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Yes, in the ever-so-graceful words of Jeremy Clarkson.
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SH/HC: Sir? Sir! Cat-5e is not a substitute for snow chains! Seeing as we've taken a trip to AI, now's probably a good time to point out that there's a Top Gear christmas special coming up.
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Lum posted:The crossfire is the one that, when viewed from the back, is reminiscent of a dog squatting to take a poo poo, yes? It depends on your area. If you get a snow that lasts more than, literally and honestly, two days, snow tires are the best thing. You go up into the mountains? Put on the snow tires in winter. Here in the basin, you don't put snow tires on your car unless you like wasting money. Our snows, as I said, will dump 4 foot and all roads will be cleared within a day or so. Basically one full non-cloudy day, which is perfect, because we get 252 sunny days a year, here. You buy snow tires for that, you are wasting your cash.
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"Hey thanks for the nice new laptop you set up for me and the government payed for, can you give me a hand with this RaM-B000ster X-TREME 2012 software?" "what? no. die in a fire"
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Pudgygiant posted:I got back to back emails today. The gist of the first email was "Since you're at a remote site and you're technically just SATCOM, we've taken away your login to Cisco devices". The second email was "We're tracking a lot of bandwidth from remote sites, please use NetFlow Analyzer to track down culprits and shut their ports off". Now I get to either not care, or email our ONE SINGLE theater wide network admin for a SolarWinds report, physically trace the line from the user's laptop back to the switch, and email the admin again to shut the port off. Guess what I'm going to do. I've never understood this. One of the guys I work with was advocating we do something similar to our remote sites. We barely have the time to support what's at our locations, much less elsewhere. When asked if he was willing to work an extra 20 hours a week, he got the picture. Good luck!
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I bitched about waffleimages being blocked at work last week. Today I arrive and I find out that it's been unblocked. Praise the great anonymous network administrator hearing my pleas.
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I rarely have things to post in this thread, and by God am I grateful for that, judging from, well, all your stories. However, this week I've had a ridiculous experience which leads me to say gently caress you very much Xerox. I spec'ed out a WorkCentre machine for a client because I've had experience with the machines and they seem to do the basic copying/printing jobs well enough. It arrived, I started configuring it, and one of the tickmarks was of course to change the admin password (I should clarify at this point that this client is 3000 miles away). Entered the new password twice (well, typed it once, copy/pasted from my documentation once so I could make sure it was what I thought it would be), clicked Submit, got prompted to relogin and oh what's this? You're not accepting the new password? Very well then, let's try the default (1111). Oh how nice, you're not accepting that either. Perhaps I had Caps Lock on? Perhaps I mistyped something both in the webform and while I was writing it out in the documentation? Nope! 3000 miles away a Xerox machine is now borked. This, however, is not what pisses me off (or rather, the situation now gets worse). No, it's that apparently Xerox is still under the impression that this is 1954 and their business model depends heavily on only their technicians having specific information, such as the code to put the machine in maintenance mode (whereby you can reset the admin password). There's some info on the web of course as to these codes, but it's all for older Xerox devices, not the WorkCentre 7120. So my client has to (end up screaming) at Xerox to send a tech out because their machine borked the change password command, and I told them to quietly watch the tech to get the code. And what does the tech do? Shows up and rudely tells the client's secretary (who was hanging around watching) that she has to back off while he enters the code, and proceeds to put it in while covering the keypad with his other hand. What the gently caress. I'm all for limiting people who don't know what they're doing mucking around with equipment in ways they shouldn't be, but guess what - we own the machine, we paid $6k for it (network scanning ability is totally worth $800 that's not a ripoff at all gently caress you Xerox), if we want to gently caress it up we should be able to do that, and if you determine we did so in a way you don't support then charge us for the support call to fix it. But to delay putting a machine in operation for a week because you insist on your techs holding the golden tickets is loving retarded. It's not