More shit that pisses you off: What does that say about the quality of your emails?

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Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

My S4 active silences calls when you flip the phone face down. Works like a charm.

Pissing me off: siemens step7 and oil business-mandated coding standards forcing me to implement a finite state machine in FBD. Argh, s7-graph was loving made for this.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2014 00:20

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 14:03

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Don't tell me it's your first SSD? :allears:

# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 00:35

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

OpenFire can be tamed, but needs some tuning and a fair amount of ram. We use it with ~600 registered users and roughly 160-250 users at any one time without much fuss.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2014 22:34

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Methylethylaldehyde posted:

What hilarious socialist land is this? Some Scandinavian paradise where summer is only 4.5 weeks long and people kill themselves if they're forced to work during one season where 80% of the sunlight received annually actually occurs?

Yeah, Norway. And if you get sick (with a doctors note) during the mandatory summer vacation, you get the days reimbursed. I poo poo you not.

I've 1.5 weeks until my vacation starts. It'll be awesome with some time off :sun:

# ¿ Jul 2, 2014 11:59

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

poo poo pissing me off today: Bad SATA cables.

Some SATA cables that work fine on 3gbps motherboards will cause corruption and all sorts of funny behaviour when you try them on a mobo with 6gbps support. Turns out it's been bent and twisted a bit too much, and may be old enough to not support 6gbps in the first place :argh:

# ¿ Jul 23, 2014 21:28

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

DrAlexanderTobacco posted:

Just chuck the broken cables into a coworker's PC and see how long it takes him to find out

I actually like my coworkers, and just reflecting back on how pissed off I was dealing with it, I wouldn't want to inflict it on anyone else :v:

A thing to note here though;

It could seem that intel sata controllers deal with bad cables better than amd does. This system had a gigabyte 980 amd motherboard before, same components otherwise, and it acted strangely. BSODs and a bunch of other crashes that was very hard to pin down. Swapped in an intel motherboard with a q8400 cpu on it and all was well. I replaced the AMD motherboard with a newer one with a 990 chipset and lo and behold, straight up I/O errors. Yay.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2014 21:52

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Modbus RTU and Omron's piss poor implementation of anything modbus is pissing me off today. Customer is livid even though everything worked during the FAT. gently caress.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2014 18:17

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

dogstile posted:

I work in a butt environment now. It truly is the best.

I couldn't resist :sun:

poo poo pissing me off: my aversion to make a purchase decision on what kind of kitchen I want for my apartment. gently caress. One of those times where I should just send my sister to IKEA with my credit card...

# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 21:03

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

nitrogen posted:

If yu think you had a bad day, just think: At least you aren't dealing with an HP tech resetting all of the configs on a 3PAR, basically destroying everything on it, for every VM and customer in a datacenter.

I hope your backups are good :suicide:

# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 21:33

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

poo poo pissing me off tonight:

Magic smoke escaping from a $1000 Siemens SM331 8 channel analog input module at a subway station due to bad wiring.

Topside management system being essentially poo poo and us having to make workarounds for it, preferably on the fly.

No/bad documentation for everything involved.

At least I billed 6.5 hours of night shift work on this...

# ¿ Aug 29, 2014 04:20

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

poo poo pissing me off today:

-lovely colo servers and providers
-openfire and jabber in general
-bitlbee.

Argh. This will be a long weekend unfucking server poo poo.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2014 08:43

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

My boss just signed me up to be on call 24/7 for 3 weeks... with the only talk of compensation being 'yeah, just write an hour of work whenever they call'.

He's in for a surprise tomorrow when I throw the communist labor laws we have here in Norway in his face.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2014 21:24

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

evobatman posted:

You should have a stack of regular commodity hardware such as RAM sticks, WLAN cards and harddrives sitting around for cases like this, so that resolution time is <2 minutes + reimaging. At least use a vendor that gives you next business day on-site service.

Step 1: Realize that asus laptops are consumer oriented machines not suited for professional use.
Step 2: Buy something that is, and offers NBD onsite service.

Done.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2014 07:42

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

QuiteEasilyDone posted:

I have a 14 year old production physical windows 2000 server that is running business critical software on that we owe $60,000 of back support on running all original hardware. Out business will cease to operate if it crashes and the client stubbornly refuses to replace it or pay maintenance. Attempts to virtualize it fail as the software apparently checks the parameters of the host server and refuses to work unless it receives an acknowledgement code from the vendor.

