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What's pissing me off today? I run in to print off a one-page document for class, and I'm waiting 20 minutes behind some rear end in a top hat that's literally (the lab's got a public queue where they display what's in the queue on a monitor next to the printer) got 167 motherfucking pages of poo poo. And I've seen him in here before; he does this poo poo 2 or 3 times a week! gently caress you buddy; I'm glad you're gonna get nailed with the printing quota. So now I'm late. CraigK fucked around with this message at Apr 8, 2010 around 13:19 |
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I mean, the lab has a limit where any document over 100 pages is automatically shitcanned, but it doesn't count if you send 60 2-3 page online news articles to the printer!  E: oh good; right before I finish, he sends ANOTHER 150 mothergoddamnfucking pages to the printer! Kill me. E2: No, my bad, 24 18-page documents for a cool 432 pages. To think, I came in an hour early to finish my work, print it out, and get to class early. 
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Remember how I was being angry about browser plugins and the like? Apparently add-ons in IE8 are responsible for 70% of its crashes.  http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/ne...ie8-crashes.ars P.S. There is literally no reason to have the Google/Yahoo/Windows Live Toolbar anymore.
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| # ? Apr 8, 2010 13:35 |
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ZeeBoi posted:Remember how I was being angry about browser plugins and the like? I can configure the Google toolbar to open searches in a new tab my default, instead of using the current tab. I can have it highlight all found search terms in the document. It can find addresses in the text and turn them into Google maps links. It does more than search. Not that I'm using it, because I'm on Chrome now, but still.
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user: "Do you have any way to, you know, extend the trial of SnagIt? It won't let me use it any longer. Me: "No. You pay for the software." user: "That's what they want me to do!"  April 30th hurry up and get here 
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| # ? Apr 8, 2010 16:10 |
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NOTinuyasha posted:Why does Windows Security Center warn me that Windows Security Center has been disabled? Alright, so technically it's "Windows Alerts", but to quote Bill Gates, someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable (the part that lets me disable the unusable crap). I haven't even bothered to google removal instructions, because I'm busy trying to figure out how to get the control panel back after Symantec's uninstaller trashed it. If these were billable hours instead of a favor I'd be a rich man, at this point I'd much rather just wipe Vista off this thing and install XP proper but I'm not allowed to do that. There's a group policy to disable Security Center for domain members, and another to disable the nag screen about it being turned off if I recall correctly. That said, I also seem to recall that the policy defaults to turning off Security Center if the policy isn't specifically configured. Workstation isn't part of a domain?
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| # ? Apr 8, 2010 16:39 |
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Predictably our user survey thing was answered almost exclusively by the loud whinger types, making it look pretty bad. And of course it's been used quite heavily to report problems in a complaining manner that hadn't otherwise been reported until now  Not to mention plenty of the old "I'll be happy if I have a faster computer" chestnut. Yeah yeah, won't we all... hang on, let me pull £25k out of my arse for a full company upgrade to shiny new boxes to overload and riddle with crap. GargleBlaster fucked around with this message at Apr 8, 2010 around 16:53 |
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FISHMANPET posted:LDAP. I just want to reply to this because it reminds me of why I loving hate our LDAP setup. Instead of using ou=Groups we have this loving ou=Roles and then everyone in ou=People gets an attribute isMemberOf=cn=rolename:member,ou=Roles,dcetcetc and this completely loving breaks any non-custom software and neither nss-ldap and nss-pam-ldapd can really handle it. As a result my 'user management' is handled in a central fashion with puppet but it makes me angry every time I remember I can't use straight LDAP.
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You know what is pissing me off? My phone has more processing power than both of our servers combined, and a single flash drive outclasses the total storage capacity of our network. Not to mention that it faster to browse the internet on my phone that gets 1 bar some of the time than to use our lovely fractional t1 line. I spent all morning trying to download a stupid 5mb file before I gave up and downloaded it with my phone and put it onto the server using a sexy usb 1.0 connection. God I hate our network. (At least we are spending a lot of money next year to upgrade everything)
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Lorem ipsum posted:You know what is pissing me off? My phone has more processing power than both of our servers combined, and a single flash drive outclasses the total storage capacity of our network. Not to mention that it faster to browse the internet on my phone that gets 1 bar some of the time than to use our lovely fractional t1 line. Are you running 133 mhz Pentiums on your servers?
