RE: A ticket came in: Did they take the printer into the shitters with them?

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Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

psydude posted:

We should compile a "Greatest Hits" for the OP.

Who could forget Dickbag '95?

# ¿ Aug 13, 2013 16:47

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# ¿ May 6, 2024 17:59

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Smoke posted:

What annoys me more is that some applications don't even care about the OS language, the set locale takes priority. In some cases this is even unchangeable, so you end up with apps running in Dutch on an English OS.

I learned, many years too late, that you can just set your locale to US and manually edit currency, time and calendar formatting and not have that problem (apart from the Flash updater for some reason).

Dunno about Windows 8 though, what with localized app stores and poo poo.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2014 14:22

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Smoke posted:

The App Store is in English, but the highlighted apps in the store and on the Live tile are in French. I know that if I set OS language to Dutch it'll all be in Dutch though. Apparently having an English OS with Dutch locale in Belgium means you want everything in French.

Yeah, okay, then setting your locale to US should also be a superior way out of that clusterfuck. I can't believe how many years I thought this was some important unchangeable OS setting that I should be truthful about, because I got asked about it during the OS install. But really, apart from date, time and currency formatting (which as said you can customize to match the Dutch formatting -if you can handle English names of days and months) it does nothing for me but create these kind of quagmires.

The only thing you'll be cheating yourself out of is a local TV program guide app or something similar. Which you probably wouldn't be using if it was in French anyway.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2014 15:26

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:

The offline installer doesn't.

Does using that one also prevent the updates from including one? Because that would be good to know.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2014 19:39

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

sfwarlock posted:

Assign a minion to burn a Linux CD with imgburn? You're hosed, imgburn now comes with spyware. Yes, you can opt-out, but your minion doesn't know enough to do that, and you shouldn't have to, that's loving sleazy.

The ImgBurn I just downloaded from their homepage does not have spyware or adware or toolbars or whatever. So at this time it's not them being sleazy, but there are download sites that don't have qualms about bundling clean stuff with their own crap.

Also, Google verbatim with "system speedup" between quotes doesn't give me anything but pages containing exactly that string (on the first page at least).

I agree that all this ducking and dodging is getting annoying though.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2014 22:43

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

sfwarlock posted:

It's not the download site, it's them. Look at their forums, there's bitching all over it, and the author is like "it's not a problem, you can opt out " and one of the mods posted "anyone who blindly clicks next through an installer deserves what they get".

This is malware. Right here. By any definition.

Calling it "Search Protect" is lovely. Hiding it behind "express" and "custom" is extra lovely.

Weird, weird, weird. I literally just tried it then and it wasn't there. Same version number as in the screenshot. I wonder if it made any difference that I picked the download from their own mirror, rather than the 3rd party ones listed on their site.

Ran it in Sandboxie and denied any outgoing connections during the install, but I'd be surprised if that's what made the difference.

Anyway, if it's them, then forget what I said and they can go eat a bag of dicks.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2014 01:52

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

What the gently caress is next? Bring your own wages?

# ¿ Feb 18, 2014 20:55

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Sonic Dude posted:

A spam email came in, complete with a warning from the mail server about the attachment containing "W32/Trojan.MNWL-4927." Our first-tier guy then forwarded it individually to almost everyone in the company asking "is this attachment something you were expecting? I don't know what it is."

God drat it.

How prudent of him to prevent a cascade of reply alls.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2014 17:29

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

I do not get why those examples always include spaces. Seems like making word boundaries explicit would make dictionary attacks even more easy, while it does nothing to make the password easier to remember or enter.
;
edit: wait, per the post above ( :doh:

) it probably doesn't really matter.

# ¿ May 20, 2014 15:46

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Inspector_666 posted:

I'm kind of shocked that no tech security start-up has named themselves Obscurity.

You wouldn't have heard of them.

# ¿ May 20, 2014 16:27

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

martyrdumb posted:

Reticules sounds like an autocorrect issue. Like they thought it was spelled "reticulous" and rely too heavily on spellcheck.

Maybe he thinks it's pronounced like Hercules. If you squint your ears real hard it almost works.

I was confronted with a "It's perphatic!" once and it took me a couple of minutes to figure out they thought that was really how you spelled pathetic.

# ¿ May 31, 2014 12:58

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

^^^^ Goddamn :argh:

KennyTheFish posted:

So now I know that it involves healthcare (from halfway through the writeup) and forms. What is a WIP, and why does Stephen Fry care. I assume QI refers to him.

WIP is going to be "work in progress", that's not too uncommon. Other than that, I'm not getting it either.

I'm assuming it was a case of unintentional oversharing of stuff that shouldn't be shared but I'm still not not really clear on the details.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2014 23:32

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

anthonypants posted:

His account was deleted and he's definitely not the same user as Dilbert as gently caress. RIP

I can see that the Virtualization Megathread is started by Corvettefisher in the SH/SC listing and yet the thread has an OP by Dilbert as gently caress though. So unless you're sarcastic or engaged in covering up the namechange (in which case I apologise), I'd say that they are the same person. It's the same account at least.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2014 11:50

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

guppy posted:

That is the joke, yes, well done.

Thanks!

