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To sum it all up: Mac-Mac networks: Works fine Win-Win networks: Works fine Mac-Win networks: You're a flagellant I'm secretly working on getting our graphics department moved to Windows machines. I'm slowly gaining ground but it's a tricky path.
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Crowley posted:To sum it all up: Jumping on this; when you have a mixed environment, is it better to run non-AD LDAP and miss out on some Active Directory-specific stuff? Or deal with using Macs on an AD domain?
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| # ? May 11, 2012 10:13 |
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Having the Macs in the AD isn't such a huge pain overall. They will hop off every once in a blue moon, but they benefits of managing users centrally outweighs that drawback in my opinion. However, if your Macs are single-user machines (the same user for a specific mac all the time) it would be easier to handle the AD-validation when the needs arise. Our Macs are used by anyone who wanders into the department and sits down, which would be a pain in the rear end if we used local machine logins.
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| # ? May 11, 2012 11:00 |
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HalloKitty posted:This, plus domain admin credentials may not work reliably as local admin credentials anyway. On every comp we have a localadmin with some password in case of goof ups. Although the domain we manage is pretty good. The only time I had an issue was where someone fat fingered the DC IP in the config after it was already doing fine.
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| # ? May 11, 2012 13:55 |
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loving surreal. The executive nagging since I put in my notice has almost completely vanished. The only odd thing is that all of a sudden it's the president, whom I've spoken to maybe twice in a year and a half of working here, who's checking up on me (relatively sporadically). It suddenly occurred to me that the EVP/owner/his wife is avoiding me and sending him in her place.
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| # ? May 11, 2012 14:20 |
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HalloKitty posted:Windows 2000? drat. I'm the only person who uses Classic Start menu and the Windows Classic appearance settings in XP? 
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| # ? May 11, 2012 14:41 |
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Spermy Smurf posted:I'm the only person who uses Classic Start menu and the Windows Classic appearance settings in XP? Nope, the XP UI improvements seemed tacky and stupid to me so I turned them off. I'm running Windows 7 mostly stock but it helps that I rarely use the start menu anyway.
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Spermy Smurf posted:I'm the only person who uses Classic Start menu and the Windows Classic appearance settings in XP? Hell, I still use them in Windows 7.
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Spermy Smurf posted:I'm the only person who uses Classic Start menu and the Windows Classic appearance settings in XP? I use them in XP, but not in 7. In 7 they're just Aero recolored and all the proportions are off.
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| # ? May 11, 2012 16:12 |
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My coworker does. But he also has My Computer on the desktop and opens separate instances of all the Administrative Tools applications rather than using Server Manager. He nearly became obsolete had I not started pushing things along. Though, I suppose it's not a big deal if it's just cosmetic preference.
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| # ? May 11, 2012 16:37 |
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Drighton posted:My coworker does. But he also has My Computer on the desktop and opens separate instances of all the Administrative Tools applications rather than using Server Manager. He nearly became obsolete had I not started pushing things along. I do this too actually. I just can't stand the post XP start menu for usability, and like having My Computer on the desktop. On servers though it feels like I'm in PowerShell more than the GUI anyway so it doesn't matter as much.
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| # ? May 11, 2012 19:07 |
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AutoArgus posted:Next hoop to prepare yourself for is when it randomly decides without telling anyone that it just doesn't feel like being on the domain anymore and leaves of its own accord To fix this, run dsconfigad -passinterval 0 before you join the domain. It will make the Mac not try to change it's AD machine password at all.
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| # ? May 11, 2012 19:20 |
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Spermy Smurf posted:I'm the only person who uses Classic Start menu and the Windows Classic appearance settings in XP? drat, sorry, misjudged. The gradient, the font change, everything, even the shade of grey screamed some kind of 2000 theme.
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| # ? May 11, 2012 23:17 |
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Well, my employer has once again shown an amazing lack of planning and foresight. Having gobbled up all the developers from the various divisions of the company and dumping them into a single shared services division, they decided that there wasn't enough work, and of the 90 or so developers 10 would have to be made redundant. Over the legally required consultation period, more work was found and by the end of it, only 3 were made redundant. Not long after these guys last day, I mean literally a few weeks, the manager started ringing around everybody in a panic asking various devs in my office (and presumably in others too) if they had any free time. None of them do, they're all at 100% capacity. Now we've just brought in 4 contractors as we don't have enough developers to keep up with the amount of work we have.
