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Thank you for restarting this thread. ATCI thread is too active for me to follow. Pissing me off: Applications that require specific versions of Java 6 and won't play nice if Java 6 goes on after Java 7.
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Sep 27, 2013 08:14
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P.S. STILL COMPLETELY DEVOID OF MERIT
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:What the gently caress does this mean? Toolbars making their browser window too small.
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Oct 14, 2013 17:49
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Che Delilas posted:Resources. They can't stop using that word! I sort of see where they're coming from. You can't say employee because they might be a contractor. But you'd think they could find a better word than resource.
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Oct 15, 2013 18:54
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Siochain posted:if we have a problem customer, we'll get one of the other guys to be "Tier 2" or "Insert x Specialist" to get them to listen. This is probably why Miso's techs just escalate the ticket. The callers probably won't listen to "Outlook is slow because your mailbox is 18GB" from the level 1 helpdesk monkey.
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Oct 25, 2013 17:08
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Kyrosiris posted:That's not how progressive taxation works. See above, sometimes it is. Capital Gains/Qualified dividends is another one. If I hit the next tax bracket, my capital gains goes from 0% to 15% on ALL capital gains. The income cut off for the 15% tax bracket is $36,250. So, pretend this is you Adjusted Gross Income (AGI; income after deductions and credits), and $1000 of that is Capital gains or qualified dividends. At $36,250 AGI you pay $0 on taxes on that $1000. At $36,251 AGI, you pay $150 in taxes. I didn't realize this when I switched jobs and cashed out my vacation from my old job and my owed taxes about doubled. Progressive taxation is not as straight forward as you might think. Please consults a qualified tax professional, etc. Guesticles fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Oct 27, 2013 |
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Oct 27, 2013 22:54
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GargleBlaster posted:Ah the pitfalls of sticking to a dirt cheap good-for-nothing antivirus for so long where the application hasn't been updated for over 2 years (took long enough to get a Windows 7 compatible version) and is threatening to disappear altogether. Now the boss has *finally* seen the light and stopped worshipping this crappy AV and is proposing to switch to another. But the problem is, the total annual cost for the lovely one is £200 and the total cost for every other in the world is ~£1000. Gargleblaster, you're slowly becoming Corvette Fisher, please  . (or isn't he Dilbert something or other now?)
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Oct 29, 2013 16:20
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So I might have a on the line, and wanted to get some outside input. This might even be a little premature, as numbers and such haven't been discussed, but I passed the technical phone interveiw and seemed to do pretty well on meeting the managers, and from what I've been told the local market is soft on quality windows people. I've got other things to consider even if all that works out, but The company's previous IT person left after 7 years and has left everything in a bit of a mess. Basically they'd put off updating a lot of their software in favor of working on other projects that were more immediately important to their operations, and he left almost as soon as it was done, so now they've got a lot of updating to do. 2003 Servers that need updating, XP machines that need 7 before April, plus a few other things. I walked into a situation where things were almost as messed up at my current place, but I had budget and management backing to get this place whipped into shape. Win7 rolled out, hardware/software inventory sorted, better policies on network storage, etc. I also had a central software department to help sort and manage the software inventory. So before I accept an offer, I'm going to want to make sure the budget exists to refresh their desktop hardware, and update their microsoft licensing. Does anyone any experience with this sort of thing? They have an IT consultant running things (who will be playing sort of CITO and covering my time off going forward) and from what he says and the impressions I got during the imperson interviews they're interested in getting their house in order. For content: My psychic powers. Last week I was at one of our satellite sites who have this weird database type program. I was talking to them about XP going EoL and we'll need to make plans to get the machine upgraded to Win7 if they're going to keep using it on the network. Today it gets malware on it.
