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Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Don't they usually go by percentage of weight lost?

Varies, but you still have the advantage there as a higher percentage of your body is losable weight.

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Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

larchesdanrew posted:

He's a smart guy but literally every decision he makes!

The fact that even outsiders don't see the problem with making this statement is troubling.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Segmentation Fault posted:

A customer came in.

"I went on a porn site and I got hit hard."

... Points for honesty I guess?

If they admit to a porn site, the truth must be far more nefarious.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

larchesdanrew posted:

Eh, there's degrees of this whole thing.

Am I going to step in and pro bono computer janitor their entire infrastructure? Not at all.

Can I take three minutes on my ride into work to walk someone I'm dating through the process of power cycling a few modems so that the final hour she's spent the entirety of her midnight to 8am shift working towards actually happens? Yeah.

A few points: You're already dating this girl, and while it's great to do things for her, it's bad for you (and eventually the both of you, assuming the relationship lasts for a while) to open yourself up to unnecessary risk. If things go sour in the best way they could, how will your resume and job prospects look without the TV station listed? Or with the TV station listed and a stigma attached to it? If things blow up legally, would a future interviewer be likely to empathize with you and believe the actions you're currently taking are the actions of someone who is going to be an asset to a team? If someone else came in seeking a job under you with similar circumstances that absolutely blew up in their face, when they said they did it for a girlfriend would you hire them?

Remember, all of our sentiments are born of concern for you; everything you've ever said has made it seem that the CE is gunning for you, and now the CE is squarely in the crosshairs over there. Desperate people take desperate actions and this guy's career and livelihood are circling the drain.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

FireSight posted:

An update: With Sormus's link, I was able to determine that, in fact, the devices causing the problem ARE showing as Bonjour Sleep Proxies, while the devices that are not causing problems don't show up. I'd say that's confirmation of a buggy change to the Bonjour Sleep Proxy feature on the AppleTVs.

I think that's just what bonjour sleep proxy does, but it looks like it can only be disabled on the Macs themselves and not just once at the TV.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Entropic posted:

We have clients that we set up with computers with funding from the Ontario Assistive Devices Program to use software like ZoomText because they have limited vision can't use a computer without huge magnification and text-smoothing on a big monitor.

Having the whole OS unexpectly changed on you is bad enough when you can actually see it clearly. Imagine having that sprung on you when you're half-blind. Oh also P.S. sometimes the Windows 10 upgrade stops Zoomtext or JAWS from working entirely. :toot:

I don't expect every company to test against Zoomtext and/or JAWS, but I certainly expect Microsoft to. That's a god damned travesty.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Entropic posted:

Even if it didn't actually break anything, users who have any kind of assistive software or ease-of-access stuff are the last people you want to be changing things drastically on without their permission.

Historically, they're the last people any dev team cares about. Then again, it's a poo poo rolls downhill situation, so where the buck stops can certainly be escalated. The end-user demand is there, and the people developing specific assistive software suites seem to care, but anyone else seems to give a gently caress. Except, surprisingly, on mobile phones. There was a great video on youtube from a conference with an affable sight-impaired man using JAWS to navigate a pdf with a sighted-woman co-presenter that I used to reference, but the copy I'd favorited at least has disappeared. It's amazing though how even PDFs, which are to make more accessible documents, can be an absolute slog if the author doesn't properly tag the document. It's a real pain in the rear end to do for a lot of people as well, just look at these PDF tagging best practices and anyone can get a fairly good idea how actually navigating the page is a nightmare.

Think about being forced to use regex for all page navigation, now do it by voice.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"
[quote="“RFC2324”" post="“476033861”"]
the expert is as likely to have named himself such as not tho.
[/quote]

Yeah and this guy on Microsoft Support forums is an MVP. That’s a certification if I’ve ever heard one.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"
[quote="“Agrikk”" post="“476466833”"]
I will never, not loving ever, use “Do the needful” but I will definitely try to get “your good name” into circulation.

Because I am terrible with names you see
[/quote]

But what if I told you that circulating your good name is doing the needful?

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

The Fool posted:

Twice a month.

Every other month is semimonthly.

Incorrect. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/semimonthly
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bimonthly
There is no single term to definitively say every-two-months, and fortnightly doesn't solve that.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"
[quote="“Methanar”" post="“476468583”"]
quadra-biweekly

something-like-every-60-days-kly
[/quote]

Duotriquarterly

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Danyull posted:

A few days ago, one of our Tier 1 guys got this ticket:


Before receiving a response, dude actually came into our help desk to ask about it. The guy who helped him wrote up these notes on it:


The help desk then told us the following in our chat:


And today, we received this message:


I'm really torn on whether this guy is sincere in his "research" or if he's just a pervert trying to use our staff to get himself off.

Ask for a thesis statement?

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Kurieg posted:

I hope to god this doesn't effect any of you, but AOL is finally putting AIM to sleep in December.

As long as ICQ is still around

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

iRend posted:

Also a reply-all email chain came in! I haven't seen one of these since 2003!

The idea of someone conscious not experiencing this every 3-6 months cannot be reality. I won't accept it.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Judge Schnoopy posted:

Your workplace is a nightmare please burn it to the ground thanks

I don't have to deal with the mailing lists, just the e-mails, so it could be worse. I'm also :yotj: so double gently caress it.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

iospace posted:

Nah, nothing does.

