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I know I'm on the other side of the coin here, but a couple months ago, when I changed departments (and got a new PC/desk), I let IT know 2 weeks in advance 'Hi, I'll need all of this software installed as of June 13th: <list of Adobe products, plus other stuff>. These programs are required for my daily tasks." I actually started on the 20th, but my new boss and I both thought 'Hey, let's aim to have it ready the week before so we can iron out any issues early on!" Great plan, right?  Two full days after starting, I was still waiting for my new PC to even be delivered to my desk. This is of course after they confirmed that it would have been done on the 13th, if not the 14th. And then once I got set up with the actual PC, I didn't have any network access, which is also required. Granted, my boss and I assumed, given the fact that I was moving to this specific department that 1000% relies on access to various network drives that I would have that access granted, so maybe that was on my end, but I didn't actually end up doing any work until day 4. I mean, yay for a break and stuff, but the new position was actually work that I was excited to be doing and even though it was out of my hands, I felt bad that I was just kind of sitting around for 3 days. Anyone want to come work here and add something positive to the general IT experience?  The job and company are great, I was just amazed at how much the ball was dropped in this instance.
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I have a story of idiocy, and a tech question! I'm not in IT, I'm on the team that manages drat near all of the video assets for many, many of the adult sites we own (Brazzers, Digital Playground, Reality Kings, etc...) Today, while I was queueing up transferring hundreds of gb of data from our servers in LA to one of our Montreal drives (and while about 15-20 people were working on said drives while editing video) SOME EXTREMELY COOL AND SMART INDIVIDUAL decided that the folders that contained hundreds of organized subfolders, each containing various video projects, needed to be renamed. That immediately hosed up all of our shortcuts that we had through explorer (we're all using Windows 7). Now, I was using Aspera to transfer my stuff, and the data was being transferred to one of the subfolders of the renamed folder. The thing is, the data transfer didn't even blink, it kept going. Why? Shouldn't a) the rename request have failed, or b) the data transfer have halted immediately? I mean, I'm SUPER glad it didn't stop, but I'm mystified as to why. The only thing I can think of is, is it possible the network is based on or managed by a system that doesn't care about file/folder names, and actually references them with some sort of label we as users can't see? Isn't that how Unix handles things? Like... Goddamn, dude... If our boss was legally allowed one murder per month, I think he would have cashed in for the rest of the year just from this guy. "Uhh, sorry, I just wanted it to look more organized." 
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Sep 15, 2016 23:29
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Inspector_666 posted:I dunno poo poo-all about Aspara but if you're using a whole 3rd party copy program I assume it uses VSS rather than just copying the "explorer" data, so it was working off of a dataset that didn't give a gently caress about the naming change. Well, if that's the case, I don't think I'll bitch about Aspera ever again.
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Sep 16, 2016 00:12
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Also, I thought you made slot machine music. How'd you make that career jump? You lay down a funky bass groove for a game, a porn producer played it and said "I have got to get that guy working for me!" ? Haha, not quite. I was doing the casino gig in Moncton NB (home to SA saga himself, Dan Lirette!) for Spielo (now IGT), my wife was unemployed and trying to find something, anything, and her sister got her a job working for Mindgeek in Montreal, where my wife's actually from. We moved here in 2013, and now we both work at the same place. For anyone who doesn't know, Mindgeek owns pretty much all of the paid and free porn out there. We're like the Google of the adult world. Montreal is practically Silicon Valley for titties  With this job and the casino one, I've had a varied career, that's for sure. I still do audio on the side, some freelancing, but mostly I'm now part of the media asset management team for MG. We're always hiring, so anyone in the area reading this (or anyone willing to relocate to this beautiful city), PM me. I really should do an Ask/Tell one of these days, but that'll most likely be after I leave, if I ever do. I wrote a bunch about my job in the Howard Stern Megathread (in RGD) of all places, if you're interested in checking that out, but it was mostly about my previous position, which was monitoring and tagging user videos that were uploaded to our free sites (Pornhub, Redtube, etc...) Anyway, sorry for the derail, and no, I can't get anyone a free account, sorry
Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Sep 16, 2016 |
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Sep 16, 2016 00:48
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pr0digal posted:It was probably the Aspera watch service that was monitoring the file systems for changes. Though the release notes for the latest version says there's a bug that might cause transfers to never complete if there is a rename: http://downloads.asperasoft.com/en/release_notes/default_1/release_notes_313 (#13645) so you might want to check your transfer I believe we're actually in the process of getting all of our content onto a new one, but I don't think I can go into any other details. I'll definitely be checking on that file tomorrow, thanks! Here's hoping that the other 70+ files I had queued that should be transferring right now actually are. 
