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"This is unacceptable" and "I don't want to hear that." Maybe then you should have told me about this project last month when you found out instead of two days before rollout.
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2013 04:57 |
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# ¿ May 11, 2024 12:10 |
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Only tangentially IT, but I hate when my team drags me out for lunch and then talks about nothing but work. Can't we come up with some other discussion topic? This is supposed to be our break. (Also - I have to share this somewhere - apparently all the webdev team has been passing around the same cold/flu/thing since October. I called it an "excellent example of 'cold reuse'" and got a french fry thrown at me.)
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2013 00:00 |
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Grown-rear end adults who can't clean up after themselves. It's fine, if you're a visiting person from a branch office, to take over the cube of someone who's not here that day. It's even okay to disconnect his keyb/mouse/monitor for your laptop so you can work better. I have no problem with this. It's not okay not to hook it all back up before you leave, or at least tell the IT monkey so he (read: so I) can hook it back up at the end of the day. Otherwise I get a very pissed off ticket going to my phone at 7:00. Loctite. I think I need Loctite.
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# ¿ Dec 27, 2013 16:37 |
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That just reminds me of an old joke about how you know your boss is too drunk: He unbuttons his coat, pulls out his tie, and pisses his pants.
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# ¿ Jan 15, 2014 05:52 |
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Put a QR code on the business cards etc. Make it link to a mailto: URL. E: And that is what happens when I type a post and then go away before hitting post.
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 23:23 |
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HalloKitty posted:See, that's what I'd call efficient, which you could also say is lazy. I don't see lazy as a bad thing. It's far more efficient to have a proper solution, allowing you to be lazy later on. Manually configuring countless APs requires a lot of effort, and is totally idiotic. Usually that's more like this:
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# ¿ Jan 20, 2014 22:31 |
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Alctel posted:Backup Exec is the goddamn worst What are you talking about? I miss working with Veritas Backup Ex... wait, not Veritas anymore? Who bought it then? Well poo poo. That explains everything. Carry on.
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2014 18:35 |
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Out of 5 laptops I downgraded to 8.1 from 8, 4 had serious problems, of which 2 didn't even boot. So I said gently caress it and upgraded them to 7. And yes, I have my ups and downs straight.
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2014 06:57 |
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ratbert90 posted:This. This is what too many people in IT don't understand. They get too involved in their projects. You are paid to code, to set up systems, to manage networks. If those systems aren't used? Not your issue dude, just go on to the next project. Except then people keep getting on your case about why the new system isn't exactly like the old system except faster. Or you get blamed for how people don't use it. Or or or.
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# ¿ Jan 29, 2014 23:57 |
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Daylen Drazzi posted:just the other day we stepped into the stairwell to go to the server farm and only the emergency lights were on. To be fair, that's the sort of test people should know about in advance, or at least cone off the doors.
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# ¿ Feb 1, 2014 03:26 |
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GargleBlaster posted:LogMeIn Free is going away. Fucksticks. I have OpenVPN running at home and RDP into a virtual Windows machine and VNC from there into the actual computers. (I find that VNC over VPN doesn't deal well if the connection drops and sometimes that causes the server to crash.) Sirotan posted:I just learned that you can still get a BSoD in Windows, even in Server 2012! Because I saw one, and then my server died. 90% of the time I see this it's flaky hardware, 10% either a bad driver or Windows thinks it's a bad driver. (I BSoDed my gaming computer (Win7x64) the other weekend trying to run a game from 2000. Display driver locked and as I was reaching for Ctrl-Shift-Esc, it bluescreened.)
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2014 23:36 |
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dogstile posted:The engineers have to deal with that here, working hours are 9 to 5:30, but they're only allowed to claim overtime from 7:00 onwards. I don't get that, you're basically working an hour and a half for free. Step 1: Clock out at 17:30 for dinner. Step 2: Come back, slightly boozed, at 19:30. Step 3: Profit.
