of the doctrine for configuring devices ever since to not rely on auto-anything. I see it cause issues between the NTE of the circuit provider and the managed router of the ISP that I don't even have access to, and it's made worse when the circuit documentation says Auto/Auto but because the documentation was made from a template document and not an export of the actual config, it doesn't match reality. I am forever grateful that 1Gbit and above is auto-only.
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Inspector_666 posted:Doesn't mono just make you sleepy and you lose a bunch of weight? Between that and everybody knowing you're out there kissing folks it seems pretty great! There's more than that, it varies by person... When I had it, my lymph nodes in my throat swelled up to the size of tennis balls, my throat was hosed, I was EXTREMELY tired (sleeping 18-22 hours a day), had no appetite, and it lasted a loving month. There also might have been more, it's been 10 years since it happened, don't recall everything. the lymph nodes thing is extremely common, although it's not always the throat, sometimes the armpits, sometimes the groin, and rarely multiple areas.
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MF_James posted:There's more than that, it varies by person... The first week I had it I just thought I had a really lovely flu, but at some point it shifted from aches and fever to weird rash and brown urine. My spleen also got super swollen and I could barely eat a bowl of soup without my stomach hurting. It's a hell of way to loose weight 
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Im pretty constantly tired, averaging 10-12 hours of sleep a night and being groggy as hell for a good chunk of the day. Throat was sore for almost two weeks straight with no relief, and some lymph nodes are still swollen. None of it except for the constant tiredness effects my ability to work, but having the ability to work from home is a massive help
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I had pneumonia + mono, it sucked rear end. Puking, coughing, high fever for weeks, also (I suspect) a reaction to the penicillin. Dropped 10-12 kg in 6 weeks of being ill, was hosed up for months afterwards, fatigue etc.
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MF_James posted:Did you know, now that you have gotten mono, it has the potential to come back at any time, the virus just goes dormant in your system and stays with you forever! While you will generally not get symptoms again, if you wear your body/immune system down, you can get sick again and go through the hell again. This poo poo right here  I have CMV which is different than the Epstein-Barr mono, when I got infected it hosed me up for months. Now even I seem to get a resurgence about once a year for a week or so, totes sucks.
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Sickening posted:If your monitoring software is sending that much email its no longer an alert system, its a log file. My lead got put on heartbeat monitoring like 10 years ago. If something missed a ping or something it would alert him. This would happen for a variety of reasons, but he would end up getting up 5 times a night over this poo poo and the equipment always was working, so he ended up filtering it out because humans have this annoying habit of sleeping. One night it actually was down and management was surprised he would dare to filter out these very very important emails.
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skooma512 posted:My lead got put on heartbeat monitoring like 10 years ago. If something missed a ping or something it would alert him. This is why you have escalation paths? Why does no one do this. 95% of what I monitor is on 'check again in 3 minutes, then in 3 minutes after that' if still down, email. If not acknowledged in 15 minutes after the email, send an SMS. If no ack after 15 minutes blast everyone with email and SMS. 5% is 'if this goes down notify immediately'
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