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Sorry for the wait. It's a dumb story that you'll be disappointed in. Anyways, the television station is situated next door to a lovely bar, and the parking lot for the station is usually completely taken over by bar-goers, even though it's private property (for a while, my job was to call tow trucks on anyone parked illegally  ). So one night, the production crew gets off work and heads over to the bar for post-shift drinks. There's a man there who is hosed completely up and keeps screaming moistly at anything with a vagina the news that he just purchased the most popular restaurant in town for a tidy $3.2 million. For the record, he did not. He keeps becoming more and more belligerent over his eatery acquisition until the bouncer finally kicks him out. He proceeds to get in his vehicle and drive up and down the street with his cruise control on, and waving his flaccid dick out of his window and at the bar patrons. The police are called and he disappears. The production crew laughs at this drunkard and has their drink and heads back to the station to finish up their busy work. A few minutes later they hear a commotion downstairs. It's drunk guy. He's in the hallway and screaming at some poor nightside girl that he just bought a restaurant for $4.2 million. The girl is nearly fetal on the floor as he continues to berate her with his news. A few of the production guys step in to pull him off and push him out of the door. Then the dick comes back out. He whips it out and begins flopping it at everyone, screaming wildly about buying a restaurant and telling everyone to look at his fuckin dick. He starts running up and down the halls with his wiener waving everywhere and no one can stop him. The cops are called again and they find him in the studio furiously masturbating in front of the weather wall. As he is escorted out by the police, he begins screaming that he is CE's cousin and to call CE and he'll tell you. He's totally allowed to be in here because he has family that works here. Turns out, when the poor girl he accosted entered the building for the night, he snuck in behind her before the magnetic latch could reactivate. He actually was CE's cousin. PS. Fun fact! This story is actually tangentially related to why weather girl and I broke up! Try to make that connection.
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larchesdanrew posted:PS. Fun fact! This story is actually tangentially related to why weather girl and I broke up! Try to make that connection. She didn't like you waving your dick around in the station?
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Jun 14, 2016 21:22
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mewse posted:She didn't like you waving your dick around in the station? This is all I could come up with.
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Jun 14, 2016 21:31
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It wasn't disappointing but now I'm sad because I'd forgotten you and the weather girl had broken up 
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Well gently caress. CIO came in just now to let us know our boss, info sec director, is being let go. Hes the only person in this company that actually gave a poo poo about doing things right and I think the CIO fired him because our boos stood up against some stupid bullshit and didnt yesman and our CIO is like Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde enough all ready. Had my little chat with CIO cause he is afraid his security team is gonna bolt and while my job is secure I dont think I want to work for this rear end in a top hat, even indirectly, anymore. Especially as he fired one of the best leaders I have worked for, like boss would stay with you during outages and all the extra crap if you needed help with no complaint and no sense of being put out. On top of that he was just a normal cool dude outside of work. argh ffffuck Tuesday I just wanna get drunk and smoke a blunt
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Jun 14, 2016 21:32
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Trastion posted:Anyone have a suggestion for a good server room temp monitor? We have been using an AVTech Room Alert 12E but it failed us for the second time this weekend. We had the AC unit die and by the time I got to the office the server room was 94 degrees. Luckily we only lost a single hard drive in the SAN and no servers were killed. Use this: http://www.klein.com/thermd/ Buy this: http://store.qkits.com/qk145-serial-temperature-sensor-kit.html Buy 3 more of these: http://store.qkits.com/dallas-high-precision-temperature-sensor.html All for under 100 bucks, you can use cat-5 to run the sensors to various places.
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Jun 14, 2016 21:36
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larchesdanrew posted:PS. Fun fact! This story is actually tangentially related to why weather girl and I broke up! Try to make that connection. he's one of her three other boyfriends
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Jun 14, 2016 21:38
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larchesdanrew posted:PS. Fun fact! This story is actually tangentially related to why weather girl and I broke up! Try to make that connection. She got drunk and was waving her dick around the station?
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Jun 14, 2016 21:42
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DigitalMocking posted:Use this: http://www.klein.com/thermd/ Unrelated to IT A/C monitoring, but thank you very much for posting this solution.
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Red Metal posted:he's one of her three other boyfriends
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Jun 14, 2016 21:57
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Red Metal posted:he's one of her three other boyfriends His idea of talking dirty was mentioning his 4 million dollar bar purchase
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Jun 14, 2016 22:01
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larchesdanrew posted:
She finally had enough of that place and skipped town?
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larchesdanrew posted:PS. Fun fact! This story is actually tangentially related to why weather girl and I broke up! Try to make that connection. I'm kidding you're great
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Jun 14, 2016 23:58
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Ghostlight posted:She realised she'd had her fill of limp dicks. I was gonna say something about how no one else could measure up to cousins size.
