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Those kinds of places strike me as the ideal environment to live and telecommute from if you can land a gig that is 100% W@H. Be a developer making 90k+ in the land of 30k incomes and live like a sultan.
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Sep 10, 2015 05:12
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Yeah, internet speed is atrocious down there. On top of that you'll often find some dirt floor wooden shack of a sharecropper family sitting a couple hundred feet off from some half-million dollar mammoth palace. My uncle once described it as a place of incomparable beauty and crushing sadness when you compare the haves and have-nots. As a white male you have it made. Anyone else is SOL.
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Sep 10, 2015 05:52
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MiniFoo posted:Out of curiosity, what credentials did you have when you were first hired? Certs, degree(s), previous IT experience, referrals, etc. CompTIA A+ and 4 years of phone tech support experience before the San Bruno job. First year was as AppleCare, so I had mac experience.
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Sep 10, 2015 07:35
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The only thing worse than a Buffalo NAS is a chinese version Buffalo NAS that needs a super special snowflake firmware.
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Sep 10, 2015 11:00
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Boss is currently explaining to a customer how having a desktop full of shortcuts slows down a computer. 
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Sep 10, 2015 14:08
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Segmentation Fault posted:Boss is currently explaining to a customer how having a desktop full of shortcuts slows down a computer. In college somebody tried to tell me this exact thing
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Sep 10, 2015 14:10
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My dad, God bless his soul, once explained to me how windows that are on top get more CPU than the ones behind it. However, this was Windows 3.11 so it's possible he was right.
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Sep 10, 2015 14:15
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Merijn posted:My dad, God bless his soul, once explained to me how windows that are on top get more CPU than the ones behind it. They kind of do though. When they aren't visible, I don't think they are getting rendered as often.... I think
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Sep 10, 2015 14:22
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Merijn posted:My dad, God bless his soul, once explained to me how windows that are on top get more CPU than the ones behind it. Windows not-Server does in fact raise the priority slightly of the process that has the current active window. MSDN posted:When a process that uses NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS is brought to the foreground, the scheduler boosts the priority class of the process associated with the foreground window, so that it is greater than or equal to the priority class of any background processes. The priority class returns to its original setting when the process is no longer in the foreground. However on Windows 3.11, the system was running with cooperative multitasking meaning there was barely a concept of "process", and every program had control of the CPU until it voluntarily released it back to the OS.
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Sep 10, 2015 14:28
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Segmentation Fault posted:Boss is currently explaining to a customer how having a desktop full of shortcuts slows down a computer. Well, to be fair, one of my users had so many icons on her desktop that there was no room for any more, but she kept making more shortcuts. The only place for them to go was in the very first slot on the upper lefthand side, and they would just pile up in that one spot. Apparently, once you get about a hundred icons all occupying the same space on the desktop, the GPU freaks the gently caress out trying to display them and just nopes right out. The video card making GBS threads out and reconnecting every few seconds did result in a much slower computer. That or it could have been her Outlook trying to process 160k emails.
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Sep 10, 2015 14:30
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Segmentation Fault posted:Boss is currently explaining to a customer how having a desktop full of shortcuts slows down a computer. I tell that to users so they'll clean up their goddamn desktop with so many icons there's a stack of them in the corner because they don't all fit.
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Sep 10, 2015 14:31
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Boogalo posted:I tell that to users so they'll clean up their goddamn desktop with so many icons there's a stack of them in the corner because they don't all fit. To be fair this guy's desktop was extremely cluttered, and he had several videos on it adding up to about 28 gigs, but still.
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Sep 10, 2015 14:41
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nielsm posted:Windows not-Server does in fact raise the priority slightly of the process that has the current active window. That's really cool! But since my dad never raised his tech-level above that of 'write a hello world app in Visual Basic 3' I doubt he knew this. Probably just guessed it. 
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Sep 10, 2015 14:42
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768 icons on the desktop. 1162 files loose in the home directory. I have no idea how that guy got anything done. But at that level, your system probably will chug a bit.
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Sep 10, 2015 14:47
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Merijn posted:My dad, God bless his soul, once explained to me how windows that are on top get more CPU than the ones behind it. OS X Mavericks actually got that as a feature, 20 years later. 
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Sep 10, 2015 15:10
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Fun fact. OSX will actually keep poo poo on your desktop partially loaded in memory, so it will open faster. On the assumption that these things are important. So storing too many documents on the desktop actually causes a huge chunk of RAM to be reserved without a process showing in activitu monitor. Another fun fact: Accidentally dumping your entire iPhoto library onto your desktop can cause your mac to crap itself as it constantly cycles everything into and out of memory.