What the hell is this? I don't even...

poo poo pissing me off: My hosed work/life situation. Ugh.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2014 16:44

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Judge Schnoopy posted:

A lady's hard drive started failing in her laptop and she ignored the warnings. She only told us when applications and start ups were so slow that she couldn't work for the first half hour when getting in.

During diagnostics I uncovered a friendly SMART stat showing 112 free fall events, resulting in immediate hard drive freezes every time.

She claims she has no idea how that would happen.

Time to replace the spinning rust with an SSD? :getin:

# ¿ Nov 9, 2014 01:38

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Lord Dudeguy posted:

Told my boss, who just laughed and told me that I seriously need a vacation and get worked up too easily. Maybe this is what being CF/DaF is like.

I seriously hate me right now. I think I'm going to resolve that with beer.

He's right. Don't be so hard on yourself.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2014 15:15

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Dick Trauma posted:

The night after I left I emailed the CEO to give him an explanation. He sent something complimentary back and said when the holiday was over he'd evaluate if things could be repaired.

Just got the call from the HR VP that they decided to discard me and "move forward." It frustrates me that these people I worked so hard for consider my quitting to be progress. I'm not surprised by the choice but I'm weary of having bad management rubbed in my face over and over, for years at a time.

I feel like I've had one shot to run a place and stay as long as I wanted (back when I was an I.T. Director) and I threw that away in the chaos after having cancer.

Now I feel like this was my last shot to make a decent salary and I should've hung onto it until they got rid of me because I'm not going to see it again. It's the only job in the last ten years where I made enough to save and stop worrying about spending a little now and then. Being disrespected, ignored, etc. I should've toughened up and absorbed it in the name of maintaining my employment.

I don't know where to go from here. At my age with my history it feels like everything that might be good is behind me and there's nowhere to go but down. I can't believe I threw that job away and made it easy for them.

Go read about Stockholm syndrome. You're afflicted.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2014 20:05

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Dick Trauma posted:

EDIT: Also I don't think people know what Stockholm Syndrome is. I don't empathize with the people that were sticking it to me. I think they're fuckheads. But they're the fuckheads I had to please to keep my job.

That was made somewhat in jest. AlternateAccount sums up my views on this a lot more eloquently than me.

There's a pod lined up for you somewhere

# ¿ Dec 2, 2014 21:38

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

evobatman posted:

Yeah, NOK. But you don't know what was in my account before I got paid today it was 400 kr

Both your last and current job has been government I believe, and I'm in Big Oil. When I've interviewed for government jobs they have said in pretty much exact words that they pay less, but have better job safety. Now we have a government who model themselves after Reagan/Thatcher/Rand and the oil sector is crashing and cutting costs everywhere, so everybody is screwed and I'm just saving up whatever I can of my relatively decent salary for a helpdesk monkey.

You're in Big Oil and only got 32700 NOK in a half tax month?

:wtc:

# ¿ Dec 16, 2014 18:43

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Thanks Ants posted:

And a nice rug in your private office.

For breaking in^W^W interviewing new secretaries?

# ¿ Mar 6, 2015 14:29

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

It's real easy to justify having extra equipment on hand. You have to document the cost of downtime and time wasted on service engineers though.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 14:32

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

NZAmoeba posted:

If I remember right, the one with the switches suspended from the ceiling by string was because the equipment was previously on a table that had to be taken away for some reason (I think they had to redo the floor?). And the guys in that workplace (I think car mechanics?) didn't want to gently caress with the expensive looking boxes they didn't understand, so they just hoisted everything in place, not disturbing a single cable.

It's almost genius.

If it's stupid and it works... It ain't stupid?

# ¿ Mar 25, 2015 09:55

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

socialsecurity posted:

Wow small world I've heard of this guy I did IT support for the company Kroger bought out.

You can't say A and then not say B, man :smith:

# ¿ Mar 27, 2015 10:13

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

less than three posted:

The only downside is my laptop gets swiped frequently because it's the only one that has HDMI output so is easily plugged into TVs for presentations. Lenovo needs to give up on DisplayPort already.

Mini-DP to hdmi adapters cost $20, buy some already.

# ¿ May 5, 2015 09:13

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

I can almost see you going at the innards of a laptop with a dremel to improve airflow :v:

# ¿ May 18, 2015 11:19

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

poo poo pissing me off: ticket thread talk.

If we combine them, it moves too fast.

Also had to do some maintenance today on a laptop without an SSD. I nearly tossed it through the window. Ugh.

# ¿ May 19, 2015 21:38

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Feels like the entire world is pissing me off today. Yay for closing the office door and listening to tunes while programming.

Also pissing me off (or me pissing it off?) : my right knee. Still too early to push myself on the bike without at least two rest days. Ugh.