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mewse posted:She didn't like you waving your dick around in the station? Larches was his cousin after all? What a twist
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Goddamn this thread makes me feel happy about my job. About the only thing I have to complain about is bullshit office politics (which aren't even that bad, compared to some jobs I've had) and the occasional "I'm an IT guy, I know all about X" (then why are you calling me?) Otherwise it's just helping olds figure out how shift-delete works in Outlook so they can get their e-mail to work again. Here's literally the most frustrating ticket I've had all month: Most of our clients are small businesses who work with local IT providers and only call us if there's an issue with our software. One of our services is basically an RDP session to our terminal server farm where we run our old-rear end fragile software in a secure and locked down environment. A customer's IT called in because no one could get their e-mail inside the TS environment; he gives me the URL and IP of the Exchange server, and I log into the environment and run a ping and traceroute. Sure enough, every request times out and the traffic never even makes it to the border router. I put in a work order to the environment admins to take a look. First response: "They need to contact their e-mail vendor." Second response: "Timeouts on the traceroute are normal, they don't mean traffic's not going through." Third response: "Fine, I'll have engineering take a look." Fourth response (4 hours after the call came in): "Looks like it got blocked by our proxy filter for some reason. We unblocked it, have them try again." Now to be fair, they will hire literally anyone for my position and a disturbing number of my co-workers pronounce it "tracer-tee", but cut me some slack, dude.
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A Pinball Wizard posted:Goddamn this thread makes me feel happy about my job. About the only thing I have to complain about is bullshit office politics (which aren't even that bad, compared to some jobs I've had) and the occasional "I'm an IT guy, I know all about X" (then why are you calling me?) Otherwise it's just helping olds figure out how shift-delete works in Outlook so they can get their e-mail to work again. What DOES shift-delete do in Outlook that it would fix email? Pardon the dumb, I'm a Linux guy.
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If a user's PST file ha reached its maximum size, they won't be able to send or receive new mail until it's brought down in size. They also can't move mail to the deleted items folder because... I dunno, ghosts? So they need to go in and shift-delete some mail, which permanently deletes it instead of moving it to deleted. They could just empty their deleted items, of course, but too many of them want to go through it first to make sure nothing important is in there. 
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Since I started my new job, I've had a huge mix of emotions. Everything from"gently caress this" to "this is a lot of fun" and all over. I have a question for the rest of the thread: I'm ending up proving myself majorly and even slowly growing my linux-fu, but my coworker that started two weeks after me lacks even the most basic of an a+ skillset and is floundering aside from me helping him limp along. Should I give a poo poo and/or should I let him sink? His retention of any knowledge sucks, he lacks the basic understanding, and worst of all - he has the worst taste in food ever (in addition to being like 300lbs). I don't know that he gets the logic of what we explain to him, or why, etc. He's even a clicker, who knows neither windows nor linux nor cisco (aka our entire infra environment). The only use I've had for him is that I can split some of my easier poo poo with him so I don't get overloaded, but I've been copying him on a lot of poo poo I do just so he knows about it - which may be sharing the credit a little, although my boss knows it's 100% me. He tries to ask questions ask if he knows what is going on but his questions are loving stupid and show his lack of knowledge. notwithoutmyanus fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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Give him stuff that he can do and now you have built yourself a team! In the future you;ll get to hire another member of your team that you get to choose.
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A Pinball Wizard posted:They also can't move mail to the deleted items folder because... I dunno, ghosts? The Deleted Items folder is a cool place to store important documents for later.
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A Pinball Wizard posted:If a user's PST file ha reached its maximum size, they won't be able to send or receive new mail until it's brought down in size. They also can't move mail to the deleted items folder because... I dunno, ghosts? So they need to go in and shift-delete some mail, which permanently deletes it instead of moving it to deleted. They could just empty their deleted items, of course, but too many of them want to go through it first to make sure nothing important is in there.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:The Deleted Items folder is a cool place to store important documents for later. Just like how my recycle bin at my desk is for documents I'd like to cycle through later!
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larchesdanrew posted:PS. Fun fact! This story is actually tangentially related to why weather girl and I broke up! Try to make that connection. He bought her restaurant?
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notwithoutmyanus posted:He's even a clicker What does this mean? e: vvvvv oh I thought it might be people who rapidly select/unselect text while reading something onscreen for no reason. Sywert of Thieves fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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Merijn posted:What does this mean? I'm assuming what my pet peeve is: people who are unable to use keyboard shortcuts, even so simple as ctrl+x/c/v for c/p operations.
