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MF_James posted:^--- you are correct, I requested 4 monitors, as did my team-lead and another guy on our team, because we work on multiple accounts, I have 2 monitors dedicated to our largest client (they provide us with a machine) and then 2 monitors devoted to my companies machine where I work on other clients. Once everyone else saw this, everyone else suddenly needed 4 monitors (hint: half of them are turned off or displaying something dumb like the weather) One of our clients at $AWFUL_JOB was a hedgefund, they all had six to twelve monitors per trader (multiple pcs), and my boss/owner was one of those people that had to have better, so he bought a couple 30" monitors, his desk could barely handle them, and his office was a 100 degrees since the A/C was barely functional and they made a ton of heat. Every time I'd see his screens it was just outlook on one window.
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The only thing that irritates me about people's monitor habits is the ones that set up a dedicated computer with its own screen that does nothing but display a status page for some piece of software. And they point it away from their desk as if it was some kind of art installation for the rest of the office. Bravo, asshat. Keep that toaster powered up 24/7 so people can ignore your bandwidth monitor. But other than that if it makes them happy to have a giant grid of panels on their desk, more power to them. Everyone deserves to feel comfortable at work. (just power them off when you go home at night)
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Sep 1, 2016 21:01
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I have 3 monitors at work. One is vertical for code reading. I used to have 4, but I gave one to the new guy so he could have 3. 
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Sep 1, 2016 21:04
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ratbert90 posted:I have 3 monitors at work. One is vertical for code reading. Congrats, you are a human being full of caring and love. And apparently you won't stop being so, according to your new avatar.
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Sep 1, 2016 21:08
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Arsten posted:Congrats, you are a human being full of caring and love. And apparently you won't stop being so, according to your new avatar. Thanks! People get REALLLLY upset over A/V around these parts.
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Sep 1, 2016 21:17
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I have 3 of our standard 19" user monitors because the greybeard that needs to hurry up and die and/or retire stole the dual 27" Samsungs that were bought specifically for the guy I replaced. He also insists on running both of them off a single NVS300 (same chipset as a GT210) and it hurt the soul when I see the performance even with simple Aero effects.
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Sep 1, 2016 21:18
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ratbert90 posted:Thanks! People get REALLLLY upset over A/V around these parts. Internet forums are covered in obscure hills with the corpses of posters at the top of them
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Sep 1, 2016 21:30
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did someone say AV!?!?!L KHELI{AOIHF Had something fun yesterday, one of my RDS servers took a total poo poo, I screwed around trying to bring it to life for a bit, gave up and just did a full Veeam restore (<3 Veeam), it was back up and running in 30 minutes from when I hit restore. The annoying part? Another admin worked on putting a GPO in place to deny log on as service rights to everything except the groups/users explicitly given rights, we ran into an issue with not having NT Service\All Services in there in QA, ez fix. Well, our VMHosts only exist in production, and how often do you power on/off a VM rather than just doing a reboot? Not often for us anyway. I just found out about the NT Virtual Machine\Virtual Machines group after banging my head against the wall for a little bit trying to figure out why I was getting logon errors when attempting to start a VM, and the way to add it to GPO is dumb, since the group only exists on the hosts you can't just put NT Virtual Machine\Virtual Machines you gotta add by SID, which annoys me.
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Sep 1, 2016 21:45
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MF_James posted:did someone say AV!?!?!L KHELI{AOIHF So if you had lost power and had to shut the DCs off you wouldn't have been able to bring the environment back up. At least you found out this way.
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Sep 1, 2016 21:48
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pixaal posted:So if you had lost power and had to shut the DCs off you wouldn't have been able to bring the environment back up. At least you found out this way. Actually, the interesting bit is that you can work around the issue (also we have 2 physical DCs that live outside the cluster for emergency "everything got hosed" problems), forcing a GPUpdate will cause the hosts to, once policy updates, to then add the security group, which is what I did to initially get the VM back up. explained here: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askcore/2012/10/31/logon-failures-involving-virtual-machines-in-windows-server-2012/ It's weird, so basically, despite our GPO loving those rights up, the VMMS is still able to add the group back when you force an update.