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Sep 10, 2015 17:23
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I know correlation != causation and all that, but I find that in a department full of identical computers, the people with desktops full of garbage are also the ones who have the most "my computer is slow" complaints. 
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Sep 10, 2015 17:40
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J posted:I know correlation != causation and all that, but I find that in a department full of identical computers, the people with desktops full of garbage are also the ones who have the most "my computer is slow" complaints. garbage-filled desktops are just a symptom of not knowing how to properly use or maintain a computer. If a user isn't educated enough to file things away in proper directories how can they possibly know not to click on a pop-up offering free ipod smilies?
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Sep 10, 2015 17:57
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J posted:I know correlation != causation and all that, but I find that in a department full of identical computers, the people with desktops full of garbage are also the ones who have the most "my computer is slow" complaints. Or people that absolutely refuse to reboot for any reason, even if it's for major patching or software upgrades/updates. Had a lady like that from a previous IT job, didn't want to reboot, shut programs down, or log off because "it took too long to load everything again". My boss fought with her until he finally got her password (she wouldn't provide it so he found another "method" to get it), logged in after hours, took note of everything that was opened, then saved/closed and rebooted. Brought it all back up, reopened her apps and files, and she didn't even notice the drat thing had been restarted. Other than the "hey, things work better/faster now" after my boss fed her some BS line about being able to fix the PC without a restart. Even the people that sat near this lady were sick of her poo poo and complained but I think she was related to someone higher up in the company, so that went nowhere fast.
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Sep 10, 2015 18:04
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J posted:I know correlation != causation and all that, but I find that in a department full of identical computers, the people with desktops full of garbage are also the ones who have the most "my computer is slow" complaints. Well, if you have roaming profiles enabled, then yea, poo poo all over the desktop is definitely going to end up making your account take a hell of a lot longer to sign on.
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Sep 10, 2015 18:06
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Brain teaser time! We had three 6TB NAS units die, and each unit was at ~99% capacity. I have been allotted two 4TB NAS units to restore and rehost all that data. CAN YOU SOLVE THE MYSTERY
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Sep 10, 2015 18:10
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larchesdanrew posted:Brain teaser time! Yes. It was larchesdanrew, in the chief engineer's office, with a Buffalo NAS. (We are playing Clue, right?)
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Sep 10, 2015 18:12
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larchesdanrew posted:Brain teaser time! You are going to put them into RAID 0 instead of RAID 1? I'd say RAID 5 instead of RAID 6, but we all know you have at most 2 drives in that NAS.
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Sep 10, 2015 18:15
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Kyrosiris posted:Yes. Nope, Guess Who. "Is this person literally a giant piece of poo poo?" "Yes, you win!" pixaal posted:You are going to put them into RAID 0 instead of RAID 1? I'd say RAID 5 instead of RAID 6, but we all know you have at most 2 drives in that NAS. Hahaha guess again  I absolutely could not make this poo poo up A Frosty Witch fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Sep 10, 2015 |
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Sep 10, 2015 18:16
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Ask your GM why it's okay for them to use consumer-level products for a commercial-level use scenario also ask them why their production values suck and if there's any correlation between these two things
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Sep 10, 2015 18:28
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Segmentation Fault posted:Ask your GM why it's okay for them to use consumer-level products for a commercial-level use scenario "Because the Chief Engineer's word is law and if he says it's ok, then by drat, it's good enough for me" Still waiting for a response on the job. Since there's absolutely nothing around here as far as employment, anyone got any advice on getting into remote support so I can work from home?
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Sep 10, 2015 18:29
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God if you get that new job make sure to kill off all those nas on the way out. The aws will be taking the place of all of that mess right?
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UCS Hellmaker posted:The aws will be taking the place of all of that mess right? Nope, aws is only going to be for clients to submit files to us. AWS for archiving was shot down since they've got some other service they're looking into come November. I want to be gone by then, and I hope every loving NAS they're using fails spectacularly in the meantime. I should put teamviewer on an out of the way computer somewhere around here so after I'm gone I can go through and do some botched firmware updates on them, one by one, over the course of a month.
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Sep 10, 2015 18:34
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larchesdanrew posted:Nope, Guess Who. Why don't you just build a file server at this point? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just have an 8 drive NAS instead of 8 1 drive NAS? I mean you could JBOD the 8 drive if the CE wants it that way but it should still be cheaper. Synology sells some home use 8 drive devices you can load up with WD RED drives which are consumer grade, like he wants, but not as idiotic. You can even use their hybrid RAID if he finds RAID levels confusing.
