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KoRMaK posted:Look, when I take chicks to my bedroom I want them to ask questions about my rig "So what do you do?" "I study computer science at college" "I figured that, since the side of your computer case was open" Actual pillow talk from one of the very few one night stands I managed to have in college.
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Segmentation Fault posted:Why not? It's just water. RFC2324 posted:Pure h2o is pretty much nonconductive. It's the impurities that make water both dangerous and useful. Even with distilled water, spraying a computer with it will create short circuits because the PCB is not sealed. They are resin bonded, but traces have, everywhere, openings to the outside world that water could get into. On top of that, you have things like screw mounting holes, fans caked with dirt, and so forth. And that's even if you manage to get 100% pure distilled water, which is an average persons' pipe dream. Most water you can get ahold of, even "distilled water" has impurities in it. All "distilled" means is just that it meets an arbitrary standard of purity to be able to be called "distilled" in the market place. You can get sealers and all of that other fun stuff, but if your computer has been in operation for any amount of time you aren't going to have that option easily available.
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evobatman posted:"So what do you do?" It couldn't have been too bad, she stuck around long enough to look at your computer 
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I can't stand people who can't understand that. "It's just water!" yeah, that's the loving problem. Most electronics don't do water. I've had this conversation with 3 guards at the freight yard, about bringing the patrol cart charger inside when it rains. "But it's heavy! And it's just water!" Toast in the tub is a great idea. Stop fretting, it's just water.
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PassTheRemote posted:Toast in the tub is a great idea. Stop fretting, it's just water. Right until you're a boss short and sitting in court.
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Jun 27, 2016 18:29
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A ticket comes in: "I keep running out of space and can't figure out why." So I run WinDirStat against his C: drive.  For how often this happens I have to assume some people don't understand that importing their iTunes library is going to take up space on their drive.
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Hungry Computer posted:A ticket comes in: Maybe they've been watching Silicon Valley and don't realize Pied Piper is fictional?
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Jun 27, 2016 18:42
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Hungry Computer posted:A ticket comes in: This is always fun on servers. Get to play figure out why a department drive is suddenly 50GB, oh "new" person who has been here 3 years has all the product images saved locally, you found out and told them to put it in the share. I do want that stuff backed up, but we're running really low on space and have more in the Q4 budget. I'm not sure we're going to make it. I found some legacy stuff I "archived" (moved to the decommissioned exchange server). Still running at 15% free space on pretty much every server is cutting it a bit close for my liking.
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Hungry Computer posted:A ticket comes in: "Its says its on my phone, but it says 0k used! So its not on there!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrv8i2X3gnI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3kw46r2RZA
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KoRMaK posted:Look, when I take chicks to my bedroom I want them to ask questions about my rig  That's a nice computer you have there Oh that? That's nothing...let me show you my dongle
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Hungry Computer posted:A ticket comes in: When I worked a retail operation we used to get so many "My drive is full!" cases, I got to be able to look at the WinDirStat treemap and immediately point out which directories were porn.
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Jun 27, 2016 19:12
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Anyone that uses PDQ deploy know how to make it deploy a .Application file (ClickOnce Application Deployment Manifest)? It is an install file and clicking on it in windows explorer starts the installer but PDQ Deploy comes back and says "failed- not a win32 application". Their site and google are not being any help.
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Trastion posted:Anyone that uses PDQ deploy know how to make it deploy a .Application file (ClickOnce Application Deployment Manifest)? It is an install file and clicking on it in windows explorer starts the installer but PDQ Deploy comes back and says "failed- not a win32 application". Pretty sure you can't... ClickOnce is a per user installation, so it needs to run in the context of the user to work. ClickOnce also has no silent install ability. PDQDeploy does not execute in the user context, so if you where able to get it to work, the user wouldn't see the app installed anyways. Edit: Apparently you can get around the security prompt and install silently, but only if the manifest file has been digitally signed with a certificate that is trusted by the computer. But it still requires the installer to run in the user's context. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172241.aspx stevewm fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Jun 27, 2016 |
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I haven't done any work with .application but from what I understand it is necessary to start it as a URL through IE. Try making a command line step of "C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer>iexplore.exe URL" If what stevewm says is true, remember to change your package deployment to Run As Logged On User.
