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Our uninstall password for our managed Symantec Endpoint clients is "install". 
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marketingman posted:It doesn't accept copy and paste. Doesn't KeePass have an option to actually type in the password for you, for the odd program that won't let you paste a password?
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 05:31 |
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Balzac Jones posted:Our uninstall password for our managed Symantec Endpoint clients is "install". Ours is "symantec" 
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 06:29 |
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Serfer posted:I hate undocumented servers. When I started at my current job like 8 months ago, we were alot like that. If I had to reboot a server during the day, I had to tell people that multiple applications were going down. Wasn't anyone's fault really, just they didn't have/spend the money for separate servers for everything. Now we have our 4th ESX box ordered, everything gets its own VM. I love it.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 07:04 |
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captkirk posted:I think 7 1/2 hrs is a few hours light of a standard "full day" for the folks in this thread anyway. Same here, our standard day is 8 hours and we dont get paid overtime, but the system is set up with only the main office in mind (one that operates on a completely different business model, and does pay overtime) so we have to slightly reduce all our figures to fit this model, eg. if I did 4 hours on project A and 4 on project B, I have to book 3+3/4 hours to each. brc64 posted:Dot matrix printers make me want to slam my head through the drywall. One of our clients just bought a new one. I didn't even know you could still buy them! Of course, now they're complaining because their printouts aren't lining up on their fancy pre-printed paper. There are some things that a modern fast dot matrix printer just cannot be beaten for, especially when pre printer paper is involved. Cheque printing is a good example. Only problem is, if you have a proper setup, one that actually needs dot matrix, you literally* need ear protection when working with the bastard things. * Yes, I do know what "literally" actually means. bartkusa posted:Finally, if you get the chance to compromise and bargain, look for easy concessions to make. It'll look better to whoever is mediating if both sides give up something, and will help Prof iPad save some face. Agree to hire someone else who will devote a significant portion of their time to professor iPad's needs so that he doesn't have to deal with you.
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Biowarfare posted:Was forwarded this today, not exactly daily but the sheer ignorance and lack of any research at all (the original article it cites says "sets of digits", too) pisses me off What I learned from this article: IPv4 Addresses are 4 digits Web Developers created IPv6 Users could face painfully slow connection times on IPv6 
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mono posted:What I learned from this article: Dem drat dirty Asia-Pacific types* are to blame because they're using too many IP addresses. * I'm surprised they didn't manage to mention Obama being from a Pacific region.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 13:17 |
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Steve Moore posted:Ours is "symantec" :psst: So's ours. Also KeePass does have auto-type, but autotype is not so autotype through 3 layers of RDP. Also who the gently caress designed Endpoint what the gently caress is this poo poo OH MY GOD WHY DO I PUT UP WITH THIS poo poo FUCKSDJNFLDSKNFDSLNSFD AD integration? Hyuk what's that, let's make it all manual even when you've added directory servers. Honestly, this is beyond pathetic and I would personally be ashamed if I was involved in the coding of this suite. Here's hoping that I'll be moving to that latest Forefront in two months like is planned.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 13:44 |
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You can't C&P WPA/WEP keys in WinXP either. That fox news article is just enraging in how misinformed it is.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 14:21 |
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Steve Moore posted:Ours is "symantec" For OfficeScan, ours is "password" Lum posted:There are some things that a modern fast dot matrix printer just cannot be beaten for, especially when pre printer paper is involved. Cheque printing is a good example. I hate these printers so much.