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Sep 16, 2016 05:00
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ming-the-mazdaless posted:So who at mindgeek is responsible for the incest slant on your sites? What are you specifically asking about? Are you referring to paid or tube sites? We have rules about "did they say son or stepson?", and 999/1,000 times, it's 'stepson'. Sometimes, something else gets through and if it's bad enough, we'll remove it. I can't get into policy stuff, though. As always, if you see something on there that's objectionable to you, report it, definitely. The tubes dept does its best, but some stuff genuinely gets missed. Stuff on our paid sites are all legit, though. All of the that "mom" stuff is pretty much just MILF stuff, and not "I'm having sex with my mom". More like "a mom". EDIT: Also, the 'incentives for the content' only apply to our partners and the verified amateurs (and even there, I'm not quite sure what the deal is), and believe me, there are rules. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Sep 16, 2016 |
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Sep 16, 2016 12:07
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pr0digal posted:Getting content onto a new MAM is so much fun! I'm genuninely looking forward to it. The whole reason I'm doing all of these transfers is because of migrations, etc, and I'm happy to say that my files are all good  Can't wait!
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Sep 16, 2016 16:04
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DACK FAYDEN posted:They pay someone to do that? I honestly figured it was done Wikipedia-style by a small volunteer cadre of really dedicated basement dwellers. To be more clear, the people who work here at tagging those videos are doing it for the main page. There's a general queue of videos that will be featured there each day (each few minutes, actually), and we had to make sure that those vids were properly tagged and whatnot. Users tag their own stuff, but most of the time, they're idiots and do it wrong, or just don't bother. Think of it as ongoing porn curation.
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Sep 16, 2016 16:40
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I just got the mental image of some employee churning through the queue. These types of conversations happen WAY too often. My first week here, we had a 20 minutes MEETING about the various intricacies of properly tagging and flagging (if inappropriate) vampire porn.
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Sep 16, 2016 17:16
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Oh god, I'm gonna stream, I'm streeeeaaamiiiing...  
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Sep 16, 2016 21:20
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iajanus posted:My company calls our non-online software "blah blah on premise" rather than "...on premises" and it's making me ridiculously angry that nobody else there understands why it's bad English. Somewhat related, but it's like when someone refers to one cheek of your rear end as 'buttocks'. It's buttock. 
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Sep 20, 2016 14:40
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From my experience in the audio world, as long as you know your way around a soldering iron and you're not a baby about it, DEFINITELY make your own cables. Again, I'm talking XLR and TRS. In terms of ethernet or other things, yeah, no. I'd just buy them.
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Sep 20, 2016 18:00
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Inspector_666 posted:Go bigger, get high-end audiophile cables. The question then is, since Ethernet is directional, do you point them from the network gear out for better user performance, or from the user gear in, for better server performance?! The feng shui of cabling  "You'll see that the data transfer rate is higher in the northern room, mostly due to the paint colour of the walls, and the bird bath we have in the corner."
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Sep 20, 2016 18:35
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I got to tell someone about monoprice.com yesterday Blessings to you. The last time I used monoprice was last year, after we moved. I literally learned if the whole 'Ethernet through power outlets" thing, was blown away by the technology and fact that I'd never heard of it until then, and immediately bought a pair of connectors/receivers/whatever they're called. Still working flawlessly.
