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It's petty but I've been watching tons of SharePoint videos the last few weeks (because we're starting a project to implement SharePoint and the owner doesn't want to bring in outside consultants to help even though no-one here has ever used SharePoint  ) and of a half-dozen different presenters every one of them says "on premise" instead of "on premises" and I hate them all for it.
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Bob Morales posted:I just hate when you find a ticket with the same problem and it's just *closed* or 'fixed it' One of my former coworkers was the worst about that. About 75% of the time I found a ticket he had solved I had to message him and ask what he did. It was to the point that the director of IT had several talks with him about it. Eventually he left because the office in his town closed down and he didn't feel like moving to a different state.
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May 11, 2016 19:08
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I love when co-workers forward spam to me. Especially 3 seconds after I just unsubscribed to it. AS/400 guy is a different story all together, he replies to EVERY message he gets, and used to sign up for every webinar. And if there was a lunch/golf day locally he'd try to go to that as well. HEY LOOK THIS COMPANY HAS CLOUD EMAIL WE SHOULD TALK TO THEM
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May 11, 2016 20:11
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How are folks dealing with Clutter being turned on by default for everyone? Since we have so many user mailboxes code:
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May 11, 2016 20:38
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I've been tasked with "ebaying" our used phones since we are replacing are entire VOIP system with a different one. Is there a reputable vendor that will just buy them from us? The price on refurbished on ebay are already pretty low on ebay never mind undercutting with used gear. I haven't really sold any used equipment before but there has to be places that specialize in refurbishing stuff to turn a profit just waiting for me to give them something to fix.
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May 11, 2016 22:03
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pixaal posted:I've been tasked with "ebaying" our used phones since we are replacing are entire VOIP system with a different one. Is there a reputable vendor that will just buy them from us? The price on refurbished on ebay are already pretty low on ebay never mind undercutting with used gear. I haven't really sold any used equipment before but there has to be places that specialize in refurbishing stuff to turn a profit just waiting for me to give them something to fix. Are you on a commission? If not; throw them up there with a shite phone picture and a 2 line description
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May 11, 2016 22:14
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pixaal posted:I've been tasked with "ebaying" our used phones since we are replacing are entire VOIP system with a different one. Is there a reputable vendor that will just buy them from us? The price on refurbished on ebay are already pretty low on ebay never mind undercutting with used gear. I haven't really sold any used equipment before but there has to be places that specialize in refurbishing stuff to turn a profit just waiting for me to give them something to fix. Strap em all to a pallet, no reserve Edit: call up the first three or four people you see selling them used and ask if they want more
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May 11, 2016 22:27
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My blackberry broke. I'm trying to take it apart to see what i can do because I can only help at this point and the screws are torx. Fine, I already have a tool I got for a Macbook job. And of course there's one screw that's already stripped before I touched it. Do they do this on purpose or do they just make these out of pot metal so people can't gently caress with it?
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May 12, 2016 07:09
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Just let it go man
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Fenrisulfr posted:we're starting a project to implement SharePoint and the owner doesn't want to bring in outside consultants to help even though no-one here has ever used SharePoint  your liver.skooma512 posted:And of course there's one screw that's already stripped before I touched it. Do they do this on purpose or do they just make these out of pot metal so people can't gently caress with it? Since the switch the only iPhone replacements I know of have been because someone dropped it in the toilet or cracked the screen. Collateral Damage fucked around with this message at 11:57 on May 12, 2016 |
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May 12, 2016 11:50
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We started with the 7210, color screen and side spinny thing. I didn't get one until they came out with the clear trackball one. The 8800 or whatever it was. The ball would fall out or quit tracking right. Then we started getting the Tour with the black trackball. Those were super lovely. Next up was the Curve and Bold with the trackpad thing, the paint would wear off the trackpad in 2 weeks and the keyboards randomly went out. At that point we started putting people on iPhones but a couple people held out on the BB platform with the Storm which was a huge pile of poo poo. gently caress Blackberry.
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May 12, 2016 12:34
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RIM really hosed themselves. They had the market cornered for business and enterprise when it came to security, but they cheaped out on the components or just had really stupid design things. I had a bold I'd never keep it in the holster, so it'd be in my pocket. The trackpad thing would get activated by the inside of my pocket and pocket dial people, text message gibberish, or just navigate all around wreaking havoc. Solution? Put a password on it! Except the three options on the menu when you have a password on it are Unlock, Emergency, or Cancel. Guess how often I found it one password away from wiping my phone, or pocket dialing 911? Often. I pitched that fucker for an iPhone and didn't look back.
