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Shalhavet posted:It's in the Comedy Goldmine. That and it would've gotten archived anyway.
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ratbert90 posted:If India has taught me anything, just ignore the warnings! Programmers should suppress all warnings too!
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Nah, speaking as an American gun nut, that still sounds like a terrible idea. Necklace carry is almost as bad as purse carry. Not as easy to steal the gun off the necklace as it is to steal the purse, I would think. It's like a worse open carry, somehow. E: Depends on the length of the necklace now that I think about it 
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nexxai posted:Did you travel back in time during this ticket? Reads to me like he did it the next day?
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Apr 2, 2015 23:13
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All this reminds me of my workplace where our TV side is an awful hardware/software hybrid right now which is the bane of my existence. My boss recently put in a new beefy PC to run vMix (I hate this program so loving much) which he then decided to run everything TV side through so if that single point of failure screws up we lose audio or video or both because vMix is buggy as hell  Oh and our hardware matrix is almost 20 years old and the s video connectors are going bad so there's sometimes the fun game of "jiggle it until it works" that comes about. Local radio/TV for a small town blows.
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KoRMaK posted:The change I described previously had the same impact, but we lol'ed at it because gently caress you if you are running XP and IE8. My workplace is still running XP because the Operations Manager who has final say over all software hates change. Yes, he knows that literally all our systems are vulnerable, still won't do anything.
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larchesdanrew posted:Most, if not all, of this is my fault for not taking the initiative, but god drat this week is gonna suck. No, it's his fault for being an awful boss and making himself a single point of failure. Same thing happens at my workplace but at least my boss answers his phone on vacation when poo poo breaks.
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Vicas posted:Please post later today to assure us that you're still alive Or employed for that matter. The GM at my station would likely fire whoever threw away his mass amounts of junk (2 closets in his office and a complete office as well as a couple cabinets full of broken poo poo around the building but we can't throw it away because what if we need it ) Saving things like S-Video cables that have breaks somewhere inside the wire and would take forever to figure out where the break is literally pulled from the garbage/dumpster and put back into the building 
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Gwaihir posted:Pretty sure you'd be able to figure it out, it's not like the switches aren't labeled with FOCUS: Man /Auto. We have both JVC and Panasonic field cameras and both have this switch on the bottom side of the zoom bar area so it's not exactly hard to find either.
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KaneTW posted:What was the story behind One of those hurricanes a few years ago flooded a basement down south IIRC.
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flosofl posted:
They're Swedish.
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Sham I Am posted:You haven't lived until your boss shows up at 3:30 on a Friday afternoon with a complete redesign of a project that you have 4 weeks of work into, and is slated to be delivered to the client on the following Monday. And then you said "ah sorry to hear" and left at 5pm, right? Right?
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May 22, 2015 15:58
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:No offense but I'm kind of amazed that your station manages to not burn down / accidentally air porn / go off the air on a regular basis. Same for the station I work at. All our radio gear at minimum is 15 years old. The transmitter is the FM that was bought in 1976. I was born in 89. It's older than me why is it still here. All our TV gear is 10-15 years old (other than the cameras which are a bright and young 7 years old, but still SD). The GM at the station is 70 something and has this hosed up mentality of "well I bought it once, I shouldn't have to buy it again" so holy poo poo the amount of bandaids on the place.
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spankmeister posted:That stuff was really built to last and radio hasn't really changed for the past couple of decades (save digital) so why change it? The last technician that serviced it said, and I quote, "I'm not touching it anymore, it's a deathtrap". Also replacement parts are hilariously hard to find for it and new tubes are about $3,000. Also you don't worry only about the transmitter, our exciter is old as poo poo too (from the late 90s but showing wear), the tower structure and bays need an upgrade because when rain starts to fall you can watch all the readings on the transmitter go out of wack, it's impressive really.
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Renegret posted:The goal is for us to get one of those "technical issue" slates up on the screen so our customers don't see the silliness that's happening, but it takes a long longer to do that than it takes for some dude in "Master Control" to press the rewind button. And is it really worth it to put up a slate when you know it's going to be back to normal in 2-3 minutes? Our TV stuff is mostly on computers now but when we ran things off our DVR style system for years and the video/playlist ended our setup would feed the DVR back into itself and make a fantastic loop image on screen until you turned it off. And our night guy is an old man who doesn't know dick about how to do anything right so it happened just about every night.
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Fun thing today: more storms coming through east TN this week have been making our power flicker randomly and this is typically mitigated by having a UPS on mission critical computers. Except in one of them the batteries recently died and our GM won't pay for them so our TV station gets knocked out with every flicker and if it happens at night when nobody is here then loving welp.
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Jun 29, 2015 14:29
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Collateral Damage posted:If you have in writing that the GM doesn't want to pay for the basic infrastructure, then just wash your hands and let it fail. I'm just a radio announcer that has to help on the tech poo poo here often. However our Operations Manager wrote a letter 2 years ago to our GM that he had him sign that basically says "I acknowledge that [xyz] are broken and have/will not replace them even if it constitutes a fine, etc and will not hold (OM) responsible". The GM signed it.
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Dillbag posted:Here's a post to make larchesdanrew cry and the other broadcast/post goons laugh. Vendor who runs our edit suites is cleaning out their equipment room. So many dollars in now-useless Avid storage. Some of that gear is newer than poo poo we're running
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One or two were amusing to me, but I really wouldn't be posting anything on my job on Facebook. Maybe that's just me.