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Inspector_666 posted:When I worked a retail operation we used to get so many "My drive is full!" cases, I got to be able to look at the WinDirStat treemap and immediately point out which directories were porn. That must've led to some interesting conversations with the customers.
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Jun 27, 2016 22:38
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Holy poo poo.. last week and today are what the thread title is. Anyone need an operations guy with experience with AIX, Windows, iSeries, AIX and can do things in powershell and read C# and python, located to the west of Minneapolis, MN? Seriously considering getting out of IT and pursuing one of the below degrees the tech college offers - Automation Robotics Engineering Technology Fluid Power Engineering Technology Plastics Engineering Technology
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Oh poo poo, I check on E-mail activity at home and notice every message from 4:30pm is still stuck in a deferred state. We've had a software vendor upgrade and migrate some stuff and required some E-mail transport rules to get things moving, somehow a receive connector brought our exchange server to it's knees. It's past 10pm and I'm seeing pages of yellow warnings on AVG anti spam, rather than piss about I switch off the last made connectors and see yellow start turning to green, I anticipate tomorrow is going to involve an interesting chat... but likely a lot less hostile if E-mail was completely dead.
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Hungry Computer posted:That must've led to some interesting conversations with the customers. Some people would be very upfront about it when they first brought the computer in, other's would be oddly proud about it after I told them there were too many "media files" on the computer, and other people just took that line at face value.
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Inspector_666 posted:Some people would be very upfront about it when they first brought the computer in, other's would be oddly proud about it after I told them there were too many "media files" on the computer, and other people just took that line at face value. I haven't really ever worked retail in computer repair, but the number of times I've run across porn (And the few instances of child porn  ) in the business world make me fear the idea.
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Jun 27, 2016 23:03
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Designer asks my boss if it's possible to locate a job file from 2011 that's not on the main or archive shares. 5 weeks later when he's working from home he forwards it to me asking me if I can help. I point out that if it's not in those two places then it's an Accounts question unless they are specifically asking for a file restore. He responds saying we need to take care of it because our Accounts person went on holiday two weeks ago. 
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Jun 27, 2016 23:06
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Danith posted:Holy poo poo.. last week and today are what the thread title is. We need an iSeries guy if you know RPG and want to be paid to move to sunny Madison, WI.
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Ghostlight posted:Designer asks my boss if it's possible to locate a job file from 2011 that's not on the main or archive shares. 5 weeks later when he's working from home he forwards it to me asking me if I can help. fwiw I did 2 years of it and I encountered no child porn, and you become numb to the regular porn pretty quickly. For the most part you got no reason to look at personal files anyway so it's pretty easy to avoid. We'd just backup the entire user's folder and go along our merry way. Unless the customer specifically requests it, there's no reason to as much as look at individual files. Even then, just the filenames, no need to open them. e: As a regular of the internet for many, many years, there's really not much that I could find that would phase me anyway.
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Yeah, I remember the standard "we just back up the user folder, is there anything else we need to backup" conversation. Occasionally followed up by a sheepish direction to the porn directory. More funny were when you were out fixing a teenager's computer and the parents insisted on sitting in on that part of the conversation and the kid going fluorescent red. Worst/funniest was when a dad got me out to fix his daughter's computer that apparently was having problems. Her room and the whole house was super-full of ultra religious stuff, but when I powered up the machine her MSN popped open immediately on startup and the profile pic was her in a very revealing photo - the Dad was the most angry I've ever seen anyone in person since of course he was sitting next to me. I would have hated to be her when she got home from school.
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In unrelated news Why the gently caress do clients call describing a problem at someone's machine and when I start asking questions immediately respond "Oh I'm not at his PC at the moment" and then take 5 minutes to go there (or not be able to because they're using it). How the gently caress do they think I'm going to fix the problem?
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iajanus posted:In unrelated news They can now tell their bosses that they opened the issue up with support and blame you for any delays of course.
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iajanus posted:In unrelated news I don't mind those. I mind the "Joe is getting an error message. No I don't know what it was. No he's not here, and I can't get on his computer. Can you fix it?"
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Renegret posted:For the most part you got no reason to look at personal files anyway so it's pretty easy to avoid. We'd just backup the entire user's folder and go along our merry way. Unless the customer specifically requests it, there's no reason to as much as look at individual files. Even then, just the filenames, no need to open them. 
