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Thanks Ants posted:Seriously. "Far end microphone muted" would be a much clearer message. I prefer other party microphone muted. Clear to technical people and the average person. Far end is also vague, the other side of the room? I don't care about background noise!
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"Good, I don't want to hear some loud kid's party anyway  "
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Or "the other person's microphone is muted" Error messages are getting better in general these days, partly thanks to the trend of "conversational" marketing-speak and even meme-ese in product dress (e.g. Slack). But we all remember the days of  IT SAID I HAVE PERFORMED AN ILLEGAL OPERATION, ALL I DID WAS TRY TO LOOK AT MY BANK ACCOUNT(And even that was supposed to be a "friendly" improvement on "General Protection Fault")
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Sep 20, 2016 12:30
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My company calls our non-online software "blah blah on premise" rather than "...on premises" and it's making me ridiculously angry that nobody else there understands why it's bad English.
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Sep 20, 2016 13:04
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iajanus posted:My company calls our non-online software "blah blah on premise" rather than "...on premises" and it's making me ridiculously angry that nobody else there understands why it's bad English. Somewhat related, but it's like when someone refers to one cheek of your rear end as 'buttocks'. It's buttock. 
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Sep 20, 2016 14:40
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Somewhat related, but it's like when someone refers to one cheek of your rear end as 'buttocks'. It's buttock. Don't be a buttocks.
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Sep 20, 2016 14:42
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iajanus posted:My company calls our non-online software "blah blah on premise" rather than "...on premises" and it's making me ridiculously angry that nobody else there understands why it's bad English. I've gone on rants here about how none of the execs can get 'affect' vs. 'effect' right
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Sep 20, 2016 14:43
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This is effecting production.
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Sep 20, 2016 14:49
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The first time I got an e-mail that read "this is customer effect?????" I was really confused. Now I just sigh and slowly shake my head.
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Sep 20, 2016 14:53
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incidences mentee
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Data Graham posted:Or "the other person's microphone is muted" Something went wrong Dumb terminology is awesome, we've gone through so many dropped calls because for some reason people decide to press the "Release" button when transferring a call. What ever happened to the word "Hang Up"?
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Sep 20, 2016 15:07
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"I opened up my browser and there was a message that said ERROR 911044: Type Mismatch. So I typed m-i-s-m-a-t-c-h but nothing happened" (true story)
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Sep 20, 2016 15:10
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Collateral Damage posted:This is effecting production. I knew a tool that decided they were the same work, and had a personal crusade to change the language to compound the vowels to combine the words. e.g. "This is aeffecting production!" She used the double vowel each and every time one of the words was used in an email or notice.
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Sep 20, 2016 15:11
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A temperature warning came in. Our server room is managed by 2 air conditioners and 1 backup, and the larger of the two primaries poo poo the bed. The main concern is that the remaining AC and backup can just barely keep up, so any temporary increase in processing (nightly backup jobs) jacks the temp up. The secondary concern is that the primary AC had vents that fed directly into the cold isles. Without this AC, the cold isles are basically non-existent as the secondary and backup AC just feed the room from ceiling vents over half of the room away from the biggest servers. This has led to a hilarious fan system my senior admin set up to channel the air from one side of the room to the other (25 feet). The fans are blowing into one another for a chain effect. It's surprisingly effective but our server room looks extremely dopey with a combo of light industrial / floor stand / office desk fans.
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Sep 20, 2016 15:11
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Super Slash posted:Something went wrong Hang Up is kind of an archaic term when only a small minority of phones are wall mounted anymore.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Hang Up is kind of an archaic term when only a small minority of phones are wall mounted anymore. Sure, but people know what it means. See also: floppy disk save icons
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Sep 20, 2016 15:20
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Arsten posted:I knew a tool that decided they were the same work, and had a personal crusade to change the language to compound the vowels to combine the words. e.g. "This is aeffecting production!" By effecting a change, I affected the office with a negative effect caused by an affect of my personality.
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Sep 20, 2016 15:23
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Hang Up is kind of an archaic term when only a small minority of phones are wall mounted anymore. "Clear down"
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Sep 20, 2016 15:24
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Hang Up is kind of an archaic term when only a small minority of phones are wall mounted anymore. Doesn't 'release' refer to disconnecting the circuit that the phone is currently using and so ending the call? i.e. releasing the line? Which is obsolete with IP telephony.
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Sep 20, 2016 15:31
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flosofl posted:By effecting a change, I affected the office with a negative effect caused by an affect of my personality. By aeffecting a change, I aeffected the office with a negative aeffect caused by an aeffect of my personality.  spog posted:Doesn't 'release' refer to disconnecting the circuit that the phone is currently using and so ending the call? i.e. releasing the line? It should simply be "Terminate" so that everyone who hangs up the circuit line can feel awash in power and control.
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Sep 20, 2016 15:34
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Dick Trauma posted:About every 6 months the CEO tells me he wants to start using a password management program. Each time I recommend LastPass because he might actually be able to use it, and each time he ignores my requests to get it set up. On Friday he made his latest request so once again I get to chase him around for 2 weeks before dropping it until the next scheduled exercise in futility. Time to set the help desk email to sisyphus@companyname.tld Arsten posted:It should simply be "Terminate" so that everyone who hangs up the circuit line can feel awash in power and control. "Demolish" would also be acceptable. 
