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Customers that assume the price of a connection is related to the speed are always fun. Yes, your home broadband is faster and cheaper than the leased line in the office. That's just how it is sometimes.
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wolrah posted:I just finally got rid of a customer who constantly did this. They were out in a building formerly owned by Lockheed near the old Goodyear blimp hangar and until literally this year when Time Warner finally was willing to bring a fiber down the street the best they could get were bonded T1s. Story 1: Network admin for a company for 9 months. Dual T1's coming into a 200 person office for internet access, saturated 100% all day. 5-6 branch offices all connected via T1's (only 4-10 people at these). "It's the best we can get" When's the last time you tried? "A few years ago" Called up AT&T and had fiber ran in a month. Of course, they went with the slowest speeds they could get, but people could at least use the internet. wolrah posted:They'd pretend to understand, then call up a month later complaining that when they send pictures in email the internet becomes unusable for minutes on end. Story 2: Took a job as a web developer at a small company. This was all the company did, develop sites for health-related firms and products. They had a 768k/5mb DSL connection at their office. To make things even better, they had their staging/testing database and web servers on the outside of the DSL modem, so just connecting to loving MySQL Workbench took 15 seconds. Pushing a build out to test took almost an hour. Also, when anyone in graphics design sent a logo or something to a printing company, the network was rendered useless for 45 minutes. Built a monowall box out of a junk PC I found in the basement, stuck the servers on the inside and pointed the public IP's using NAT, stuck a packet shaping rule in there, it was pretty drat tolerable. A few months later we moved buildings and got 100mb cable.
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Oct 29, 2017 17:18
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Jeoh posted:From the previous page: Got offered a job! 30% pay rise, way more interesting environment, pretty happy! Congrats! 
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Oct 30, 2017 12:04
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We use MongoDB at work  Every time someone inputs data with one property set as an Array instead of an Object, another one of our automated scripts that assumes it's an Object (the way it should always be with no exceptions) blows poo poo up. MongoDB decides that it's ok to fill the array with lots of garbage data if it's updated as if it were an object. We've since moved from people inputting bad data manually to a nice little UI/Wizard that should fix this, but somehow this exact issue keeps popping up. I've asked for it to be fixed, and have been told that it was fixed a few times now. Every time it pops up, it's immediately the automated scripts fault, and not the person who put garbage data in. Now it's all of a sudden my job to make the script double check that people weren't retards because it's way too hard to actually fix the way these things are created, and my argument of garbage in, garbage out didn't fly this time. Seriously, all that needs to be changed is a "[]" to a "{}" somewhere to actually fix this nonsense. I'm not even really sure where these things are being created because I have nothing to do with, and am never made aware of when anyone is creating them. Still my problem.
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Oct 30, 2017 20:40
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Pissing me off: the VP who has been a pain in my rear end for a month and a half because he wants everything now decided it should take less time to do things next month than it did this month. He also decided there should be more to do. What he would have known if he had bothered conferring with is was that I’ll be gone for half that time and someone else will be filling in for the first time. Not pissing me off: the PM told him to go pound sand, that it would take at least twice as long, and that he should “push the [report] review back a week or there will be little to review.”
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Oct 30, 2017 21:57
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Mogomra posted:We use MongoDB at work Always check input, even when it's from a source that should never have anything else. It's just good coding (exceptions if it's a 1 off import or something, though you should still verify that most likely). You never know what is going to happen in the future. If they are still using your script in 20 years there may be a good reason to throw what you would consider invalid data into where the good data is. Your script now makes a mess instead of throwing an error. They should fix what is causing the issue sure, but you should be silently writing to an error log and moving on to the next section and give them the error log. If the errors are your fault and you need to figure out how to turn their garbage into usable data, that is a different story and they can fix it on their end.
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Oct 31, 2017 00:16
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We have three documents for program upgrades: preinstall, install, and postinstall. Even though upgrades are in my bucket, the server support team did all the testing of upgrades during the last release cycle because they own the servers. Which made no sense to me and I said so, but whatever. Server support also said that they reviewed all the documentation and made sure it was up to date - they finally got the technical writers to remove reference to inserting your install CD, for example, since we haven't actually provided installers on physical media in at least 7 years. Today my team gets an e-mail from the department director asking if we reviewed the preinstall and postinstall steps. I said no, because the server team had done it. Server team said they had only done the install document, because upgrades are in my bucket, not theirs.  It's not even like it took me long to review, I could've done it months ago if they would've just let me know about this completely arbitrary division of labor then instead.
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Oct 31, 2017 00:32
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Crosspost: It's been a few years, do we want to do another christmas group buy? 
