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18 Character Limit posted:Some take their whiteboard pranks really, really seriously: I have to wonder if that buildup was worth the reaction shot they got out of it, given that the point where the video cuts off was probably "Welp, I can't get anything done today, have fun opening my office back up!"
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guppy posted:I know developers often don't really know poo poo about computers outside their specialty, but I'd expect one to at least read and understand that message, and try retyping the password. Not only did he not retype it on his own, he was even resistant to the idea of retyping the password when I suggested it, but eventually he did it and it worked. Of course. Agrikk posted:The dude would hit the one key twice every time he counted the number sev-en, thrice for sev-en-teen and four times for twen-ty-sev-en. But only for numbers containing a seven. So he was entering 32 ones instead of 26. GentlemansSleepover posted:I'd say maybe 10% of the developers I know and have worked with are on the same level, and I find that so confusing.  As an IT-to-developer person, this stuns me. I don't know anyone as a developer in any of my last...2 or 3 workplaces? that are anywhere close to this hopelessly at sea. I do know an IT person who got thrown into a developer position where he didn't know what he was doing, but that's an entirely other  . I just don't get how you could expect to develop but still treat your computer as a magic box impervious to logic when your job description boils down to "write the magic for the box" in some form.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:They are just way, way different disciplines that both require a lot of time to do competently. I'm blessed/cursed in that I get to do both Sys/Network Admin stuff and I write a lot of the custom software that's ordered, but that is both exceedingly rare for a multitude of reasons, and not a good idea for me because I have no mega-focus that every other IT person has. Oh, I'm not disputing that-- hand me a sysadmin box and tell me to modify AD and I'd be completely lost at sea. But my first reaction would be "Google", and barring that, "right click around and see what contextual dialogs there are", not "construct a paper mache bottle, write 'Whiskey' on it, and pray for a giant mechanical bird to swoop from the sky and deliver me a sysadmin". Ultimately, the idea behind both IT and Software Dev is "create solutions for a problem using the tools given you". When you lack the wherewithal to even begin figuring out what the problem is, it doesn't matter if you're a dev or sysadmin, you're already boned.
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RadicalR posted:No, see, that's his problem. He still forgets the 4. It's a different number for everyone in his family. So what you're saying is, they're the real-life family that all those logic puzzles are based off of? "My social security number is 23082731, and I know my brother's starts with 30275." "My social security number is 34027596, and the last four digits of my brother's are 7431." I'll be the DMV just loves them to death.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:If they're good at IT, hire them to be IT. "Good at IT", for most people, is "able to turn on a monitor and make sure it's plugged into a computer". 90% of people under the age of, say, 25-30 are "good at IT" to someone who grew up with typewriters.
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Jan 12, 2014 06:34
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Inspector_666 posted:Part of it is Apple's idiotic insistence that your user ID be an e-mail address, so people are always massively confused about exactly what they're signing into on their phone. Far preferable to "well Lueser was taken so I used Lueser729197, because my kids were born in 91 and 97 and I was born in 72, but I'm never going to loving remember that, WHAT'S MY USERNAME, THIS IS YOUR FAULT" tehloki posted:I have literally never got anything but confusion in response to "do you know your Apple ID?" On a daily basis, how frequently do you need to put in your Apple ID? Because I don't know about you, but I don't think it's asked me for mine since literally the day I set up the phone. The only reason I know it is because, as noted, it's my primary personal email address.
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Jan 13, 2014 20:13
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Finagle posted:Haven't posted in awhile, been busy with going back to school and getting married. Doesn't basically every PDF viewer have a "Save as" or "Export to" option to stick it in an image format? Why would you want to download another PDF-fuckery program to do that? 
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Everyone runs an unqualified UPDATE query on a production database exactly once. Thankfully, my once was on staging instead of production, and the functionality was so little-used that it only affected about 30 test accounts. But those 30 test accounts to this day all have the same paypal email set on them.
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totalnewbie posted:Porn, possibly of the illegal variant. Yeah I sure hope you have the "you can't ever look at my computer" stuff in writing for when he's inevitably caught and blames IT for not keeping hackers off his computer. Doubly so if he has things that would justify spending thousands on data recovery on, on his computer, with no backups.
