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I hate quoting software where you have to visit a website to get the quote. You know they're tracking you. And 2 minutes after you open it... they call you back ."DID YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?" Or, the software where they email you the quote, and the web server behind it is slow as fuak and it takes 10 seconds to auto-preview the email. Extra pain in the dick when you are looking though a bunch of quotes trying to find one
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Earlier: Me: Hey, I see that the UI color palettes for our PROD and QA/test environments are identical. Yes, QA has a text banner but otherwise they look the same and it confuses the hell out of me, so it's probably confusing other people too. We should probably change QA to a different color. Boss: No, our documentation shows the green banner so people will get confused if the color is different. Me: That, uh, doesn't seem like a convincing argument. We're less worried about someone mistakenly pushing something out in production than we are about them getting frustrated because the color scheme doesn't match our documentation? Boss: Why are are you fixated on this issue? Just drop it. Today: Me: After repeated complaints from our super users, I have modified the window titles so that QA says "QA" and production says "[public facing site name]". This seems like a reasonable alternative since we decided not to change any UI configuration. Boss: Why aren't we changing the color? I think if you check the configuration the system will allow that.
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Mar 16, 2018 15:45
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Gotta love management that has non functioning long term memory. Means every time you bring up a topic with them you have to give the full background or risk stupid conflicts like that.
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Mar 16, 2018 16:14
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Jaded Burnout posted:How do you? I don't. I took a look at the board, saw a programming header and a DIP8 and the email was 'oi let me have a go at this' Zil posted:
The story of the porn muling or the getting over my head? Long story short: Big gently caress off recall that will cost me a bunch of time and pain in the rear end cuntstermers bitching at me because of a manufacturers issue. I flippantly discuss with national distributor that at best this issue could be trivial if I can just load a known good file to these micros. I asked my contact with said company for files on the off chance its Arduino level easy fixes just so I don't have to waste time sending the single board I have from my customer to them, then manufacturer and back down the chain. Yes I have dabbled in screwing around with dumping and screwing around with prop chips and gear in another life. Have built my own NAND chip dumper. But now it seems (by the email responses alone) that all these engineers at said multinational want me to do the dirty (fun) work. And of course now I'm home, drinking beers I realise I forgot to bring a sample board home. EDIT: This isn't a product anyone should worry about, it isn't a Samsung exploding battery or washing machine catching on fire thing. This time. Also not Samsung related at all (for once in my life). It's industrial gas related. so the fire will start far away and gently caress you up later. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Mar 16, 2018 |
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Mar 16, 2018 16:28
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The Macaroni posted:Earlier: Counterpoint. As a colorblind person, gently caress using color to impart important information.
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Mar 16, 2018 17:31
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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/who-is-afraid-of-more-spams-and-scams/ Oh hey, GDPR is going to cause WHOIS to become unuseable for a 6 months or more. Time to start drinking.
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Mar 16, 2018 17:49
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bull3964 posted:Counterpoint. As a colorblind person, gently caress using color to impart important information. I once had a manager who was colourblind. In a film post production company. We had the whole banner 'don't worry we can fix it in post...if Raymond isnt here' over the editing rooms stack of tapes.
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Humphreys posted:I once had a manager who was colourblind. In a film post production company. We had the whole banner 'don't worry we can fix it in post...if Raymond isnt here' over the editing rooms stack of tapes. Was the “if Raymond isn’t here” part in red/green?
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Mar 16, 2018 18:23
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Hmmm here's a weird one. I've been ripping my son's movies from DVD to put on a tablet so he can watch them in the car. I reformatted the micro SD card, and now videos past a certain point in the folder won't play. There is a point where they just stop working alphabetically - like Happy Feet and all files before that work, but then Madagascar and all files right after it don't. Corrupt SD card?
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Mar 16, 2018 20:03
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Has the card worked before? Loads of fake ones report the size incorrectly and writing past the size of the actual mislabelled card just writes the data into nowhere.
