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Darchangel posted:And of all printers, Zebra label printers are the worst. They have almost literally no competition in their usage space, so they just keep making the same poo poo printer with the same poo poo firmware forever. I kind of half-agree. We have a large fleet of Zebra mobile direct thermal printers. Physically they are generally bullet proof and just always work, and rarely ever break. However configuring them is a massive pain in the rear end. Requiring a bunch of cryptic commands in 2 different languages, and putting them into a "AUTOEXEC.BAT" file which is uploaded to the printer. And often the same configuration command has slightly different results across printers, even though they are the same part number. I also briefly had a stint writing software to talk to them, and holy poo poo... There are no less than 3 different languages they speak. ZPL, the modern language, can do nearly everything, but the older language called CPCL can and has to sometimes be used interchangeably as some functions are only available in it. ZPL is fairly cryptic being a bunch of 2 letter command codes with options following them. And CPCL is almost like writing in Basic. The 3rd language, called EPL, I never used thankfully.
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So how far would you say you've carried a printer?
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nullfunction posted:So how far would you say you've carried a printer? It depends. How cute is she?
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Anyone ever done Konica Minolta LDAP, I'm trying to see if I can automate the saved boxes to sync with the AD groups so I don't have to manually update them all the time.
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gently caress every printer. In other news, is anyone at NetApp Insight this week? A bullet-free event so far this year!
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Aunt Beth posted:gently caress every printer. wow, it's been a whole year already? where does life slip away to?
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adorai posted:wow, it's been a whole year already? where does life slip away to? It melts into a puddle of tears, toner, and whiskey.
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I had a fun time printing labels today. I got scared that I broke the whole thing. It's like bc I got a job in IT where I don't use ANYTHING I learned in my A+ or Net+, I completely forgot how to react when I needed those skills.
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Kashuno posted:how do y'all quantify stuff for your resume that is more technical in nature? I am updating my resume and I have some great projects that I can be like "Implemented and deployed mobile weight tracking for pallets, saving the company over 250k/yr in freight costs" but also stuff like "Oversaw migration of 30 servers from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2016" which doesn't have quite as quantifiable a value. I know having numbers on my resume is great but I am struggling how to tie numbers into things like that. Is it useful to even tie numbers to that? The last 'So, you've been made redundant' course I went on was a few years back now, but in the CV info they went through they said it was better to show what happened and why, eg: I helped/did/oversaw: - a thing Which included: - stuff getting changed The result being: - positive points so, something like: I oversaw: - the migration of 30 servers from x to y which included: - working closley with my team / hands on troublshooting / testing / QA / sign off etc The result: - keeping th company up to date, ensuring compliant security patches, better user experience, money saved in less downtime / support contracts and so on. This advice could be woefully out of date now, but it's what I've still got on my CV and while i'm not currently job searching, I get a steady stream of recruitment emails daily. cheers 
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Darchangel posted:And of all printers, Zebra label printers are the worst. They have almost literally no competition in their usage space, so they just keep making the same poo poo printer with the same poo poo firmware forever. please tell there is a replacement out there, we have zp450, zt410 and zt230s, and i hate all of them.
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spiny posted:The last 'So, you've been made redundant' course I went on was a few years back now, but in the CV info they went through they said it was better to show what happened and why, eg:
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Granted I’m not in a position that looks at resumes, I feel like if you have any sort of decent formatting and STAR method points you’re going to be better than 90% of the garbage that’s sent in. Resume writing is a skill that is so so important but there is a laughable amount of training on it.
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Vulture Culture posted:STAR-oriented resumes are great, but "oversaw" is an absolutely useless word and you should never put it on a resume FWIW “oversaw” always sounds passive and vague to me.
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Vulture Culture posted:STAR-oriented resumes are great, but "oversaw" is an absolutely useless word and you should never put it on a resume FWIW 'project managed' better ?
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spiny posted:'project managed' better ? Unless you actually had people reporting to you, I'd prefer to see something like "Primary Lead on project X"
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Proteus Jones posted:“oversaw” always sounds passive and vague to me. “Posted on the forums while others”
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I always say in interviews that I stay up to date on the latest developments in my relevant disciplines but what I mean is that I just read which products IT goons complain about the most. Which ends up being every product, bunch of whiney bitches
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Sepist posted:I always say in interviews that I stay up to date on the latest developments in my relevant disciplines but what I mean is that I just read which products IT goons complain about the most. Which ends up being every product, bunch of whiney bitches "The people I network recommend that everything is poo poo actually, and we just pick the least lovely for this particular task. However, do note that whatever we decide it will be lovely and someone will always try and sell us on something else being less lovely"
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Oct 23, 2018 16:20
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"I keep up with industry trends by signing up for the newsletter at my local liquor store"
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Docjowles posted:"I keep up with industry trends by signing up for the newsletter at my local liquor store"
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Bob Morales, I see you posting in other threads, how is your new job?