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Jan 18, 2014 01:07
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H1KE posted:to keep my lower tax bracket for a little while longer Is there any reason for this in reality? I know a lot of people misunderstand how tax brackets work, specifically the "only the money you make over that tax bracket is taxed at that bracket" bit, but... I'd take the compliment, but it's not a raise until it's in your pocket.
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Lum posted:It still amazes me that there are IT people who don't immediately format and reinstall any prebuilt computer that comes their way. Couple pages old, but I've hit more than laptop with touchy hardware and not-easily-or-at-all available drivers for it. HP was always a bitch about that, along with their stance of "we're not going to send you a PDF of your motherboard's manual so that you can check jumper positions unless you can quote us the Windows key that came with your desktop". gently caress HP. e: ZetsurinPower posted:Jesus, 25k salary offer? You can make more managing a Wendys. I'd rather take the hourly equivalent, at least then overtime would be an option I was getting 30k as a tier 1 tech support at a government job, and I was underpaid for what I ended up actually doing to boot. Anyone offering that either wants to get rid of you or has a really overinflated sense of importance. Alliterate Addict fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Jan 30, 2014 |
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hihifellow posted:A THING I GOT TO HEAR TODAY: It's a rough cycle, because the people developing the software are poo poo, and the people using the software are poo poo, and the actually-IT savvy people who get in on both ends are getting paid peanuts and don't give a poo poo, or give a poo poo for all of 3 months until they go insane and drink themselves into oblivion every night until they can YOTJ.
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Jan 31, 2014 01:57
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Knormal posted:It happened, I found the user with the worst mouse ever. Rollerbar posted:If your cursor cannot move further, simply slide the bar to the right or left until you hear a gentle click. This activates the end detection and the cursor can move anywhere on the screen. Bringing the idea of a carriage return back into the 21st century as something other than an esoteric ascii character.
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Feb 2, 2014 08:48
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Dick Trauma posted:EDIT: I should write a children's book called "Things that fit into a USB port" Not going to lie, I've blindly shoved USB cords into ethernet ports on laptops more than once (why do so many manufacturers insist on putting those right next to each other?) I can always tell something's wrong pretty fast, though, because I don't have to rotate the USB cord one or more times for it to go in. 
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Feb 3, 2014 21:31
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KoRMaK posted:This is the single most important sentiment that I've wanted to post for a while, but who the gently caress am I to tell internet people that they may be acting like dicks to their co-workers? And those said co-workers being rear end in a top hat-y back? Feeding back resulting in more angry posts here? The realistic response is that the people in this thread probably generally are sane and chill to even the most abrasive of their technology-impaired flock, because being a BOFH does not generally keep you employed. This is (one of) the IT venting thread(s), where you come in, sit down, take a shot, and scream into your monitor for as long as it takes to feel better.
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Loose Ifer posted:I mean I've already got a silly list of demands that i submitted to HR this morning which they said will be covered in the meeting. I know they haven't even looked at them yet, otherwise i doubt they would be taking me seriously at this point. I'm living vicariously through you right now. I got to do something similar at my last job, but it was literally "Company X is offering me double what I'm making here", "Oh, well, we'd love for you to stay but we can't offer you more than 1/3rd of that because you'd be making more than your boss otherwise", "Yeah figured, see ya later". Having a full meeting with HR involved sounds like it would be hilarious.
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Agrikk posted:Hah hah hah holy poo poo. So you basically wrote MS Project in Excel, then? Exactly to both. Double bonus points if you save the documentation in an esoteric binary format for a program that nobody uses before putting it on the network drive. Then munge the headers so that when they cave and buy the program just to open the file, they get a "corrupted file" error.
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Feb 6, 2014 01:04
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Track down the havana bits from VS 2005 era installation and save the documentation as a help 2.0 web page in .hsx Only if you can embed screenshots of the documentation as image binaries in it. You don't want them to be able to pull text out of a hex editor, after all.