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mono posted:Are you running 133 mhz Pentiums on your servers? We have a few old-as-dirt P3-500 HP servers kicking around that I feel the same about.
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I don't get why companies are still using a single or fractional T1 as their only internet access; a business-grade DSL/cable connection is cheaper, and it's not like the SLA you get with a T1 is very useful if you can't download a 5MB file.
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este posted:I don't get why companies are still using a single or fractional T1 as their only internet access; a business-grade DSL/cable connection is cheaper, and it's not like the SLA you get with a T1 is very useful if you can't download a 5MB file. I dont get it either, but with a T1 from a provider you are guaranteed that partial T1. With DSL or Cable you can get UP TO 3Mbs, but if it goes down to 384k they say "Welp, you can get UP TO 3Mbs, we never said it was consistent."
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Spermy Smurf posted:
Which makes traffic shaping incredibly difficult.
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Users complaining that the spam filter isn't doing anything because they see a few messages showing up in the junk mail folder in Outlook. This has happened every day in the last 10 days, different users each time, always 2-3 messages, and in every case Outlook has been junking legitimate newsletters that they admit signing up for. The spam filter IS doing its job, you twit! It will never eliminate all spam, it is not a perfect solution and never will be, and it will not block domains that you have white listed! Don't believe me? Remember two months ago when you were dealing with 500+ messages a day because your old IT people had the exchange server in the dmz and configured as an open relay? Here, let me turn the filter off for you.
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este posted:I don't get why companies are still using a single or fractional T1 as their only internet access; a business-grade DSL/cable connection is cheaper, and it's not like the SLA you get with a T1 is very useful if you can't download a 5MB file. We load balance 4 business class DSL connections. Works pretty well, most of the time.
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afflictionwisp posted:Users complaining that the spam filter isn't doing anything because they see a few messages showing up in the junk mail folder in Outlook. This has happened every day in the last 10 days, different users each time, always 2-3 messages, and in every case Outlook has been junking legitimate newsletters that they admit signing up for. The spam filter IS doing its job, you twit! It will never eliminate all spam, it is not a perfect solution and never will be, and it will not block domains that you have white listed! Don't believe me? Remember two months ago when you were dealing with 500+ messages a day because your old IT people had the exchange server in the dmz and configured as an open relay? Here, let me turn the filter off for you. I get the same thing. No one is ever happy. I think ours is working quite well and just offer to turn off filtering for that person. If they think too much is coming through, I let them know how many emails addressed to them were blocked today. I think less than 5% of your spam making it to your inbox is pretty decent. I say something like well, your account received 793 emails today, 781 of those were dropped as spam. That 1 email getting through is not so bad, is it?
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We have some auto-dialing software (Voicent) for collection purposes that we bought about 1 1/2 years ago ($600 if I remember correctly). Now when you install the software the key is generated based on the network card (and some other stuff, as you'll see) which blows since the machine it's installed on uses an onboard NIC, so we're stuck with the machine (or we physically ship a dead motherboard to Voicent, seriously) Well something went very south on the machine it runs on and I had to restore from backup and rejoin the domain. So I get a message saying that the key in use doesn't match something else on the machine since it was rejoined to the domain and I'll have to get a new key. No problem except they won't generate a key for anything below 6.x version and that we need to upgrade ($139) or for $99 they'll gladly generate you a new key. Fuckers. I guess the $99 covers the cost of digging up the time capsule where they store their old code. I've got no problem not supporting old versions, but if your "licensing scheme" (no joke, this is how it's listed on their website, even they know its a sham) can be rendered unusable because I rejoin a domain or add some memory, then you had drat well better be able to support key generation for all versions of your software.