# ¿ May 21, 2015 09:10

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

I don't see the problem with a setup like that as long as you use drives rated for server/raid use. But don't even consider using anything less than RAID6 for storage. Two parity drives decrease the risk of data loss by orders of magnitude compared to having one parity drive.

None of this negates the need of having proper backups though.

For my home poo poo I run 10x4TB WD Red drives in RAID6, with backups on an older 16x1.5TB RAID6 array (mostly kept offline/unplugged) and on glacier.

# ¿ May 28, 2015 08:49

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

poo poo pissing me off today: Phones. And people who refuse to turn the goddamn sound off on their phones while in an open office. Argh. I don't mind people talking on the phone, but could you please turn off the audio alerts for mails? Pretty please with a cherry on top?

# ¿ May 29, 2015 12:45

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Put SSDs in those W520s and they'll be fine for a few more years.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2015 07:42

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

poo poo not pissing me off: went back to my private number outside of work, no more checking mail or getting work calls outside of working hours. :toot:

# ¿ Jul 8, 2015 22:10

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

FISHMANPET posted:

...brain problem...

BRAAAAAAAAINS!

# ¿ Jul 9, 2015 18:06

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Annoying poo poo: arriving on site to unfinished "everything". Literally no external signals hooked up.

Not so annoying: one hour lunch while they finish cabling and terminating so we can actually do our job :v:

# ¿ Jul 13, 2015 15:25

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Crowley posted:

Thing that's pissing me off: Due to a headache I'm not very productive today, and I can't even hop on IRC for some idle goony banter since I powered down my VMware server at home to swap out a graphics card, and then I went to bed without swapping the card and powering the server on again, my "random poo poo"-server I run the IRC from is offline and can't be switched on until I get home.

I'm just about ready to give up and go home, but I've got a sort-of important meeting at 13:00.

Spin up a digitalocean vm?

# ¿ Aug 5, 2015 11:45

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

evol262 posted:

Digitalocean sales rep please go

I don't work for DO (or anyone else in that business), just the first thought that came to me after I've had similar woes.

Probably moving my IRC/Jabber stuff to a VPS in the near future, even though I'm on 100mbit fibre at home.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2015 00:56

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

22 Eargesplitten posted:

Does it seem hosed up to anyone else that companies that can survive without an employee expect at least 2 weeks notice, but employees that rely on the company for their survival get shut out over lunch with no warning?

I know why it is, I just think it's hosed up.

Not me getting fired, me getting stuck deactivating an IT employee's accounts while he thinks he's having a normal day.

In some parts of the world, there are actually laws that protect employees from poo poo like this. Hard to believe, right?

If iI were to quit, I'd have a 3 month notice period. If my company wants to fire me for any reason, they're bound by the same 3 months, except in cases of gross/criminal misconduct. They are also at liberty to tell me to stay home during those 3 months, but would have to pay my salary regardless.

We also have 5 weeks paid vacation, 12 days (4x3) paid sick leave without a doctors note, up to one year paid sick leave with doctors note.

Don't get me started on paternity/maternity leave...

So for a scandinavian, the prospect of working in the US often goes like this: "Why the gently caress would I bother unless it was literally a position at NASA?"

# ¿ Aug 7, 2015 22:16

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

No problem!

Backstory:
I have a bullethole shaped scar on my calf courtesy of the Panamanian Defense Force as a souvenir. I am an ex-American soldier who was shot in anger with a Foreign Power's M16A1.

Well at least it wasn't a 7.62, right? (and let's not get into the differences between 7.62x51 and .308...)

Not pissing me off today: 7% pay increase :sun:

# ¿ Sep 4, 2015 23:00

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Sounds like you have a sane setup then, with sensible tools installed for your use cases.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2015 22:37

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Coredump posted:

Hey! You don't have to be blind to use a 27" 1080p monitor!

No, but it helps! :downsrim:

# ¿ Sep 30, 2015 22:18

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 14:03

Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

Tigern posted:

New guy is driving me nuts.

He keeps going out of scope when dealing with clients, often talking about their payment or trying to help with random issues they are facing.
It's wasting his time, our clients time, it's giving me more work and he is often giving the clients completely wrong information. "Your license doesn't work, it's because we didn't process your payment. Go ahead and buy it again."

He refuses to listen when I tell him to refer the customers to the right people. I'm positive he wont last for long.

Make sure management knows about this, so they can get rid of him during the probation period (3-6 months depending on contract), or else you may be stuck with him. Yay for :norway:

labor laws.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2015 09:34

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