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May 12, 2016 12:37
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Part of their deal was they invented all the poo poo that let you surf the internet with a cell phone over what were basically 56k modem speeds. This took a lot of work but it was great. Remember back then you had 64MB of RAM and a 200MHz CPU in your phone, so you couldn't run a real web browser. They also included things like a low-quality camera, and a small screen. They also wouldn't give up the physical keyboard (I loved my BB keyboard and it took me a while to get use to my iPhone 4). They couldn't believe you'd want a real browser, it was so slow, pages are too big, cellular data speeds are too low, etc. Then Apple walks in with the iPhone, it's got an actual web browser on it, a good camera, a big screen, a battery that could run the drat thing, a touch screen that didn't suck... It was slow and sucked at first but by the time technology really caught up (3GS?) it was so far ahead of anything else out there...
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May 12, 2016 12:58
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spog posted:Are you on a commission? Nope, that's why I just wanted to get in touch with a company that just bulk buys used hardware, I don't want to deal with eBay.
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May 12, 2016 13:32
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pixaal posted:I've been tasked with "ebaying" our used phones since we are replacing are entire VOIP system with a different one. Is there a reputable vendor that will just buy them from us? The price on refurbished on ebay are already pretty low on ebay never mind undercutting with used gear. I haven't really sold any used equipment before but there has to be places that specialize in refurbishing stuff to turn a profit just waiting for me to give them something to fix. If you are in the US, give MetrolineDirect a try... http://www.metrolinedirect.com/assetrecovery.html While their website may look straight out of 1999, they are a reputable company. Have used them many times both buying new phones and selling old ones.
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May 12, 2016 13:43
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In the UK we have places like http://www.mazumamobile.com/ where you bag up your phones, ship them off and they give you money. Granted you won't get much money but it's quicker than auctioning everything, I'm pretty I'm going to have to do this sometime...
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May 12, 2016 14:15
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Gazelle does that in the US. You can also trade in an old phone at the ATT store when you upgrade and it's usually competitive with what Gazelle pays.
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May 12, 2016 14:28
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Spazz posted:RIM really hosed themselves. Their CEO's entire history of responses to competition has been hilarious. Jim Balsillie on the iPhone when it was announced in 2007 posted:"It’s kind of one more entrant into an already very busy space with lots of choice for consumers ... But in terms of a sort of a sea-change for BlackBerry, I would think that’s overstating it." Good going Jim.
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May 12, 2016 14:42
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Microsoft continues to gently caress up windows updates in a huge way. Latest fuckup is an update that fucks over asus motherboards. It fucks up secure boot on windows 7. It turns out that all the fixes recommended don't always work. It also appears they have redone about a few hundred updates, causing my wsus server to download 280+ gigs of redone updates. loving hell.
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May 12, 2016 15:31
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Serves you right for not immediately pushing Win10 to your entire organization! 
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May 12, 2016 15:32
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Sickening posted:Microsoft continues to gently caress up windows updates in a huge way. Latest fuckup is an update that fucks over asus motherboards. It fucks up secure boot on windows 7. It turns out that all the fixes recommended don't always work. Microsofts patching has gotten so drat bad this year. I cant remember another time that so many bad patches got pulled or revised, it's gotten insane. Seems to be a monthly occurrence now. Just look at KB3148812 that totally broke WSUS.
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May 12, 2016 15:43
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There is also a recent one that breaks the DNS service on Windows 2k8 R2... See: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4iut0f/heads_up_win2008_r2_microsoft_update_kb3145126/
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Microsofts patching has gotten so drat bad this year. I cant remember another time that so many bad patches got pulled or revised, it's gotten insane. Seems to be a monthly occurrence now. Just look at KB3148812 that totally broke WSUS. Good news: This month KB3148812 has been replaced by KB3159706, which will also spectacularly break WSUS if you were using SSL. Please follow these simple manual remediation steps which your Microsoft representative has not informed you of!
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Shuntly posted:Good news: This month KB3148812 has been replaced by KB3159706, which will also spectacularly break WSUS if you were using SSL. Please follow these simple manual remediation steps which your Microsoft representative has not informed you of!