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Cyberlink is currently pissing me off. I decided to brave the suck tornado that us PC BluRay and got a drive that came with PowerDVD 8. What a pile of crap. A third of my discs have major decoding errors. None of the settings besides Region stick, and it's full of advertising for the latest version, PowerDVD 10 Ultra 3D Mark II  It seems PowerDVD 8 has a number if known issues. Were they ever patched? Sure! In PowerDVD 9. Well, the upgrade link (i.e. half the window) in the settings dialog is advertising heavy discounts... $45, rather than $100 for a competitor's product. PowerDVD Ultra 3D Mark II it is, then. Click in-app advertisement, complete transaction while unavoidably giving them the right to know every movie I watch and sell that list plus my contact info to everyone ever, get the digital download, nuke PowerDVD 8, and run the installer.  YOU MUST HAVE POWERDVD 8 INSTALLED TO INSTALL POWERDVD 10. INSTALL WILL ABORT.Balls. Roll back with System Restore, try again. YOU MUST HAVE A RETAIL COPY OF POWERDVD 8 INSTALLED TO INSTALL POWERDVD 10 3D ULTRA MARK 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO. INSTALL WILL ABORT.Okay... their in-app advertising sent me to the upgrade for the wrong edition of the app. I'll send a customer support ticket and ask for a new installer link.  It's been two days with no reply. I think it's time for a chargeback and a consumer protection complaint or two.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 16:31 |
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How do some companies stay in business? I had to order some parts for my car. The only place in the country that can get them never answers the phone, takes two or three weeks to reply to a simple email, and gives only the most terse yes/no response possible. When I finally managed to convince them I actually wanted to give them my money they directed me to a dodgy-looking third-party web shop, that doesn't even place an order, it just creates an invoice that I have to print out and fax!  It's loving 2011, I haven't seen a fax machine in a decade. And if you're going to run an online shop try not making it look like a bad phishing site from 1998. Sweevo fucked around with this message at Jan 27, 2011 around 16:52 |
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Factory Factory posted:It's been two days with no reply. I think it's time for a chargeback and a consumer protection complaint or two. This. Then buy Arcsoft TotalMedia theatre instead. It's the least poo poo of the PC BluRay players and includes an MCE plugin with support for the remote and everything.
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poo poo that doesn't piss me off: Replaced lovely 18.1" 720p flat panel with not as lovely 22" 1680x1050 flat panel. So many good things are falling into place for SH/SC that I fear the inevitable shitstorm that's going to come down soon. 
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 17:00 |
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Good things? I can do that too. My MS Natural Keyboard 4000 is showing serious wear and tear from heavy use. I'm even wearing a hole through the s key slowly but surely. I sent Microsoft support an e-mail saying it was getting well-loved and asking if I could buy a set of replacement keys. They just sent me a new keyboard and a discount code to their online store. 
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Factory Factory posted:MS Natural Keyboard 4000 A few of our users have keyboards like that, I hate typing on them (could be because I am not used to it). But what I hate more than that, is when the mouse is on the left side of the keyboard (regardless of buttons are swapped or not).
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Sweevo posted:How do some companies stay in business? You just answered your own question. When you're the only game in town, you can be as poo poo as you'd like and people have no choice but to deal with it.
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ESC 2010 Never Forget
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oh so that's comcast's business model 
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less than three posted:You just answered your own question. This is a rather extreme example though. I mean all a competitor would have to do to overtake them in terms of usability would be to set up an ebay store. Even with paypal (and oh god how I hate paypal) I'd use that over a fax machine in 2011.
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Moey posted:A few of our users have keyboards like that, I hate typing on them (could be because I am not used to it). But what I hate more than that, is when the mouse is on the left side of the keyboard (regardless of buttons are swapped or not). I don't know why people put the mouse on the left side. I mean, I thought it was for lefthanded people, but I'm a lefty and I mouse with my right hand.
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less than three posted:You just answered your own question. They're just a general parts supplier, it was pure chance that they were the ones who had the one weird part I needed. They'd be equally as incompetent if I was buying something basic like an air filter for a Ford Focus.
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mllaneza posted:Have your mentor assign the ticket to the manager who said that. No reason it should bring your metrics down. I work for a company that has a grand total of 8 employees, including myself. We're the only two people who know anything about computers; the classic IT / development / testing / helpdesk / crazy catchall all wrapped into one
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CraigK posted:I don't know why people put the mouse on the left side. I mean, I thought it was for lefthanded people, but I'm a lefty and I mouse with my right hand. I know one leftie that does this, along with a dude with severe RSI. Apparently typing with the right hand is fine, but the mouse sends him straight into the land of bourbon-laden agony.
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Well, one of my co-workers got canned yesterday. It makes sense though, being in Asset Management for the IT team, if we need stuff and we have a good reason for needing stuff, order the drat poo poo we need without pushing back on us.