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| # ? May 11, 2012 23:27 |
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Nothing pissed me off today, took my last day off and spent the whole day drinking... New jerb Wednesday
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| # ? May 11, 2012 23:29 |
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Its not 'Murricah if everyone's not at 110% capacity.
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| # ? May 11, 2012 23:32 |
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Wozbo posted:Its not 'Murricah if everyone's not at 110% capacity. This comment is even more hilarious because Lum is in the UK. poo poo that pissed me off today: Windows 8, company supported image. Our VPN software causes it to BSOD after being connected for over 20 minutes with an UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_TRAP error. I can give it a break though, since it's not even RTM.
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| # ? May 11, 2012 23:41 |
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Lum posted:Well, my employer has once again shown an amazing lack of planning and foresight.
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| # ? May 12, 2012 00:15 |
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Spermy Smurf posted:Hey, gently caress you Acrobat. You'll find it's not Acrobat's fault. Probably more to do with your Printer driver. PCL I'm guessing? Try printing it to a Postscript printer driver (if one is available)
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| # ? May 12, 2012 00:27 |
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nexus6 posted:I feel like that's going to happen to my company: they just made me redundant but I know in a couple months they're really gonna need a developer. They're really more reactive than proactive, it's probably why nobody has backups. gently caress 'em they deserve whatever comes to them. You'll find something better thanks to goons and move on.
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Urit posted:This comment is even more hilarious because Lum is in the UK. Wow. Your company is actually trying to support Windows 8? Before it's RTM? Is this a development company of some type?
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| # ? May 12, 2012 00:33 |
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Strat posted:You'll find it's not Acrobat's fault. Probably more to do with your Printer driver. PCL I'm guessing? This. Set up a print to file printer using the Adobe Generic Postscript driver. Shove the result through GhostScript using the pdfwrite driver. Enjoy your password free PDF file.
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nexus6 posted:I feel like that's going to happen to my company: they just made me redundant but I know in a couple months they're really gonna need a developer. They're really more reactive than proactive, it's probably why nobody has backups. Oh hey, you know the system already. Sadly, you'll be requiring a signing bonus equal to the pay you would have gotten were you still working for them.
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| # ? May 12, 2012 02:43 |
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ptier posted:gently caress 'em they deserve whatever comes to them. You'll find something better thanks to goons and move on. How's the CCNA study coming along, I could use a study buddy ATM, not sure what day/nights are good for you
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Lum posted:This. "Hey jump through 12 hoops for no loving reason or we'll crash your computer." Hey, gently caress you Acrobat. God loving damnit. Also: Hey, gently caress you Lum for mentioning Postscript driver which I hadnt heard of since 2003. God drat I hate computers. Anyone else notice that being a Network Admin really fucks with your day-to-day troubleshooting abilities? Edit: I spent 6 days on WSUS not pushing updates to clients. Reinstalled WSUS twice. Finally built a new server and imported database to it. In those 6 days my network tech rolled out 10 Win7 machines and when they call I have to start from retards-ville to find out what is wrong. On XP I used to know exactly what the problem was by the first 3 words people told me. Spermy Smurf fucked around with this message at May 12, 2012 around 03:10 |
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I just gave you a solution for stripping the DRM from any printable PDF. I'm not here to defend Adobe as their poo poo is pretty much indefensible. The reason for using the Postscript -> Ghostscript method is because Ghostscript will let you combine a whole bunch of .PS files together into a single PDF without much drama. Lum fucked around with this message at May 12, 2012 around 03:29 |
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Not really a piss off, but this blew my mind a little. I need to get some images out of an .xls file, but I only have Libre Office. I gripe about it a bit, but it does do what it's supposed to pretty well (e.g. replace Excel). It turns out to get the images out you can just save the .xls as an .ods (Libre Office native format), rename it to a .zip, and then inside the zip there's an xml, and a folder just for pictures/attachments/objects. Made me realize just how powerful the format must also be for scripting and so on. EDIT-vvvv Mind double blown. I just remember wrestling with 2003 XLS files and their format so much I hadn't realized the state of the art had moved on. Scaramouche fucked around with this message at May 12, 2012 around 04:27 |
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Scaramouche posted:Not really a piss off, but this blew my mind a little. I need to get some images out of an .xls file, but I only have Libre Office. I gripe about it a bit, but it does do what it's supposed to pretty well (e.g. replace Excel). It turns out to get the images out you can just save the .xls as an .ods (Libre Office native format), rename it to a .zip, and then inside the zip there's an xml, and a folder just for pictures/attachments/objects. Made me realize just how powerful the format must also be for scripting and so on. You can do the same with .xlsx files, they're also zip files.