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Sep 20, 2016 15:41
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Arsten posted:It should simply be "Terminate" so that everyone who hangs up the circuit line can feel awash in power and control. When I press 'terminate', I expect some fucker to die. Preferably in a James-Bond-Bad-Guy kind of way.
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Sep 20, 2016 15:47
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spog posted:When I press 'terminate', I expect some fucker to die. I'd be fine with someone being kicked out of the company.
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"End Call" wtf
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SEKCobra posted:I'd be fine with someone being kicked out of the company.
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Sep 20, 2016 16:01
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"Desistificate communicron"
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Error messages are hard. You have to know your target audience inside and out to make good ones. You can't say "remote" to non-technical people. There's also, usually, limited space for the error, so you have to try to make the error clear and concise in very few words.
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Sep 20, 2016 16:16
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Arsten posted:By aeffecting a change, I aeffected the office with a negative aeffect caused by an aeffect of my personality. Every time you press terminate it physically cuts the line to the outlet so someone has to come out and re-terminate it to the wall plate.
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Sep 20, 2016 16:30
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Kurieg posted:Every time you press terminate it physically cuts the line to the outlet so someone has to come out and re-terminate it to the wall plate. Stop the re-terminating bureaucracy, brah. They have been terminated with extreme prejudice and don't need the added useless oversight of re-termination! Edit: Your username makes me want coffee. Jerk.
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Sep 20, 2016 16:38
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Back when I worked retail computer repair I had a re-image fail with the error message  Code Purple and nothing more. My initial response was to crawl underneath the bench and cry.A quick googling made it pretty clear what was going on but holy poo poo.
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Sep 20, 2016 16:44
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spog posted:When I press 'terminate', I expect some fucker to die. DT: Do you expect me to talk? Tony: No, Mr. Trauma, I expect you to do the needful!
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Dick Trauma posted:DT: Do you expect me to talk? Triggered
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Arsten posted:Stop the re-terminating bureaucracy, brah. They have been terminated with extreme prejudice and don't need the added useless oversight of re-termination! I swear I've been using this username longer than I knew that Keurig was a thing. Everyone keeps thinking I'm all about the Coffee though. It's not even spelled the same way. Renegret posted:Back when I worked retail computer repair I had a re-image fail with the error message We've got an open air office and our Tech Guy was pulling data off of a laptop who's helpful way of informing you that the battery is dead and/or missing is to cause the laptop's internal speaker to beep this weird not-quite-SOS alert. It took us two hours to figure out that the only way to stop this was to replace the battery that didn't exist.
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Sep 20, 2016 16:52
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Kurieg posted:Every time you press terminate it physically cuts the line to the outlet so someone has to come out and re-terminate it to the wall plate. On the bright side, this would mean that someone would get the job title of 'Terminator' and who doesn't want that job title?
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Sep 20, 2016 16:55
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Renegret posted:Back when I worked retail computer repair I had a re-image fail with the error message I did what was effectively T2 QA for a small game development company for a few years. Players noticed an occasionally-reproducible bug, something minor but noticeable. I tail the logs, start trying to repro, and then the phrase "gently caress, I don't know, something went wrong" pops up into my terminal. It turns out there was a race condition that was triggering reproduced code (lazy programmers!) which triggered a failure fallback that should never have been able to happen (the one good programmer!).
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RFC2324 posted:On the bright side, this would mean that someone would get the job title of 'Terminator' and who doesn't want that job title? John Conner doesn't want you to have that job title. Kurieg posted:I swear I've been using this username longer than I knew that Keurig was a thing. Everyone keeps thinking I'm all about the Coffee though. It's not even spelled the same way. Join date: Jul 18, 2012. Keurig pod release date: 2007. Spelling changed so you don't get sued. You are indeed all about the coffee, seditious sir.
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I used it elsewhere, I just didn't want to re-invent the wheel when I joined SA I intensely dislike the taste of Coffee, love the smell though. But you know if you want to drink coffee because of my name or whatever, feel free. I'm sure GMCR appreciates the advertising. Maybe I should monetize. Kurieg fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Sep 20, 2016 17:18
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Kurieg posted:I've punched down enough CAT that I've got T568b etched into my brain with a punchdown tool. Don't talk to me about re-terminating. orange-white, orange. green-n-white, blue. blue-n-white, green. brownin-white, brown. These words have rolled through my head probably 20 thousand times.
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spog posted:When I press 'terminate', I expect some fucker to die. I'm still waiting for FTP (Fist Through Phone) to be developed so I can strangle/punch idiots I'm on the phone with.
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Kurieg posted:I used it elsewhere, I just didn't want to re-invent the wheel when I joined SA A wheel, you say? Like the round shape of Keurig cups? Hm. A shocking coincedence. And if you hate the taste of coffee, add sugar until it's tasty. That's what everyone else does.
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