a $350k print-shop production Xerox, it's a COPIER. An entry-level copier at that. How much did you spend on that free service call, Xerox? You rolled a truck so a tech could punch some buttons. That's smart business right there. If it weren't for the fact that everyone says Canon's support sucks worse I'd seriously consider returning the WC and getting an ImageRunner. The only saving grace is that the secretary was still able to see that the code included the numbers 9, 3, and 4, which is good because the other codes I've found for older Xeroxes are all similar (#934 or #1934 or Menu#934), and hopefully when I visit next week I can spend some time punching buttons on the thing to see if I can figure out what it is (there's no Menu button on the 7120, I'm hoping they just replaced "Menu" with another button on the panel). And then I'll post the code wherever I can just to say gently caress you Xerox. (I won't do this actually because I'm sure they'd sue me for infringing trade secrets). gently caress. It's now configured just fine but I'm not changing the admin password again until I have confirmation that I can reset it if necessary. (I can create another user with admin privileges, but that user can't reset the machine administrator password if it gets borked, thus not solving the problem of having the superuser password be A. secure and B. known). Edit: Also, I suppose complaining about L1/L2 support is kind of a given, but Xerox support's inability to understand "the admin password didn't change properly and is now unknown" and their repeatedly telling us to try the default admin username and password gets really annoying. They basically don't even know maintenance mode exists, which is great when you're asking for a tech to come out and do that. Potato Alley fucked around with this message at Dec 20, 2010 around 10:35 |
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Does anyone have a suggestion for some good transcoding software for my own machine? Once every few months we come across some footage that the usual transcoders can't handle. Lately I've been seeing a lot of clips from NATO and although Handbrake can handle them the output isn't really up to par for broadcast.
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Crowley posted:Does anyone have a suggestion for some good transcoding software for my own machine? Once every few months we come across some footage that the usual transcoders can't handle. Lately I've been seeing a lot of clips from NATO and although Handbrake can handle them the output isn't really up to par for broadcast. Try ffmpeg (with a frontend), especially if you're dealing with MPEG or H.264 video. I used Avanti in Windows, and it was quirky but functional. It routinely shat itself lightly on Final Cut-captured HDV, but what doesn't? Anyhoo, ffmpeg is free/open source, doesn't require an installer, and most frontends are free, so you can try it pretty painlessly. Googling "ffmpeg frontend" also comes up with a lot of different ones to try out.
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Crowley posted:Does anyone have a suggestion for some good transcoding software for my own machine? Once every few months we come across some footage that the usual transcoders can't handle. Lately I've been seeing a lot of clips from NATO and although Handbrake can handle them the output isn't really up to par for broadcast. Look into Avisynth, it's what movie pirates have used for the past ten years and crazy hobbyists sometimes make great tools  Basically, you can find input plugins for pretty much any video format, add mostly any kind of processing and load the video further into almost anything, most interesting is probably going to some lossless format your standard tools can work with. E.g. use x264 to output lossless H.264 or something else (whose name escapes me) to produce raw YV12.Only problem is it takes a while to learn.
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Potato Alley posted:Xerox Xerox is one of the worst companies I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with. Internet Explorer fucked around with this message at Dec 20, 2010 around 15:46 |
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nielsm posted:Look into Avisynth, it's what movie pirates have used for the past ten years and crazy hobbyists sometimes make great tools Use MeGUI, it coms with an AviSynth script creator, which is handy for throwing together simple jobs, and helpful for when you're not quite sure what you're doing.
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Midelne posted:No, I started saying "Stupid, stupid, why would you do that?" at the appropriate time. Reminds me of an idiot I was helping last year when we got 6 feet of snow in DC. He decided to drive his Corolla into a 3 ft snow drift so he could park there. So me and my roommate stop to help him out. He leaves the car in gear and crawls under the car to clear out some snow. I notice his loving tires spinning and start yelling at him to get the gently caress out from under the car and put it in neutral.