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Spermy Smurf posted:"Hey jump through 12 hoops for no loving reason or we'll crash your computer." I don't want this to drag on, but as I said earlier you'll find this isn't actually Acrobat's fault. Sure some idiot password protected the file but that really has nothing to do with your bad print speed. Chances are you print driver is using a language other than postscript (PCL, HPJ etc) and it's converting your PDF and the file size is getting blown up exponentially due to some dodgy content (transparencies or the like) Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending Adobe but I really think you're barking up the wrong tree here. Blame your print vendor... or your system administrator for not setting up the driver correctly. (years of working in the print industry with these kind of complaints from customers can get to you after a while  )
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Potato Alley posted:Wow. Your company is actually trying to support Windows 8? Before it's RTM? Is this a development company of some type? Yup, Microsoft partner. I kind of like Win8 - not the "baby's first computer" start screen but some of the other improvements are cool. The best one is full-blown Hyper-V on the client OS though. No more "Virtual PC" or whatever. You get Hyper-V. Full stop. Urit fucked around with this message at May 12, 2012 around 06:03 |
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Volmarias posted:Oh hey, you know the system already. Sadly, you'll be requiring a signing bonus equal to the pay you would have gotten were you still working for them. This. Even though its really pissed me off that they've pulled the carpet out from under my feet and I'll no longer be working with some great colleagues, it took me a week to line up three interviews, all for a similar position and all for a lot more money and benefits. Seeing how this company treats it's employees, they'd have to add a zero to what they were paying me to get me back.
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Wozbo posted:Its not 'Murricah if everyone's not at 110% capacity. 110%? The lowest capacity for May/June in my team is 137%. Recently our manager worked out that we could complete all of the year's scheduled work on time if we all work 26 hours per day. It's got to the point that I have three different people from a single client telling me what my highest priority is. Granted, I just ignore all of them and listen to my (awesome) manager instead.
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| # ? May 12, 2012 08:53 |
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Lum posted:Well, my employer has once again shown an amazing lack of planning and foresight. Is it even legal the make people redundant and then instantly bring in contractors to do their job? I know you can't do it with proper employees, but no idea if it applies to contractors too.
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door.jar posted:110%? The lowest capacity for May/June in my team is 137%. Recently our manager worked out that we could complete all of the year's scheduled work on time if we all work 26 hours per day. Your Office posted:Peter Gibbons: And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.
