Inspector_71 posted:

"Ok so I put together a Dell that will handle everything you need for about $540 before tax and shipping."
"Oh wow, that's great! I was expecting to have to spend $1000 at least!"
"Nope, desktops haven't been that much in a while now."
"Wow, that's great. So can we get a cheaper one?"


It's official, my mother has become every bad customer rolled into one.

sanchez posted:

Windows is great. Windows backup is poo poo, I've never seen it used IRL and find it hard to imagine where it would be useful.

TWBalls posted:

Speaking of which, did we ever figure out the Bottle Opener/flash drive thing? I don't recall a post on collecting payments so they can be ordered.

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

"Dilbert can you teach me unix?"
"yeah okay!"
"ughh can we skip to the GUI?!?!? I can't remember all these commands!"

spog posted:

Today I learnt that what I call a 'kettle lead' isn't in fact, suitable for kettles.

And from now on, I shall be 'that guy' who corrects people when they misuse the term.

Humphreys posted:

I'll find some of the payslips.

EDIT: It's how it has been explained to my dumb head, when in the office I'll check it out

Kyrosiris posted:

Wasn't that what those DivX DVDs were supposed to do back when they existed?

Paladine_PSoT posted:

gently caress trying to make emails look nice on multiple platforms.

Looks nice on Windows RT
Looks nice on iOS
Looks nice on Android

Pick 2 of 3.

Humphreys posted:

I'm betting there are some OCD folk out there just hating that and wanting to make all the black squares a perfect diagonal line.

Ninja Edit: Not OCD, but those graphs always bugged me a little

Lum posted:

Mine was "Why the gently caress is the sound defaulted to IRQ10? Everyone knows they come set to either 5 or 7". Then I realised that no-one knows that any more as it's irrelevant.

Bob Morales posted:

PC speaker has always been 'just a buzzer'. And there was never 'PC speaker music'

nitrogen posted:

This is incorrect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealSound <-- this was a thing. I remember playing Mean Streets with this on it.

EDIT: Beaten. it happens when I have to do real work while browsing the forums

Crowley posted:

I thought sound cards was for chumps. Games worked fine without it and I just didn't see why I should dole out $10 for a Covox.

Then one of my friends called me frantically and told me I had to come over NOW. When I got there he put me right in front of his computer, closed the curtains, turned up his (awesome) stereo, and put on Dune II. The intro blew me away, and I just had to swing by the local electronics pusher and buy the components for a Covox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbe7DWi4xHw

TWBalls posted:

Wha...how? I didn't really know you could change it as I never bothered changing it because I've never had an issue with the colors. So, after seeing this post I checked to see where the setting is. I had it figured out in less than a minute how to get the text green (and I'm still working on my first cup of coffee, so I'm still not fully thinking straight). Was he legally blind or something? I just don't get how he couldn't figure it out. Your everyday end user, sure, I've come to expect that, but a tech?

ratbert90 posted:

Switched to Spotify a year ago and haven't looked back.

Johnny Aztec posted:

That Pentium CPU is worth a fair bit,due to the gold content in it. Around 20 dollars according to :http://www.ozcopper.com/computer-cpu-gold-yields/

Johnny Aztec posted:

Yeaaaah, you aren't likely going to find any deals on ebay.

Heran Bago posted:

VLC lets me use the mouse wheel to turn the volume up to 200%. Media Player Classic lets me click anywhere on screen to pause or unpause video.


Why can't I just have both!? "Okay you want to watch that movie? Just let me set up WinAutoHotkey so we can both hear the quiet parts and pause on a moment's notice to discuss things."

I know that wireless keyboards are things that exist but i like just using a mouse or something like logitech touch mouse. I shouldn't have to bring more to the couch.


First world problems.

Crowley posted:

The 1022n is actually a network printer.

..barely.

(still wouldn't touch it)

Yaos posted:

Funny story, our supervisor asked our top sys admin how much more AD would cost over eDirectory, turns out that Microsoft does not nickle and dime us like Novell does and we'll be saving $40,000 a year which will more than cover SCCM licensing. Want to push out printers? Gotta buy Zenworks. Wanna remote control computers? Gotta buy Zenworks. Are they included in the same package? According to the sys admin they are not.

