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Sep 13, 2007


Windows servers showing me a pretty rotating circle and "applying computer settings..." instead of telling me what is really happening. Why wouldn't a server-administrator want to see if something hung or failed. A line on the screen showing me what the drat thing is doing is so much more informative than a rotating circle.

My old laptop at home shows me a line for everything it does when it boots.

This morning i rebooted a client-server (sbs 2008), it stopped responding to ping, started responding again when windows booted but 15 minutes later i still couldn't get in. I went out to the site and checked the screen, "Applying computer settings...". That had been for almost an hour.

Luckily the AD was responding so i could log on to a workstation as domain admin, access the sbs2008 eventlogs and registry and fix the problem by disabling ipv6 in the registry instead of just unchecking it in the network-card preferences. Apparently that is a known issue, why windows wouldn't warn me about it when i unchecked ipv6 is a mystery though.

Also why do i on a server have to disable "hide extensions for known filetypes" and all the other brothel-like "features" a retarded user would love but for an admin just obstructs my work?

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Sep 13, 2007


boo_radley posted:

programmer haet java
Not to mention java-applications that won't draw the controls if you have the wrong resolution on your machine. Brilliant, replaced the old 19" crt with a 22" lcd and that broke the java app written by some thai-dude.

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Sep 13, 2007


Karthe posted:

I have to ask, how could this happen?! I've literally never heard of screen resolution factoring into whether the program works or not...it boggles the mind.
I have no idea, I've had it happen on both the customer machine and my own, running 1680x1050 resolution.

You can try it yourself by running ipmi-view from supermicro
This is what i get on 1680x1050 32bit

Click here for the full 903x669 image.

This is what i get on 1680x1050 32bit after switching to 16bit and going back to 32 again

Click here for the full 903x669 image.

It just won't draw the controls in the program unless i jerk around the resolution.
(brilliant program btw)

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Sep 13, 2007


My boss
1) putting in tickets for me to change permissions on shared folders so only one or two users have access to them. Me connecting to the server and seeing that my boss has already been there looking for the folder but not actually touching the permissions himself. Why should he, it only takes a minute or two?.

2) finding that my boss actually has touched the permission tab, messing everything up so no-one has access to the folder.

Also that brings me to another nutkicker,
Microsoft and their "Security".

Why should i as the über domain administrator NOT have permission to a folder? Why should i have to right-click and "take ownership" when i'm already the God of the system?

and why is user-passwords blocked from me, why can't i remote to a users desktop without having to guess his password, or even worse have it in a database somewhere. I'm GOD, GOD doesn't need permission. Surely if the domaincontroller is compromised i have bigger problems than having passwords stored reversible?

Perhaps the Administrator-user should be called ChuckNorris instead, that might work.

And another thing about Microsoft, why in gods name do they insist on localizing their server-systems? I don't want to read my error messages in Swedish, i want them in English so i can google an answer. I don't want to wait for each patch to be translated into babelfish-swedish when my system is vulnerable right now.

Why not write the error message twice, once in english and once in swedish for retards?

And why does users insist on logging onto their machines again when i'm rdp:ing to them, if i told them on the phone that i was going to take over their desktop, don't ****ing try to take it back until i tell you i'm done. i will tscon 0 /dest:console or tscon rdp-tcp#0 /dest:console when i'm done, then call you.

Mondays make me want to beat people.

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Sep 13, 2007


Oddhair posted:

We use APC Back-Ups RS UPSes at our office

Edit: bonus pinout to show how simple the cable really is for APC serial UPS interfaces:
And if you take a normal serial-cable without thinking about it, and put it into the APC, you get: "--bzoooo........................-" in the server-rack.
Great fun.

We moved the servers from a small closet with hardly any ventilation, to a new room with an ac and everything, somewhere on the way the ups-cable went missing and when we finally got around to plugging it in, after having the ups running without communication for a few weeks, i managed to get it to shutdown by simply inserting the wrong cable.

i'm such a retard

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Sep 13, 2007


Jo posted:

Which brings up another point of contention:
Quickloaders. Please god kill everyone that makes these. No, I don't want to dedicate five megs of ram to making your poo poo application load 0.5 seconds faster, especially if it takes 10 seconds longer at boot for your quickloader to load.
qtask.exe -atboottime
reader_sl.exe
*suicide*

We sell IBM/Lenovo machines, they all come preconfigured with some useless version of Norton Antivirus, Picasa, Diskkeeper lite, Sonic dvd/cd-burning software not to mention the 49 different IBM/Lenovo programs like "Productivity center", "IBM Messaging". Or why not "Mouse Suite", a program that does nothing usefull and comes complete with a NT4-style uninstallation-program that wants to reboot your computer after uninstall.

