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I just browse on my phone without connecting to wifi when I'm at work.
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poo poo that's pissing me off: my university's Desire2Learn instance (also why the gently caress do you assholes use the number 2 instead of the word  ) . It's a total cluster gently caress with no standardization. Different professors stick course information in different places because there are a bunch of different options and none of them make sense. This site should have: Class syllabus One place for class notes (lecture notes/hand outs) One place for homework One place for quizzes Grades Maybe a calendar that automatically fills in due dates based on the due dates in the homework and quiz sections. This poo poo should not be spread across half a dozen different drop downs with half a dozen options in each in various places such that it takes 5 minutes per course to find out if there is anything due in the next week. There's also a helpful little "Upcoming events" area which lists information seemingly at random and the information listed is often incomplete so following it is a terrible idea. For example last week I knew I had an assignment coming up but didn't know when it was due. I log in and the upcoming events section actually shows my assignment. Fantastic! It shows: "October: Assignment 3 due Friday." I thought that meant the first Friday in October because why else would you preface it with October when it was still September. Nope it was due September 27. I should have clicked on it to go to the assignment and download the pdf and found out the actual due date but I had a bunch of other poo poo to do which was due much sooner. Galler fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Oct 2, 2013 |
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Oct 2, 2013 17:52
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Both lessons are important, but never underestimate the usefulness of disabling a computer/someone's account to force them to talk to you.
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Oct 18, 2013 18:51
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Sickening posted:I am pretty sure every college has someone you can talk to that will confirm your degree without the need to disclose your entire transcript. My university farmed this off to a third party that apparently only discloses the student's start date and end date. No information about graduation or anything just the start date of the first semester you enrolled for and the end date of the last semester you enrolled for. Background check company called me up all confused because the third party records people could only tell them that I started attending the university in 2007 and 'finished' attending December of 2013 (aka the end of the current semester which isn't my last semester). I got my BS in 2008 and went back for a graduate degree in 2011 which I think is important information for someone doing a background check but I guess my university went with the lowest bidder on that one.
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Oct 18, 2013 20:50
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A 'winter coat' in Texas, at least when I lived in Dallas, was a windbreaker jacket at most.
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Oct 22, 2013 17:31
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Rhymenoserous posted:I sometimes wonder if when these people take their cars to the mechanic they refuse to communicate in anything more than hoots and whistles. Evidence from AI: 13 INCH DICK posted:
Dick Diggler posted:Is there actually a risk of being sued that makes managers roll over for these people instead of telling them to gently caress off or is it something else? Fucknag posted:^In my case it's pressure from above to "BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH CUSTOMERS", even if it's pointless and unreasonable poo poo like this. Retail employees have to suck the customer's dick no matter what, and since it's all one company that means we have to, too. Nodoze posted:We goodwill a lot of stuff at work for customer satisfaction, otherwise they allegedly won't come back and they can't have these people potentially going elsewhere for stuff. The grass is, in fact, not any greener.
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Nov 8, 2013 23:13
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Bob Morales posted:Microsoft went from the IE model of HTML email to the Word model. Throws a wrench into anything you want to make look nice in GMail and Outlook. You get to use tables again!  Pretty well sums up the entire Lotus Notes philosophy.
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Nov 12, 2013 00:06
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Those things take way too loving long to do one as a joke.
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Nov 13, 2013 04:53
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:I asked a minion to go release an email then check the logs to find out at why it got blocked by our spam filter. Your minion needs to install Notepad++ super bad.
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Nov 28, 2013 17:54
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Swink posted:Are there services out there for testing the upload speed of a link? I need to verify the capacity of our newly installed internet link. Everything Google turns up like speedtest.net is a tiny upload file which is usually finished in 5 seconds. You could always seed a bunch of linux isos or something.
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Dec 3, 2013 05:54
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Lum posted:To be fair, chip+pin is pretty easy to defeat, since the PIN is stored on the card and it's a boolean "PIN verified" flag that gets sent back to the card provider. To go along with this here's a Defcon talk on just how poo poo the current (at least as of mid 2011 some of this might have been fixed?) implementation of chip and pin is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABJlvrZWbY Galler fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Dec 24, 2013 |
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Dec 24, 2013 02:57
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I got so much flak from the dude trying to hire me at one place because I refused to tell him how much I was making at the time (I wasn't making much but the positions weren't really comparable anyway). I just told him to make a reasonable offer and we could go from there. The offer was terrible and I turned it down but it was more than current hourly rate+1 so the strategy mostly worked.
