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codo27 posted:Had 2 new high end workstations arrive for users. I cracked one open just out of curiosity, this thing has a hard drive in it? No SSD at all? Thats strange. I mention it to them and they confirm they were ordered with SSDs. I'm told apparently rather than buy them preinstalled, they ordered them separately. A bad one is a great way to waste it.
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codo27 posted:Had 2 new high end workstations arrive for users. I cracked one open just out of curiosity, this thing has a hard drive in it? No SSD at all? Thats strange. I mention it to them and they confirm they were ordered with SSDs. I'm told apparently rather than buy them preinstalled, they ordered them separately. The markup that people like Dell and HP will put on an SSD still winds me up, it's like the last thing they can rob you for. Moving from a 1TB laptop drive to a 256GB SSD was a £200 upgrade not that long ago, so it does make a lot of sense (if you're at the sort of company where it's possible) to just toss the included drive into a bin and put an SSD in yourself. The shithousery involved in making decisions about how to differentiate between the models is another thing - you have to bump up the range to get NVMe slots and that PC will cost 30% extra. It's getting better but it's only within the last year or so that Dell haven't been locking you out of speccing SSDs on the 3xxx series OptiPlex models.
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Plastik posted:They rode Dead Guy Ale to national success, and a lot of people are still asking how. Without looking anything about this up, they kind of took a page from Sam Adams and figured you don't have to be the best craft beer if you can just be the craft beer available everywhere.
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They also had perfect timing for the craft beer expansion to everywhere that wasn't hip.
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taqueso posted:They also had perfect timing for the craft beer expansion to everywhere that wasn't hip. Yeah, I actually barely see them anywhere anymore, and nobody ever seems to talk about them, but they did their thing at exactly the right time to get away with it.
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codo27 posted:Had 2 new high end workstations arrive for users. I cracked one open just out of curiosity, this thing has a hard drive in it? No SSD at all? Thats strange. I mention it to them and they confirm they were ordered with SSDs. I'm told apparently rather than buy them preinstalled, they ordered them separately. Theoretically, using a vendor is supposed to make sure that you don't make boneheaded mistakes like that. In practice....
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We have reached peak "ESL, rushed delivery, just send it":quote:Hi All,
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Security are gonna delay that one. Obvious phishing attack.
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Sirs,
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Woof Blitzer posted:Sirs, I run into that so often when dealing with clients from the Philippines. Everyone is "Sir So-and-So". "Please escalate the ticket to Sir Woof", etc.
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I swear to god if you escalate that ticket straight to me I'm gonna send it right back
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"Woah we got multiple tickets coming in from this client there might be a major issue can I get your eyes on this? I sent you one." Two. Two tickets came in. You gave me a corrupt profile ticket that the helpdesk knows how to fix. We have a damned moron handling incoming tickets, and I can't wait for my boss to drop the hammer on splitting my team off so this dumbass can't send tickets to us directly anymore.
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hihifellow posted:"Woah we got multiple tickets coming in from this client there might be a major issue can I get your eyes on this? I sent you one." I’m having flashbacks to the MSP I used to work at.
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DNS... Again? gently caress, I bet it's DNS It was DNS Network team added a new DNS server to the pool, which decided to not respond reliably, at midnight. Was working on that til 230am. And my phone started ringing again at 730 with remaining fallout. AlexDeGruven fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Jan 14, 2020 |
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Jan 14, 2020 13:59
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Assume DNS I fucken knew it Goddamn DNS
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DNS? DNS‽ DNS!
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Gonna drop this here without context for probably obvious work-related reasons, but TIL you can sign up for a service and install a plugin that makes your web browsing and email kosher. http://www.enativ.com/about_en.aspx It’s even certified by a rabbi.
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Yay working in a hopital lol I nope'd right the gently caress outta this one. 
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Yeah that's off to the incinerator
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Thanks Ants posted:Yeah that's off to the incinerator Yeah, called her and basically said, lol you can keep it and dispose of it however you'd dispose of biohazard waste, IT doesn't want it back!
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Entropic posted:
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Yo patch your poo poo right the gently caress now, this windows CVE is a doozy.
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spankmeister posted:Yo patch your poo poo right the gently caress now, this windows CVE is a doozy. Waiting for the patches to break a ton of other poo poo too, as is expected.
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Is Win7 support really ending completely or will there be something like the WinXP for ATMs long-term security fixes?
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You pay MS extra money for extended support.
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The Fool posted:You pay MS extra money for extended support. Or you omit that option so you can strong arm everyone to jump to 10. For all intent and purposes adding one year of security updates to 7 is useless, if the hardware/software can only run on win7 in 2020, upgrade or isolate the host.
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Entropic posted:
One of my minions at work posted this in response to the RIP: "I am sad, as per as I know this is best OS now it’s buried " Followed by someone else posting a GIF of Donnie's ashes blowing back on the Dude while Walter says, "Good night, sweet prince."
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I seriously do not get some people’s attachment to specific OS versions.
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The Fool posted:I seriously do not get some people’s attachment to specific OS versions. Yeah, me neither. Except for Windows 2000.
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I think XP & 7 stick out a tad more cause the versions before them were rough
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LethalGeek posted:I think XP & 7 stick out a tad more cause the versions before them were rough Windows 2000 was pretty well loved as far as I saw, with XP being made fun of as Fisher Price Win2K for a long time. Vista sucked until SP1 and 8 sucked until 8.1.
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For most people, the transition was from Me to XP, not 2000 to XP. e: not people reading this thread, the general public
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LethalGeek posted:I think XP & 7 stick out a tad more cause the versions before them were rough wolrah posted:I'd say more because the versions *after* them were rough. Probably both. If you went from a poo poo version to a good version to a poo poo version, I don't think it is unreasonable to look back on the good version with affection.
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In my experience most places the transition was from 98 to XP.
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LethalGeek posted:I think XP & 7 stick out a tad more cause the versions before them were rough
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Speaking of Windows patching, anyone else's security teams having heartburn over this right now? https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-fixes-windows-crypto-bug-reported-by-the-nsa/
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SlowBloke posted:if the hardware/software can only run on win7 in 2020, upgrade or isolate the host. I've done the PoC on an isolation project: Centos host running kvm\qemu, guest OS heavily firewalled, access to file shares via synchronized folders on the host OS. I figure for an XP system, there's a good chance that a modern system with an SSD and more RAM might actually be faster than the original box. Our big problem is vendors that don't have a Win 10 (or 7 !) version of the software for, just to pick one example of 1300, three $2 million dollar mini MRI scanners. I say "mini", but I honestly think we might have to do some demo work to get these things out of the building when we do retire them.
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Thanatosian posted:And the versions after. Nobody remembers Windows 8. As it should be.
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Windows 2000 was an NT 4.0 kernel, which served as the basis for the kernel that's still used today. Windows 95/98(SE)/ME were using the Chicago kernel which was a toy of a kernel, designed by the Redmond team themselves- ie. not useful for anything other than as a demonstration of what not to do (and host to one of only three 90s-era just-in-time virtual machines I know of, namely the Berkeley Packet Filter, VMwares ESX hypervisor, and BigBlt in Windows 95/98).
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