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myron cope posted:A self-evaluation came in Is there no "it's a trap" emote? Because there should be. Self reviews are tools for lovely bosses who don't actually keep track of their employees, and used to guilt honest people into admitting they're not giving 100% at a job. Nobody actually works 8 hours a day every day unless they're micromanaged and/or overloaded and one poo poo day away from burning out, and most competent people (especially young ones) have Imposter Syndrome in some form and are super likely to self-sabotage on these things. /rant Anyways, you did fantastic and need a 20% raise.
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blackswordca posted:what happened to me is "Well you can buy a laptop from our stock" Man, that's ingenious. Why keep the lovely laptops for loaners when you can just force-sell them to your own employees?
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rolleyes posted:Saw ~40 new posts, figured something had kicked off with blackswordca, wasn't disappointed. Strictly speaking, probably not illegal. It depends on how contracts are worded, but (at least in the good ol' U S of A, even ignoring the "we can fire you whenever, suck it" thing) I'd be hard-pressed to imagine an employee handbook that doesn't have a "materials to do your job" clause in it that couldn't be contorted to this situation. Of course, most companies aren't that stupid because good luck with employee retention if you pull that poo poo
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Roseo posted:An email came in... Not remotely, although it's generally executed by sysadmins who realize that their "rm -rf ./*" is taking a little long, see the space between the period and slash, and frantically pound Control-C in the hopes that /bin still exists. e: it's also worth noting that these tend to spawn the most interesting hack stories too, as you try to figure out how to bring your system back into a working state when you're in a running shell but missing cat, ls, bash, rm, and basically everything but netcat. Alliterate Addict fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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evol262 posted:In practice, this is like "you should always run SELECT ..." and change it to destructive commands when you get the result set you want. It's nice in theory, but it's extremely easy to make a typo and miss it because you spend your whole day typing in a terminal, which is why many utilities (most of coreutils, yum, etc) prevent you from yourself a bit. It's another one of those "You'll gently caress this up exactly once" type of things. I generally don't run SQL commands without a limit either nowadays.
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AlternateAccount posted:So what would be the right way to wildcard delete all hidden files?? For recursive targeted deletes, I always use find instead of trusting bash autocomplete blindly. For all hidden files: code:For all hidden files+directories: code:This also lends itself to the idea of non-destructive selects before deletes, since the difference is just adding the -exec instead of hoping two different utilities (rm and ls) behave the same way in all situations.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:I just discovered the glory of http://shitsenders.com/ A pile of poo poo came in...it's blackswordca's fault.
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blackswordca posted:Added comedy. The intranet provider didn't setup routes with two of the sites so these sites are completely offline until this gets fixed. It took them almost a month to generate the routes in the first place, so this may get ugly. I look forward to hearing how this is your fault. Collateral Damage posted:Not to start an argument, but I loving hated touchpads until I got a macbook. Their touchpads are amazing. Agreed.
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Khisanth Magus posted:Apparently my company is considering doing the whole thin client thing for us developers. Which would rather suck in the first place, but given the fact that we don't do much of any server stuff in house and our internet is poo poo, having to deal with latency while programming would get very infuriating very fast. Last page, but my group does what amounts to thin client programming for our stuff, and it's fantastic. We have a bank of hosts and a solid build system that lets you wipe any one of them and dump a fully-functioning development environment for any given host onto it. Need to mess with subsite X? Pick a host, point the most recent subsite X production image at it, blow it away, and get to work. Most of us also have other claimed hosts that we use as a "home base" that we run IRC clients, network tools, mercurial repositories, etc. off of. Need to do work on a dev machine and don't want to arse around with push/pulling every time you want to update the code? Run a script to rsync your home machine's dotfiles and get all of your .vimrc, .hgrc, .zshrc and errata and it's like you never left your host. Not going to lie, it's pretty loving sweet, and the only time I've ever had latency even be noticeable is when I'm sitting at a restaurant with a Macbook Air, which is a sacrifice some of us just have to make.  I will also note that it would be really easy to gently caress this up and have it be horrible for everybody all the time, so I hope your company isn't poo poo 
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dox posted:He updated us in IRC but I won't go and spoil all the fun... it's coming. Last page, but is this a thread/SA IRC or just some personal one out somewhere?