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Jan 3, 2014 20:53
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Yup, use that all the time on every android phone I've owned.
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Jan 5, 2014 08:37
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rolleyes posted:I don't comment on youtube videos either so I'm still good. Yeah, anyone that doesn't have YouTube comments blocked or otherwise pretends they don't exist is doing it wrong.
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Jan 11, 2014 21:22
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The stereotype that IT people can barely manage to dress themselves and are unable to interact with people in a reasonable way doesn't need more fuel  Get it together nitrogen's coworkers.
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Jan 15, 2014 01:32
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:
Tony was (and probably still is) a lazy and incompetent piece of poo poo, and I don't know how Dick Trauma managed to work there as long as he did without hanging Tony by one of his obnoxiously long network cables.
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Jan 20, 2014 05:13
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aside from the fact that it'll broadcast the SSID on every new connection for a snooping kit to pickup? That's not security, that's just plain lazy
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Licenses to unlock features that already exist in the hardware you've bought is a thing in electronics engineering equipment as well. For example an oscilloscope that has a 100mhz bandwidth but will only give you access to 50mhz without a license or a 5 digit multimeter that will only display 4 unless it has a license. It certainly makes sense from a manufacturing cost perspective but it's rather annoying to know that the hardware can do significantly more than what it's doing. Pretty sure there's talk of doing this to cars as well. They will all come with a big display but you will have to buy a navigation license or backup camera license or entertainment license to make those parts work.
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Jan 23, 2014 02:58
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Upgrading Windows versions is never a good idea. Backup, flatten, and install for a good experience and none of those problems.
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Jan 28, 2014 06:20
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You would think but, well, Microsoft.
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Jan 28, 2014 06:23
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Che Delilas posted:
She never actually used the new system? Got to love that. "I don't care that your way is better in every single possible way. The system needs to work exactly like this. Wait, why is this system complete garbage you suck I'm not using this."
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Jan 28, 2014 18:58
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jim truds posted:Ahahah, the guy we hired months ago to primarily create our new images and deploy laptops has no idea how to create a new image. Caged posted:HP used to do some stuff but gently caress HP, they should be punished with a lack of sales for having a website as terrible as theirs.
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Jan 31, 2014 23:18
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MPC-HC always ends up a few versions behind for me because of that. Also keepass because it doesn't check for updates until after you've put in the master password and I can't be bothered to go download, install, and re-auth just after I've finished typing my huge master password.
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Feb 4, 2014 17:15
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I'm having trouble getting games for windows live to work on windows 8.1 which is eventually going to piss me off (whenever I get the urge to play Dark Souls again) but right now I think it's hilarious. I'm just going to assume Microsoft wants to pretend that heap of poo poo never existed and, really, who could blame them. Windows 8.1: Protecting you from the horrors of GFWL.
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Feb 5, 2014 05:35
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In the sense that no more games are being made that use it. However all of the games that required GFWL won't run if the GFWL application isn't installed and functioning.
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Feb 5, 2014 07:33
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Lum posted:Supposedly it's now Games for Windows Marketplace Yeah, that bit (and the old GFWL) install fine. However when running either of them it pops up saying it requires some login application that does something? Which won't even attempt to install. I will look into alternative methods as I wasn't aware those existed. Thanks.
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Feb 5, 2014 18:31
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Agrikk posted:We are in a union building so the This happens in non-union places as well. It's hard to get people to give a gently caress about a lovely job with lovely pay.
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Feb 25, 2014 20:31
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Swiftkey fixes the second problem but definitely not the first.
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May 7, 2014 21:41
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Holy poo poo that's amazing. Thank you.
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May 7, 2014 22:27
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If cost of living in Ohio is anything like not-chicago Illinois then 50k allows for a pretty comfortable life and isn't too bad for a junior position. Not saying it's fantastic or anything but it's probably reasonable depending on experience. 32k is bullshit though.
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May 10, 2014 18:47
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Should have just searched for coupons and clicked any of the links. Every user that I've ever seen that's in to coupons has all kinds of browser poo poo infecting their computer.
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May 19, 2014 22:12
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At least there would be a shitload of free and pretty ok beer to make things better.