Booting a freshly unpacked IBM/Lenovo takes about 40 minutes for the pre-installed Vista (or usually XP, we only sell downgraded machines nowdays) to start windows for the first time, configure all the stuff we uninstall anyway, rebooting atleast five times and ofcourse the standard windows soundscheme is activated so hi there annoying "windows is starting"-sound.
There's atleast 70 processes running when you are allowed to start using the computer, atleast. My own workstation that's been running for a few week now have 40 processes running, so does my computer at home.

The big problem is that we do not sell enough of each model to make it actually worth it to create a clean installation / ghost.
I also have some sort of OCD that makes me remove the "Set Program Access and Defaults", change the theme to classic, remove the desktop clean-up wizard, show my computer and documents and remove the animated menus. I do this on every drat computer i touch, without even thinking. Every time i do that i think about creating a .vbs that will fix it for me, but i never get around to doing it.


I also want to complain once more about windows security and passwords.
I cannot get the user-password from AD, fine, but i also do not feel like i can reset it to something new without telling the client. and if the client's not available on phone, i have no way of telling him i've changed it. I'm not at his computer so i can't put a post-it on the monitor. If he uses OWA / Remote, i cannot even change his loginscreen background to say "i changed your password, call me".
Why cannot windows allow me to use a one-time password?, it could be generated using the server serial-key, even the ad-password or the users serial for his computer and/or monitor, all available for me in our documentation or via WMI. Anything is better than forcing me to reset his password completely :/

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Sep 13, 2007


Xenomorph posted:

so luckily IBM/Lenovo sets the Windows fonts to "Large" and icon spacing to 90. ClearType isn't enabled by default, so all the fonts are ugly. There is some ugly wallpaper, and of course the 70+ processes on start.
Having that icon spacing at 90 looks completely retarded, last year i delivered a brand new T61 or something, running 1680x1050 with that icon-layout.
I put it next to a "free" HP/Compaq laptop the customer had recieved because they leased a multifunction Ricoh. The HP looked sweet (correct resolution, icon spacing, a few free programs but nowhere near 70 processes), the T61 looked like it was a t40 with just a larger screen (oh and a windows-button, thanks and welcome to the 21st century IBM/Lenovo)

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Sep 13, 2007


Users not knowing their own passwords.

Asked ten users for their password yesterday, 5 didn't give me the correct one. Strangely enough when i reset them they'll call me the next day and ask me if had changed anything and then give me the correct password.

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Sep 13, 2007


updates that require you to click "ok", like sp for vista/2008, ie8.

queue 40 updates, logoff, come back next day and find that it's on 6 of 40 and that's ie8 requireing you to say "yes i want to install you, even though i actually said i wanted to yesterday". what's even better is if you hide your "you must click ok" behind something else so i don't notice until i see the taskbar.

YES YES YES f*cking YES i ment to click here, i MENT TO INSTALL THIS, just do it!!

sadly this occurs on freebsd too, do a "make update" and then "portupgrade -all", logoff, come back two days later to find that the third package-update wants you to confirm that you do not want to install an x version of minesweeper..

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Sep 13, 2007


IBM/Lenovo

* Installing a brand new laptop takes 2½h for vista, the pre-packaged stuff needs to unpack, configure, install, meh and just piss you off. Try installing vista from a ms-cd and you'll be up and running in 30 minutes or less.

* 92 processes after initial boot into windows vista.

* systemupdate/messagecenter. Since systemupdate was too easy to use, Lenovo decided that users should run "messagecentral" instead. Just don't try to run it when you've got no internets because then you cannot run it again for 24 hours. DOH. do. h.
(hkey_current_user\software\lenovo\messaging\LastRun)

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Sep 13, 2007


sanchez posted:

"Exchange 2007 is a ram hog, It's using 10gb and not doing anything!"
"It'll take what you give it and cache a bunch of stuff, why waste the ram?"
"But it's not doing anything!"

I've had this conversation once a week for the last couple of months with the same person...
That person might be as old as i am, remembering how we used to run "memturbo" and stuff to free up ram. "wow just look how much free ram i have now".
(i filled up one of our exchange-servers with spare 512mb sticks last friday for a total of 12gb and i too said "what the.. it's using 11 gigs without any clients connected").

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Sep 13, 2007


Users.

Seriously why do i need users?

