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Sickening posted:Does your server room smell like cigarettes? That is what I imagine it smelling like. That and the odor of key parties past.
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Bob Morales posted:Owners of the company 'clean out their house' every 3-4 months and bring in random computer poo poo and leave it on our desks. Usually poo poo some like busted rear end inkjet printer or random 17" LCD Owner of my $AWFUL_JOB would always do this. He'd throw a complete fit about how messy the office was, with all these tech bits and bobs laying around, and DEMAND THAT RIGHT NOW I INVENTORY IT ALL AND MAKE AN EXCEL SHEET so he can ebay it. One time he offered me 10% of whatever I can get if I ebay all the junk in the office. But my response was that I doubt anyone wants a pile of 512MB DDR1 memory, and if they do, I can't imagine spending the hours necessary to photograph it, inventory it, and get it up on ebay, and even if by SOME MIRACLE it was purchased, I'd never see a cent of it. Plus I was already working 60 hours a week doing my actual job, my marriage was almost over, and I was ready to jump in front of a train, but that $50 bucks from selling those non-working old Thinkpad X61s batteries will certainly turn things around. The office was full to the brim with garbage, just old 20GB sata drives from Gateway servers, also several Gateway servers, also hundreds or rack kits, more USB cables than we could store, THOUSANDS of feet of cut off ethernet cables, broken VOIP phones, broken laptops that were gutted, piles of UPS's with dead batteries, just a mess. Every now and then he'd demand I inventory it all, so I'd open up that same excel sheet, stare at it for a few hours until he'd forget and demand that I do something else that was more important. Sometimes we'd come in, and find all our work laptops gone because he'd sold them to someone (or brought them home for his kids to Minecraft on) and give me an old broken Fujitsu laptop or something to use. "Oh you don't need that new Thinkpad to RDP into a server, this will do fine" yeah, but I did have you know all my programs, shortcuts, VMs for testing, on it, but whatever, I guess today I'm going to spend sifting through the box of Office licenses to find one that actually activates, thanks for that.
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Jan 22, 2018 20:26
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Is your office a trailer?
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Jan 22, 2018 20:28
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Our entire office has been cobbled on top of this old shack from the 30's, that the company started in 50 years ago. You know in Forrest Gump when they go back to Jenny's house and she throws rocks at it? That's pretty much it. If I go up in this one attic you can see the roof. BRB
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Jan 22, 2018 20:33
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Thanks Ants posted:Is your office a trailer? That post could be a cutscenes trailer for a horrid TV series though. By horrid I mean good but PTSD-inducing for most IT workers.
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Jan 22, 2018 20:43
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The IT office is in the original shack.  The roof! The roof!  The 66 blocks and stuff are documented on those laminated sheets on the floor. It was a pain in the rear end to make those but they are a big help.  Please catch on fire.  Saving those IBM typewriters (there's like 5 behind it) because...I don't know why
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Jan 22, 2018 20:44
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Bob Morales posted:The IT office is in the original shack. Oh gently caress yes, this is all the greatest thing ever.
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Jan 22, 2018 20:45
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Bob Morales posted:The IT office is in the original shack. All we needed were a few dead rats, a half eaten body and a skin suit hanging up there; you have the makings of a good horror movie.
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Jan 22, 2018 20:48
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I don't understand what sort of construction happens without removing the roof of the thing that's being extended and instead just building a box around it. But it's awesome.
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Jan 22, 2018 20:53
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I'm being told to research/spearhead setting up DirectAccess for our environment. I'm a server admin I. Is DirectAccess easy enough to get up and running or should I be telling my boss to take it to the server admin III?
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Coredump posted:I'm being told to research/spearhead setting up DirectAccess for our environment. I'm a server admin I. Is DirectAccess easy enough to get up and running or should I be telling my boss to take it to the server admin III? Depends on the differences between I and III in your organization? Direct Access isn't too bad to get running, but if you have all Windows 10 clients, you may want to consider Always-On VPN instead. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-access/vpn/vpn-map-da
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Jan 22, 2018 21:25
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What do you need to make available via DirectAccess?
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Jan 22, 2018 21:27
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Bob Morales posted:The IT office is in the original shack. This can't be real, where did you steal those pictures from? Got to be from a movie set, no-one would make such a thing in real life.
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Jan 22, 2018 21:28
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It looks like a bit of an old backwater theme park that has had a minor refresh and the old stuff's just been hidden away behind new panelling or drywall.
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Jan 22, 2018 21:30
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Thanks Ants posted:What do you need to make available via DirectAccess? Boss wants to do that to replace vpn. The Fool posted:Depends on the differences between I and III in your organization? Good stuff. I'll have to take a look at this.
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Coredump posted:Boss wants to do that to replace vpn. I get that, what services need to be exposed though?
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Jan 22, 2018 22:28
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poo poo not pissing me off: One of our major suppliers, until recently, ran a horrible ERP-based, Silverlight-dependent quote/order system that forced me to run IE. Today, I found out they have a new system, ClearQuote, that can run in Chrome and isn't Silverlight anymore! But it looks like something I would make in Access in about an hour. Right down to Segoe UI for everything.
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Jan 22, 2018 22:36
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Bob Morales posted:The IT office is in the original shack.  I've seen a lot of poo poo in this thread, but I think this is amazing. All the sketchy installations is just gravy.