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Sep 1, 2016 22:07
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BOOTY-ADE posted:"Nothing more than a request" my rear end - if that's the case, the idiot should've chosen his wording more carefully and not literally told people to change their existing labeling to avoid upsetting anyone. gently caress I hate the culture of everyone being offended by everything nowadays. If the master/slave terminology was that much of a problem, then someone should've requested a change, oh, I dunno...more than half a century ago? 
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Sep 1, 2016 22:56
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I've never had dual monitors. I tried it here but I couldn't fit both on my stupid round table. 
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Sep 1, 2016 23:04
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Using two monitors is nice, but after using virtual desktops in Linux (and OS X)... Two monitors and virtual desktops are nice. So much room and easy ways to separate what you might have open. Code and development in one desktop, reports and communications in another.
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Sep 1, 2016 23:20
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xzzy posted:I maintain a Jenkins instance here and I was asked at one point to stop referring to the build nodes as "slaves." In Jenkins 2.0 they refer to them as "Agents". I told the Cloudbees guy I was talking to the other day and I would continue to call them slaves or jslaves and I wasn't changing the name of the slave_manager.py script we were using to control our slaves. poo poo pissing me off: "Hey our job is giving us out of memory errors what should we do?" "Errr, look at your memory utilization?" *blank stares* I go and check the job on our Jenkins server and it's complaining that 3 of the processes are using 2.4gb of memory each on a 7.5gb memory EC2 instance. I tell the guy this and he tells me he needs a bigger box for his test. He got a swift no and a deal with it. It was a test job for some Web UI tests and I'm not even sure how they are accomplishing this except lovely code or they don't know what they are doing (magic 8 ball says it is both with this guy).
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Sep 2, 2016 01:01
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Sprechensiesexy posted:The alarms generated by snooping triggered the attention of network security who contacted him and he contacted me. There is plenty wrong with my current employer but we're well past the point where incorrectly plugged in VOIP phones or rogue DHCP servers cause more than annoying alerts. We disable the port if someone plugs in a rogue DHCP server, and they have to submit a ticket to get it re-enabled, which is then copied to their boss. loving engineers.
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Sep 2, 2016 04:45
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Zamujasa posted:Using two monitors is nice, but after using virtual desktops in Linux (and OS X)... Two monitors and virtual desktops are nice. So much room and easy ways to separate what you might have open. Code and development in one desktop, reports and communications in another. I switched to a single big 4k monitor a few months back and its so much better.
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Sep 2, 2016 04:51
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DigitalMocking posted:We disable the port if someone plugs in a rogue DHCP server, and they have to submit a ticket to get it re-enabled, which is then copied to their boss. Actually it was a wireless presentation device. Why would you manufacture one of those with DHCP server capabilities in the first place?
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Sep 2, 2016 04:52
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Sprechensiesexy posted:Actually it was a wireless presentation device. Why would you manufacture one of those with DHCP server capabilities in the first place? I would presume standalone operation, it appears quite common for devices to ship with DHCP for discovery or initial setup these days.
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Sep 2, 2016 05:05
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Goddamnit, Microsoft. Stop trying to be Apple. The sad rainy cloud symbol is cute and all, but it doesn't tell me anything about what's wrong with my Azure environment!
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Sep 2, 2016 06:51
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Is Azure crying? 
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Sep 2, 2016 07:55
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Dear Lenovo, Please do not ship out laptops that have Windows 10 Preview Builds installed on them. I know I need to create a deployment image for this particular client, but I don't need to be reminded of it as soon as I join the laptop to their domain and it completely fucks everything up.
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Sep 2, 2016 08:26
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MiniFoo posted:Dear Lenovo, Haha, what? How did this even pass QA? Did it even pass QA? Did they turn you into QA (the Microsoft Way)?
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Sep 2, 2016 08:56
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Not in the IT field directly but today I found out the biggest patch panel / switch closet in my workplace shares a room with a 2500 amp, 4 Kv three phase transformer and we don't believe in shielded cable.