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LakesGuzzler posted:And of course it's been used quite heavily to report problems in a complaining manner that hadn't otherwise been reported until now Yeah I always love that. If this issue has been making your life horrible for months, why haven't you bothered to open a friggin ticket or even casually mention it in the hall? I'm not a BOFH, if you ask for something and it's not completely batshit I'll do it and do it quickly. Don't sit there silently raging for 6 months only to finally blow up about how IT sucks for not psychically realizing you had a problem.
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That dell power supply bullshit- I'm an intern in a fairly cramped office and I regularly have to bring in and troubleshoot systems from our company (we're a dell house, but I don't deal with their support), and the second I plug any of those fuckers in they immediately try to boot, which is the last thing I want, considering I most likely have the drat thing tilted forward most of the way so I can reach the ports behind it. It's even worse when you have to do it for a server, the last thing I need is to have a hard drive fail by being bumped too much while the stupid thing automatically turned itself on. Thankfully there's not much to lose in that area because I'm the OS install guy.
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Prosthetic_Mind posted:That dell power supply bullshit- That's a BIOS setting, servers do it so if the power fails when it comes back on so does the machine instead of sitting there until someone comes in and turns it on
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Spermy Smurf posted:I dont get it either, but with a T1 from a provider you are guaranteed that partial T1. You could get both and route all web traffic over the less reliable but faster connection. One of our remote sites does that, their T1 is saved for site to site VPN only.
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Now some guy's printing a 650-page textbook 50 pages at a time. Is there any goddamn wonder this place goes through a 3000-sheet box of paper nearly daily?
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| # ? Apr 8, 2010 20:07 |
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Wow. At my old uni, you would get 30 pages printed out a day. Period. Less so if you needed color copies. No exceptions, well unless, you were blowing the student sys admin, which no one would have. Here's one: Very tech illiterate user "What do you mean, I have to right click a bookmark, click delete, then hit OK? That's too many steps!" "Why the hell when I delete a file, it goes to the Recycle Bin? I want to delete the thing!" - I explained this to him why there is a confirmation before deleting stuff and I showed him the miracle of shift-deleting files. "But then I have to put my hands on the keyboard and do too many steps." "God, I have to right click in my bookmarks and click 'Sort by name' to put my bookmarks in order?" - For a whole 2 clicks that you have to do every once in a while. "Blah blah, friend has an Apple, blah blah..." - Well, jackass, you'll still have to do most of these steps with an Apple computer, too. gently caress you.
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We got our new budget on April 1st, my boss blew 12k today, hasn't planned a single thing for the rest of the year. I think I have dejavu from last year 
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| # ? Apr 8, 2010 20:26 |
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Shift+delete is my favorite key combination. I've never liked the recycle bin concept, myself, though I get why it's there.
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Ted Stevens posted:Wow. At my old uni, you would get 30 pages printed out a day. Period. Less so if you needed color copies. No exceptions, well unless, you were blowing the student sys admin, which no one would have. This whole deal of print allowances and such seems so foreign to me. At my school it was pretty simple: 5 cents a page b&w, 10 cents color. A pittance for any reasonable use, but I doubt you'd get many people trying to print textbooks if it was costing them $30. Well actually that's still cheaper than the book so maybe they would 
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Javid posted:Shift+delete is my favorite key combination. I've never liked the recycle bin concept, myself, though I get why it's there. For the love of god, don't tell a normal user about this. I was shift+deleting stuff from a temp folder and someone asked me why I didn't have to empty the recycle bin after. I told them about permanently deleting files and showed them the key combo. A month later I get this call: "I accidentally deleted a folder I needed on my desktop!" "Okay... it's not in your recycle bin?" "No, I did shift+delete like you told me to!" "I never told you to do that. You're hosed. Bye"
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That's when you pull out Recuva and look like a wizard. Of course then they're going to delete a file, overwrite it and expect you to recover it
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Ted Stevens posted:That's too many steps!" That type of behavior really makes me wonder about something. Is there a line somewhere that these people cross in life, that after crossing it, everything that they don't know automatically becomes too difficult or complicated to learn? Or is it a more gradual process? If it is a line, when do they cross it? After high school? After 30? After the doctor spanks them at birth?