Misogynist posted:

Dell techs are contractors working for Banctec, Unisys, or some other big field support company, so there's a non-negligible chance that the person you got just has no loving clue what they're doing.

ookiimarukochan posted:

In our experience, at least, SSDs are far far less tolerant of being dropped/knocked than normal hard drives, so there's that small joy to look forward to at least.

afflictionwisp posted:

My company's archaic remote access policy, which is "We dont allow telecomuting, RAWR!" The owners actually get angry whenever anyone brings it up. Even though we've had to build a rather robust RDS environment to facilitate people doing there jobs because, well, it isn't 1992. Unfortunately this meant that, earlier this week when we had ice and snow dumped on us and no one could get anywhere and I was working from home, I was still forced to take PTO.

And since its our busy season, they wanted asses in the chairs this weekend, just in case. Like we're not always on call by default anyway. And, since its our busy season, we're not allowed to make any changes right now. So here I am, in the office on a Saturday with next to nothing to do, not even getting comp time.

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

The thing is, I reckon it would just about even out vs extended support for maybe year one but there's no way that if we do that they'll get their act together to do the roll out a year later and we'll then end up having to pay even more.

And what's worse is that they had a golden opportunity to start it off years ago when they upgraded a load of desktops but wasted it. I just want to be able to pin poo poo to the taskbar dammit

Edit: gently caress I just realised, if they haven't started yet then it wont be done until after April anyway so the company will basically have to buy extended support (which I guess is in 1 year increments) and put money into the rollout over the following 12 months to avoid getting stung for even more the year after when the cost ramps up further. I bet the amount this costs totals a tiny fraction we've pissed away poaching teams from other companies then firing them after 6 months.

Lum posted:

ookiimarukochan posted:

The butt plug? Autocomplete gone crazy? over-agressive Cloud-To-Butt (though even then, I have no idea what a "Cloud Plug" is)? or just dislike of God's Own Plug Standard, the Type G?

dogstile posted:

Things that are pissing me off, people who take time off for sick days and don't realise you're still contagious for a day or so after it goes away in most cases. I'm ok if you can't stay home and work because you have important things to do but if you can afford to stay off, stay off until you're not contagious please, drat.

The entire support office is infected, i'm watching the lights on the wallboard drop off one by one. And thus, we end with not a bang, but with a whimper.

Edit: And i'm one of them, it hurts to loving breathe, what hellspawn is this thing? I'm going home.

Powdered Toast Man posted:

This doesn't piss me off because I don't have to deal with it, but it's still loving hilarious.

So, a while back someone at the HDQ of my company (read: not someone in IT, since all the IT people including myself are at a different office) took it upon herself to upgrade a bunch of workstations of Office 2010. She is a complete loving dingbat airhead, so her logic was, I'll buy one copy of Office 2010 and upgrade all of these systems!

That was 90 days ago as of yesterday. Guess what just happened?

EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:

DagPenge posted:

In Denmark all banks and your access to everything provided by the Government via the internet is secured by... you guessed it a java application. The application uses three factor authentication sure, but I still need to update Java on all our client PCs and Remote desktop servers constantly.

Lum" port="424548996 posted:

I want to know if it's doing something really dumb like checking the contents of the Uninstall registry keys to see if the uninstaller for 4.0 is there, or something stupid like that.

QuiteEasilyDone posted:

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

QuiteEasilyDone posted:

No, Lazy. Instead of putting together the effort to do things right and getting a proper solution in place that can be centrally managed to reduce the amount of time (billable?) taken to add a single computer to the network and reduce the possibility of $ImportantPerson not being able to connect to the wireless and raining brimstone on your face.

SEKCobra posted:

Whats wrong with Teamviewer?

Inspector_666 posted:

I didn't know they did a centralized list of computers with the free accounts

evol262 posted:

Am I reading a post from 2003? Most of these things have been non-issues since the first days of dual channel on A3200+es, RAMBUS, and Granite Bay P4s. Timing doesn't even need to match these days, and you don't need matched pairs.

Also, the 4GB limit is vastly overblown. PAE exists, and while direct memory mapping for video cards and PCI devices happens under the 4gb barrier, and you can't use 64 bit binaries to allocate more than 3/4gb per process (depending on the OS and the heap size), people happily had 12gb SQL servers on 32 bit chipsets. 4gb is not a hard limit.

evobatman posted:

My 2004 Saab 9-3 had this. Since the throttle body was electronic, all that was needed to add cruise control was to replace the turn signal stalk with one that had the switches for cruise control on it, and activate the feature in the ECU. On older cars you had to have vacuum pumps, chains, mechanisms, wires etc to actually pull down the throttle pedal and keep the throttle body open.

Same thing with an Aux port for the stereo. The functions were already there in the stereo, I just had to plug the wire that had the actual headphone plug into the back of the car stereo, and the dealer had to activate the function.