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

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bort: Mar 13, 2003

Smart hands are going to save us so much money.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2013 00:41

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# ¿ Apr 30, 2024 16:34

bort: Mar 13, 2003

You have cameras in your bathrooms?

# ¿ Aug 14, 2013 01:16

bort: Mar 13, 2003

Wagonburner posted:

lovely 90s software was all about Peter.

And also, how dare you. Early 1990s Peter Norton was a god.

e: smiling at you from that yellow box. :allears:

# ¿ Aug 14, 2013 01:26

bort: Mar 13, 2003

Mostly joking. Guy wrote a cool program before free software and turned into this crazy icon of mediocrity, it's weird. If he'd killed someone instead of McAfee, now that would have been a story.

If Job's story had ended at the Newton, he'd have been Peter Norton, too.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2013 01:30

bort: Mar 13, 2003

xarph posted:

Even if they did implement SPF, most companies have their spam filter set to ignore it because no one on the internet can get their SPF right. It just takes one C-level not getting an automated webex mail or something to make a sufficient amount of poo poo to disable it.

This thing is pretty cool for fixing your SPF:
http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html
I had good luck making a couple of contacts in Marketing and Communications who might send blast communications or hire a company to do that kind of thing. Help them out a couple of times and they'll come to you.

An invoice came in from Legal for a domain name they'd purchased. The registrar was charging us $105/month for the name and asked $150 for me to change the contact information when I offered to transfer it the hell out of there. I bought the abandoned domain name of the whois contact for $35 and we'll see about all this.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2013 00:37

bort: Mar 13, 2003

ratbert90 posted:

I have a PMP, it's a iPod touch.

Two pages ago, slick.

e:

psydude posted:

...needed their switches upgraded from 2948s to gig...

Do you mean like CatOS 2948Gs?

I loved those... :allears:

bort fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Aug 15, 2013

# ¿ Aug 15, 2013 00:41

bort: Mar 13, 2003

hihifellow posted:

If he had been pushy in any way or had I caught one sniff of bullshit I would have dropped all interest and started looking at other options.

Sure, their sales team is good, but it's easy mode. With the margins they make, their rep and market position, they can afford to not be pushy. Their sticker shock runs off most of the non-serious customers, and if you're using some free tool that they talk to you about, they get a thought or two out of you and may get you at the next job. Once entrenched, the software sells itself. Because they have a monitoring tool that does what this other one you have does, and that one is all :effort:

where Solarwinds really isn't and your coworkers get jealous that yours is so easy now.

che delilas posted:

I'm incredibly tempted to just put in my notice now and live off savings while I look for a new gig.

Don't be foolish. Work at finding another gig. I might also ask him what would indicator of progress you could quickly work toward would help mollify his bosses to take the pressure off him.

Savings disappear a lot more quickly than you think they will.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2013 23:32

bort: Mar 13, 2003

It isn't more risky. If you're jobless, I'll wonder why you left and were willing to risk that much. Next resume.

Write an angry letter and don't mail it. Go out and get hammered or go to the gym. Then get even and get yourself another job.

bort fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Aug 17, 2013

# ¿ Aug 17, 2013 00:11

bort: Mar 13, 2003

AcidRonin posted:

EDIT: CS related dog names?

ARP

He's not barking he's broadcasting.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2013 20:37

bort: Mar 13, 2003

That's the worst. Going through someone else's email always made me feel dirty.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2013 22:50

bort: Mar 13, 2003

Agrikk posted:

All of my 2003 servers had a shortcut on my desktop to that link, because gently caress using that shield-thing.

And gently caress WUS on 2003 too, while we are at it.

And gently caress having to have a patch party once a month to update 400+ 2003 servers manually.

It's been a long while since I had to manage Windows servers but doesn't wuauclt /detectnow fire up the shield thingy after a minute?

# ¿ Aug 21, 2013 22:54

bort: Mar 13, 2003

anthonypants posted:

here's what happens when you traceroute one of the workstations:

Better try -h 300 just to be sure.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2013 17:58

bort: Mar 13, 2003

Put another way, it's not difficult to be an excellent Windows admin.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2013 20:20

bort: Mar 13, 2003

It's cloud technology. TaaS.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2013 01:09

bort: Mar 13, 2003

It's risky, but I am 100% sure it'd go smoothly on the first try if someone drove 500 miles and did it locally.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2013 21:19

bort: Mar 13, 2003

Dick Trauma posted:

Oh man, that Shoretel quote is over $30k!

They surprise sex you on the handsets. If you don't need to trunk (aka I'll take my cost in wiring, instead!) you can cut costs a little by going with 100 Mbit phones (e.g. the 560).

# ¿ Sep 27, 2013 22:05

bort: Mar 13, 2003

skipdogg posted:

I would be more worried about things like Fans that have been spinning non stop for a long time, having to start spinning again after being shut down. I think most of us have heard a story about some mechanical piece of hardware that was fine for years until someone tried to reboot it.

Well, I for one, am sort of rooting for the brick. I'm going with: the packet loss bug they're trying to fix corrupting the file transfer and the flash being old enough that the firmware upgrade doesn't hash check it before booting.

:munch:

# ¿ Sep 27, 2013 23:59

bort: Mar 13, 2003

My ShoreTel guy is too lazy to update, so we're stuck on a client version that causes DLL hell with Lync. It's a fine VOIP platform, but every time Windows Update or something serious runs I have to fiddle with ShoreTel client DLLs to make screen sharing work in Lync again (UccApi.dll).

On the VOIP topic, if you're a "decision maker" in sales guy terms, you're gonna get cold-called. I've started making "Spammer" contacts that sync to my VOIP and keep adding phone numbers to them. So every time I get a new recruiter or reseller call me, they get 1-2 minutes of my time and then go into my "contact database". Then whenever they call again, my phone says Spammer and I turn back to whatever I was doing.

coyo7e posted:

Sounds like quite the drunken sausage party.

Sounded pretty cool to me :shobon:

bort fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Sep 28, 2013

# ¿ Sep 28, 2013 00:57

bort: Mar 13, 2003

/\ /\ beat up sales first, this guy's right

Agrikk posted:

Take a picture of that server and complain to HP's Customer Support. Feedback from customers is the only way things will impro-oh gently caress it. Who am I kidding?

Do that and Tweet it with something sarcastic about HP quality. That might get HQ's attention, since they generally have someone watching that stuff now.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2013 21:20

bort: Mar 13, 2003

It's great for technology because it gives smart people huge budgets and pushes boundaries, similar to how gaming advances desktop computer architecture and porn pushes web services. You're parroting HFT public relations talking points, though. HFT turns the small investor into a grease spot and has created situations where markets have varied wildly and people are unable to explain why. People like Buffet help the small investor by giving them strategies they can follow. HFT doesn't help anyone except for the HFT companies and the markets who serve them.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2013 15:50

bort: Mar 13, 2003

I get the cloud fear: it freaks lawyers out. Your trade secrets go into some random company's privacy policy. :suicide:

# ¿ Oct 11, 2013 19:59

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# ¿ Apr 30, 2024 16:34

bort: Mar 13, 2003

or perhaps they're ridden with vermin

# ¿ Nov 27, 2013 00:56

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