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Not pissing me off: Yahoo IM Desktop Client is going to be killed August 5th! I can finally eliminate that piece of poo poo from my environment. Bad news, I have no idea what alternative will takes it place. For some reason Yahoo IM has been THE defacto method of communication for commodities traders since the late 90's. I'd like to use Slack, but I have no idea if the industry as a whole will move that direction.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Not pissing me off: Yahoo IM Desktop Client is going to be killed August 5th! I can finally eliminate that piece of poo poo from my environment. This but AOL Instant Messenger. All my trading experienced used it.
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Jun 13, 2016 21:49
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Not pissing me off: Yahoo IM Desktop Client is going to be killed August 5th! I can finally eliminate that piece of poo poo from my environment. Slack requires individual servers, there isn't a general public one. You're going to end up using Discord.
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Jun 13, 2016 21:52
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pixaal posted:Slack requires individual servers, there isn't a general public one. You're going to end up using Discord.
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Jun 13, 2016 21:56
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anthonypants posted:Uh, Discord is specifically marketed towards gamers. And what do you mean about requiring individual servers? It's hosted in the cloud and there isn't an on-prem version. Discord was the joke. Slack requires you to a group that you then sign up for. Maybe things have changed since I last used it but I had to sign up for slack each time I wanted to join an organization. Maybe that was a better wording? I don't see an an entire industry migrating to a single solution.
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Jun 13, 2016 22:00
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pixaal posted:Discord was the joke. Slack requires you to a group that you then sign up for. Maybe things have changed since I last used it but I had to sign up for slack each time I wanted to join an organization. Maybe that was a better wording? I don't see an an entire industry migrating to a single solution.
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Jun 13, 2016 22:02
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anthonypants posted:You set up a single Slack for your organization and then you break it down from there into channels. It's like an IRC or XMPP server. You can't use the same credentials for multiple, uh, slacks, which I think is what you mean? My company (500-600 people across 5 offices all on different continents) just launched Slack for testing. I'm so happy to be away from email and Is there any thing I should know about it?
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Jun 13, 2016 22:07
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anthonypants posted:You set up a single Slack for your organization and then you break it down from there into channels. It's like an IRC or XMPP server. You can't use the same credentials for multiple, uh, slacks, which I think is what you mean? Right, but I believe that industry uses YIM to contact between organizations, so industry wide.
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Jun 13, 2016 22:12
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Holy poo poo. You guys may remember the $10k password reset from last September. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=450596166&forumid=22 The same guy--who apparently got away with it--tried to do it again. This time it was a customer, but it was the same poo poo. Customer couldn't log into their own account, so this fucker provided an invalid license from a completely different account, for some reason. And when it didn't work, started escalating the issue. Of course, it's all about I DID THIS AND I DID THAT and he manages to simply not mention the whole "We are using the wrong license" thing. Being pushy and poo poo, he managed to obfuscate the issue from two levels of support. But this time one of our Tier 3 agents caught it when they made the customer recreate the entire problem flow from scratch. I loving weep.
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Jun 13, 2016 22:31
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pixaal posted:Right, but I believe that industry uses YIM to contact between organizations, so industry wide. Correct, the industry as a whole is on the YIM platform. Looks like the paid version of slack would work as you could have outside users for channels, but it'd still be under your companies team name so it wouldnt really work that well. So far I'm not loving some of the names getting bandied about like Digsby and Pidgen.
