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Super Slash posted:If we can grow so much food why do we still have world hunger? Because I eat when I'm stressed and I'm always stressed? :P
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 Here's some unexpected behaviour in your software. Thanks for the report. Looks like it's a bug. Happy to help. We will now reduce functionality to fix the bug.
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Nov 8, 2016 18:23
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Tonight the full team is on call thanks to the election. We have at least five clients running live election coverage tonight so here's hoping it's quiet and I can enjoy my $1 beer at World Of Beer  Or someone's Elemental transcoder will poo poo the bed 
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Nov 8, 2016 19:12
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pr0digal posted:Tonight the full team is on call thanks to the election. We have at least five clients running live election coverage tonight so here's hoping it's quiet and I can enjoy my $1 beer at World Of Beer Not IT related, but a friend of mine works at the local crisis center in their support call center and they asked people to work extra shifts today because of the elections.
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Nov 8, 2016 19:16
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Today's election day and since I found a new job a few weeks ago, I don't have to work 7AM to 9 or 10 PM supporting a polling place. Instead, I just need to work til 5, go to the liquor store, probably wait 15 minutes in line to just get the one thing I forgot last night, and then go dark until I can't avoid hearing the results. On the other hand, I'm probably going to be getting up at 6 AM to get ready to work with a killer hangover, so there are some downsides.
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Nov 8, 2016 20:33
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Oh hey. Didn't larches old station do a big thing for election day that was his big pride and joy? Wonder what they'll have instead.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Oh hey. Didn't larches old station do a big thing for election day that was his big pride and joy?
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Nov 8, 2016 20:45
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Oh hey. Didn't larches old station do a big thing for election day that was his big pride and joy? Yeah, I think it was something with Excel? I was just thinking I'd love to see how bad a shitshow that station airs today.
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Nov 8, 2016 20:46
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He never did tell what station it is did he?
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Nov 8, 2016 20:54
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Trastion posted:He never did tell what station it is did he? Nah, if you wanted to be an internet detective, it's possible to figure out, but that's not really worth doing. I assume it's about as bad as every other tiny news station.
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Nov 8, 2016 20:57
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We support three TV stations (video team, not live thank god). I can only image what issues are going to crop up tonight as most of them have rather outdated equipment. We had another client (also doing election coverage) who wanted to do a SAN upgrade last night. We managed to convince them that doing a massive SAN upgrade the night before election day was a Bad Idea.
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Nov 8, 2016 20:59
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Today's election day and since I found a new job a few weeks ago, I don't have to work 7AM to 9 or 10 PM supporting a polling place. Instead, I just need to work til 5, go to the liquor store, probably wait 15 minutes in line to just get the one thing I forgot last night, and then go dark until I can't avoid hearing the results. Just quoting this cause this is very me, also. The Excel through Sharepoint system I set up was mostly meant for local elections. I'm not sure what they're going to be doing tonight. I never worked there during a big presidential election. I just texted the IT guy:  Y'all still using OneDrive for election coverage? I'm not sure. No ones said anything to me about it. You mean you haven't been anticipating, planning, and testing for election night? No one told me anything. Oh, how fun for you tonight.Jesus, how much things have changed for me. I just submitted a proposal for how to replace every piece of classroom technology we own using grant money and the station still doesn't have wifi or an election coverage system that wasn't developed by a disgruntled, underpaid employee at the last minute because it was free.
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Nov 8, 2016 22:19
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I see him outside smoking sometimes when I drive through on my way to or from work, but not really. Apparently, after I quit, he just got really withdrawn and started spending money like crazy on new stuff because there wasn't anyone to maintain his house of cards. The whole place is circling the drain, though, from what I hear.
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Nov 9, 2016 00:31
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Sefal posted:I'm glad to hear that. I was legit pondering if I should have just kept my mouth shut. This is unfortunately more of a political question than a right v wrong deal.
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Nov 9, 2016 04:27
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larchesdanrew posted:I see him outside smoking sometimes when I drive through on my way to or from work, but not really. Apparently, after I quit, he just got really withdrawn and started spending money like crazy on new stuff because there wasn't anyone to maintain his house of cards. Wasn't that the case before you even started there? Not when you quit, but literally before you even came along. I'm getting told we're migrating our DB from a shared DB server without enough resources (148GB on SQL 2014 standard install for one) to.....a new server with explicitly not enough resources (32GB sql server) for the apps I manage. How does "not enough" turn into "let's give you less but dedicated! that should work!  !" 
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larchesdanrew posted:The whole place is circling the drain, though, from what I hear. Much like the United States of America.
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spankmeister posted:Much like the United States of America. Nah man. The show has just begun. I should get some popcorn.
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Nov 9, 2016 11:08
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Office notifies me of a printer with a paper jam. I remote in, login to printer's interface, still says there's a jam. Discuss with office manager, they've all taken a turn searching for this paper jam but can't find it. Finally I decide they'll need a tech to visit, and get the serial number to look up its warranty status. Expired yesterday.
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Nov 9, 2016 19:06
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Larches, I had a dream last night that I took a job doing IT Admin for a school. I sat down at my desk and realized I had no idea what I was supposed to do. What are my responsibilities? Am I supposed to order stuff? Where are the vendor numbers?!