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Sep 20, 2016 19:05
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ManiacClown posted:Product link? I think my USB wireless adapter for my desktop is going up the spout (I'm typically getting <10 mbps down on my desktop compared to 40-60 mbps on my laptop) and while we do own as of a couple months ago, it would be a tremendous pain in the rear end to properly wire. http://www.monoprice.com/mobile/product/details/12286?maincategoryid=105&categoryid=10521&subcategoryid=1052102&cpncd= Sorry for the mobile link. Also, I bought the 200mbps pair, and they work fine. I'm not doing a ton of data transfer, and my actual Internet tops out at 10-15 mbps (soon to be 25 )
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Sep 21, 2016 17:15
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Ugh.... "courage". That is the biggest load of bullshit ever, and I say this as a total Logic Pro (and therefore somewhat of a mac/os x) fanboy.
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Sep 21, 2016 20:40
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Blue_monday posted:someone was trying to send you gay porn. Ha, my Monday, and no one blinks an eye.
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Jan 17, 2017 19:40
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:You work at a porn factory if I remember correctly. I do! And relevant to this thread, I sent in a ticket last week because I needed access to a specific remote network drive in our LA offices for some old scenes we're remastering, and then I needed it to be mapped to my Z: (the mapping I can do myself). I explained this all in my ticket, detailing specifically what I need so that there were no questions, because I know how these things can be. It was a remote drive called VOShare, so I wrote that in there, explaining what it was, with a path and everything. I got a reply over a day later, simply asking "What's VOShare?".
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Jan 17, 2017 19:54
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pixaal posted:Fact is we're running out of letters, and some are overloaded already. Obviously, Alphabetv4 isn't good enough, and we all need to take one big collective jump right into Alphabetv6
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Jan 17, 2017 21:47
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"Hey, can we drop a double digit figure on a mass license for a file-copier system that's not Windows Explorer, that allows queueing and handles 30gb+ large files with ease, because those are our bread and butter that we all deal with every single day? No? Alright then."  So far, Ultracopier seems to be working nicely.
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Jan 24, 2017 12:15
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totalnewbie posted:Double digit figure? As in, under a hundred? Exactly. "Hey, do you think the company will spend money on-..." "No."
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Jan 24, 2017 17:23
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anthonypants posted:Does robocopy choke on 30GB+ files? I can't remember the specific issue, but there's some reason we're not using that one.
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Jan 24, 2017 17:29
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slartibartfast posted:On behalf of those of us running the Cloud 2 Butt extension, I thank you. Ha, I had to remove that extension when it was altering some text that I needed to copy-paste.
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Jan 25, 2017 17:13
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Which porn sites? I'm a professional, I need to know.
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Jan 26, 2017 16:05
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mewse posted:DNS Name=ssl375655.cloudflaressl.com Oh, THOSE guys. Psshhh
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Jan 26, 2017 16:17
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pr0digal posted:Really the best extension I ever installed. Except that time it changed iCloud to iButt when I was e-mailing a client... While hilarious, yeah, this is along the reason why I uninstalled.
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Jan 26, 2017 18:32
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Someone I know very well who works in the fraud dept of their company told me about something that happened last week; (I just tried writing this out, but it got way too wordy, so the tl;dr is...) This person's boss actually believes that, if you want to see if an image is photoshopped (like a fake ID, something that they deal with a lot), you should open up Word and import the image in question to a blank document. It is at that point where any and all forgeries are easily noticed, as you'll be able to see the info that was specifically doctored. "Doesn't always work..." My dudes, I can personally vouch for the veracity of this person's total misunderstanding of basic digital media, as I saw the email where they explained this procedure myself. I was all  and  when my friend was telling me about the back-and-forth they were in the middle of, with their boss. It's one thing to not know poo poo about anything regarding how digital images work. It is, however, not at all acceptable to be tge boss, be this mistaken and be passing this procedure around as if you're teaching someone something. Something, I might add, which is absolutely crucial to loss prevention. C'mon, dude... You're the boss... Be smarter than that.
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Jan 28, 2017 04:29
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Malachite_Dragon posted:He can tell by the pixels and from having seen many a 'shop in his time. See, joking aside, this is literally what makes my friend good at their job... They can just spot that stuff almost immediately. Their boss? Not so much.
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Just going to clarify, I didn't say this happened at my company. 
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