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The customer account search field at my work is a dropdown menu something like this: All Username Account ID IP Address Services on account Telephone number The "All" option only searches Username and Account ID. I'm sure there's a good reason behind this, however I still find it annoying and unnecessary.
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froglet posted:The "All" option only searches Username and Account ID. I'm sure there's a good reason behind this, however I still find it annoying and unnecessary. I'm going to guess that the dropdown only had Username and Account ID when the "All" choice was added 
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Non-technical annoyance. We have a competetive talker in the office. Example of conversation: Me: Oh yeah, I hurt my foot. Her: Well did I tell you the time I had surgery in my leg for my tendon which randomly flared up because I hate it and I don't know why and I was off for 3 weeks and I'm never sick and.... Me: I was part of this professional organization once... Her: Well I was part of this one and this one and this one and I had to go on a business trip and wear suits and it was really hard but as I am awesome and aggressive it worked out and I miss that environment.
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SmellsOfFriendship posted:Non-technical annoyance. Oh god these people. It doesn't matter what you're talking about and they'll still do it. It could be a colorful conversation about unlubed butt loving and they'd still one up you.  Oh yeah? I hosed an unlubed butt so hard it started on fire.Edited again because Jesus gently caress me I can't type today. Maker Of Shoes fucked around with this message at Dec 20, 2010 around 17:53 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Oh god these people. It doesn't matter what you're talking about and they'll still do it. It could be a color conversation about unlubed butt loving and they'd still one up you. I ate lunch once. Well I ate lunch so hard the chef came out and offered me his job on the spot. And my competetive talker would not only say they lit the butt on fire, they actually burned down London with its power. SmellsOfFriendship fucked around with this message at Dec 20, 2010 around 17:58 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Oh god these people. It doesn't matter what you're talking about and they'll still do it. It could be a colorful conversation about unlubed butt loving and they'd still one up you. The trick is to take up skydiving as a hobby - nobody one-ups skydiving without making the evening news.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Oh god these people. It doesn't matter what you're talking about and they'll still do it. It could be a colorful conversation about unlubed butt loving and they'd still one up you. On the subject of "dirty talk", say what you like about men thinking about sex every 7 seconds or whatever but certainly in our place they're by far the most reserved that way. (It's IT related because you get to go around fixing things and having to listen to all this!) One department of 100% lads: lots of sex talk, of course, but mostly done in a subtle manner, double entendres etc. Another department (sales) consists of mostly women at the moment: and it's absolute non-stop, graphic, unadulterated filth from 8 til 4.30, with the subject rarely (if ever) changing to anything else. If you want to know the full intimate details of any of their clunges, baps or boyfriends' penises and how everything hangs, don't worry, stay in there for about 30 seconds and you will find out. 
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SmellsOfFriendship posted:We have a competetive talker in the office. I refer to these people as Toppers. Here's why. LakesGuzzler posted:clunges A friend of mine now hates this word more than she hates the c-word it's generally used instead of. Thanks to The Inbetweeners I can now wind her up just by asking if she's brought her wellies. 
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Midelne posted:skydiving "Speaking of diving, back during my military career I once went on this mission where... ... and that's why I can't go to Spain anymore. Seriously, they'll shoot me on sight."
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Drighton posted:"Speaking of diving, back during my military career I once went on this mission where... "Well, heck, we're buds, then. I can't enter Europe anymore. It's a bad thing to make enemies of the European Union. I just fear the day they get their own military power because they'll probably send an assassin squad after me. Hah! Probably have the German commando units volunteer after the poo poo I pulled!"