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Jun 13, 2016 22:32
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Dick Trauma posted:I honestly am not smart enough to be a Linux admin. CLI is CLI. If you can learn one you can learn another. The way Powershell is going if you can't do CLI stuff you won't be able to do windows for much longer either. TBH Linux admin was easy as gently caress compared to windows, if for no other reason than *nix systems tend to be verbose as gently caress when something breaks instead of giving you a random error that could be one of 852 things. ConfusedUs posted:Holy poo poo. Cargo cult IT. I guarantee you that this chain of events fixed one minor thing (the wrong way) a few years ago and he's latched onto it as his "Magic Bullet" solution. At my first job it was everybody source pinging the poo poo out of everything "IP not resolving? Source ping that fucker! E-mail not working? Source ping the IP of the e-mail server! FTP? Same thing! Frontpage extensions aren't installed? Who cares! Source ping it!" Rhymenoserous fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Jun 13, 2016 |
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Jun 13, 2016 22:39
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Correct, the industry as a whole is on the YIM platform. Looks like the paid version of slack would work as you could have outside users for channels, but it'd still be under your companies team name so it wouldnt really work that well. Facebook Messenger 
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pixaal posted:Right, but I believe that industry uses YIM to contact between organizations, so industry wide. Which is playing fast and loose with CFTC regs unless you're shipping IMs off to Smarsh or whatever. Jerk McJerkface posted:My company (500-600 people across 5 offices all on different continents) just launched Slack for testing. I'm so happy to be away from email and edit: also make sure your users know to set their time zones, do-not-disturb hours, and per-channel alerts before they get annoyed and turn all alerts off. Erwin fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Jun 13, 2016 |
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Jun 13, 2016 22:45
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Not pissing me off: Yahoo IM Desktop Client is going to be killed August 5th! I can finally eliminate that piece of poo poo from my environment. Will they not just move to AIM like all of the other traders? One of my favorite parts about going down to the floor of the NYSE was the cacophony of AIM noise.
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Jun 13, 2016 22:45
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Inspector_666 posted:Will they not just move to AIM like all of the other traders? Ugh I don't miss that nonsense. Especially when they wanted to federate lync with it. And when they had to do aim proxy for compliance purposes.
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Jun 13, 2016 23:08
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Rhymenoserous posted:TBH Linux admin was easy as gently caress compared to windows, if for no other reason than *nix systems tend to be verbose as gently caress when something breaks instead of giving you a random error that could be one of 852 things. Best part about *nix admin. Almost any time I have to open Event Viewer on a Windows system it makes me hate everyone involved with its existence. It's very rare that you can't make a *nix program get verbose enough to tell you exactly what's wrong.
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Jun 13, 2016 23:08
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Rhymenoserous posted:Cargo cult IT. I guarantee you that this chain of events fixed one minor thing (the wrong way) a few years ago and he's latched onto it as his "Magic Bullet" solution. I then made the fatal mistake of mentioning this to the developers, and since then every performance incident has been dumped in my lap with an "add/check index" note, no matter what the actual problem is. 
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Jun 13, 2016 23:11
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wolrah posted:Best part about *nix admin. Almost any time I have to open Event Viewer on a Windows system it makes me hate everyone involved with its existence. It's very rare that you can't make a *nix program get verbose enough to tell you exactly what's wrong. What, you mean "error 0xrandom_hex_value",incidentally an error code shared between several different Windows subsystems which thus makes it difficult to Google, isn't verbose enough for you? What's next, you're going to complain about the fact that the error is only displayed in a field that you can't right click on so you can't copy the obscure hex value without having to use the keyboard? Psh. Edit: I was hoping I was just misremembering how terrible Event Viewer is but nope, still can't copy from the General tab of an event using right click, though for some inexplicable reason this works fine on the Details tab right next to it. Sheep fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jun 13, 2016 |
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Jun 13, 2016 23:34
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wolrah posted:Best part about *nix admin. Almost any time I have to open Event Viewer on a Windows system it makes me hate everyone involved with its existence. It's very rare that you can't make a *nix program get verbose enough to tell you exactly what's wrong. The new event view makes me cry every time I open it. Its not enough that I have to sort through thousands of obtuse entries, but now we have to guess which of the drat event log its even in. In linux? grep -in somerror /var/log/* will take you where you need to go 90% of the time.
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Jun 13, 2016 23:35
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So we had our employee survey. The results were not positive. Anyone want to guess what the action plan is?
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SubjectVerbObject posted:So we had our employee survey. The results were not positive. Anyone want to guess what the action plan is? Terminate employees with negatively affected morale.
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SubjectVerbObject posted:So we had our employee survey. The results were not positive. Anyone want to guess what the action plan is? Bootstraps?