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Anyone ever think that printers being universally lovely might be proof of simulated reality? Like, some advanced intelligence wanted to see what would happen if culturally primitive humans developed technology far in advance of what happened historically, so they had to intentionally sabotage all printers to ensure that Richard Stallman would get super pissed off at them and pioneer the open source movement.
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Vulture Culture posted:I have cleaned every local liquor store out of their stock of Apothic Inferno for this year I did the same thing with my local store and their supply of High West Yippee Ki-Yay. I bought a bottle every time I walked in until it was gone. I regret nothing.
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nullfunction posted:So how far would you say you've carried a printer? .4 miles - HP Laserjet Pro M477 FDN By choice though. I took the long route by way of Starbucks. The thing JUST BARELY fit through the door. Thank goodness it did because I would have looked really silly getting stuck in a door of a Starbucks with a printer.
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The Fool posted:Bob Morales, I see you posting in other threads, how is your new job? Okay so far. But it's only been a week and two days. It's about 4 times larger of a company and we have over 10 people in IT. Manager is a military background guy who's been there 25 years so my being older is helpful. I've heard some silly anti-Microsoft and anti-object-oriented-programming rants but nothing too crazy. I haven't been on much since I can't hit the board from work because of pretty strict firewall rules and such, plus we can't even have our phones out. We do a lot of proprietary metal work with robots and they are afraid of people STEALING THEIR SECRETS. But we do have vending machines... Crazy stuff: Their ERP system is home grown with the front end in MICROSOFT ACCESS (the data is in MySQL, however) There's a domain controller but they don't use it No antivirus Everyone is admin All servers are physical There's a guest VLAN but all the phones are on a physically separate network All the IP's are static Some weird email server called Kerio Only about 10 people have email on their phones and only 4 people have VPN access All the ERP/Access stuff is in Visual Source Safe but there are some Python and PHP apps that are not under version control, are manually deployed, no test environment... Right now I'm working on some .DXF file parsing poo poo and documenting anything I come across that's weird. Today I took two of the programmers, installed Gitlab on a local server and we're going to put their poo poo in it tomorrow.
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Kerio is an absolutely hilarious dog poo poo email server, very popular with Apple shops before Gmail came along, and it should have died in 2008.
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very stable genius posted:I did the same thing with my local store and their supply of High West Yippee Ki-Yay. I bought a bottle every time I walked in until it was gone. I regret nothing.
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Bob Morales posted:Okay so far. You say that but then you say other things that don't match up to that.
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Sickening posted:You say that but then you say other things that don't match up to that. You’d think it would be a dumpster fire but everything appears to work fine with no emergencies I’m trusting the process, but still very skeptical. Worst case I fix some stuff up Lol
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Bob Morales posted:
This sounds extremely on par for a machine shop I interviewed for 6 months ago. It seems machine / electrical engineers thought they could do IT by themselves, computers are no different from machines or electrical systems after all! They get poo poo to work as is, but the second one item needs to be upgraded the whole thing collapses.
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Docjowles posted:"I keep up with industry trends by signing up for the newsletter at my local liquor store" I'm on week 5 of my 6 weeks no drinking bet. Done wonders for my health and pants size but I do look forward to next week when I'm allowed to have a real beer again.
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Bob Morales posted:Crazy stuff: Posts like this remind me of car builder shows on the Discovery Channel- the ones where they discover a rusted out shell of a 34 Ford in a barn and turn it into a hot rod. Remove/repair rust Box the frame Rebuild engine / beefy tranny Bigger brakes Tires/wheels/shocks/suspension Add EFI / Supercharger Chrome the trim Paint I get the same feeling when I build a tidy AD/DNS/DHCP architecture on a brand new VM with healthy cables from desktop to switch. Order from chaos. Order from chaos.
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Our open concept floor plan is becoming even more open concept. No assigned desks, managers dont get offices. Edit: oh yea. If you need a place to store personal space you can grab a free locker. 3:1 over subscription 
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Oct 24, 2018 17:41
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Welcome to the Thunder Dome
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Sepist posted:Our open concept floor plan is becoming even more open concept. No assigned desks, managers dont get offices. Hopefully this is the "Double-Down" phase of the Fantastically Bad Idea Cycle, and will be followed soon with Realization and then Collapse. I haven't figured out all of the other stages yet, but one of the early ones is "Someone Allows Potentially Dangerous Information to Reach Management"
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*a steering committee of 20 people are feeding dangerous information to management My favorite one is the steering committee voted no on pumping ambient music through the floor and management said nah gently caress it were gonna try it anyway. What is the point of democracy
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Sepist posted:*a steering committee of 20 people are feeding dangerous information to management Who ever said it was a democracy? The steering committee is there so management has people that agree with them.
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 Current length of conference call for a rediculous prod push.
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