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May 12, 2016 17:23
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There's a bad update every month from Microsoft. It's like the prize at the bottom of a cereal box
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skooma512 posted:There's a bad update every month from Microsoft. It's like the prize at the bottom of a cereal box Did you buy your cereal from soviet Russia? Because I actually liked the prizes in my American freedom-loving cereal, tovarich.
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poo poo pissing me off: I work for a company that has had significant churn. Since I joined last year, the entire IT team including the manager has either changed company or teams. We've now got a new manager, me, another senior engineer and two juniors with a third to follow. New bossman has decreed that we won't be using Ansible or Puppet for config management. Instead, he wants VM templates for different server types to be cloned as needed. Our estate isn't huge at the moment (20-30 servers) but I've argued that from consistency and security standpoints we should seriously consider using either or both of these technologies. Denied. The reasons: - People would be expected to learn how to use Puppet and Ansible. Hmm... ok, but then: - He's written his own SNMPwalk tool that can check config files (not enforce a predefined state, just check for changes), and - He wants tools that replicate the functionality of Ansible and Puppet written in Bash, e.g. SSH key pushers, user management. Bonus: - He wants us to migrate *away* from our existing LDAP infrastructure to go back to local user accounts. What the gently caress. 2016 and he doesn't want to use config management. Am I in the wrong here, or is he just a complete and utter lunatic?
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Woogles posted:poo poo pissing me off: That man is a complete and utter lunatic. Even if you have a business reason to give everyone local admin rights, you don't stop enforcing GP on them and their systems.
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Technically, what he wants can be done but it sounds like he's not going outside his technical bounds and pinching pennies. I'd get the gently caress out.
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I mean if it's a Windows shop it can all be done with DSC but: 1) It's immature 2) It's just another form of config/state management 3) you already have Ansible/Puppet Yeah, you've got a loony on your hands. If it ain't broke...
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Woogles posted:poo poo pissing me off: This reeks of the classic "I don't know these technologies therefor lets not use them" line of though.
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Sickening posted:This reeks of the classic "I don't know these technologies therefor lets not use them" line of though. He's the anti-management. Where most managers read something in a trade magazine and decides it needs to be rolled to the enterprise ASAP, this guy reads that same article, concludes it's cargo cult, and resists all attempts to consider it. I'm not a fan of puppet but my job would be a million times harder without it.
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Got turned down for a job. The recruiter I was going through accidentally (I think) included the companies email review of me. They were impressed with my answers to all of technical questions, but I "I didnt seem to believe" in their mission statement, and came off as skeptical. Well yeah fuckers, when your mission statement is something to the effect of "instead of profits, furthering gods cause will be the primary metric of success" then I am skeptical. I didnt know I was interviewing at some religious MSP! Frustrating, I really want to get out the mess I'm in now but the only calls I'm getting for the most part are annoying out of state recruiters and 3 month contract jobs.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Got turned down for a job. The recruiter I was going through accidentally (I think) included the companies email review of me. They were impressed with my answers to all of technical questions, but I "I didnt seem to believe" in their mission statement, and came off as skeptical. Well yeah fuckers, when your mission statement is something to the effect of "instead of profits, furthering gods cause will be the primary metric of success" then I am skeptical. I didnt know I was interviewing at some religious MSP! Maybe you are a little confrontational? I am only saying that because you have some big red text that might be relevant. It of course could be just a generic "safe" answer to why they didn't want you.
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Sickening posted:Maybe you are a little confrontational? I am only saying that because you have some big red text that might be relevant. It of course could be just a generic "safe" answer to why they didn't want you. Nah like 10 people got that redtext from some buttmad infosec guy.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:I "I didnt seem to believe" in their mission statement, and came off as skeptical. Well yeah fuckers, when your mission statement is something to the effect of "instead of profits, furthering gods cause will be the primary metric of success" then I am skeptical. I didnt know I was interviewing at some religious MSP! I had a recruiter set me up an interview with a somewhat local company that builds a web filtering product, sounded like the perfect job and then I found out who it was - http://www.covenanteyes.com/ Religious-based group that sells internet filters so you can't violate yourself with porn. I would have never been able to take the job seriously.
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He wants you to rewrite Puppet in Bash and move away from LDAP? He is just a complete and utter lunatic. Run.
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Moatman posted:Nah like 10 people got that redtext from some buttmad infosec guy. 7 Layer OSI Dip? I'm sure the guy knows what he's talking about, but every time I've seen him post he ignores all of the earnest questions people ask, preferring to just argue with people that disagree with him.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:he ignores all of the earnest questions people ask
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