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2014 16:07 |
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Agrikk posted:People who write Windows Server 2k12 or Office 2k10 or 2k13. Plate of shrimp syndrome? Also:
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2014 19:42 |
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Mr. Clark2 posted:Due to some political BS, we were asked to accept a donation of 15 PCs, we were told it was all "good stuff". Maintenance dept. sent 2 guys and a truck to pick up the stuff, 2 hour round trip, here's what they came back with: But we spent $2000 on that computer only ten years ago! It's got to be worth something! Can I put a $750 writeoff on my taxes?
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2014 02:10 |
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Dudley posted:Which leads me to my other gripe, one recruiter really couldn't understand why it was a bad thing he rewrote every candidates CV and jammed them into his own lovely template. Reminds me of the time I got a resume for a "C+ Programmer."
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2014 20:06 |
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Not quite pissing me off, but I had to share somewhere: Somehow today our "General Tech BS" chat has gotten onto Top Gun quotes and .gifs. So far, five people will be my wingman anytime, I've had to threaten two people with flying a cargo plane full of rubber dogshit outta Hong Kong, I've been accused of being in a 4G inverted dive with Kayla from Marketing, and just in general felt the need for speed. EDIT: Oh, and I've told eight people the pattern is full. EDIT #2: "I don't like you because you're unsafe. Every time you touch a server, you're dangerous." sfwarlock fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Mar 18, 2014 |
# ¿ Mar 18, 2014 02:04 |
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CitizenKain posted:From talking to boat owners, go to Europe. A boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money. Go to Europe. Also:
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2014 16:52 |
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This little gently caress-you buried in Technet: "Note that you cannot convert a domain controller that runs an evaluation version of Windows Server 2012 directly to a retail version."
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2014 23:02 |
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Sickening posted:As someone who has done more work with failing domain controllers than I like to admit, its really not that big of deal as long as you have another way to standup a server temporarily. Passing roles back and forth on anything 2008 and above is pretty painless. Which is true, and I have two more servers in the environment. It's just frustrating as hell because we're shorthanded and I have no extra time to spend dueling with Windows right now. (Although - and probably this is unfair - I know terms like FSMO and PDC/BDC are outdated, but I'll still a little worried at people who admin servers who don't know them.) (( Also one of the servers in question also threw this at me on Monday, which caused a full out spit-take, fortunately not in the direction of anything technological: .)
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2014 05:15 |
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Sickening posted:As a default, absolutely. Group policy should be configuring this though and not allowing auto reboots. It should be one of the first things you do in any active directory environment. Just because you can change stupid default settings doesn't make them any less stupid. In fact, it makes them a trap.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2014 15:38 |
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Bob Morales posted:Boss must have gotten bored at 10:39 last night, started emailing me while I was at the bar. "Welp, you caught me. It's my Minecraft server. And Tor exit node. And cloud porn storage. And I just threw it online without a firewall or anything just to see what would happen." Meanwhile, if I got that interview question, I would say "give me five minutes with the awk manpage and I'll see what I can do." Knowing the right tool is 90% of the job as far I'm currently concerned.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2014 20:20 |
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Speaking of virtuals: Someone wants to P2V the old server... onto the same hardware. Why? Seems to boil down to because "it's better".
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# ¿ Mar 26, 2014 21:27 |
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nitrogen posted:This video is exactly what it is like trying to work with the project managers at my company. Holy God. I had to turn that off.
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2014 19:21 |
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At some point, Windows lost the ability to stop a scheduled task after an arbitrary amount of time. Either that, or it just hides the ability behind a dropdown list, which may be even worse.
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2014 00:21 |
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Mr. Clark2 posted:Today? Users that don't reboot their PCs after I push out IE10 to their machines and they receive an email and a post-installation message telling them that they need to reboot in order to complete the installation. As a result of this, my reports are still showing a bunch of machines with IE8 installed, even though my other report tells me that IE10 successfully installed. Next time I'm just going to use /ForceRestart instead of /NoRestart and remove them from the decision entirely. But... but I had stuff open! You destroyed my stuff! WAAAAAAH!
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2014 18:17 |
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Bob Morales posted:Even dumber, helpdesk are the only people allowed to change toners. We keep them in a locked storage room. To be fair, that poo poo's expensive and printers start whining about low toner long before they're actually out. The Unwashed Masses tend to put new toner in way too early.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2014 21:24 |
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:Re: Time to leave a job. My touchstone for that has always been the time I rolled past a really ugly wreck on the freeway and my first thought was "That lucky bastard doesn't have to go to work tomorrow."
