Aquila posted:

sort now has -h, so:

$ du -h -x --max-depth 1|sort -h
852K ./cg
883M ./Downloads
1.2G ./.cache
3.0G .

PBS posted:

That theoretical amazon store seemed cool, walk in, pick out what you want, walk out.

Jerry Cotton posted:

I changed the IE home page on a colleague's laptop form our intranet to Lemon Party just before he was going to give a presentation (which I knew he'd open via a link on the intranet). Another time I did the same to a totally clueless guy (not about to give a presentation) and because he really is clueless, he called our help-desk because "I CAN'T GET ON THE INTERNET" and the help-desk guy of course logged onto his computer remotely to see what the problem was and opened IE and welp.

The Lemon Party site is no longer reachable from our company network.

Jerry Cotton posted:

Report to their bosses that they are breaking company policy in a way that affects business negatively

Collateral Damage posted:

I get genuinely annoyed when people post

DizzyBum posted:

The first company I worked for did almost exactly that in its tiny datacenter - beige mini-towers nestled next to each other on wire storage racks like you'd buy at Costco or Home Depot.

Except this was mid- to late 2000's.

Thanks Ants posted:

Can confirm the needs-suiting abilities of the Savi range.

meanieface posted:

assume the person reading your documentation and following the steps is "working" at 3 am after the bars kicked them out.

skooma512 posted:

poo poo pissing me off: All the overtime I had to do for ransomware mitigation

poo poo not pissing me off: The bike I'm going to buy with the overtime money

Alereon posted:

Someone sitting two cubes away got a relaxation noise device that plays bird chirps. I don't know how much longer I can take this. It was bad enough when we had actual birds living in the ceiling!

Irritated Goat posted:

Incident and Request. It isn't that god drat hard.

MF_James posted:

hey we implemented poo poo hosed up, but since it's implemented it's now your problem, have fun. gently caress this job.

meanieface posted:

If you have an early morning meeting, and you're going to cancel it, cancel it 24 hours in advance.

Before someone has an actual crisis and has to call in backup or pay someone else to watch their child because you have this meeting and kid has a 7:00 am doctor's appointment for stitches.

Volmarias posted:

Fixed that for you

mewse posted:

Please disregard earlier message, I meant no

Super Slash posted:

NewFatMike posted:

ServiceNow is the actual real life devil.

sfwarlock posted:

The new things I learned today from Marvin Graystache:

- Putting the BIOS installer on a thumbdrive is a great way to spread viruses. He would prefer to burn it to a CD-RW and use an external USB cd drive he carries around* except that then it isn't "always the latest and greatest, direct from" the manufacturer. For the same reason, the installer shall not go on the network drive.

(*: He really does this. So he doesn't spread viruses. And he bitches about how "Microsoft took away" CD drives "so you have to use flash drives.")

- Copying a file is different from moving it in terms of how the file arrives. If you want to make sure it arrives correctly at the destination, you must never move - copy first then manually delete if desired. Otherwise it might arrive corrupted.

- A user stated that she did not get a mail she was supposed to get. He told her that "setting up any rules in Outlook can cause you to lose mail" and deleted all of her 20+ rules. While continuing to repeat himself in a louder voice, cutting her off every time she said something.

(The actual issue, as discovered by me hunting down someone who did get the mail: she was left off the list of recipients.)

- (Really an extension of something I learned yesterday.) If you're plugged in to a LAN cable, you have a "constant, steady" connection. If you're on the wifi, every time your computer wants to do a thing, it "makes a call to the server", which naturally takes longer.

- SSDs do not count as hard drives. They are SSDs, which are completely different.

- In terms of image quality, VGA = DVI = Displayport = HDMI. It doesn't matter what you pick, as long as the computer(/docking station) and monitor both have the right port.

- In terms of terminology, "VGA" is a generic term for any sort of display cable.

- If you push hard enough, a flathead bit can do the job of a Torx.

