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A story where memories of the spec bucket incident somehow cleanses the mind.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 16:19 |
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Thanks Ants posted:A story where memories of the spec bucket incident somehow cleanses the mind. Though that one's still pretty bad.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 16:33 |
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I just setup and shipped out a windows XP machine
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 17:30 |
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BaseballPCHiker posted:What was the name of that recording that was an old british senile guy that people would play back to phone scammers and what not? He'd be perfect to put on a conference call. "Hello, this is Lenny"
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 17:48 |
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ZetsurinPower posted:I never understood the appeal of IT people keeping energy drink cans on their desk like some kind of trophy kill. Are they just trying to be as repulsive as possible? yes. Edit: although I do recycle the redbull cans. (I buy them by the case)
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 18:11 |
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I also see that person stores hardware in a sensible, reliable fashion. Oh thats you, you are a loving slob.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 18:12 |
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I've never had one of those clips fail me. Seems reasonable.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 18:13 |
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I had over 350 Double Gulp cups at my parents' back in high school because I thought it was funny, but I had the good sense to wash them out first.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 18:37 |
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Methanar posted:I just setup and shipped out a windows XP machine Just last week I had to advise a customer on how to virtualize their XP and Server 2003 environment.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 20:42 |
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Sickening posted:There was once a guy at my work who would eat vienna sausages for lunch every day and then drink the water from the can. He would then place the can in his desk and nobody noticed until their was ants and every drawer was filled to the brim with the empty cans.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 20:52 |
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I wish my wife would let me buy a boat so I could motor away from this story.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 20:53 |
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I love just getting paid big bucks to laugh with friends and learn cool stuff and play ping pong... IT is so great!!!!
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 20:55 |
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Sickening posted:I also see that person stores hardware in a sensible, reliable fashion. heh... those are actually fried video cards. More trophies. Someone managed to actually pop the heatpipe on those. The heatsink is supposed to be flat. not curved like that.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 21:08 |
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:heh... those are actually fried video cards. More trophies. FirePro 2270? I used to have a shelf of those things with exploded heatsinks.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 21:15 |
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:heh... those are actually fried video cards. More trophies. I had a couple of those too. Some old dual monitor ATI card found in slim OEM machines.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 21:23 |
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Vulture Culture posted:Maybe the ones you've shown her are just too expensive. What's your price for flight? Well played.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 21:50 |
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psydude posted:Just last week I had to advise a customer on how to virtualize their XP and Server 2003 environment. (I added two 256mb sticks of ddr1 ram as an upgrade)
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 22:19 |
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Sickening posted:There was once a guy at my work who would eat vienna sausages for lunch every day and then drink the water from the can. He would then place the can in his desk and nobody noticed until their was ants and every drawer was filled to the brim with the empty cans. I once encountered this. A guy was lactose intolerant and his wife would put cheese slices in his lunch. Well, they would just fit in this little slot right above the optical drive and he just kept cramming them in there for over a year. There was always a funk in his office that you couldn't quite place, but it's hard in the business world to be all like "Hey, man. Do you wash?" if you aren't their boss. Then one week, he went on vacation. By Friday, someone needed something from his desk and went in and came out screaming. Apparently, there was a giant WWI-style troop column of black ants under his desk. The janitor came over and vacuum them up and said "It looks like they are coming from the computer!" and I was called. At the time, I was an idiot help desk guy so I walked it back to my workbench instead of doing the proper thing and rigging it with explosives. Upon arriving, I found I had a small swarm of ants all over my stomach where the box was resting. I immediately stripped that shirt off and threw it away (always keep a spare, guys! ) and then dropped the tower into a box to contain a few ants. After a few minutes of the heebie jeebies with my brain telling my body that there had to be at least 50 million more ants on it everywhere, I was starting to get a headache from the smell, so I dabbed a bit of Vaporub on my nose and proceeded to open it. The proper word is "exploded" when I popped the side off. The ants came rolling down the sides marched out on the top of the size plate, and flooding the box and going crazy. I was worried they would just keep spreading out from the box when a co-worker showed me the neatest trick I had learned to that date: Cinnamon powder is like a cross between smelling salts and nerve gas to most ants. If you put it down, they will avoid it and if you dump it on them, they will act like you just melted their minds for a few moments before dying. So, after he created a powder ring against evil spirits on the bottom of the box, I pulled the side off with some pliers and beheld the terror. There was crusty cheese, melty cheese, and oil everywhere. The ants had actually done an ant-farm-tunnel thing to the cheese while harvesting it and the smell was so powerful, the vaporub did nothing to save me. I dumped every bit of cinnamon powder in the jar over as much of that thing as possible. When that obviously wasn't enough to kill everything in there, I basically wrote it off. No one disagreed with me as no one wanted to touch it. Come Monday morning, the guy was all like "I don't know how that happened! I must have been setup! The smell over the last months wasn't actually there!" and other such niceties. Then he claimed that the owner set him up to avoid paying him the bonus by ruining his current contract work, which the owner was butthurt about and fired him for saying so. Then they came back to me and demanded I recover everything on that computer. I was fired for refusing to work on that hell tower to recover the 'extremely important' work documents as it was right after the owner's rampage against ant man and he wasn't taking prisoners. He was apparently sorry for firing me after they showed him the computer, but not sorry enough to offer my job back. So.... Thanks Ants!