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I don't know. What's worse is that I'm not even showing them something complicated. It's just right click, delete, hit OK in the dialog box that pops up. Seriously, 3 steps. According to him, it will take hours to go through ALL OF HIS FAVORITES (a couple dozen). I just responded back, "5-10 minutes, tops." There's a point where you're just like loving christ, are you kidding me? Then cue the rants about his friends that have apple products and it's so much easier. I told him to check out the local Apple store and try them out. Then he says, "oh, but there's no stores in this city." Fuckin'-A, you're just a lazy person.
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email, loving email, goddamned loving email. Long story short, long ago in my little university each department administered it's on little happy email server. The email servers frolicked in the woods and supported each other, and passed messages and attachments back and forth with joy. Each department was manned by a super elite email admin who would make sure their little server was happy with its users, and its users could use it as they saw fit. My department as a case test has a lot of people who use old fuckin school email clients (hell a professor who recently left still had not migrated from just strait up using the mail command in unix). Several years ago, the administration of the university decided to start cooking the books a little, and the great overlords of the wires, who also ran an email service that everyone could access, but you didn't have to if you didn't want, were passed off as "not part of the university" and thus should begin charging for each user on their system. Ahhh this set the deans into a tizzy in the budget, when you now had to pay a monthly fee to this department of $35 dollars per faculty/staff member, no matter if you used their email or not (because the email was so tightly stitched together with blackboard and all the other utilities you had to use to get paid). So great cries went out into the land, and us lowly systems admins were told to seek out our old friendly email servers and slay them in the belief that shutting down something that we weren't getting paid to do would save "money". Now we have to use an exchange server, which I swear is administered by drunken hobos. We have a spam system so misconfigured that you will get 100-200 fr33 v14gra! emails a day, but your interdepartmental emails get flagged as spam and deleted. They also would only let you use outlook or OWA until much anger swept the land and they opened an IMAP service to let thunderbird also connect. My problem. I still have people who flat out refuse to stop using elm. Every day, every single effing day I get loads of emails from people stating that their emails are not getting out. I ask what they are using. "Elm". Every day "remember how we configured thunderbird, and even Pine for you so that you could at least stay in the console if you wished?" "I WANT ELM I WANT ELM NOW IM GONNA KEEP USING ELM!" I hate email. (I also get these emails because I will be logged into the unix servers, and see "you have new mail" in my console windows. . . since you know, inter-system mail still works)
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Heh, email... "This email has bounced back! The email server has GONE WRONG and you idiots are keeping this very important email from getting to this very important recipient grrrrrr FIX IT" OK let me do a trace.... hmm, who's dvaid.smith@example.com? Dvaid... that's sure an interesting name. "The recipient got this FIVE TIMES, what the hell is wrong with our Exchange server? Sort it, now. They're terribly offended, we need an explanation." Right, let's get them to send us copies as attachments so we can see the headers.... oh look at this, ourserver 13:59 on all five, same message ID etc. theirserver01.jp 14:00 on all five, theirserver02.jp at 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00.... (I snuck a hidden non-related rant in there which I've complained about before) It's extremely rare that our Exchange does anything funky, in fact I don't think it ever has. Yet the fingers are always pointed in our direction before anyone thinks of even checking their spelling. Ted Stevens posted:"Blah blah, friend has an Apple, blah blah..." So do I, and you can't shift-delete. It's one of my minor annoyances that I never bothered to look up (maybe there's an equivalent) and is rendered about 80% pointless due to Time Machine. Shift-delete (on Windows) has bitten me back once or twice, but usually in a very minor way. In worse cases you can usually find an undelete program. GargleBlaster fucked around with this message at Apr 8, 2010 around 23:52 |