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The final ticket came in. I quit my helpdesk job to pursue medical school  https://my.mixtape.moe/byyxak.webm
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larchesdanrew posted:. I basically told the director where he could stick his "this afternoon" deadline, because I'm not doing the CE thing of driving down to Office Depot and buying whatever is cheapest. Yes! larchesdanrew posted:I previously got, in writing, confirmation from him that any technology purchases that could not be deemed necessary for productivity would be the sole financial burden of the requesting department and I'm really loving glad I did that, because I've had to bring that particular agreement up a lot. Aw hell yes! You're on the right path to becoming a combat tested, battle-worn IT Manager. It's not so bad once people learn that you'll CYA and backhand them with documentation when they say something stupid.
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Merijn posted:What does this mean? I meant exactly as you suspected: He clicks on poo poo without reading messages. Like zones out/continually expected things to be instant. He also doesn't understand copy paste commands nor how to highlight in putty. I've told him these but he hasn't retained the basic knowledge. No knowledge of how to google search including still clicking on ads instead of search results three months later even though our ironport blocks ad links (literally he's seen the block page multiple times in a day). He'd type a control panel command into the start menu in win 7 but then hit enter / didn't wait for results to populate nor understands how it works. It took half a week to get him to stop grepping a log that provides statistics every minute (which we tailed to show the last 10 minutes) multiple times in the same 1 minute window expecting numbers to change. Even immediately after explaining it. He gets to task manager from ctrl alt delete every time. He also has major body odor. notwithoutmyanus fucked around with this message at 12:11 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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notwithoutmyanus posted:I meant exactly as you suspected: He's got to be somebody's son right? Or blowing the hiring manager?
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notwithoutmyanus posted:He gets to task manager from ctrl alt delete every time. the monster  My boss learned that my biggest pet peeve at this job is people using "putty" as a verb, specifically because those people don't understand what ssh/telnet is. Like any good boss, he's trolling the poo poo out of me with that information. This stemmed from a discussion where I told him about a time that a coworker told me I couldn't use putty to SSH into a server because "you can only do that with secureCRT" ARGH gently caress GOD DAMMIT this is what happens when you have a bunch of processes that tell people what to do but don't explain why to do something combined with a complete lack of training.
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Renegret posted:the monster Hey, I use it to. Primarily because I end up talking with people who have used PuTTY but knowing nothing of what SSH is. Or I use it to specifically refer to the easiest Windows method of SSHing, in comparison to a Linux or Mac box which has it built in.
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Lightning Jim posted:Hey, I use it to. Primarily because I end up talking with people who have used PuTTY but knowing nothing of what SSH is. See, I don't actually get mad at people being wrong. I get mad at people who are wrong then refuse to admit or acknowledge it. Don't tell me I can't access a server using putty while I am currently logged in with putty. e: if nobody's guessed yet, I'm completely burnt out from working with idiots and I'm currently working to get out. I like this company, I just don't like this department, so I'm waiting for a spot to open in a specific department (that has a high turnover anyway so it shouldn't be long) Renegret fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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I am having the worst week. Monday, someone dinged my car in the parking lot and I had to putty the heck out of the dent to get the fender to look right. Tuesday, a window pane broke and I had a lot of problems puttying the new one it. Last night my son Silly Putty'ed the dog and it took forever to get it out of her hair. I'm just so done. I'm sitting here SSH'ed into a server and I can barely think straight.
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My coworker uses putty. In Linux. 
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The quote on the pointless computers came in. $990 for a Dell Optiplex 7440. I told the director expecting him to freak out but he just nodded and said, "OK, good, see which other office workers want a new computer." So now we're getting four of them. Whatever, not coming out of my budget, but now I get to deal with them screeching about how it doesn't work like the old computer. Anyways, he also told me to order myself a new computer because "You need the best computer on campus, so buy whatever you need and don't worry about cost because we're pulling it out of our agency fund." I told him my computer is fine but I'd like dual displays, which the little Dells we have don't support. He all but grabbed the sides of my face and reiterated, "You buy whatever you need. Don't settle. You need the best." and walked off. So, here we go guys, I'm taking suggestions. Money is no object so post your builds, yo. I'm looking at converting my office into a Jurassic Park era CRAY, personally, for maximum financial waste.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RC1X5DY/ref=psdc_565098_t1_B00KDBR8WE It's on Amazon so you won't even have any problems purchasing it
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Sheep posted:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RC1X5DY/ref=psdc_565098_t1_B00KDBR8WE Look, I wanted a PC and you've clearly shown me a SUPERPC. Please stick to the topic at hand.
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Sheep posted:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RC1X5DY/ref=psdc_565098_t1_B00KDBR8WE Do this, please do this.
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larchesdanrew posted:Look, I wanted a PC and you've clearly shown me a SUPERPC. gently caress it. Get an Alienware.
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