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Factory Factory posted:Good things? I can do that too. My MS Natural Keyboard 4000 is showing serious wear and tear from heavy use. I'm even wearing a hole through the s key slowly but surely. Well jeez, this makes me feel sheepish for buying a spare one just in case I couldn't find another at the price I got mine for ($35). Of course, I did the same thing for my MX-518, so who knows. 
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It seems that my entire company is REQUIRING all employees to send in their up to date resume. They plan to use these resumes to drum up business. How is this poo poo even legal?
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madmaan posted:It seems that my entire company is REQUIRING all employees to send in their up to date resume. They plan to use these resumes to drum up business. Sounds more like they plan to make you all re-interview for your own jobs. 
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madmaan posted:They plan to use these resumes to drum up business. How would that even work? 
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The Reaganomicon posted:How would that even work? Presumably they want to put poo poo like "managed by a team of 5 MBA's!" or "every on call tech is a CCNA!" in their marketing materials. Still seems like a terrible practice.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 19:12 |
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Moey posted:When I started at my current job like 8 months ago, we were alot like that. If I had to reboot a server during the day, I had to tell people that multiple applications were going down. Wasn't anyone's fault really, just they didn't have/spend the money for separate servers for everything.
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The Reaganomicon posted:How would that even work? *hands resumes to recruiters* "Can you find us cheaper people with similar qualifications?"
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Serfer posted:The thing that's really annoying about this is that these are all VM's. There's really just no excuse for it. Here it's more like "Remember that PC that died on Larry in Accounting like 7 times? We're going to use that for the new DHCP server."
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 19:43 |
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Our other office *heard* they were having problems with sound in our video conference system to our Germany office. They also *heard* we were having problems connecting to the German office. The VP of IT emails every location and requests we do a test between all 3 locations sometime tomorrow (this was yesterday). The Germans are 5-6 hours ahead of us, so we typically hear from them about 3:00AM our time. The fucker over there emails us all at 7:18AM scheduling a 7:30AM test. I just got up and won't be to our office for another half hour, fucker! To make it worse, he turns off their system when nobody is in the room. Everyone else leaves it on and set to auto-answer so that dumbass execs can use it. Speaking of dumbass execs, they don't know how to use the address book in the system, so that's why they couldn't connect. The last 5 contacts used are kept on the main screen, after that you have to use the address book, or type in the phone number/ip manually.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 19:49 |
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Bob Morales posted:Our other office *heard* they were having problems with sound in our video conference system to our Germany office. They also *heard* we were having problems connecting to the German office. The VP of IT emails every location and requests we do a test between all 3 locations sometime tomorrow (this was yesterday). Hey there, Polycom buddy! Content: Dumb users are one thing. Dumb technicians are way, way worse.  I have another brand new HP Tablet with a “Failed to Run Task Sequence” Please send me the MAC. Any luck on the other one, will have to let this come up in Win 7 to see a macYou can hit f8 during boot and pull it up there as well.I have figured out the issue, when you push the patch cable in and it locks it is not in enough to connect, push it in even further it makes a crinkling noise and it is connecting, both machines are currently imagingSo, instead of checking the cable we just start complaining that the evil imaging process doesn't work and corporate is a bunch of worthless awful human beings who don't know what they're doing.
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madmaan posted:It seems that my entire company is REQUIRING all employees to send in their up to date resume. They plan to use these resumes to drum up business. Maybe it's something similar? Or maybe it's not.
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Daveh posted:I'm a developer and my CV has been sent to clients (huge companies') IT depts. when starting a new project to ensure that I'm who they want working on their projects. Since you say CV I'm guess you are European? I've never heard of something like that being done in the US.
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stubblyhead posted:Since you say CV I'm guess you are European? I've never heard of something like that being done in the US. Yes, I am from the UK. The last time it happened I was consulting for them on a project that was politically-sensitive internally and the IT director wanted a truly independent view of the situation. It's only ever happened with huge companies, and only on select projects. I have no idea how common the practice actually is.
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poo poo that pisses me off: Any rail that isn't a Dell Ready Rail.
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Bob Morales posted:Here it's more like "Remember that PC that died on Larry in Accounting like 7 times? We're going to use that for the new DHCP server." Around here it's, "What's a DHCP server?" 
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