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poo poo that makes me cringe. People who make 2-3x my salary with a default email font of 0000FF Comic Sans.
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blackswordca posted:Ive always said if i run my own company, im sending all internal emails in Aurebesh I'd create a font with intentionally horrifying kerning just for use when emailing graphic designers.
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Aug 13, 2013 21:19
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FISHMANPET posted:I've got a friend at Microsoft that's trying to get me a job there, doing I guess what would be PFE. I think that kind of jumping around is the type of work that interests me the most. Coming back to the same client over and over again would be pretty great as well, because I'm a trap for esoteric configuration information. MS goons not already in the loop, pm me with your alias. We've got a group, we do lunch occasionally (and less occasionally succeed at it).
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Aug 14, 2013 22:48
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Ursine Asylum posted:That's what they get for thread-merging New thread title: "A poo poo ticket came in and it pissed me off II: SharePoint and Cirrhosis"
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Aug 14, 2013 23:30
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Comradephate posted:This thread moves so fast I always feel like I'm replying to things that happened a million years ago. Turn off hyperthreading, get lag
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Aug 16, 2013 07:10
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blackswordca posted:Content: Before even hearing anything about the job, wages, or working conditions, I advise you to accept.
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Aug 16, 2013 21:24
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kensei posted:Washington state is pretty nice, if it is FTFY. We don't want people blaming this thread for their move to Centralia or Forks.
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Aug 19, 2013 22:35
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Apparently Facebook has a new Ticket Escalation Procedure.
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Aug 19, 2013 22:36
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incoherent posted:Put the virtual memory in the real memory Aww, now I want to make a ramdisk to put my swap file in.
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Aug 20, 2013 06:09
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AcidRonin posted:EDIT: CS related dog names? Cloud or Devops
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Aug 20, 2013 19:14
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Dick Trauma posted:Sometimes you need to tell your boss 'no.' If that's not sufficient try 'no loving way.' "I am not a lawyer, and I will not advise customers on legal matters. By asking me to advise on this matter, the customer is requesting that I practice law without a license, which is a felony. I will absolutely not, under any circumstances, commit a felony for anyone in this organization"
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Aug 20, 2013 22:06
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blackswordca posted:Just got off the phone with the site manager for my company and pretty much told him that. His response "Fair enough. Get the Sr tech on the account to do it then"
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Aug 20, 2013 22:29
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bort posted:That's the worst. Going through someone else's email always made me feel dirty. skipdogg posted:I loved going through peoples email. It blew my mind what people would talk about using their corporate email. Let's play a game called point to the NSA contractor 
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Aug 20, 2013 22:58
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JohnnyCanuck posted:We're having serious talks about using Trillian For Business. My previous company used AIM... in 2012...
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Aug 21, 2013 19:30
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Urit posted:The best part is that MS also uses their own solutions. Yep, that means their internal email/Lync is on Office 365. Yep, it's just as good as it is for consumers. Dogfoodin' for lyf<connection terminated>
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Aug 21, 2013 19:37
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Volmarias posted:Their laptop is going to have an unfortunate accident, I guarantee it. Now that SSD's are around, someone needs to make a black box for laptops. Something that constantly records the last 2 minutes of audio before loss of battery power combined with accelerometer data.
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Aug 21, 2013 19:40
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Prosthetic_Mind posted:My bottled drink of choice is $9 for 4, but it's worth every penny. My goto is usually $7.99/6, is tasty, and comes in handy bottles that are great for reusing in homebrewing.
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Aug 22, 2013 07:27
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I'll say it, I think we need the poo poo that pisses you off thread back again. The previous one released the "IT chat" pressure from both threads, and made them readable and decently on topic. This new megathread is pretty insane with 70+ posts to catch up on if I go a few hours without breaks in meetings during the day. This thread is averaging 80 posts a day.
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Aug 24, 2013 08:26
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Helushune posted:Enabling it interferes with a bunch of legacy applications that are still pretty critical, the incredibly odd way we handle some roaming profiles, and the way some old group policies were written before I started working here. There's a bunch of really odd logon scripts that copy php scripts to the local c:, run php.exe off some server that I haven't been able to find yet, and then apply various computer and registry settings instead of, you know, doing all that through group policy like a normal sysadmin. As far as I can tell, my predecessors couldn't figure out group policy but they kind of knew php scripting so they just did everything through that instead. Do you have software assurance through a Microsoft enterprise agreement? http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/products-and-technologies/virtualization/UE-V.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/products-and-technologies/virtualization/app-v.aspx
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Aug 25, 2013 19:09
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Lum posted:Guessing the "spinning disc" think refers to the spinning beachball effect that Macs do in place of the Windows XP eggtimer or the Vista/7/8 swirly blue O thing. If you don't realise the beachball is supposed to be a 3D sphere it would look like a spinning disc. It's called a throbber. I would think goons would be all over using that term.
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Aug 27, 2013 17:23
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Lum posted:My GF is the Mac person in this household, having previously been a network engineer for a shop that had a lot of Macs, and she calls it a beachball, *shrug* Crowley posted:I've never heard it called anything but "beachball". It's not a term for that exact thing, but for the general concept of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbber
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Aug 27, 2013 21:27
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Migishu posted:Bout loving time. If he offers you anything, anything at all, TAKE THE JOB. What sort of animal sacrifice pleases Canadian gods? I'll build an altar in my backyard for this.