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Mar 16, 2018 20:18
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That was my first thought too. You can find tools online that'll let you test for real vs reported capacity. Usually when an SD card is starts to die you can read but not write. If you have the time maybe reformat it and see if the issue persists?
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It did work before, but it's never been this full. I'll check another card to see if that's the problem.Bigass Moth posted:It did work before, but it's never been this full. I'll check another card to see if that's the problem. It actually was a corrupted card. It could only read 7 out if 32 gigs. It worked filled up before so I don’t know what exactly happened. Bigass Moth fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Mar 18, 2018 |
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Mar 16, 2018 20:26
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Office is the size of a city block. I work a lot of nights a weekends. 1-2 people in the building for 12 hours shifts. Company/HR has decided that having the lights off is a saftey issue. And that company policy is all lights, are allways to be on. Issues with this. 1. About 1/10 fluro lights are allways on anyway. 2. Hr also has paper signs at every switch saying to turn them off when not in use. 3. And this is the one that shits me. The whole building is on a loving timer. 7pm every day they all turn off. Hey guys if its a requirement, then change/disable the timer? - Silence. 4. The cleaners come in about midnight and turn poo poo off when they leave. Soooo twice a shift I run around, turn on every light I can find. Offices empty for the weekend, on, meeting rooms that are never ever going to be used, on. Tonight I also turned on all their aircon units to run all weekend. Same poo poo apparently happened in our sydney noc, they had their switches taken away entirely. Billion dollar company folks. So many more important things we could be doing and caring about.
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Mar 17, 2018 10:42
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fist4jesus posted:Office is the size of a city block. I work a lot of nights a weekends. As long as you keep doing this nothing will change. Now just be careful you don't have a accident at 7:00:01 PM when all the lights go out.
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Mar 17, 2018 17:17
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Please do not make any effort to address the lighting, it's not your problem. It's facilities management's issue.
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Mar 17, 2018 17:55
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Unless you are running around with a Wifi router to switch all these smartbulbs, you really shouldnt have anything to do with the lights.
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Mar 17, 2018 18:47
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mikemelbrooks posted:As long as you keep doing this nothing will change. Now just be careful you don't have a accident at 7:00:01 PM when all the lights go out. Steakandchips posted:Please do not make any effort to address the lighting, it's not your problem. It's facilities management's issue. Thats great and all but you must both work somewhere better than me. If I'm given a direct instruction that they are to be on and told its policy. I'll turn the loving things on, and waste as much time and money doing so as I possibly can.
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Mar 17, 2018 18:59
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Sorry to hear you have to do that  And to be fair, I have had to eat poo poo in my career in the past, but thankfully not any more.
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Mar 17, 2018 20:38
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fist4jesus posted:Thats great and all but you must both work somewhere better than me. Malicious compliance with an order is still compliance.
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Mar 17, 2018 20:43
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fist4jesus posted:Office is the size of a city block. I work a lot of nights a weekends. BMA?
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Humphreys posted:BMA? Why would I dox myself if it were?
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fist4jesus posted:Why would I dox myself if it were? Fair call. Just seemed like a silly set of corporate rules that I was used to working for them.
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Mar 19, 2018 08:22
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Things pissing me off : my team getting in a tizzy because the controller (just a win10 box) for a conference room updated today and didn't auto login. Cue "we have to disable updates until this is fix, let's disable the update policy, blah blah blah." Firstly I'd rather turn on 4 machines once a month than have non updated machines that are connected to the Internet, secondly the updates already ran this month, turning off updates is a bit of a waste of time but whatever floats your boat I suppose.
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Because our sales department micromanages our marketing department instead of working with them. our new marketing director has went rogue and setup shop on Google docs. Tried to explain to him that this is an account that needs to be managed by IT, they can't just make a silo somewhere. And there's going to be a shitstorm the first time sales finds out they are saving documents somewhere they don't have access too...