- This one I don't even know that I understand well enough to relay it. We started talking about Linux, and I think this is what he claimed:

-- Linux is "like DOS", that is, it's just a command line, you have to buy and install Windows over it if you want a GUI, sort of like how Windows 98 and earlier could run in "pure" DOS mode. (Which is almost sort of kind of one way to describe it but "buy"? And buy Windows? )

-- If "the Linux company" wants to succeed, Linux must be made to look and function just like Windows, including making all the Windows software work on it.



Another hint about that small utility: it's something else Microsoft "took away" (he was smart, you see, and put it on his CD, except then Microsoft made it so it doesn't work anymore, which is the explanation for anything going wrong with an image ever. because he can't run his beloved utility to "fix up" the image so there won't be problems.)

EDIT: As you can probably tell, he talks about Microsoft the way some people talk about "the gubbermint!".

skooma512 posted:

poo poo not pissing me off: I'm at jury duty and I've been watching CCNA lessons all day instead of being at work

xzzy posted:

Almost all users perceive ticketing systems as slow because it's a queue and the ticket will sit there for some length of time before someone takes ownership and starts processing it.

Which is true, but gently caress it. This is how the world works, just F5 Reddit for ten minutes and move on with life.

Judge Schnoopy posted:

skooma512 posted:

This is why I want to get out of healthcare. I'm tired of 24/7 support of systems I have no information about and that barely loving work.

ptier posted:

I am going for a drink.

MF_James posted:

They probably sell a special tool to mac certified specialists for 10000 to remove all screws at once or something ridiculous.

96 Port Hub posted:

Oh cool! This looks like a useful tip!

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/997174917908004864?s=19

Thanks Ants posted:

Whenever I'm not totally sure that everybody in a conversation is in the same timezone then I use UTC for everything

Sirotan posted:

Bob Morales posted:

How have so many companies outsourced their IT to horribly incompetent teams overseas? I deal with this poo poo all the time from all the big US retail companies in their supply chain.

Hey, were saving like $10m a year now! And our IT systems kinda work okay I guess!

Thanks Ants posted:

Reporting to more than one person is awful

Agrikk posted:

In my new place I have yet to receive an electricity bill though we have been moved in for three months now.

Last week I got a “we are going to shut off your electricity unless you pay us” nastygram so I call in to deal with it. It turns out there is no record of our address in their system as being a valid address.

I literally go outside and take a picture of our meter on the wall and send them the serial number and they say, “that meter is associated with 1234 Street Address and not your address of 1244 Street Address”.

No. There is no way that there could have been a fat finger during data entry, especially since 1234 Street Address doesn’t exist.

“Well we are going to send a tech out to inspect the site.”

Today the tech comes out to look at my house and does indeed verify that our address is 1244 and not 1234. But they can’t change it because “it’s that way on the parcel map [that no one can seem to find currently].” Never mind that they mailed the original nastygram to the correct address.

So they have created an account not with a billing address of 1244 with a service address of 1234.

I’m trapped in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and I really need a renegade air conditioning specialist to rescue me.

Weedle posted:

Plot twist: it’s a BMP

AlternateAccount posted:

I just really resent the email asking me about contact. The implication is that I should have somehow had a plan for getting in touch with the person while they were gone. I do not agree with this philosophy.

The Fool posted:

We have some locations in small rural communities where we are one of the largest employers. I have more than one set of 3 generations with the same name.

Bob L Smith Sr
Bob L Smith Jr
Bob L Smith III

Hughmoris posted:

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

klosterdev posted:

He copied the script from the internet without taking the time to understand exactly how it works before pushing it to prod.

Thanatosian posted:

Unless your state law says otherwise, the only conditions are 1) they can't reduce it below minimum wage and 2) they can't reduce it retroactively. Some states require notice, and if the reduction is large enough, it can be treated as constructive dismissal, but that is just having unemployment as your alternative. Most of the employees with contracts in the US are either upper management or in unions.

And companies can change "company policy" at any time, and most of them can do it with no notice.

Employment law in the US is beyond hosed.