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LakesGuzzler posted:On the subject of "dirty talk", say what you like about men thinking about sex every 7 seconds or whatever but certainly in our place they're by far the most reserved that way. (It's IT related because you get to go around fixing things and having to listen to all this!) This is one of those things that just boggles my mind. Sure, a bunch of guys will sit around and "Yeah dude, totally hosed her retarded HIGH FIVE AMIRITE" and that's it. Many moons ago my girlfriend was having all over her friends over for something called a "Stitch and Bitch". Basically they all love to crotchet and were planning on just sitting around stitching and bitching. I was feeling lazy that night so just decided to stay in and take in the sights and sounds of this mystical Stitch and Bitch. Oh god. Filth can't even begin to describe the unholy things that came out of their mouths. And that was even before the booze came out. For six straight hours I sat there with the dumbest  look on my face watching my world come crumbling down.Edit: I need to mention that I finally lost my marbles and left after one of my close friends mentioned that her husband motorboats her crotch and giggles when he goes down on her but she puts up with it because he's hooked to the left ever so much to make it perfect. I sprinted like my rear end was on fire to my car. Never again. Oh God, smite me where I stand if I'm ever stupid enough to hang around one of those again. Maker Of Shoes fucked around with this message at Dec 20, 2010 around 19:43 |
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 Women enjoy sex.Hey, guess who got some of his project's C# into daily WTF last week?
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boo_radley posted:
Not the women I ... hey wait a minute! quote:Hey, guess who got some of his project's C# into daily WTF last week? Thorough Letter Checking or Log Everything? Leaning toward the second.
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boo_radley posted:
Women enjoy talking. If you look at the history, the way women (and especially their children) would survive is by processing as much information about their surroundings, including those people in their surroundings, as possible. An awesome way to get this information is through talking it out with all the other women in your group so that you can have as much information as possible. Men, on the other hand, developed a blunt, even terse, communication style because a large part of bringing down a large animal for meat is communicating non-verbally so as to not give your location to your target tasty meal. Men go "That one" and then point. A disagreement is then done through head and hand signals, such as shaking your head and pointing to another one. These are highly simplified examples, but they are why we have such a divide in what information is "Acceptable" between sexes. Men will say something short and only ask for more information if they can't complete the information in their head. Women will say something long and ask for information as confirmation even if they know the rest of the information in their head.
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Arsten posted:BIOTRUTHS Good lord.
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Arsten posted:Women enjoy talking. If you look at the history, the way women (and especially their children) would survive is by processing as much information about their surroundings, including those people in their surroundings, as possible. An awesome way to get this information is through talking it out with all the other women in your group so that you can have as much information as possible. That sure is some dumb evopsych bullshit.
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What magic do desk designers use to consistently make all of their desks have only one cable pass through in it that is always on the opposite side of where the user wants their computer?SmellsOfFriendship posted:Non-technical annoyance. I love these people because I can be an rear end in a top hat to them and they just eat it up. The key to dealing with a one-upper is to just start making up ridiculous poo poo to one-up them. "I went to Florida for vacation." "Really? I went to Europe. ""Yeah, I had to go to Florida because that's where the shuttle launches from. I went to the International Space Station where I stayed for three weeks perfecting the cure for cancer." "blank stare"
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frozenphil posted:What magic do desk designers use to consistently make all of their desks have only one cable pass through in it that is always on the opposite side of where the user wants their computer? It's just guaranteed to happen. In a parallel universe, where it's on the opposite side, the person's preference will also reverse accordingly.
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This has been going on for the past couple weeks since I've started my new position. I'll get an e-mail from a user saying they can't get on their computer. Lo and behold, they locked themselves out due to mistyped passwords. "Ted, I can't log in to my email." (they mean Windows login). I check, and sure enough, their account is locked. "OK, I unlocked your account, you can log in again." :a few minutes pass: "Ted, I'm locked out again, can you set my password to [password]?" "OK, your password has been reset to [password]" "Now I can't access my email." It's the same password. :repeat on-and-off for about 40 minutes.: Due to this, their Droid stopped syncing to the Exchange server. I don't know about e-mail on Droids, since I've barely even seen one. Word has it, I'll get one soon though... Not only that, but last week, his kids were in the office, and they kept locking out his name on the domain. Every 5th e-mail had to have been a, "I can't get into my computer." He's a really cool guy and we shoot the poo poo at work, but god drat. 1) How can you forget your password that you use EVERY DAY, probably multiple times to unlock your machine? and 2) Don't let your kids mess around on your computer.