One company develops waste-systems, like trash compactors etc. They've got four people doing designs and stuff on oem computers which they later noticed only had like 2mhz/2mb graphics cards in them. I can't say we would have done any better since we just sell IBM/Lenovo.
Anyway, they run Solidworks and Autocad and one of the designers insist on opening no less than 30 drawings at the same time, plus their corporate database, and leaving the drat thing running during the night.

Each time i have to reboot the server i have to first logon to his computer, wait for rdp to load these ridiculously large drawings, close each of them and guessing if he needs the edits he's made or if he should have the original design saved somewhere (no versioning at all in the company).
Last night he had 38 open files on the server. _38_. That's more than double what i use on a whole week.

To make thing even worse my boss does the same thing, he's the owner and head of a IT-Consultant business and he leaves his retarded economics system which looks like it was designed in 1989 and uses 50+ files at the same time on the server. I checked on monday and he'd been logged in for three days, i checked again on Thursday and he was still logged in so i asked him to close the drat thing "since you've been logged on for a week", he then replies with a snotty remark on how i count a week since he'd logged out on Tuesday and then logged in again.
Whenever we find a client who's had files open for more than a day we call him a retard, what should i call my super intelligent boss then?

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Sep 13, 2007


Sniep posted:

Just out of curiosity, why do you have to reboot the server so frequently? Not saying that it's not good user practice to close out of all work and fully log off the network at night before leaving, but, it sure is convenient to come into work with all your stuff open and up for you.

I am not seeing how that's such a big issue, I do it here at work and my machine has multiple week uptimes where I dont sign out of anything, it works fine. I keep my eyes peeled for any GCR where server maintenance that affects me will be done and if so I prepare for it. Done deal. What is so hard about that?
I had to reboot due to windowsupdate (specificly the "omg anyone can bsod your computar"-updates), many of the servers just go with "do you want to reboot now?"-alerts for weeks until someone finally is bored enough to do it some evening.

The issue is that they do cad-drawings for products they will sell for $$, if i reboot then changes might be lost, or i might be the reason why they're lost because i force-save and close all the crap.
We also had big problems with outlook using pst-files on the server, the backups never managed to verify when the same user "forgot" to close his outlook every drat night.

Personally i've learnt NOT to leave poo poo open on the server when i go home at night

I, however, am new at this job so whatever stupid solutions has been set up earlier is not my fault.

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Sep 13, 2007


Ryouga Inverse posted:

Seriously. I bet both those apps handle the backing network share disappearing and then reappearing moments later perfectly fine. Probably by dumb luck, mind, but it's really easy to accidentally write your app that way.

Who gives a poo poo how many files he had open? I have 25 apps open right now (plus whatever background poo poo doesn't show up in my dock), are you going to berate me because that's more apps than you use in a week? I mean, there's bitching about stupid users, and there's bitching about people using your precious network resources. One of these is a stereotypical IT "thing" that everyone hates.

i don't care how many files he has open, i care about him opening files, editing them, not saving and then going home for the day. all the other people in that company closes their poo poo before going home.
i don't give a gently caress if his work is lost because i have to reboot the server but you can bet your rear end he'll complain the next day. what's the point of running backups at all?

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Sep 13, 2007


SecretFire posted:

Presumably one in each hand, and one cradled in each elbow. Or just gripping both handles at once with freakish mega-hands.

Dude used to design stuff for Microsoft, like the original Xbox controller

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Sep 13, 2007


g3k posted:

We're left with idiocy of a former administrator that did not give the Windows partition enough room to work with (15gb of space, stupidity) and several of our servers consistently run out of space and we have to clear out logs. My boss won't let us repartition them for fear of killing the servers, so we're stuck in a retarded loop.

Perhaps he is in a similar clusterfuck.
My chief installed a SBS2003 on a 14gig partition, with another 120gb free for d: (used for absolutely nothing). Well not nothing, he's activated the swap-file on both partitions (but it's a single disk).
That was fun to partition last week after failing to upgrade Symantec Endpoint Protection because it wants 2.3gig free on the partition and we only had 500mb (well 2.1 gig when removing old SEP-definitions)

Also on another server we had 130gb of Trend Micro -debuglogs, they were activated in march or whatever and everyone just forgot about them, until there was 2 gigs free on the server and the logs began to complain.

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Sep 13, 2007


Symantec.

" LiveUpdate returned a non-critical error. Available content updates may have failed to install."

Every 11th minute.
A "non-critical" error you say, i wonder what it could be. Oh hey we haven't received any antivirus definitions for weeks, well i guess that could be considered "non-critical" somewhere in the world.