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pixaal posted:Why don't you just build a file server at this point? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just have an 8 drive NAS instead of 8 1 drive NAS? I mean you could JBOD the 8 drive if the CE wants it that way but it should still be cheaper. Synology sells some home use 8 drive devices you can load up with WD RED drives which are consumer grade, like he wants, but not as idiotic. You can even use their hybrid RAID if he finds RAID levels confusing. Already tried that. I suggested an 8-disk Synology diskstation and he said that Synology is "bad" and "makes bad products." Then after our fifth failed Buffalo, he said that he read that Synology was good, then when I brought him a quote and deployment proposal, he said that it was bad again. I honestly don't give a poo poo anymore at this point. I'm mentally and emotionally done with this place and I'm jumping at the very first opportunity that comes along. For shits, if I get this new job, I'm going to the GM and offering to let him make a salary counter offer and give me my own department or I'm out. Then I'll leave and be happy for once.
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larchesdanrew posted:Already tried that. I suggested an 8-disk Synology diskstation and he said that Synology is "bad" and "makes bad products." Then after our fifth failed Buffalo, he said that he read that Synology was good, then when I brought him a quote and deployment proposal, he said that it was bad again. Never take a counter offer.
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larchesdanrew posted:For shits, if I get this new job, I'm going to the GM and offering to let him make a salary counter offer and give me my own department or I'm out. Then I'll leave and be happy for once. Sign for the other place before that and refuse no matter what he offers you.
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pixaal posted:Never take a counter offer. Oh, I never said I'd take it. I just want to see his reaction and see just how far up the CE's butt he actually is. Speaking of the CE, I neglected to mention that after I set his account up in Spiceworks, and gave him his login info, and set tickets assigned to him to be forwarded to his email, I began just assigning him every ticket that is an engineering issue. To date, there are 37 tickets in the queue assigned to him that he has never acknowledged. He knows to check the help desk and he's clearly ignoring the emails, so he is completely on the hook for all these unfixed things. I hope it all comes crashing down on him before I leave.
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I make 30k before taxes, which I take the absolute minimum I can take, and I live where it's fairly cheap to live too, and it's barely enough. Then again, I have like 70k in student loans so. Before I had to start paying those I was finally like "oh my god I can save up for a car finally!" then repayment hit and It was more like "if only I made 40k, maybe I could deal with this a little better"
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Segmentation Fault posted:garbage-filled desktops are just a symptom of not knowing how to properly use or maintain a computer. If a user isn't educated enough to file things away in proper directories how can they possibly know not to click on a pop-up offering free ipod smilies? I take exception to this. My work laptop is a cluttered mess, since I use my desktop as storage for any work-in-progress. Bonus points for when I undock and all my various documents get shoved together and stacked because the desktop area has been reduced from jumbo screen sized to LCD screen sized. Every now and then when it gets really bad I whip through it and file/sort/delete but generally, yeah. Desktop is a mess. Of course if I sat down at a users desktop and saw a screen filled with wreckage like "New Folder (9)", "FOUND.000" and .TMP files, well then all bets are off. edit: larchesdanrew posted:Oh, I never said I'd take it. I just want to see his reaction and see just how far up the CE's butt he actually is. You sir are a steely-eyed missile man. Agrikk fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Sep 10, 2015 |
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larchesdanrew posted:Brain teaser time! The drives were too full hence the failure.
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J posted:I know correlation != causation and all that, but I find that in a department full of identical computers, the people with desktops full of garbage are also the ones who have the most "my computer is slow" complaints. I find it appropriate that my computer desktop is very similar to the desktop my computer is on top of: Covered in crap I don't really need but I can't be bothered to move and I know where it is sort of while it's on the desk so I just leave it there and it all works out.
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Malek posted:The drives were too full hence the failure. The data starts spilling out of the drive gumming up the plates! Also: I told your Quality Lead about "And revert" So have fun with all of those "Please do the needful and revert" messages with him!
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A call came in on my "only call if it's an emergency" phone. "I can't respond to this email, it just tries to open Outlook and freezes." I tell them to submit a ticket and I'll get to it when I can. I promptly forget about it and no ticket is ever submitted. They just called in a fury. "Why didn't you come fix my email!?" I asked why they didn't submit the ticket like I said, then reiterated that I have to have a ticket to do any work. Really tempted to drop their ticket to the bottom of the queue for waiting so long.
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