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Oct 16, 2003


22 Eargesplitten posted:

So the 4 series is getting hit hard according to early reports? Fuuuuuuuck, I just gave my wife my old Haswell desktop. She is going to be pissed when it suddenly slows down a ton.

I guess it’s still time to just sit and wait and see how bad it is.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-415-x86pti&num=2

Initial benchmarks on linux kernel changes.

Desktop performance is likely to be minimally impacted. They specifically call out game performance is being mostly unaffected.

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Oct 16, 2003


Don’t forget that these exploits also apply to workstations, and there is a PoC that demonstrates harvesting passwords in Firefox.

E: beaten

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Oct 16, 2003


GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

A ticket came in...

The licenses have expired. 1/7/2018.

I've been HOUNDING 4 different departments since November about the fact that they need to renew their Adobe CC subscriptions.
Not a single loving response to any of it.

The licenses expired on sunday and today has been an absolute shitstorm of "OH MY GOD MY PHOTOSHOP. I CAN'T WORK!"





Good. gently caress you.

My Adobe CC renewal was in August. I didn't ask anyone anything. I generated a report that broke out each subscription by department/user and sent it to our AP department. About a week later I got a notification that it was paid.

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Oct 16, 2003


Are you not on CC Teams?

For us, it's just one PO for every subscription, AP gets each departments billing code after I send the report that breaks out who uses what, and we cut a check.

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Oct 16, 2003


Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't lock your computer.

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Oct 16, 2003


I know, but with the instructions as read, I just imagine a ton of people hitting the three finger salute and walking away without even looking at the options that come up.

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Oct 16, 2003


Not knowing how to quickly highlight your address bar in a web browser is a fire-able offense in these parts.

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Oct 16, 2003


Whatever, that's adorable.

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Oct 16, 2003


CTRL-L

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Oct 16, 2003



Is there some reason you didn’t say PhD?

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Oct 16, 2003


If more people did that we'd definitely have fewer malware problems in the world.

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Oct 16, 2003


The Jabra 9400-series is the same:

https://www.jabra.com/business/office-headsets/jabra-pro-9400

Similar features, similar price point.

Have a couple of them in the office here and haven't had any complaints.

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Oct 16, 2003


Link?

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Oct 16, 2003


Malek posted:

In all seriousness, I would like to see this announcement

I did some looking and this was the closest I've found an official announcement from Intel.

https://newsroom.intel.com/news/root-cause-of-reboot-issue-identified-updated-guidance-for-customers-and-partners/

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Oct 16, 2003


Judge Schnoopy posted:

I don't think public schools regularly have dorms, directors, and multi-building campuses.

This is not the norm, but I know of some public schools that serve rural areas that provide dorms because the kids would otherwise be travelling 100 miles each way every day.

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Oct 16, 2003


Set that bar high.

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Oct 16, 2003


Dick Trauma posted:

EDIT: Wait, we are both Grimey Drawers. That changes everything!

wtf is that anyway

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Oct 16, 2003


Kurieg posted:

While you're replacing equipment make a wreath out of old ram chips and hang it above your desk. Refuse to answer any questions about it. Make up stories about an IT Loa.

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Oct 16, 2003


Samizdata posted:

Sure. As long as you realize there is a restocking fee of 50% of the printer price....

At $oldJob we had a medical supply store as a client. They had a sign at their front desk/registers that said "Any returns may have a restocking fee of 30%-100%"

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Oct 16, 2003


good job encouraging bad behavior boss man

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Oct 16, 2003


A corporate restructuring came in:

My boss (IT Director) no longer reports to the CEO and now reports to the VP of Marketing and Communication

Apparently she was just as confused when the announcement came down as we were and promises to take a hands off approach to our department.

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Oct 16, 2003


Avenging_Mikon posted:

Now, he doesn't mean iMessage, I'm sure. Is there a non-crap free texting software? I'm assuming not.

Most cell phone providers have an e-mail to sms gateway service.

For example, ATT has @txt.att.net and @mms.att.net

Where you could email 1235551234@mms.att.net and the cell phone number would receive the message as a text.

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Oct 16, 2003


Farking Bastage posted:

Yeah Verizon’s is @vtext.com. Or at least it used to be

Still is

Sibling of TB posted:

Holy poo poo! That's dangerous knowledge.

You'd think that, but cell companies have had this service for nearly as long as there have been text messages, and I've never heard of a case of serious abuse.

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Oct 16, 2003


kensei posted:

Anyone have any experience with Nintex and O365 Sharepoint? Apparently this is a new project for us and me!

My experience is getting a quote from them and my boss saying they're too expensive.

He wasn't wrong, their product does way more than what we needed.

Are you trying to accomplish a specific task, or just have a general need for workflow tools in sharepoint?

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Oct 16, 2003


dragonshardz posted:

RIP Vile Rat.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/11-rip-vile-rat/

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Oct 16, 2003


Our standard laptop is either an i5 with 8gb ram and 256gb ssd or an i7 with 16gb and 512gb ssd.

The main deciding factor is whether or not your title is three letters starting with a C.



Or if you're the one doing the ordering.



This i7 elitebook 840 is really nice.

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Oct 16, 2003


Renegret posted:

no I can't come up with a good joke for this one

uh...freemasons?

somethingawful.com user forums

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Oct 16, 2003


ChubbyThePhat posted:

Or num lock lol

If the user is on a laptop, this is an A+ guess.

Nothing like typing jkl and getting 123.

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Oct 16, 2003


They’re probably not wrong.

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Oct 16, 2003


Have you not watched fight club?

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Oct 16, 2003


Did you know that Bruce Willis was dead the entire time in Sixth Sense?

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Oct 16, 2003


Avenging_Mikon posted:

Most likely is that like many offices, cleaning staff only come through when everyone's gone for the day.

As far as I'm concerned, my trash can is emptied by magic faeries.

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Oct 16, 2003


A thing that pisses me off is that shared mailboxes assigned by groups don’t autoprovision.

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Oct 16, 2003


ElehemEare posted:

L O L if you work in IT and you haven’t met the cleaning staff coming through after 7pm, I envy you.

I haven't stayed in the office past 5:30 in 2 years, I've earned this poo poo.

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Oct 16, 2003


JackOfferman posted:

I'm trying my best. I got my resume out there, my linkedin fully updated and all that jazz. I am hoping to YOTJ, but right now there is a lot of help desk jobs that people would rather fill. There is some system engineer positions open at Amazon I could apply to. I think as long as I am not a warehouse worker I might not be worked to death?

If it’s the aws stuff a recruiter messaged me about on LinkedIn, it looks like a good gig.

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Oct 16, 2003


We all know that the passwords are plaintext in an sql database, just run an update query.

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Oct 16, 2003


Ease of access exploit still works

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Oct 16, 2003


Admin is a bad safe word, it eliminates half of my role play.

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Oct 16, 2003


When I get a request like that I can just tell people to go create a group, invite whomever they like, and mark it private.

It has been mandated that no new data goes in the on-prem shares.

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Oct 16, 2003


Poetry

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