Bob Morales posted:

We have a couple people with Dutch last names where I work, and of course we get people that try to email them but can't get someones email address right even if they are typing it from a business card or sales flyer.

You end up with a name like 'Dave Graaf'

The guy then calls in to complain he's not getting all the emails he should. I take a look at the logs, and sure enough people are emailing dave.graff, dave.graf, poo poo like that. Either doubling the wrong letter or not doubling the right letter, because they don't speak freaky-deaky Dutch.

The question becomes "Well can't you just make dave.graff forward the email to dave.graaf?"

At first thought it's a fairly reasonable request assuming your email aliases are free. But it doesn't fix the problem.

What do you do?

demonachizer posted:

Instead of?

Bob Morales posted:

We're still going to use Paychex, just not the timeclock portion.

Here's what the new program looks like





The instruction book has screenshots from Windows 98

eithedog posted:

poo poo pissing me off today: Stack Overflow.

Ok, I don't know why something happens, I think it's a bug. I write the question. I explain the issues, say what happens, say what should happen. I again explain the issue step by step to clear any confusions. I post.
(The issue deals with redirects, which is kind of important)

First comment - can you provide a fiddle. (no, I cannot, because it deals with redirects, which none of fiddle sites can support)
Second comment - completely missing the point, asking questions that don't matter to the question.

I reexplain the issue, add examples which you can use on your own machine.

Next comment - again missing the point. I basically retype a comment I've made earlier.
And next comment - writes nosense.

First answer appears (by the author of last comment) - completely misunderstands the issue, writes nonsense.
I again reexplain the issue. For the fourth time I retype the same thing. I write what I've written in the OP and how to use the examples.

The answer gets changed and basically says - "that's how it works, happens because of foo, you won't be able to change it; this is how you can circumvent that". Sounds believable.

Feeling interested though I go into the source code and after two hours of debugging find the place where the issue occurs (not at foo), create a patch.

sfwarlock posted:

The tech then mentioned that perhaps he wasn't the incompetent person in the room, to which he was invited to depart the premises immediately and permanently.

incoherent posted:

Thats pretty dope.

One must now ask: How do you get 24Tbps from one site to another?

moosepoop posted:

poo poo that pisses me off: It is Friday (the 13th heh) and I look forward to leave early and have a nice dinner out with my significant other.
In comes 2 server changes that I know will take hours and hours which needs to be done after office hours.

Kazinsal posted:

Windows admins: Do any of you actually use InTune? I want to know if this poo poo is actually being used in the field or if it's basically just padding in 70-688.

MJBuddy posted:

So enjoy being moist all day.

Che Delilas posted:

Nobody asked, but one of my favorite bring-to-work lunches is Dragon Noodles.

http://www.budgetbytes.com/2012/08/spicy-noodles/

Add some chunks of chicken (big fan of supermarket whole rotisserie chickens for this), dump it into a microwave-safe tupperware, good to go. Great alternative to the same old sandwiches (also, I wouldn't call it as spicy as she does, but it's so easy to tweak the heat just by adjusting the amount of red pepper flake you use). Takes literally 10 minutes to make, refrigerates just fine overnight.

Sickening posted:

Honestly people are honestly caring too much about interns lately. Would you prefer he browse whatever wants on IE instead? This seems like a silly non issue.

Bob Morales posted:

Bob Morales posted:

We got into a discussion one time about dates. He wants things labeled 1-2015.xls and I told him to you need to do it 2015-01.xls

I said if you mix more than one year you'll get all the months clumped together. I also told him you need to pad the single digit years with zeroes.

He told me I was out of my mind. I tried to explain how most logging software etc generates filenames. He didn't care. He also said there has to be a 'better way' to sort file names so it worked HIS WAY.

OAquinas posted:

You know, getting in a tizzy and ranting over folder structures may be a bit extreme, but I can damned well see where he's coming from. Too often I run into "path too long" errors on the remote file servers because the field personnel feel compelled to write the next goddamned american novel for file/folder names. Standards have their place.

BaseballPCHiker posted:

Had an old job where people would add !!!!! to their files to get them up at the top of the folder in network shares. Finally a co-worker got pissy enough about it that he wrote some script that moved any file with an exclamation point in it to some folder called zzzzzz. What a poo poo storm that caused.

A3th3r posted:

interesting conversation here but does anyone else remember the time when everything was LAN cables? Like your standard WLAN Ethernet cable was literally the ONLY way to connect to the internet or connect to other computers. Not actually that long ago now that I think about it.. about 2 laptops ago or so that was pretty much standard. And WiFi-enabled routers were expensive, new gadgets that few people had.

BaseballPCHiker posted:

This. Powershell is awesome and incredibly useful, but there are some things that are just easier for me to do through RDP on to the machine. This might be sacrilege even but if I only have to edit or create one or two users in AD and exchange I don't use Powershell. Please forgive me!

Tab8715 posted:

Using Sharepoint as a AS/400 front end is a great idea!

EoRaptor posted:

I found that was a universal thing with Xerox techs. I finally came to the conclusion that they do it deliberately so they are left alone when onsite.

I hate being watched when I work, but I cannot leave you alone in an otherwise secured area, so get used to it, tech person.

Xerox could probably be a little stronger with any messages to employees about appearance reflecting on the company.