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Oct 30, 2013 21:06
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Caged posted:It sounds like you'd be YOTJing to repeat what you've done for your current company all over again except possibly with less support this time around. Is that just me being cynical or is there something else to it? In the short term, yes. In the long term, I've almost maxed out my current job. I'm not part of my employer's Central IT group. Central IT runs the network and email, I take care of my department's computers and servers. I've got my current place running smoothly, and even though I like the place, I'm going to need to YOTJ out eventually if I want to advance. There has been some shake up at my current employer that I'm not 100% sure I'll be immune to, so there is that to consider as well. The YOTJ would also fill in a hole in resume, which is no one has given me money to run an exchange server yet. There are other things to consider as well, but during my tour of the offices, I saw not a single personal printer. Agrikk posted:There is nothing wrong with asking more details about the project before you sign. I told the consultant during my tech interview, and the head of the YOTJ company during the "do you have any questions?" stage of the face to face, that before I accepted any offers I will want to make sure they've got a proper budget set aside (and that I didn't expect them to have or tell me hard numbers unless we got there). However I do recall one of the people in this thread (or maybe the original) saying they YOTJ'ed, had a budget all approved and good to go, then had it yanked out from under them several months in. Those are good tips, thanks.
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Oct 30, 2013 22:55
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No, I will not order a apple-branded monitor for your dell computer. If you want a monitor for your personal mac laptop, you'll just have to get a full-time research position so you'll have the authority to abuse the ordering system like everyone else.
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Oct 31, 2013 21:44
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namol posted:Who are you people that use putty on a Mac? Seriously what the hell. I was going to say, doesn't OSX still have SSH built in?
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Nov 12, 2013 08:29
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DGK2000 posted:Pissing me off: IT people in a remote location not knowing how to use an RDS licensing server, thereby costing us thousands of dollars. How did their fuckup cost you?
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Nov 16, 2013 07:56
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People unable to follow instructions. The folder is at \\Server\Directory\Your Directory Please make sure you use the entire address, and don't just click the link outlook generates, as it will not generate a valid address due to the space.  I tried and I still can't access \\Server\Directory\Your, even after copying and pasting! Please do the needful!
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Nov 18, 2013 19:55
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wintermuteCF posted:Terminate your address with a \ and Outlook will fix the link. Example: \\server\share\two words\ will link the whole thing. I don't want their to be a link, but outlook helpfully makes one on the client end. Which is why I specifically told them the link would not work, and to do copy/paste into start->run (They weren't one of my users or the share would have already been mapped by GPO). Not Pissing Me Off So Much: In response to my email outlining why they failed to reach the network share (You are trying to reach a non-existent share), they apologized for not reading the instructions in the original email. I'll take what I can get 
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Nov 20, 2013 01:26
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Sirotan posted:To harken back on a previous discusion, Nooooooo!  Fun fact: when digging through my old harddrives, I found my circa 1999 program files. Orginal Napster! ICQ! And Winamp 1.4! I thought for hilarity's sake I'd see how ancient winamp would fail to run on my 64bit windows 7 computer. Worked perfectly 
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Nov 21, 2013 00:25
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Helushune posted:That's rather impressive. I still use v2.95 and haven't run in to any problems with it across a multitude of Windows versions and processor archetypes. RIP Winamp. IIRC, it is because early Winamp uses Windows API calls to do pretty much everything, so early winamp versions will work until the API hooks are removed from windows. Which might be never, since its pretty much bitmap graphics, audio, and filesystem. Congratz!
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Nov 21, 2013 05:26
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Misogynist posted:Every Socket 7 system I ever used shipped with one, but the lower-clocked models (60/75/90 MHz) seemed to do just fine without. The higher-clocked ones (166 MHz+) often ran fine without them, but would get hot enough to literally fry things on: In that vein, I remind you of Project E.U.N.U.C.H.
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Nov 25, 2013 06:19
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Pissing me off: Whiners. No, I will not approve you to buy a best buy special. Its a Best Buy special for a reason. Oh, now you're complaining your eyes won't let you see anything smaller than a 17 inch screen. Well, let me show you about adjusting DPI and resolution. I guess the main thing that pisses me off is they're claiming poverty after making a bunch of orders for over priced poo poo.
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