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So on Monday I get a call from the OR Control desk about one of the fancy color laserjets that the doctors use to print images of the surgeries they are performing. Our color printer is low on toner!!! (check the web interface) It looks like the black cartridge still has 20% left, but I'll put in a ticket to get one up before it runs out.I put in the ticket to the third party that does all our printer repair then forget about it. Then they call again on Thursday and one of my co-workers gets them on the phone. The printer is still low on toner and the images are starting to look bad!!! Why hasn't *printer repair company* been her yet!! (co-worker checks ticket sees no update) I'm not sure, let me call the printer tech and find out whats going on. I'll call you back.My co-worker then learns from the printer tech that *printer repair company* doesn't have that particular toner in stock, and it is on back order.  Before he can call the lady back she has already called the helpdesk again and this time I get her on the phone. No one called me back! Where is our toner!!! (explains the situation) That is unacceptable we need that toner now! I understand that, I'm going to speak to my director now. We will find you one somehow.So I go to my director and explain whats going on. He then sends an email to the head of materials management and the president of *printer repair company*(its a small local company) pretty much asking them to find a toner any way possible. I call the user back and tell her the lengths we are going to find this drat toner cartridge. She then chews me out over the phone for not managing to conjure one out of thin air. An hour or so later we find out that *printer repair company* found one and the crisis is now averted. But here is the kicker to the story, Friday morning I got the ticket resolved back to me and in the comments I learn where the toner was found. "toner needed was in their closet designed to store all their toners for their various printers" Yep that's right, for four loving days no one in the entirety of the OR thought to look in the cabinet where all there toner is stored. There were three black toner cartridges in that cabinet for that model printer, three. Part of me is pissed that I never asked them if they checked in the cabinet but at the same time should I really have to? They have had that printer for a year and a half and this is the first time ever we have had a "toner crisis". Plus this thing has to have the cartridge replaced about once a month so they have replaced it at a minimum a dozen times without incident. loving users... 
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I loving hate Groupwise. Once a week I have to completely reboot the entire server because it starts throwing "blob" errors and stops accepting logins. It lasts about a week and a half, like clockwork, and then just takes a big teaming dump. I've tried just restarting the Groupwise service and eDirectory, but it doesn't make a difference. The only thing that fixes it is a total reboot of the server. Then, half the time I reboot the piece of poo poo it doesn't accept LDAP connections from our Ironport, and the only way to make THAT work is... another full reboot  I look forward to the day that we finally move to Google Apps or Exchange. I don't give a gently caress which at this point, I just want off the horrid mess that is Groupwise.
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Sweevo posted:Is it even legal the make people redundant and then instantly bring in contractors to do their job? I know you can't do it with proper employees, but no idea if it applies to contractors too. It was full time employees they made redundant, not contractors. I guess it's only illegal if the employees find out? Strat posted:Chances are you print driver is using a language other than postscript (PCL, HPJ etc) and it's converting your PDF and the file size is getting blown up exponentially due to some dodgy content (transparencies or the like) They were printing that PDF to the Bullzip PDF Printer. It's a Postscript print driver that feeds the result through a bundled copy of GhostScript to produce a PDF. This is why I suggested they just do the same process manually, breaking it down into smaller .PS files and merging them with GhostScript.
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| # ? May 12, 2012 19:04 |
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Staff that don't know what tech they're using. Special shout out to the guy who called up while driving down the highway to tell us our website isn't working on his iPad. One, trying to give us info on what is going wrong while driving and using the device is insane. Two, you're a dev and can't tell the difference between an iPad and a Samsung Galaxy Tab. People like this don't deserve tech.
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Your lovely little forum has 15 members and gets maybe 10 new threads a month. I am NOT going to register and login just so I can view one picture that someone posted - gently caress YOU!
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pseudomonkey posted:Staff that don't know what tech they're using. Special shout out to the guy who called up while driving down the highway to tell us our website isn't working on his iPad. One, trying to give us info on what is going wrong while driving and using the device is insane. Two, you're a dev and can't tell the difference between an iPad and a Samsung Galaxy Tab. The upside is that this is the kind of problem that generally solves itself. The downside is that it might solve itself through other people as well. Harry Lime posted:Yep that's right, for four loving days no one in the entirety of the OR thought to look in the cabinet where all there toner is stored. There were three black toner cartridges in that cabinet for that model printer, three. Part of me is pissed that I never asked them if they checked in the cabinet but at the same time should I really have to? They have had that printer for a year and a half and this is the first time ever we have had a "toner crisis". Plus this thing has to have the cartridge replaced about once a month so they have replaced it at a minimum a dozen times without incident. I guess I'm a little confused here; are the surgeons supposed to replace the toner themselves, or is IT supposed to do it? If the surgeons are supposed to do it: Why? Did they kick and scream to be allowed to do this? Given the expense of toner and the carcinogenic effects of spilled toner, it seems like you're the ones who really ought to be handling this one. If IT is supposed to do it: Why the hell don't you know where your toner is stored, and why didn't you think to check?
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