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Nov 9, 2016 22:18
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Johnny Aztec posted:Larches, I had a dream last night that I took a job doing IT Admin for a school. I sat down at my desk and realized I had no idea what I was supposed to do. This is me every morning for the past eleven months
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Nov 9, 2016 23:20
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We just released a new version of our software, so everyone is doing upgrades! Since we still use flat file databases in TYOOL 2016, there's tons of utilities to do simple poo poo (like... indexing) that have to be run with all users logged out. The hot new feature for this version was supposed to be a service that would run on the "database server" (read: file server holding dbase files) and do a bunch of the maintenance work overnight with no user input. Except our devs couldn't get it working, so they ripped that function out and went back to the old system - but oops, in making the utilities work with the service, they broke the ability to run them manually. That's on top of all the other broken new features that no one asked for and that break functions people really do use. The release was two weeks ago, and we already have 3 hotfixes. Our hosted customers are all getting upgraded this weekend. Hopefully I will be dead of alcohol poisoning by Monday.
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Nov 10, 2016 00:17
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A Pinball Wizard posted:Hopefully I will be dead of alcohol poisoning by Monday. I tried that last Friday. Don't gently caress up because it sucks if you don't die. Then you spend the entire weekend wanting to drink but heaving anytime you smell alcohol. And you'll go back to work on Monday wishing you had just died, but instead struggling to get through the rest of the week so you can try again next Friday. I had a head start because I played hookie last Friday. This Friday is a holiday so it's going to be a similar situation, but at least I've had practice and I know not to make the same mistakes twice.
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Nov 10, 2016 00:24
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A Pinball Wizard posted:We just released a new version of our software, so everyone is doing upgrades! Henry Schein employee spotted.
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A request to update pictures of all students in our database with their school ID pictures came in. We're located on a college campus so we use a lot of their facilities and IDs are handled by campus security. Spoke with the campus IT department and they said to speak with security. Spoke with security and they said to speak with IT. Long story short, the police chief just pointed me to his computer and said "have fun."  Anyways, ended up finding the pictures I needed and sent them to myself. I assumed it would take me the better part of the day to match pictures with students and upload them into the database one at a time so I blocked off the whole afternoon. Except, the pictures were labeled by their ID numbers. Exported a list of students with their ID numbers, appended .jpg to the numbers, and then imported them into the database. Took all of 15 minutes. Then I had the whole afternoon worry free to catch up on stuff. It was nice.
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Nov 10, 2016 01:01
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larchesdanrew posted:A request to update pictures of all students in our database with their school ID pictures came in. We're located on a college campus so we use a lot of their facilities and IDs are handled by campus security. Holy poo poo. If anyone deserves an easy win, it's you. You should take a second day and claim "they just grow up so fast. This is hard."
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Nov 10, 2016 05:50
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larchesdanrew posted:This is me every morning for the past eleven months me, every moment of my adult life
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The Fool posted:Henry Schein employee spotted.
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Nov 10, 2016 18:35
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On Nov 10, 2016 @ 12:34 pm, Chris Smith wrote: [Description:]: Could I have Visio installed, and borrow John's license for the afternoon?
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nexxai posted:gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. gently caress Dentrix. Amen. I hate dealing with this piece of poo poo program
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ConfusedUs posted:Amen. I hate dealing with this piece of poo poo program Did you guys have to deal with it on SCO UNIX back 20 years ago? 
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Nov 10, 2016 19:05
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Bob Morales posted:On Nov 10, 2016 @ 12:34 pm, Chris Smith wrote: My place has decided to move towards only providing Visio and Project through our poorly-managed Citirix environment because of cases like this. Our Citrix setup doesn't allow access to the host PC's drive because of security concerns. So that'll be fun, since half our users don't understand network drives.
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Bob Morales posted:On Nov 10, 2016 @ 12:34 pm, Chris Smith wrote: Grab him by the chair and wheel him over to John's desk for the afternoon. Tell John to take the rest of the day off.
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Nov 10, 2016 22:57
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A user can't figure out how to convert an ajax example to a curl command. Cmon bruh why are you using my API if you aint able to P?
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Nov 10, 2016 23:59
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"We need this software to convert pdf'a from the bank to excel"
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Nov 11, 2016 00:23
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Bob Morales posted:"We need this software to convert pdf'a from the bank to excel" Excel is pretty good about intelligently pasting from a table.
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The Fool posted:Excel is pretty good about intelligently pasting from a table. It's a fancy statement from the bank in a bunch of columns and poo poo. They need to just export the data from the banks website
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Bob Morales posted:It's a fancy statement from the bank in a bunch of columns and poo poo. They need to just export the data from the banks website IDEA is actually pretty sweet if they're going to be doing a bunch of stuff like that, but holy poo poo is it expensive for just a single license.
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Bob Morales posted:"We need this software to convert pdf'a from the bank to excel" As dumb as this sounds it's actually a thing. https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/acrobat/how-to/pdf-to-excel-xlsx-converter.html
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:As dumb as this sounds it's actually a thing. In my experience, this never works well. Not because there is anything wrong with the converter, but because of the amazingly bad tables that users create for their documents. Its only when you try to extract from them that you find all the hidden, 1pixel-wide cells and odd merged rows & columns
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