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 23:26 |
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Arsten posted:So.... Thanks Ants!
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 23:33 |
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 23:35 |
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Arsten posted:I once encountered this. A guy was lactose intolerant and his wife would put cheese slices in his lunch. Well, they would just fit in this little slot right above the optical drive and he just kept cramming them in there for over a year. There was always a funk in his office that you couldn't quite place, but it's hard in the business world to be all like "Hey, man. Do you wash?" if you aren't their boss. Equal parts and
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 23:36 |
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Arsten posted:I once encountered this. A guy was lactose intolerant and his wife would put cheese slices in his lunch. Well, they would just fit in this little slot right above the optical drive and he just kept cramming them in there for over a year. There was always a funk in his office that you couldn't quite place, but it's hard in the business world to be all like "Hey, man. Do you wash?" if you aren't their boss.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 23:40 |
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Why didn't you just say yeah sure and then state it was impossible? What year was this?
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 23:49 |
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a cop posted:Why didn't you just say yeah sure and then state it was impossible? What year was this? Mid 1999. And, no, I was still in complete revulsion. I'm pretty sure if I had gone "Sure, I'll take a look at that" my own arms would have beat me to death.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 23:51 |
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Got a couple of conference trips I need to burn by end of the year. Any recommendations? US only unfortunately.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 04:42 |
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jaegerx posted:Got a couple of conference trips I need to burn by end of the year. Any recommendations? US only unfortunately. Defcon and black hat.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 05:29 |
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ratbert90 posted:Defcon and black hat. Prefer ones that won't get my credit card stolen from. Hashicon is my first choice that I've seen so far
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 05:30 |
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jaegerx posted:Prefer ones that won't get my credit card stolen from. Hashicon is my first choice that I've seen so far Defcon is cash only at the door.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 05:35 |
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ratbert90 posted:Defcon is cash only at the door. I don't have a rfid protected wallet. I'd have to wrap my holy body in foil and wipe my laptop hourly.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 05:37 |
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jaegerx posted:I don't have a rfid protected wallet. I'd have to wrap my holy body in foil and wipe my laptop hourly. Nah, Defcon has been cool for several years now.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 05:39 |
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ratbert90 posted:Nah, Defcon has been cool for several years now. A lot of the interesting stuff has passed this year already, but Hashiconf is good, Strange Loop has some really fun topics, Velocity NYC is in September. e: there's PuppetConf in October also
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 05:43 |
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Vulture Culture posted:Mostly because the whole place is carpeted in feds.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 06:08 |
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Take a SANS course.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 10:48 |
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I'm on the plane to Cisco Live right now. IT Goons, please remember to practice good hygiene when you're traveling. If not for yourself, then for the sake of everyone else around you.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 17:09 |
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psydude posted:I'm on the plane to Cisco Live right now. IT Goons, please remember to practice good hygiene when you're traveling. If not for yourself, then for the sake of everyone else around you. I refuse. I need my "me" space when I travel. I eat garlic and onions for five days before I travel anywhere!
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 18:46 |
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Also lots of asparagus so you can leave your scent behind on the airplane toilet.
GreenNight fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Jul 9, 2016 |
# ? Jul 9, 2016 19:33 |
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Long haul airplane bathrooms are the stuff of nightmares by the end.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 21:50 |
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CLAM DOWN posted:Long haul airplane bathrooms are the stuff of nightmares by the end. If you've seen the nightmare, the nightmare has seen you.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 23:54 |
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CLAM DOWN posted:Long haul airplane bathrooms are the stuff of nightmares by the end. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/t...our-toilet.html
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fart
Chickenwalker fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Sep 23, 2018 |
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