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masanbol posted:That sure is some dumb evopsych bullshit. Alas, your well versed and thoughout rebuttal has disarmed me.
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Arsten posted:Alas, your well versed and thoughout rebuttal has disarmed me. Your theory ignores any socially determined aspect to how we communicate, ignores any males who like detailed and wordy communication sessions, ignores women who grunt and slam down beers, treats men and women as completely separate species who somehow reproduce and pass on genetic traits independent of each other a la the NSFW all-male barbarian tribes in Oglaf, ignores even modern cultural differences in how the different genders communicate, and is additionally ignorant in a very traditional way of anthropological information indicating that women in hunter/gatherer societies then and now provide around 60-80% of the food for the group and that the old image of men as the sole providers was just not accurate in the slightest. The closest it comes to being accurate - when long-term animal husbandry and agriculture overtook hunter/gatherer and men did gain a dominant role in providing - is far too chronologically recent to have any evolutionary impact, and wouldn't be at all encouraging of terse communication in males if it did. Better? On an IT note, I still haven't heard back from the dude who changed the password to our firewall and locked out our VPN accounts. This is somewhat inconvenient because the vendor responsible for maintaining some of our business-critical software is also locked out of the network and dudes in that part of the business need their assistance like, yesterday.
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frozenphil posted:What magic do desk designers use to consistently make all of their desks have only one cable pass through in it that is always on the opposite side of where the user wants their computer? Quite a few on-site scanner installs at my previous job and ended up taking an extra day because of this poo poo. The scanners come with a 1 metre (3'3") SCSI cable which is just enough to place it on the desk next to the computer. But oh no, the target computer is on the floor, caked in poo poo, buried behind a pile of disused ring binders, the desk is bolted to the wall and the cable pass through is 3 metres to the right and they want the scanner 2 meters to the left of the computer. I then had to find some unfiltered internet access and find the nearest branch of Maplin in an unfamiliar area, and half the time they're 30+ miles away in heavy traffic. Of course, just as I was leaving, they started adding USB ports to the scanners. At least you can get those at any supermarket.
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I love our designers, yes I do, but lord. I just spent half an hour talking about __MACOS folders and whether they're important to a project.
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Lum posted:Quite a few on-site scanner installs at my previous job and ended up taking an extra day because of this poo poo. My dad has all of his power cables run behind his massively heavy desk. Which was fine until he wanted his printer replaced.
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yaoi prophet posted:My dad has all of his power cables run behind his massively heavy desk. Which was fine until he wanted his printer replaced. If you're lucky, when this happens you can crawl under the desk on all fours and just kind of hunch your shoulders up, then move carefully in the direction you want the desk to go. Seems like desks are getting taller, though, so your mileage and lack of spinal injuries may vary.
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Thought I'd spread some holiday cheer with a "poo poo you come across that makes you laugh in a kind of despairing, maudlin fashion". We got an email from a user of one of our extranet sites with a screenshot of their browser showing the error message. I generally don't like these because they A)make the email bigger since they're usually uncompressed BMPs pasted into outlook and B)are unnecessary since the error is textual anyway and can be copied/pasted. Regardless, the error is legitimate. However what was less legitimate were the titles of his four other browser tabs, which contained various variations on the word 'teen sex'. The best part? The email was sent at around 8 am.
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Midelne posted:If you're lucky, when this happens you can crawl under the desk on all fours and just kind of hunch your shoulders up, then move carefully in the direction you want the desk to go. Seems like desks are getting taller, though, so your mileage and lack of spinal injuries may vary. Haha, nope. I don't have a picture, but it's far too large for that.
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