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This afternoon's chain of bullshit I'm pissed off at: 1) Consumer digital camcorders that record in .MOD 2) Handbrake, the only piece of software I found that could convert .MOD into something useful without a purchase, only outputs in .MP4/.MKV/.M4V variants. 3) Windows 7 DVD Maker can't open .MP4/.MKV/.M4V variants, and will in fact crash out immediately if you attempt to open them through "All Files" filtering. 4) I have no other software on my desktop PC with which to burn a DVD. Whatever burning software came with the computer was removed from the deployment image. 5) My Mac laptop should be able to handle .M4V just fine. It's too bad that my external hard drive and the one external flash drive I have that is large enough to hold my 930MB video file are both already formatted in NTFS and have enough other crap on them that I really don't want to dump them to my desktop and reformat them just to do a file transfer. 6) I'm therefore stuck with slinging the 930MB .M4V file (down from 2.9GB as a .MOD) over the network to a network share, and then back to my Mac. 7) I remember that my Mac's ethernet port got hosed up by it's previous owner, so I can only grab the file wirelessly...using 802.11b with lovely signal strength. 8) 2 hours later, I lose connection to the share at 96% transferred. I restart the transfer 9) 3 hours later, I finally have the .mk4 file on the laptop. Yeah, it would have been faster to dump and reformat the flash drive, but it's not like I was just sitting there waiting for the file transfer to finish -- had plenty of other things to do in the meantime. 10) MOTHERFUCKING iDVD  Today I got to use iDVD for the first time, and found that it's a piece of poo poo that sucks in a multitude of ways. The most thoroughly infuriating suck factor is that background encoding is turned on by default, causing it to attempt to stat encoding your video files the minute you import them into a project. On my ancient PowerBook G4, this results in the entire computer becoming 98% non-responsive while providing no clue if any progress is being made, or what the gently caress the problem is. It even starts encoding your video when it's too big to fit on the disk using it's current encoding format. Remember: Apple - It Just Works! 11) gently caress it, I'm done for the day. I got 18 things far more challenging than a simple video conversion and DVD burn done today, and this particular task can take a short dive onto a long spike. Balzac Jones fucked around with this message at Apr 9, 2010 around 01:01 |
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Ensign Expendable posted:That's when you pull out Recuva and look like a wizard. Of course then they're going to delete a file, overwrite it and expect you to recover it Well, I mostly deal with SBS environments where we setup users' My Documents folders to be redirected to their user folder on the server. We then train the users to put all important files into their My Documents folder, so it's ensured to be backed up. We also tell them that the stuff on their desktop does NOT get backed up. Hence why I wouldn't care if someone accidentally deleted files on their desktop when they were told not to store important stuff there. It sounds mean, but the owners of these companies wouldn't want us spending time recovering some random employee's Lady Gaga mp3s that she shift-deleted because "i told her to".
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Balzac Jones posted:This afternoon's chain of bullshit I'm pissed off at:
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nmfree posted:I don't know, can Windows 7 DVD Maker handle .mpg files? And if it can, couldn't you just go .mod -> .mkv -> .mpg using Handbrake and mkv2vob? Probably. I fell prey to the inner voice that said "hey, you don't really want to go through another conversion step, do you? There's probably another way to do this..." So, really, the poo poo I come across every day that pisses me off is my own stupid brain.
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Balzac Jones posted:Probably. I fell prey to the inner voice that said "hey, you don't really want to go through another conversion step, do you? There's probably another way to do this..." So, really, the poo poo I come across every day that pisses me off is my own stupid brain. If you're burning to DVD video it's getting converted to MPEG2 anyways, so it won't hurt as long as you use DVD settings on the MPEG encoder.
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4:50pm on a Friday, an email arrives from HR Hi, We have 5 new starters on Monday, I need their accounts and PCs ready to go at 9am Monday. Cheers, HR Problem?
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psylent posted:Problem? No problem at all. You're gone for the weekend and won't see the email until you fire up Outlook on Monday anyway. 
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