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Back in college I had a folder right on my desktop that I named NOT PORN It was full of various, non pornographic stuff. I only tricked one person with it, but it was totally worth it. I did it once with a folder labeled PORN but it just wasn't as funny. I feel bad for anybody who has to do data recovery for me in the future because I like naming my folders things like STUFF and MORE STUFF
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Arsten posted:the number of times I've run across porn (And the few instances of child porn This is the kind of thing where it quickly goes from, "aww man, gotta drink at night to forget the pain of computer janitoring, amirite" to "carrying a flask on the job wouldn't be so bad..." Seek out counseling if you need to man. That poo poo is rough.
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Hooray, level3 outages affecting our entire mpls! drat, all the work on my plate is at remote sites, can't get things done with 30% packet loss!
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Renegret posted:I feel bad for anybody who has to do data recovery for me in the future because I like naming my folders things like STUFF and MORE STUFF I feel bad for future me who has to go find a file or picture or something when I have several folders named 'Stuff', 'Things', 'Other Things', etc.
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Renegret posted:Back in college I had a folder right on my desktop that I named NOT PORN I do like the idea of someone doing this unironically, i.e. has so much porn that he has to keep a special folder for everything that isn't.
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suuma posted:I feel bad for future me who has to go find a file or picture or something when I have several folders named 'Stuff', 'Things', 'Other Things', etc. The inventory control person left 6 months ago, they were the only one that did what they did and they kept track of everything in a custom access database and excel files named stuff, thing, Idontknowwhattocallthis and so on. It's still a mess in a maze of stuff more stuff even more stuff and stuff 2014 which has files from 2015 in it. The file named stuff.xls and stuff2.xls don't have the same "stuff" but stuff3.xls and stuff4.xls are the same just newer versions of stuff.xls stuff5 though! that's the same as stuff2! It's such a horrible mess and the person refuses to come in even for triple pay and tell us what the hell is up. How is this my problem? Well it's not really, but I hear about it and now have a search for "stuff" on file shares. Anyone that names something that gets their name submitted to be talked to about proper name conventions.
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The Desktop has always been my dumping ground.. Back in the Windows 95/98/Me and 2000 days when I reinstalled Windows every few months I would just take everything on the desktop and put it in a folder called Desktop Stuff before saving it somewhere. Once Windows was reinstalled, this folder would be copied to my new desktop. Only for me to repeat the process over again in a few months. Looking at some of my old backups I have paths such as this: \desktop stuff\desktop stuff\desktop stuff\desktop stuff\desktop stuff\desktop stuff\ I remember hitting the path length limit on more than a few occasions.
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You know how they say that doctors make the worst patients? I feel like the same holds true for IT professionals. I'm guilty of doing the same things we complain about users doing, the only difference is I try not to dump that on other people. My desktop is a dumping ground for random text files and pictures that really should be organized properly but 
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devmd01 posted:Hooray, level3 outages affecting our entire mpls! Same! Except we're a VoIP provider and I'm one of the poor saps who got stuck on call duty today. 
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devmd01 posted:Hooray, level3 outages affecting our entire mpls! My TWTC poo poo was rock solid before the level 3 buyout. Since then...
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Data Graham posted:I do like the idea of someone doing this unironically, i.e. has so much porn that he has to keep a special folder for everything that isn't. If you keep a separate locked drive, that's pretty much how it works.
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The SAN I'm installing today requires an internal DNS server with correct forward and backward lookups. The client finally provided the information (after telling me to go use Google originally) and the IP looked a little weird because it began with 104. I know my private address spaces and that sure as poo poo isn't one. So I whois the IP and found out that it's a Digital Ocean server, so the internal DNS is in the cloud! With that being said it does do the lookups correctly, they just better hope the internet never goes down or goodbye internal lookups. Which would be real fun since the SAN uses DNS lookups for it's monitoring tool.
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pr0digal posted:The SAN I'm installing today requires an internal DNS server with correct forward and backward lookups. The client finally provided the information (after telling me to go use Google originally) and the IP looked a little weird because it began with 104. I bet it's running BIND and exposed to 0.0.0.0 a recipe for excellent security.
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