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Jun 12, 2014 02:33
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CitizenKain posted:Yea, what is even worse about it is a ton of training beyond entry level stuff is insanely expensive. Since I know work will never pay for a SANS course for anyone but 1-2 specific people, I'm out ever getting that. Coworker wants to take the VCP, keeps getting stonewalled.  Of course, we're the exception as no other IT areas get any expensive training anymore so who knows how long we'll get special treatment.My team gets treated pretty well overall and as a result we work hard and get poo poo done. The other IT groups don't get treated all that well and don't really give a poo poo if things get done right or at all. I'm sure those two things are unrelated. Galler fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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Jun 30, 2014 04:46
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Thanks Ants posted:I've found out that people who email things to themselves is a pretty good litmus test for how likely they are to piss you off when attempting simple tasks.  ).Lareous posted:Just to be clear, are there any of you that like your current boss? I just want to make sure there are indeed good ones. My supervisor and my boss are both awesome. Supervisor is super chill, highly technical, knows how to bypass most of the corporate bureaucracy, and does all the things a supervisor should do and does them well. Boss keeps the higher ups and other managers out of our hair so we can actually work and goes to bat for us to get whatever we need (if we can articulate why we need something we'll get it even if it's expensive) and ensures that we're getting plenty of training (2 SANS classes and a conference per year, currently). He also keeps pushing (with some success) to increase our head count. He lets us get away with a lot so long as we get our work done.
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Aug 6, 2014 02:12
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Spending the week in a nice hotel going to some expensive training and life is good. Except that I cannot loving remember my KeePass password for my work accounts. I didn't write down the master password and bring it with me because I forgot but also because I logged in first try last time (like 3 weeks ago) so I thought I was fine. For some reason I decided to shut down my laptop instead of just hibernating like usual so I actually need to log into everything. Can't VPN or get to my email until I remember this. What is really pissing me off is that I know the various bits that I used for the password just not how I combined them. Probably going to have to have one of my co-workers break into my desk and get my super secret post it.
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Aug 11, 2014 02:39
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Galler posted:Probably going to have to have one of my co-workers break into my desk and get my super secret post it. Yup, talked a coworker through breaking into my desk and retrieving my password. Good news though, he couldn't read my about half of it but was able to give me enough pieces so I could figure it out. Now I'm back in, "productive," and he doesn't know my password*.  *still changing it of course and bribing/thanking him with lunch. This hotel is way too classy for me. Most of the people around here are in nice suits and dresses and the hotel food is hilariously expensive. There's a Panera in the lobby and all kinds of places within walking distance though so that's nifty. Got a good instructor for this course and the course itself is pretty good. IT can be pretty awesome. If you're in a lovely position then keep tossing resumes out there and hopefully you can strike gold like I did.
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Aug 11, 2014 22:34
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I wear nicer clothes than I have to because they're comfy and I don't want to be the least professionally dressed person in the office. Also, I'm not crawling under desks or walking the factory floor anymore. gently caress wearing a suit jacket and tie though. That poo poo is exclusively for interviews.
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Sep 2, 2014 16:02
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Super Slash posted:On that note, I don't get why people print out their work related E-mails; Like... it's right there on the screen, for what reason do you need a paper copy of a new client notification? It helped out my team today. A process dragged on so long that the original emails had all gotten eaten by retention and only my boss' hard copy was left. It wasn't a CYA type email so no one bothered to save it off or up the retention date but it still would have chewed up an hour of a few peoples time to remember what all was in the original email.
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Sep 11, 2014 03:31
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They're still legal but halon cannot be imported or produced anymore (since '94 as well). All 'new' halon comes from recycled halon from decommissioned fire suppression systems and the like. Also, a lot of people don't know the difference between halon/inergen/whatever systems but know the term halon so they go with that.
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Oct 4, 2014 21:26
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Inspector_666 posted:This doesn't mean it requires a reformat, right? I think I have an 840 at home but I don't care enough to reinstall my poo poo. Correct, it doesn't require a format. It just goes through the disk and rewrites everything without modifying any data after updating the firmware.
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All season tires are garbage unless you get the really good (expensive) ones and even then they're worse than winter or summer tires during their respective seasons. There's a reason all seasons are frequently called 'no season' tires. If it's routinely less than 40*F wherever you are then you should have winter tires even if there isn't any snow or ice. If there's snow or ice then winter tires should be mandatory. Those 'dangerous' conditions suddenly become not at all dangerous when you have tires that actually work in the conditions.
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Dec 29, 2014 20:46
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