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Aug 29, 2013 17:59
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IamJacksAlcoholism posted:A ticket came in... It's just as bad as  help, I can't figure this out, I've read all the troubleshooting materials and there's nothing in it that solves my problem! have you tried <open troubleshooting materials> ^C ^P this? that solved it, thanks!
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Help! We have a Server 2008 R2 machine that meets all requirements and the install keeps failing!!!
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Sep 4, 2013 21:05
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Zero VGS posted:We have a new CEO and she's frustrated. We're an IT team of two, and as soon as she got in, she wanted to get rid of her desktop, and use new laptop exclusively. Quick and dirty would be to set up a skydrive account, then install on both computers and point "my documents" there.
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Sep 5, 2013 07:59
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Sirotan posted:I....I still use Winamp. I used Winamp for at least a decade, it was great for running karaoke systems and djing back in the day. That llama's rear end must be so far beyond sore by now though...
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Sep 5, 2013 19:16
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Now let's see if I can still remember my ICQ number... edit to follow. edit: holy crap I remembered it! Though, I remember having a lot more people on my list... there's only 8 confirmed and 1 waiting for auth (for like a decade) Paladine_PSoT fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Sep 6, 2013 |
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Sep 6, 2013 00:34
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Wagonburner posted:For shame, 61738 was my prodigy id in middle school early 90s on the family's $2000 486 25mhz. (Internet detectives: go.) Nah, I got it on the first try. I could probably still rattle off bbs numbers from the Fresno area if I thought about it.
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Sep 6, 2013 00:56
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blackswordca posted:so a ticket came in. Just draw a picture of a BES server hanging itself next to an old and busted Exchange 2010 server looking longingly at an Exchange 2013 server pumping iron, or something. Are they really considering implementing BES10 or is this a migrate meeting?
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Sep 7, 2013 00:31
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SEKCobra posted:I never understood emailing big files. Just set up a FTP or http share or something. Or use mega if you can't get any help from IT. Most (just about all) end users don't know what a file really is, let alone understand FTP well enough to use it.
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Sep 8, 2013 08:17
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blackswordca posted:The personal who signed it apparently has no authority to sign contracts for this organization. Sounds like their organization has a problem with people making business decisions without authorization. That in no way leaves you on the hook for providing the service for free. You can likely legally enforce the contract and their "he's not authorized" is a disciplinary issue to sort out between the company and said unauthorized signer. Enforce the contract. edit: chutwig posted:Here's what you need to understand. There are a lot of people in this life who will quickly identify a person as the kind of person who is afraid to say no and will exploit that as much as they can for as long as they can. You are that person that's being walked all over and you're letting them do it. This is 1000% correct. Paladine_PSoT fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Sep 10, 2013 |
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dorkanoid posted:my favourite quote: "what? you can only have 8 IF()s nested?!" I hit this limit once building a fake gaant chart out of a linked excel spreadsheet because the team was spooked by project.
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A customer is repeatedly emailing us, finally asking if we would correct their issue for them. I drafted a reply and sent it to a coworker with "Wanted to get your opinion on a reply:" at the top. After it was agreed on, I copy and pasted it into an email to the customer and rest of the team, with "wanted to get your opinion on a reply:" proudly still at the top. Fridays.
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Sep 13, 2013 21:10
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Verizian posted:an 8 string electric bass SG with a carved top that looks like a black widow. You forget the 10 commandments of bass. Thou shalt not have more than 5 strings. The 5th string is pushing it. The 6th string is right out. Basses have no need for an upper register. 
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Sep 14, 2013 22:03
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I'm sort of new to IT, but at some point doesn't it become more cost effective to transfer everything to a physical medium and mail or even personally deliver the data? http://what-if.xkcd.com/31/ Fairly in-depth analysis of this.
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Oh man... Decided it was desktop maintenance time. Opened it up, cleaned it out, made sure everything was fitted right, put it back in, booted a few times, then flashed the rom Erasing.....100% Writing.....100% Verifying.6% FAILED. What the poo poo? try again... NO ASUS ROM DETECTED. son of a... so I google it, and apparently the rom flashing utility is notorious for making GBS threads itself at that exact point. My computer is now running with a blank bios, eagerly awaiting the next power outage to die and never return. Dead comp walking.
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guppy posted:A department I support got some new computers about a month and a half ago. I imaged them when they came in, but they need specialised software I I don't have and don't know how to install. I asked my coworker (also my team lead) about it since he's dealt with it before, and he said no problem, he'd show me what to do. Don't suck up unnecessary blame. Talk to your coworker and let him know exactly how he is screwing you. If he does anything but make it right, take it to your boss. Absorbing bad performance for someone else is a horrible, bottom-line affecting move.
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Sep 17, 2013 20:50
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Oh man... Power outage. Oh, core2 duo box I've been limping along for years, you went before your time.
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Sep 18, 2013 05:33
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eszett engma posted:ASUS, you say. I take it this is a P5 series motherboard? If it's important enough you can get a replacement BIOS chip from them for $15. P5B Deluxe Wifi-AP edition. Love that board otherwise. Lum posted:Does the hotswap flash method still work these days? Straight up soldered directly to the board. Asus wants to make sure that it's not even possible.
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toe shoes posted:Found out that our HR manager is a fan of eugenics. It's not for particular races though, for sex offenders and the mentally challenged. So it's OK. She's a mother so it's only right to want to do this to protect her children. Be glad she's not in charge of call center metrics.
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