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Mar 19, 2018 14:42
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Something changed a ton of PCs IP addresses to the wrong subnet or just to DHCP when we don't run DHCP at all  Now we're flooded with calls of people that can't get to anything on the network. This is on top of our toolbox MSP taking "Upgrade to IE 11" as "Uninstall IE 10". If I drank, I would be face down on my desk right now. Nice avatar Bob. At least it's a Sci-Fi anime?
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Mar 19, 2018 15:29
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bull3964 posted:Counterpoint. As a colorblind person, gently caress using color to impart important information. 1) text string/banner 2) window title 3) color All of these are good things--no need to pick a single one. Doing none of them is bad.
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Irritated Goat posted:Something changed a ton of PCs IP addresses to the wrong subnet or just to DHCP when we don't run DHCP at all So...end user devices have static IPs? Yeah, that's plenty of reason to drink in itself. Nothing except routers and a few other critical roles should be truly static, everything else that needs an unchanging IP address should be using reserved leases in DHCP. Static IPs on normal PCs are a recipe for stupid poo poo to happen.
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Irritated Goat posted:Something changed a ton of PCs IP addresses to the wrong subnet or just to DHCP when we don't run DHCP at all Windows 7 Devices? The Microsoft March Security Rollup apparently resets static IPs to DHCP, might be your issue.
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Mar 19, 2018 16:06
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Wasn't that just for vmxnet3 adapters?
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Mar 19, 2018 16:08
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DHCP for workstations maybe but gently caress running DHCP full time on a server. Why have more dependencies than necessary on a machine that everyone requires to be online all the time?
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xzzy posted:DHCP for workstations maybe but gently caress running DHCP full time on a server. Why have more dependencies than necessary on a machine that everyone requires to be online all the time? DHCP on a windows server is actually useful as gently caress. Out of all the services to bitch about, it would be close to last on the list. If you means as a DHCP client? I also think that static addressing is used way too much and is especially strange if you do so in windows environments. Sickening fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Mar 19, 2018 |
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I consider DHCP and DNS integral parts of every modern network and feel like they should be handling all IP assignment, not T1. Only the hardware those services rely on should be hardcoded.
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 I register a node with our networking group and ask for an address on a subnet, they put it in DNS and give it an IP, my provisioning system fetches that and installs the node with a static address. I never have to think about the IP ever again.
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Mar 19, 2018 16:17
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xzzy posted:
2 steps too many.
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Mar 19, 2018 16:19
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I was about to rage about some outsourced support rep emailing me gobbledygook, but I've talked to just as many idiots from  who can't use spelling or grammar to save their lives either.
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The Iron Rose posted:Windows 7 Devices? The Microsoft March Security Rollup apparently resets static IPs to DHCP, might be your issue. It isn't hitting everyone and we're finding a lot of workstations are set to the same exact IP address. I have a feeling it might be another screwup from our MSP. We run static on workstations cause of our stupid terrible production app. We have to register individual things like printers via IP address of Printer + IP address of Terminal.  I want to be rid of it but the newest version of the app is a poo poo show.
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Got asked to help a patient print their boarding passes. This is actually literally some dude off the street in town for the marathon. This on a day where I have no help and I’m the only one for the whole facility.
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skooma512 posted:Got asked to help a patient print their boarding passes. you can literally do this at the airport though. there are dedicated kiosks that do exactly this. what the gently caress
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Bob Morales posted:Because our sales department micromanages our marketing department instead of working with them. our new marketing director has went rogue and setup shop on Google docs.
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Collateral Damage posted:You're going at this from the wrong direction. You should applaud them for taking the first steps towards moving your business to cloud services, but explain to them in very clear words that it is Not Your Problem when sales finds out and throws a hissy fit. migrating to the cloud without support from the IT department is like letting a 6 year old drive through downtown traffic alone.
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