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Oct 31, 2017 01:11
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Crosspost: I’m in. What’s the capacity of the stick these days?
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Oct 31, 2017 01:26
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Crosspost: I'm in.
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Oct 31, 2017 01:49
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Agrikk posted:I’m in. What’s the capacity of the stick these days? In with the same question.
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Oct 31, 2017 02:30
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Crosspost: Hell yes
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Oct 31, 2017 02:43
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Agrikk posted:I’m in. What’s the capacity of the stick these days? Same and same question.
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Oct 31, 2017 02:44
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Sure I’m in
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Oct 31, 2017 02:47
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In at any capacity. I can fit DSL on 16MB
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Oct 31, 2017 03:31
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I'm in
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Oct 31, 2017 04:36
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I'm in if shipping to Japan isn't too crazy or I can get it delivered to my parents' in the states before January 5th or so. I'm guessing the latter wouldn't be an issue since it's a Christmas buy. What's the design going to be?
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Oct 31, 2017 07:42
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Mr. Fix It posted:I'm in if shipping to Japan isn't too crazy or I can get it delivered to my parents' in the states before January 5th or so. I'm guessing the latter wouldn't be an issue since it's a Christmas buy. 
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Oct 31, 2017 08:09
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Crosspost: I had an email chain forwarded to me today with someone actually saying 'do the needfull'. Either there's an Aussie goon that works for Delonghi or I caught one out in the wild.
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Oct 31, 2017 09:00
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Humphreys posted:I had an email chain forwarded to me today with someone actually saying 'do the needfull'. Either there's an Aussie goon that works for Delonghi or I caught one out in the wild. I've heard it spoken in earnest at my last job and I'm in Australia too.
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Oct 31, 2017 09:19
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Crosspost: I am in
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Oct 31, 2017 10:29
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Depending on shipping costs to Belgium, I'm in.
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Oct 31, 2017 11:42
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Crosspost: I am in if shipping costs end up reasonable
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Oct 31, 2017 12:46
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Humphreys posted:I had an email chain forwarded to me today with someone actually saying 'do the needfull'. Either there's an Aussie goon that works for Delonghi or I caught one out in the wild. IT the toaster oven is on the blink please do the needful
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Oct 31, 2017 13:06
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That or "It Doesn't Concern You"
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Oct 31, 2017 14:26
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Crosspost: I'd be in for a few, yeah.
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Oct 31, 2017 14:31
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Also in for a new usb keyfob 
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Oct 31, 2017 14:40
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I'm in
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Oct 31, 2017 16:00
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Sounds like we need a sign up cause I'd love to get in on ordering some of these awesome this time around!
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Oct 31, 2017 17:05
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I'm also in for 1 or 2. Maybe someone could (n)gin(x) up a nice website signup thing, preferably running PHP 4 on a 4 year old version of MySQL all running off a Mac mini with Gentoo loaded on it. But make sure the password requirements are at least 3 characters long so it's nice and secure.
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Oct 31, 2017 18:11
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Super Soaker Party! posted:I'm also in for 1 or 2. 3 characters, no more and no less.
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Oct 31, 2017 18:20
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And silently drop characters after the 3rd
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Oct 31, 2017 18:25
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Converts everything to lowercase when storing the password, but not when evaluating it later
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Oct 31, 2017 18:28
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The Fool posted:And silently drop characters after the 3rd
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Oct 31, 2017 18:29
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Actually what it really needs is to store cc numbers along with the ccv and provide a rest api to query it.
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Oct 31, 2017 18:32
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xzzy posted:Actually what it really needs is to store cc numbers along with the ccv and provide a rest api to query it. And store everything in an open S3 bucket it's supersecure because it's in the CLOUUUUUD.
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Oct 31, 2017 18:40
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Thanks Ants posted:Converts everything to lowercase when storing the password, but not when evaluating it later See I was thinking other direction. Make everything CAPS, don't communicate that, and make them case sensitive on log in.
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Oct 31, 2017 20:22
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Proteus Jones posted:See I was thinking other direction. Make everything CAPS, don't communicate that, and make them case sensitive on log in. when I googled it, first hit was this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201609 Which sure sounds like your issue google isn't telling me about any log tho. just one question looking for it with no answer
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Oct 31, 2017 20:24
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RFC2324 posted:when I googled it, first hit was this: Did you cross the streams or something? There's some other guy having issues with MacOS and passwords, was that in this thread?
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Proteus Jones posted:Did you cross the streams or something? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3750534&pagenumber=92#post477914551
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