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Bigass Moth posted:An alarming number of computers I've remoted into over the last few week's have been running either xp or server 2003. Most of my workplace is still running XP because my boss wouldn't test out our old rear end radio software in 7 nor would he consider running XP in a VM. Yes, these computers are connected to the internet 
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Wow, those special extended support contracts with Microsoft must cost a fortune. Hahahdklhgasdlkg;alkf  This place is so hosed (and I'm certain most of this backwards rear end town is the same way).
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Roargasm posted:Do you work at a pawn shop by any chance? The basement certainly looks the part.
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Crowley posted:Preaching to the choir but.. your station is run by idiots. Run by idiots you say?  E: fixed image, phone posting Haquer fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Aug 5, 2015 |
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Thanks Ants posted:I've always wondered what a TV station would look like that couldn't even afford BlackMagic gear. We got in a new computer that has blackmagic gear! Specifically a video/audio capture card and that's it
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Inspector_666 posted:How many tickets did you get about people losing data? You know the answer deep inside.
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OWLS! posted:Man, I feel for you guys working in broadcasting. We have an annual benefit auction/telethon going on this evening. My boss is testing a ticker bar that shows prices of current items/etc and he thought it flickering was tied to our computer (it's not, it's from the computer output being out of sync with the signal to the TV) and rebooted. It didn't come back up for over an hour because the computer said the video card didn't exist I'm sure everything will catastrophically gently caress up before we go live this evening, it always does. E: oh and the best part is, he always bitches about jitter when he has the computer trying to render too many things at once. Why is there jitter? It's using an on-board video card to do the rendering  and he won't shell out for anything else.
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) provided you aren't the only guy on staff (and on call) handling the thing that brings in revenue.
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spankmeister posted:Haha he almost got killed, so epic lol ftw. He explicitly states "non industrial".
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Mattavist posted:But what does a guy with his tie caught in one look like? 
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The Muffinlord posted:Ours was a guy who got flustered super easily, but could take a joke. Me, I took pictures. B-b-but he could've DIED you monster!!
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:I'm assuming your station doesn't have a custom support contract with Microsoft for those XP machines? You do realize the enormous security hole you're creating by having any deployed? The station I'm working at is also full of XP machines that will never get upgraded. Welcome to cheap assholes running businesses.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Wait, isn't that your basic revenue model? Indeed it is. Leads to ridiculous stories of the GM at the radio station I work at hilariously underselling/pricing air time for commercials, even to corporate entities that won't even bat an eye at 80 commercials a week for $12/60sec a spot. He takes in a sheet of paper he types up in all caps so Word doesn't spellcheck it and gives bottom of the barrel pricing and says "oh 3 spots a day is fine (ends up being 18 spots a week, mon-sat, so 9 minutes of air time total)". So it's $4.25 per spot (30sec) 3 a day (and this includes him producing the spots) He then wonders why he has fuckall money. In contrast my boss sold a new business here 100 spots a week at $7 a pop for 30 sec spots.
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guppy posted:If I'm reading that right, that's radio, not TV. I'll admit, though, $12 per 60 second spot is still way cheaper than I thought, even if you have to buy 80 of them ($960 worth) to get that rate. 80 a week for multiple weeks (end orders are usually month long so ~400 spots or so on broadcast calendar); we're also a small town station. Mattavist posted:I had no idea TV advertising was that cheap. Like he said, it's Radio not TV (our TV rates are faaaaar higher but I don't know as much about that since I work in the radio side). Haquer fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Aug 27, 2015 |
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neogeo0823 posted:Also, someone mentioned radio commercials and pricing. Back in 2008, a friend of mine asked for a quote for a 30 second radio ad and came away with $500 minimum for anything that didn't play at like 3am. I have no idea why it's that loving expensive. Because it's how stations keep the lights on? $500 minimum sounds a bit steep but if they're doing production of the spot as well I can see it being a forced floor to keep from wasting all your time on producing spots that only run a few times for every order. Also drive time (morning/afternoon near school/shift change times) are when most people listen so it naturally costs more to run.
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larchesdanrew posted:Issue solved, I'm still justified in my decision. Suck it, supervisor. I love how this always happens. "I can't upload my file" turns into WE CAN'T UPLOAD ANYTHING HELP My girlfriend is really bad for doing this same thing when anything network related happens at home 
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Lightning Jim posted:Ignoring the obvious "failed because they got too fail" idioacy: You knew the answer inside all along 
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larchesdanrew posted:Fun fact: this user recently had to go to the doctor because she woke up to a rat literally eating her toes. What the gently caress. I know that you're not full of poo poo on your station since mine is hilariously the same but...... what the gently caress you have got to be kidding me.
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larchesdanrew posted:The woman is an absolute disaster. The old GM literally bought her a car so she could get to work and she's so nasty that it actually fell apart after 5 years. She walks around hacking and coughing and moaning like she's in chronic pain, her workspace is horrendously nasty, and I'm not even really sure what she does. She also looks like a lovely horror movie goblin. There's a woman like this that comes up to my station, however she's not an employee. Our GM makes everyone put their drink cans into a bin for her to take off for the pittance you get for crushed soda cans. You can smell her on the other side of the station when she walks in 
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Kurieg posted:You know I love CSI:NY to death, but they really weren't that good at anything more complicated than an XBOX. Xbox you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTI0ovUMnyE
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