# ¿ Aug 22, 2014 12:17

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

pr0digal posted:

Yes a farm's website is totally a porn site.

With all that talk about sexing chicks, what else could it be, right?

# ¿ Sep 16, 2014 19:26

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Inspector_666 posted:

https://www.piriform.com/recuva maybe then?

I've dealt with quickformatted harddrives with Recuva before and it should work no problems.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2014 23:39

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

deimos posted:

They hover around 1KW actually, but that's beside the point.

My electric kettle is 2400W and is in no way exceptional here in Europe. Where the guy posting about the tripped breaker lives as well.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2014 16:59

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

organburner posted:

And then go ahead and guess how fun it is when you need to write the � symbol in notepad and copy/paste it into every email.

ALT+0128

# ¿ Nov 15, 2014 14:07

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Agrikk posted:

I am an idiot: I got nailed by Cryptolocker on my DAW PC over the weekend. Since my main PC was down for hardware upgrades I decided to plug my DAW into our home network and use it for browsing as I worked on a research project. Well I clicked on some site that killed my PC and I ended up losing about six months of audio files from the EP I am working on. Bleh.

You're an idiot for not backing up poo poo like that. Seriously, six months, what the gently caress.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2015 21:20

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Buy him a subscription. Charge him $9.99

It's what he already expects you're doing apparently.

Start charging your users for Facebook why not. Time for the IT department to start cashing in on people wasting company time. Start doing it before some CEO thinks of this.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2015 22:01

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Agrikk posted:

I give one guess to figure out where the hole is in my backup strategy.

Excludes large media files?

# ¿ Mar 27, 2015 13:18

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Can't start a filename with a space on Windows since like forever.

# ¿ May 5, 2015 23:01

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Haha, I love how this spammer just has given up on conceiling what it is about :

(that's the entire message, apart from the no doubt malicious attachment that was blocked)

I'm sure he's finding out it works about equally as well as all the fake Western Union and UPS messages and what not.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2015 00:07

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Lightning Jim posted:

Edit: Is there a smilie for "car analogy" at this point? If not here needs to be.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2015 14:37

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Merijn posted:

Is there a way for consumers to block Win10? I've been told this reghack stops it, but the drat icon still show up in my systray. The last solution I found was 'uninstall these two updates' which broke Windows Update for several weeks.

This goon-made gwx control panel seems alright. Be sure to read the user guide to get an idea of what madness is necessary for it to keep the update away and why just the reghack isn't enough anyway.

Butt ugly icon that will end up in your system tray though.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2016 14:25

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Boogalo posted:

I wonder if the bullshit will stop once the update stops being free. Probably not

http://www.winbeta.org/news/get-windows-10-app-will-removed-windows-78-1-july-29th-free-offer-ends

# ¿ May 11, 2016 21:13

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

That 8.1 installer does take 8.0 keys, if that's what you're worried about.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2016 23:08

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Psycho Donut Killer posted:

If you want everyone to drive during daylight hours or whatever just change when everybody goes to work and school.

That's what DST does.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2016 19:37

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Inspector_666 posted:

On this subject: Is there anyway to make a backup image of a Surface and easily transfer it to another one without third-party software? In Windows 7 this was trivial, but it seems loving impossible in W10 and I feel like I must be an enormous moron for not being able to do this.

It would seem that the backup tool that was available in Windows 7 and was stripped from 8.1, is present in Windows 10 and accessible from the control panel.

Control Panel > System and Security > Backup and Restore (Windows 7)

From there you should be able to make a system image and a recovery disc.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2016 22:14

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

The Fool posted:

The Surface won't boot from NTFS formatted USB volumes.

If it's not that, however neanderthal that sounds, I'd give a usb dvd drive a shot as my next attempt to actually getting it done if this is a one time thing.

The Fool posted:

If I recall correctly, that only shows up if you have upgraded from 7 to 10

It's right here on my factory fresh Surface Pro 4

e: I suppose you could be thinking about it being in 8.1 when you had updated from 7 or something like that. It's supposed to be in 10 for all.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2016 22:54

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

The Fool posted:

I'm sure I'm right about the other thing though.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply otherwise; make that "if it's not just that".

# ¿ Nov 16, 2016 23:01

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Inspector_666 posted:

I figured it was this, but then what the hell do I format the drive as? FAT32 won't work because of the file sizes involved, and Rufus won't make bootable drives from an ISO in exFAT or UDF.

You only need to boot from FAT32, presumably in the recovery environment you can point it to a ntfs formatted drive? Just guessing.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2016 23:17

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

Now what am I gonna do with 800 neodymium magnets?

Rail gun.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2017 21:09

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

FWD:

Grassy Knowles posted:

Did you get this? I've marked this urgent and attached your department head to get moving.

CC: Everyone

Brenda will be leaving us next week because she's going to stay home to take care of her baby. She brought cake to the break room. Which is against company policy. It would be nice if you all could make a voluntary donation in her name to one of the approved charities (see attached document) as a thanks anyway!

# ¿ Dec 28, 2017 19:43

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# ¿ May 6, 2024 17:59

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Are y'all at least considering the environment before printing all that out?

# ¿ Dec 29, 2017 00:20

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