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D34THROW posted:poo poo not pissing me off: One of our major suppliers, until recently, ran a horrible ERP-based, Silverlight-dependent quote/order system that forced me to run IE. One of our vendors has been using some old custom software they wrote for quoting and pricing. They have been harping on for over a year how they are replacing it with some "new advanced system" because they have received so many complaints about how their software has major issues on Windows 7+. Well, we finally got to see this new system in action a few days ago. Vendor sends us a HTTP link with a random IP address on port 8080, no SSL. Click on it, it loads a javascript RDP client which then RDPs into their server and launches the SAME lovely SOFTWARE.  I didn't even know there WAS such as thing as a javascript RDP client, but I do now! I guess at the very least we no longer have to fight with installing the lovely application locally.
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Jan 22, 2018 23:02
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Bob Morales posted:The IT office is in the original shack. How's the job search going, Bob?
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Jan 22, 2018 23:10
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Haha man any time I get down about my job I can just remind myself that I don't work in a literal shack inside another building.
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Jan 22, 2018 23:11
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Pissing me off: our primary software prints out about half of its forms in WMF format, and the other half in PCL format (literally .pcl). The next major release of the software is supposed to have support for PDF forms instead of WMF forms (which will save us a ton of time), but I've heard nothing about the PCL forms. Currently, some of our workflows include the steps print document out from printer -> scan document to PDF -> shred document printed from printer. I put in a ticket with our vendor for "how do we get these into PDF," which got escalated through a few people to finally land with a sales person, who asked me a bunch of questions about where this document was coming from, how we wanted it named, if we wanted to import it for archival purposes, a request that we send them a digital copy, etc. I pointed out to her that it's a document from her software, and that if I could get it in a digital format, I could probably get it to PDF, which is what I was looking to do in the first place; that was about two weeks ago, haven't heard back, yet. In the meantime, I've been looking at third-party solutions, but all of the PCL-to-PDF printers look hella sketchy, and we try not to put sketchy poo poo on our systems.
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If you ever wanted to burn bridges as you leave for a new job, tipping off the fire marshal is one option you got.
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xzzy posted:If you ever wanted to burn bridges as you leave for a new job, tipping off the fire marshal is one option you got. I am close to that one myself. We currently power desks in such a way that is a major fire hazard. So far the justification is that nothing is carpeted and "concrete isn't going to catch fire".
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xzzy posted:If you ever wanted to burn bridges as you leave for a new job, tipping off the fire marshal is one option you got. Seems that with that setup, literally burning bridges would be an undetectable option.
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Thanatosian posted:Pissing me off: our primary software prints out about half of its forms in WMF format, and the other half in PCL format (literally .pcl). The next major release of the software is supposed to have support for PDF forms instead of WMF forms (which will save us a ton of time), but I've heard nothing about the PCL forms. Currently, some of our workflows include the steps print document out from printer -> scan document to PDF -> shred document printed from printer. I put in a ticket with our vendor for "how do we get these into PDF," which got escalated through a few people to finally land with a sales person, who asked me a bunch of questions about where this document was coming from, how we wanted it named, if we wanted to import it for archival purposes, a request that we send them a digital copy, etc. I pointed out to her that it's a document from her software, and that if I could get it in a digital format, I could probably get it to PDF, which is what I was looking to do in the first place; that was about two weeks ago, haven't heard back, yet. Can you not use the built-in Windows 10 PDF printer to cut out the middle-man of printing a physical copy?
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Sickening posted:I am close to that one myself. We currently power desks in such a way that is a major fire hazard. So far the justification is that nothing is carpeted and "concrete isn't going to catch fire". Hmph. Sounds like *someone* isn't trying hard enough. 
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Bob Morales posted:The IT office is in the original shack. When you said "if I go up in to this one attic I can see the roof" I thought you meant through a window but NOPE they just built around a shack like loving kowloon walled city.
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xzzy posted:If you ever wanted to burn bridges as you leave for a new job, tipping off the fire marshal is one option you got.
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Inspector_666 posted:Can you not use the built-in Windows 10 PDF printer to cut out the middle-man of printing a physical copy?
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Thanatosian posted:How's the job search going, Bob?
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Bob Morales posted:It's about to start...I'm getting married in May so I'm hoping to find something by summer. Goodluck and congratulations! Edit for content:  
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Sefal posted:Goodluck and congratulations! Oh man...
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Sefal posted:Goodluck and congratulations! It's a game of Kurplunk! Pull a cable, if you don't hear alarms or screaming, go again.
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Jan 23, 2018 12:00
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It's the disconnected ones that give me the heebies.
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That sort of cabling always goes hand-in-hand with the dogshit cheap cabinets as well.
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At least it's....labeled?
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poo poo that's pissing me off: A "good with computers" head of marketing who's constantly asking why i'm doing things and has quite recently said "please do not check online for solutions, please call our consultant for that". Our consultant is a webmaster/Norton fanboy. I am currently trying to figure out why McAfee EPO is being a dick. I've checked with my new boss, he's backing her up. Cool, guess i'll just bang my head against the wall in the future rather than finding an easy 10 minute fix. Hope you're proud that you've just plummeted my productivity because i can no longer use google to help me troubleshoot things i've not encountered before. 
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Bob Morales posted:At least it's....labeled? Correctly labelled?
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