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2014 18:41 |
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Soylent Heliotrope posted:I got a recruiter email the other day matching me with a six-digit salary senior Java developer position. I have no interest in dev and only know Java from taking a couple comp sci classes in college. My current job (IT/facilities/operations support guy, entry-level, small business, low cost area) just gave me a raise to $11.50 an hour. Is Java on your resume? If yes, then an automated email got sent to you.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2014 00:31 |
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NullPtr4Lunch posted:poo poo that pisses me off: Bosses who don't know the difference between On-Call and On-beck-and-Call. Or between work-life separation (thing of the past) and work-life balance (necessary).
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 23:06 |
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Problem: "Something is wrong with my computer it's acting weird and I can't get to google.com!" Step 3: User reinstalls, and bitches to your boss that you left their computer messed up and it's also still slow/weird/whatever.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 19:50 |
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Lum posted:The post above yours is basically correct. It's the endorphin crash that comes afterwards, sometimes quite quickly, sometimes in a couple of days, hence a valid medical thing. Dom drop is also totally a thing. *ahem* Meanwhile, try throwing this at the printscreen: http://projectnaptha.com/
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# ¿ May 14, 2014 15:17 |
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HalloKitty posted:Jesus, what kind of round-about poo poo is this? Install the desktop experience so you can run disk cleanup? WinSXS in general is poo poo. A bunch of the people where I work have small (~25gb) Windows virtual machines (on 128gb SSDs) and those HDs keep filling up with SXS poo poo. One I saw yesterday had 11 gb in there.
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# ¿ May 15, 2014 15:54 |
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:If the director says working from home today is fine, your reply to the email I sent saying working from home is fine, and my status is "working from home". I would assume that they know you're home, but they want greater detail. So you could say "still in bed" or "cooking breakfast" or possibly "on the back deck enjoying a wake-and-bake."
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# ¿ May 16, 2014 15:25 |
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ratbert90 posted:
I got bored enough to do this. #include <stdio.h> int main() { int a,b,c; for (b=0; b < 1000; ++b) { for (a=0; a < b; ++a) { c = 1000 - (a+b); if ((b < c) && (a*a + b*b == c*c)) { printf("a: %d \t b: %d \t c: %d\n",a,b,c); } } } return 0; }
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# ¿ May 22, 2014 15:15 |
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evol262 posted:The same in C: I wonder how much faster it would be to calculate a*a (and for the hell of it, b*b) once per for loop instead of once per c value: C code:
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# ¿ May 22, 2014 20:32 |
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Pissing me off today: having to watch an awesome person walk because there was no room for advancement.
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# ¿ May 23, 2014 22:46 |
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Moey posted:My coworker tweeted some hate towards their support. Within a few hours my ticket was escalated. The email thread that I came into was started by their marketing director telling their support director to do something. Pretty hilarious. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will. EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Just make a new one every time you need help, I've made an account to yell at Veeam, Dell, and OpenText and I got an answer from each of them within half an hour. "This person is making us look bad on social media! We have to let them jump the queue!"
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# ¿ May 28, 2014 17:34 |
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That right after I spent three months of my life working on Project Truecrypt, feeling good that almost everyone is done by Wednesday night of the week of rollout...
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# ¿ May 29, 2014 05:45 |
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spog posted:I'm calling it now: internal spat about some really technical issue taht devolved into an arguement about WOW or MLP and resulted in one fo the team storming off in a huff, taking all the passwords with him. I feel like the advice to use Bitlocker (wtf) or "whatever you find" on Linux is a huge red flag that all is not what it seems.
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# ¿ May 29, 2014 20:28 |
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# ¿ May 11, 2024 12:10 |
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spog posted:Based on their history I would expect that if they genuinely wanted to reveal a vuln, they would go into it in great technical detail that mere mortals like me wouldn't be able to understand. It may be that the vuln means that old containers are easily broken, and since patch it would reveal what it was, and there's some number of encrypted containers in the hands of bad actors ...
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# ¿ May 30, 2014 19:58 |