Ok, maybe Alex Jones, but Jones is at least somewhat coherent. Timecube is was the most insane thing ever.

:rip:

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

n0tqu1tesane posted:

We have a customer that owns all of 555-123-XXXX, except for ONE number that the telco gave to a residential customer and can't get back.

Im the residential customer still using the bakelite rotary

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

carry on then posted:

There's still a bunch of Lotus Notes databases out there

But enough about IBM

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

A Pinball Wizard posted:

Still seems like a massive overreaction. Trying to get the guy fired for joining the domain? Really?

For unplugging a physically networked device and then plugging in a different device.

It's absolutely a fireable offense.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Jewel posted:

also maybe fire the dude who said "yeah you can have a mac we'll spend money on that"

Yes

Jewel posted:

not the dude who thought that was okay since their boss said yes. like. what's he supposed to do? "no we dont support macs" "okay, guess I'll suffer because my boss made a stupid decision and almost certainly won't buy me a proper computer for a second purchase"

No. You can fire them both, as long as new employee is documented as having seen the policy. That could be a sign-off, attendance at a training session where the materials were covered, et cetera.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

The Iron Rose posted:

That seems a little excessive for a junior employee who got the goahead from his boss. Assume the guy wasn't a total dick that is. He should be fired for being a dick, not for acting on instruction from his boss.

and even then! Boss is dumb, but probably doesn't need to be fired!

e: Actually reading back the junior guy wasn't even being a dick at all. Hell, he was actively trying to make things work despite your intransigence.

Maybe this comes from the fact that I administer and troubleshoot both macs and PCs on a daily basis, and it works perfectly loving fine with AD and our DCs.

I have absolutely no issue with the Mac portion of this. It's the violation of port security and stubborn "I'm going to make this work instead of listening to what I've been told already" that I find unacceptable.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Judge Schnoopy posted:

But there is absolutely a point to be made that "we don't support this" can mean both "we won't help but your boss bought you this thing so go ahead and figure it out" and "don't do this on our network it's against the rules"

Crowley posted:

Some goddamn idiot boss approved the purchase of a Mac. We don't support Macs.

Idiot-with-a-Mac creates a ticket to get shiny new iMac "Connected to the network".

I reply to ticket that as per [Company policy] we don't support Macs, and that he's welcome to use the BYOD WLAN and help himself. Then I close the ticket.

Today I see a new ticket in my queue. This time he's found a guide on how to join a Mac to Active Directory, and he's been trying to do that himself.. through the wired connection for his thin client, but he doesn't have "the password".

I reply that we still don't support Macs, and close the ticket. Then I write a mail to the network guys and my own boss informing them of the ticket. Network replies 20 seconds later that the network post has been closed for "security reasons due to suspicious network activity", and boss replies 10 minutes later by BCCing me in a letter to HR explaining that we've suspended his account due to breach of security protocols.

Idiot-with-a-Mac is fresh out of college, and still on his 3-month probationary period. I wonder if we'll get an account termination ticket tomorrow. (probably not. He'll likely get off with a note in his record and a stern talking to.)

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"
This endeavor is a real Project.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Agrikk posted:

I’d like to Exchange everyone for that user.

Can't go down to one user, we need Teams to complete this request.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Agrikk posted:

Someone get a .net! This guy is crazy!

Speaking of crazy, you should see my active x

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Inspector_666 posted:

To be completely honest I am all in favor of planning out a new thread like it's the worst type of bureaucratic IT project and seeing how terrible it ends up.

Can someone post in https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=200 and get the sales department's feedback on this

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"
Are you in charge of the new thread project? Dave laid down a few requirements from el Jefe himself.

1. The new thread needs to be where the old thread was, just move the old thread and put the new one there. I can tell you right now, he's not gonna budge on this one

2. Can we do this in Sharepoint? If not, can we get all the Sharepoint Admins added to the OP list of this thread?

3. I don't think he even cares about this one, he just won't give a list with less than 3 items, but "can it be blue?"

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Thanks Ants posted:

Thanks for your time on the call, that was really helpful to get an idea of what you're after. If you could just write it all down in an email to me that would be great.

I got your email, but I'm really swamped. Can you pencil in 15 minutes to go over it with me today?

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Grassy Knowles posted:

I got your email, but I'm really swamped. Can you pencil in 15 minutes to go over it with me today?

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

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Judge Schnoopy posted:

Can we please come to a consensus on this?!? We've been on this call for three whole minutes, I've got another meeting two minutes from now.

Oh yeah sorry for joining 45 minutes late though

Oh man, I want to work where you are people apologize?!

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Thanks Ants posted:

Back and forth, you say?

Forever

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

The Iron Rose posted:

I think this has probably run its course.

Who gives a poo poo what state its in just ship it we've got a deadline J

Grassy Knowles
My old extension number
Garssyknowles@corp.local

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Malek posted:

Also, the VM host has stains and probably a voided warranty.

Looks like we have a thread title

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Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Merijn posted:

Am I too late to sign up to be the dev with local admin that fucks up his machine every month trying to install the new hipness package?

And then fucks up the Git repo by somehow pushing merge requests that revert several critical hotfixes on the master branch :argh:


I just got flashbacks. Wow.

Lol like that isn't every dev

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