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Sep 2, 2016 11:20
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shame on an IGA posted:Not in the IT field directly but today I found out the biggest patch panel / switch closet in my workplace shares a room with a 2500 amp, 4 Kv three phase transformer and we don't believe in shielded cable. 
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Sep 2, 2016 11:53
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shame on an IGA posted:Not in the IT field directly but today I found out the biggest patch panel / switch closet in my workplace shares a room with a 2500 amp, 4 Kv three phase transformer and we don't believe in shielded cable. And in practice this is probably not a problem for you anyways, just wear PPE and don't touch the volts!
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Jeoh posted:Haha, what? How did this even pass QA? Did it even pass QA? Did they turn you into QA (the Microsoft Way)? Q.... A?
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DigitalMocking posted:I switched to a single big 4k monitor a few months back and its so much better. I had 2 26 inch 1080 monitors and really wanted to go to 4 but I mostly play games and ended up buying a 30 inch 2560x1600 monitor. I mostly use 2 out of my 3 monitors. Internet Game Video makes sense but with everything being streamed now and anything streamed inside a browser seeming to crush the framerate of any game I play video doesn't work unless it's a local file. Why does streaming netflix or twitch make a game go from 120FPS to 30FPS? Twitch is easy enough flash is garbage, but I thought netflix was HTML5 and had hopes that would get rid of the shittyness. Still nice to also be able to patch servers or run VMs and keep eye on them while doing everything else I normally do without a hitch. Maybe my streaming problem would go away if I finally upgraded my 2500k but man is that thing fly when you give it 32GB of RAM and SSDs.
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pixaal posted:Maybe my streaming problem would go away if I finally upgraded my 2500k but man is that thing fly when you give it 32GB of RAM and SSDs. I can play and watch Twitch streams at the same time. I have similar processor (2600k@4.4) with 16GB RAM and an SSD. But I have my 3 1080p monitors connected to my GTX 970, and that might be the key part of the equation.
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Sep 2, 2016 13:51
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I need a satellite account to vent about some of the insane decisions that cross my desk. A live action retelling of recent QA decisions that my team has needed to make: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_RZJUAQY4
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Sep 2, 2016 15:13
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Dumb web filters:
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Sep 2, 2016 17:10
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I've had Ars blocked before, if I remember right it was caused my a malware scan, probably an ad triggered it. Email to the security team asking to have it cleared actually worked!
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Can't see the image (thanks work firewall!  ) but I'm assuming it's Barracuda blocking Ars Technica due to it being a "game playing" site? poo poo was like that this morning for me, I was thinking that, if it was a local-admin decision, requesting Forbes.com be tagged for their gaming coverage. Also, talking to one of our IT janitors earlier on another issue, looks like a bunch of poo poo got locked down because staff at one of our locations were  Facebook all day and poo poo.(I'm the forums all day, but I'm also working my rear end off at the same time.)
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Sep 2, 2016 17:58
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Since I control the firewall I can unblock whatever I want. It was funny when the CEO asked that I unblock the gambling category because one of the executives was crying about it.
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totalnewbie posted:Dumb web filters: The new Barracuda Web Filter here blocked google play because of "Illegal Drugs". 
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Sep 2, 2016 18:03
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ratbert90 posted:The new Barracuda Web Filter here blocked google play because of "Illegal Drugs". How else are you going to find the Silk Road competitors? 
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Hmm, clocks on some devices are precisely an hour out, and we are currently in the summer months. I wonder what the root cause of this could be? Nah, keep changing the NTP server address that you pull the time from, you'll get there eventually.
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Thanks Ants posted:Hmm, clocks on some devices are precisely an hour out, and we are currently in the summer months. I wonder what the root cause of this could be? UTC forever.
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I agree on everything that isn't seen by 'normal' people. But for things like phone screens and multifunction printers it is reasonably important.
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Thanks Ants posted:I agree on everything that isn't seen by 'normal' people. But for things like phone screens and multifunction printers it is reasonably important. They need to work on GMT. It is vitally important that they wake up at midnight and go to sleep at 10:00 am
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Can't see the image (thanks work firewall! Gizmodo / Pornography
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