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Your mission, should you choose to accept, is to install Windows XP in RAID 1 on a brand new Dell Optiplex 9010. Even though the Intel Q77 Express chipset does not have Windows XP RAID drivers, the Client is insisting that it "must work" with XP due to legacy applications. As always, should you or any of your co-workers put forth any other less insane ideas, the Client will disavow all knowledge of your actions. This ticket will self destruct in 10 seconds, good luck.
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That background is nauseating... imagine that on a crappy 1997 CRT. I would love to read the software requirements too. Something like: Requires an IBM compatible 386 or better with 4 megs of RAM VGA graphics card Hard disk drive
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Aug 20, 2013 05:30
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It's not just looking though email where these personal things crop up... Sometime last year I had a random ticket requesting a good photo organizer on a workstation. After reviewing their actual needs I opted for Picassa. When it asked to scan for pictures/locations I explained what it was about to do, and the client said go for it. Sure saves time adding it all in manually right? About 1 second into the import/scan and I think you can see where this is heading. Just hundreds upon hundreds of pornographic image thumbnails were zooming by... DCIM0098.jpg, DCIM0099.jpg... ugh. It was awkward to say the least. This was a company computer too.
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Aug 21, 2013 01:33
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So there has been a large DSL outage here since last Friday. All I can get out of the ISP is the following email updates every few hours: quote:21:00 Carrier update is the same. The carrier is moving customers to new equipment one circuit at a time. They don't have an estimated time they will complete these moves. 
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Aug 21, 2013 22:24
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Welp, so much for hoping I would dodge any KB2859537 issues. Sounds like we got lucky though, no BSOD's or anything too horrific; just broken apps.
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Aug 23, 2013 00:04
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teethgrinder posted:Any suggestions for converting MBOX to PST, for that one executive that absolutely insists on using Outlook...? If the mbox data is less than 5gigs, you could use a free gmail account to convert. I had to do this in Mac Mail; just drop all the poo poo from the old mailbox into the brand new gmail IMAP account and wait. Then setup Outlook with the gmail IMAP to retrieve the mail and create a .pst in the process. Of course this only does mail, and only mail that meets gmail size limits... so it's by no means recommended or ideal. tjl fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Sep 5, 2013 |
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Sep 5, 2013 00:10
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Now I feel uneasy... I still use Winamp.  What amazing new advances am I missing out on? I think I even got this huge collection of milkdrop presets from a poster on SA way back when. Have yet to find a media player with such robust visualization.More on topic, today I was notified to setup about 5 sales users who started on Tuesday. I say about 5, because they dont even know how many exactly. The planning is strong with this particular HR dept. Oh and 3 of the hires don't even have computers to use. How the gently caress do you hire people and not think of a place/equipment for them to actually you know, sit down and work?
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Sep 5, 2013 21:55
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Reading through a long list of issues someone emailed me... this part stuck out:quote:*And what is Crystal? Anything that's in the library that has that word
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Sep 10, 2013 01:05
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Renegret posted:I wish every week could be my last week on the job. Too bad it doesn't work that way.
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Sep 10, 2013 20:32
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File extensions should have died with DOS, at least that's my offhand opinion. It always bothered me why Windows associates based on what basically amounts to verbiage that can change. I guess this problem isn't Windows specific either, but just one of those things we just accept as 'working good enough'. When or how a better way will come along is anyone's guess though.
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Sep 11, 2013 02:08
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drukqs posted:
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Sep 17, 2013 01:53
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Defense in depth!
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Sep 18, 2013 21:13
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Got a call on my cell about an hour before I normally start this morning, ignored it. Client immediately sends a follow up text, "Our network is down." Well poo poo, I guess I can't ignore this one till starting time. Or eat breakfast. Before driving out there I remote into their router, and run some tests. Clearly their internet is up as well as the router I'm connected into. They are just one big /24, on an un-managed Cisco SMB switch. I can only ping maybe... 5 devices, most of them printers. The rest are "host unreachable" servers included. Call someone on-site, ask them to reboot all the switches and router, and I try again. Same results. Hmmm OK probably a bad switch then. I've done all I can remotely, so I grab a replacement and drive out. Get there, un-box the replacement switch, and move the cables over from the defective switch. Power up and observe the same results. Reboot new switch... same results.  Not sure WTF is really going on now.Unplug all the network connections, and just try plugging in the workstation near me and the router uplink. It works, on both switches old and new. So it's now clear to me there is a bad NIC out there, or cable, or something, and its messing up the switching or ARP or god knows what. Plug stuff in one at a time successfully and eventually find the cable that brings it all back down. A new Dell computer that is powered on, but totally frozen. Nothing on the monitor, keyboard frozen. I plug everything in except for this workstation and the network remains stable. Reboot the Dell, plug it in and there are no longer any issues. Layer 2 really can be the Devil sometimes.
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Sep 21, 2013 00:46
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So got a Dell computer that needs some warranty work this morning. Called them up: "Thank you for calling Dell! The dept. you have reached is closed. Please try us again on the next business day."  It's the middle of the day on a loving Tuesday... makes me wonder wtf is going on. Something to do with the East Asian typhoons?
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Oct 15, 2013 21:23
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Nov 19, 2013 07:13
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Inspector_666 posted:Why not just not write a real letter at all? Just say you're resigning in two weeks or whatever and leave it at that.
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Dec 13, 2013 21:55
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Ok so apparently 5 students in Denmark did an "experiment" with seeds and WiFi and now I have a client calling and freaking out about Wifi radiation. Here is the article the client referred to: http://www.naturalnews.com/043238_wi-fi_routers_radiation_plant_growth.html I basically said if they want us to turn off their AP I will do the needful. Oh and this is a doctor by the way. Someone I would hope has at least some inkling of what a scientific study should entail. Bonus points for calling me from a mobile phone, which uses said radiation placed about a cm from your skull, in order to relay your fears about radiation exposure.
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