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Jun 14, 2016 02:19
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Jun 14, 2016 02:52
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SubjectVerbObject posted:So we had our employee survey. The results were not positive. Anyone want to guess what the action plan is? Mandatory after work "moral booster" events?
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Jun 14, 2016 02:59
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Jun 14, 2016 03:36
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Hour long mandatory meetings on improving workplace morale.
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Jun 14, 2016 03:46
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The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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Jun 14, 2016 03:58
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Person in charge of surveyed people calls his underlings 'bunch of crybabies that dont know how good they have it' in public and starts making things even worse?
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Jun 14, 2016 04:10
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Jun 14, 2016 04:41
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SubjectVerbObject posted:So we had our employee survey. The results were not positive. Anyone want to guess what the action plan is? Ignore it. Anything that doesn't exist to inflate the egos of management are simply useless tools that don't understand the business/industry/economy.
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Jun 14, 2016 04:50
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The morale will continue until the beatings improve.
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Punishment meetings! AKA, over the next 6 months my team gets to meet with our front line manager and brainstorm on ways that the company can improve. I have been through this before with another company. Front line manager's was on the line due to negative scores, and the improvement that they wanted was ways to improve scores on anonymous surveys. Next year everyone got the message and answered moderately positive and there was much rejoicing.
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Jun 14, 2016 05:10
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SubjectVerbObject posted:Punishment meetings! AKA, over the next 6 months my team gets to meet with our front line manager and brainstorm on ways that the company can improve. I have been through this before with another company. Front line manager's was on the line due to negative scores, and the improvement that they wanted was ways to improve scores on anonymous surveys. Next year everyone got the message and answered moderately positive and there was much rejoicing. Oh, hey. The scape goat method. I'm pleasantly surprised. 
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Jun 14, 2016 05:11
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What I hate today: spreadsheets! And priority 1 issues that you have to drop all the other important poo poo you are doing and spend all day researching and gathering data on in 2 different systems to find out the problem all along was accounting hosed up their spreadsheet and it was not our issue at all.
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Jun 14, 2016 08:27
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You are a goddam IT professional, stop reporting "x is slow" with no qualifiers at all. What's slow? Throughput or latency? Or both? Oh wait you're trying to do the barest minimum of work before escalating aren't you?
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Jun 14, 2016 09:37
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Not pissing me off today... Learned today our corporate office location is FINALLY getting fiber! Every city block/neighborhood surrounding our office has had fiber service for 2-3 years, but they refused to bring it to our block unless we paid several thousand and just as much per month. They just launched a big build out initiative and will finally be lighting up our block. While we do already have 20/3 VDSL.. that max 3Mbps upload really sucks....
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Jun 14, 2016 14:46
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Pissing me off: Gmail. We use Google Apps for Business and twice this week my account has been "Temporarily Locked Down" because it itself froze. I tried to insert an image into a message and when it took a minute before anything appeared I refreshed the page and I've been kicked out.
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Jun 14, 2016 15:46
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Trying to setup some new credit cards on file using Verifone's PaywareConnect payment gateway website... This is a credit card processing system used by thousands of retailers, if not tens of thousands. Seeing this all the time:  Along with the fact it requires Internet Explorer in compatibility mode to work properly doesn't really inspire much confidence.
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Jun 14, 2016 17:03
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stevewm posted:Trying to setup some new credit cards on file using Verifone's PaywareConnect payment gateway website... This is a credit card processing system used by thousands of retailers, if not tens of thousands. I'd say "contact ComponentArt", but their website isn't loading, probably because Verifone didn't pay for their product.
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Pissing me off: Office365 random password CEO is out of state and wants his email password reset, no problem, I have his gmail account. I tell him I'll have the random password sent to his gmail so I don't have to give it to him over the phone great. If you don't know office365 generates the password using Cvcvdddd (Capital consonant vowel consonant vowel number number number number). It sent him Faka####. He's still on the phone while reading it, and takes it rather well after I explain how it's generated but oh boy was that fun.
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