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blackswordca posted:They are starting to be nice to me, I'm getting a bit scared. Probably realizing how hosed they'd be if you left. Not enough to actually give you a raise, but all the more reason to quit now so you can see the look of despair on their faces in real time, as opposed to imagining it when they're calling you two weeks after the fact.
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evol262 posted:Note that this isn't actually a HIPAA violation. Wouldn't it be if someone left you a voicemail? Also, emails probably would be; even if the email service itself is encrypted, you could probably get dinged if your phone is unlocked and not able to be remotely wiped if it's stolen.
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Khisanth Magus posted:Sr developer? Possibly brought in on a work visa? To be fair, if your dev environment is missing stdio.h, two things are pretty much guaranteed: 1. Your dev environment is hosed, and 2. Most devs aren't going to necessarily know how to deal with that, especially if you're in a company that doesn't give out local-admin access. If I hit something like that on a machine I was deving on, my typical debug steps would be: - Log onto a machine that has stdio.h, see where it's located by default - Check that directory on my machine, see if it exists, and if a bunch of poo poo is missing - Backup my homedir, wipe my machine, and find a better dev image to put on it And I have to do my own build engineering, so I'm probably more OS-minded than a lot of Visual Studio-trained developers.
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sfwarlock posted:Better! Oooh, if you've got apt that makes life a hell of a lot easier. "dpkg -S `which command`" (or, in this case, /usr/include/stdio.h) on working machines has saved me a lot of headache with regards to partially-set-up images without all their needed dependencies.
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sfwarlock posted:I just want to know what the hell goes through the mind of someone who builds a distribution (mint, in this case) and installs gcc but without all the stuff needed for gcc to actually work. It's hardly surprising, it just means it's someone who hasn't done dev work on a fresh image of their own distribution. If you submit it as a Mint bug they'll probably say "oops" and add it to the include list at some point.
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Roargasm posted:I would continue to take emails and IMs and have the IT staff log those calls themselves honestly As someone who used to do IT for a larger public high school, I absolutely refused to create my own tickets. If you can't be arsed to take the extra 60 seconds to pull up a website and log a ticket, I'm not going to do it for you. This mindset may have been affected by a lot of "I'm too busy to properly describe or reproduce my problem, just fix it" calls.
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Dragyn posted:As an American who works with software written by an Australian company, I say you all have it backward. As an American who works with software at all, if you're not storing your datetimes in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS, then you're all nuts
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sfwarlock posted:But does the process run quarterly? Or yearly? Maybe something backs up to it and will silently fail... I'd say that if you have a system that you know backing itself up somewhere, you should know where it's backing up to as well. On a more realistic note, there's only so long you can hang onto old hardware before it either gets trashed or repurposed. "But someone might come back in a year and complain" doesn't really fly on most bosses' radars when the Marketing department needs a new FTP server and there's nothing left in the budget because you blew it all on iPads.
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Trastion posted:^^^^^ If you set it up properly yes. Goes Google Drive actually allow for this sort of auditing?
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AlexDeGruven posted:Pretty sure it is a network drive mapped to G:, not Google Drive. Trastion posted:He said it was a network drive. Ah, right you are. I'm too used to people around here using the term "G-Drive" for exactly what it sounds like, my bad. 
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Lum posted:Leekspin uses Loituma's version also. It is really weird to see that an offhand punny name a friend and I attached to a website managed to stick around in common use for ten years after the fact.
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luminalflux posted:An email came in: I was on the other side of this a couple days back. Set up a deploy for a new, not-yet-user-facing system, start running down the deploy checklist. Head to nagios to set up downtime, hosts aren't on nagios yet. Odd. Shrug, make a note to talk to someone about it later, go to do the deploy... Both hosts had fallen over at some point, and nobody noticed because the ticket about putting the hosts on nagios from a month prior had been sitting in some guy's queue untouched for that entire time.  Needless to say, the deploy was somewhat delayed
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