They had a "working" forum before, and replaced it with a blog-looking P.O.S that takes forever to load the first page, does not support stickys or even RSS. The only way of knowing when a new version of Symantec Endpoint Protection is it, is through _TWITTER_. http://twitter.com/symc_endpoint "Symantec Endpoint Protection Product Management tweet about their product"

i want to go postal.

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Sep 13, 2007


microsoft-installation cds

"hey, i'll gladly format your harddrive then spend fifteen minutes copying files before you can enter the cd-key and then i'll tell you it's not valid for this installation media"
"oh i'm sorry, you have a valid cdkey but not for me muhahahahahaha"
xp rtm, xp 2002 edition, xp oem, xp 2002 edition oem, "Nooo you can't have my precious installation"

i had the same bitch when i tried adding outlook to an old office 2002 or xp or whatever it was-installation. i _own_ the license i just don't have the correct installation media and nothing on earth can tell me what version i should have for the key i have. six months earlier the client had told me to uninstall everything except word and excel because that's all they're ever going to use on that computer.

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Sep 13, 2007


c0burn posted:

This doesn't happen with Windows installs since Vista.
and the fact that it had to take until vista before this happened is just crazy. even the 2008-server-installations are "ok you don't have to enter your key now but we'd really appriciate it if you did".. the installation is the best thing with server 2008..

Spooky Man G posted:

At least your computer wakes up from hibernation mode. I call it Coma Mode on my laptop. Sometimes it wakes up, sometimes it doesn't.
we had a lenovo laptop that refused to power off. when shutting it down it turned off for 3 seconds before waking up again, luckily it was still under warranty so they replaced the motherboard.
my "rod" didn't think it had anything to do with the hardware after i told him it did the same when running from a ubcd4win thumbdrive (ie had _nothing_ to do with the vista installation on the harddrive). we had to explain it to him five times before he understood. (and this morning he spent five minutes navigating the menus on his monitor to switch from vga to dvi, i walked over, pressed the button on the bottom of the screen and then went back to my lovely desk next to the bathroom.)

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Sep 13, 2007


Symantec.

"We've discovered a "bug" in our endpoint protection suite that discards any updates newer than 2009-12-31 rev 114 as 'old', even if they're from 2010. We'll just communicate this with you through our twitter page."

It's the millenium bug, ten years too late.

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Sep 13, 2007


LakesGuzzler posted:

it seems that Apple aren't really that much of an exception when it comes to Customer Service
I went to the local mac-house a couple of weeks ago after beeing tasked with configuring one of our customers iphones for their exchange-server. I had some vague memory of reading somewhere that iphones weren't 100% compatible with exchange, or if it was the 3g model that wasn't and the 3gs war.

Anyway, i walk into the store, look around for an iphone on display so i could take a look at it myself, there was none. There was, however, two versions of ipods which i first mistook for iphones. I then asked the female person behind the counter if iphones and exchange were compatible, and her answer was: "well they might be, it's difficult to explain how", the guy behind the counter said the same thing.

so i walked into the next phone-store, looked at the loving thing on display there and saw that one of the first things it suggests when you add a new email account is an exchange-server-account.

so the answer is "yes, and even a retard can do it. just not if he works as an apple reseller"..

--
my own hate right now is vendors who never answers emails about their stupid products and clients who keep asking me how the installation of said product goes.

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Sep 13, 2007


Well Symantec Endpoint Protection just flagged spotify.exe as a trojan horse, queue all our customers calling to ask if they've got viruses.

thank you symantec, once more.

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Sep 13, 2007


everything in my home country of romanovia (sweden) is connected by social security numbers, you're born on december fifth 1985? your number is 19851205-4626, the 46-means you're born in the town of Halmstad, the 2 means you're female and the last 6 is a controllnumber you get by adding the first 10 numbers together. or something like that

anyway the same goes for registered corporations, so we use the last four numbers in each company number.
4626DC-PRIMARY (primary domain controller, there's never been a secondary though)
EX-MAIL1 (first exchange-server)
DB-SQL1 (first sql-server)
PC-FIRSTNAME
NB-FIRSTNAME
etc etc.

As long as you remember what company has what numbers, it's pretty easy to keep track of everything.

though.... I was going to upgrade one clients sbs2003 server to sbs2008 without migrating, the previous one was named DC-PRIMARY, what would i name the second one? And wouldn't it look silly once the old one was gone when i just had a DC-SECONDARY?
I'm not sure if you can rename a domaincontroller without everything blowing up in your face.

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Sep 13, 2007


monkeybounce posted:

One (sales) guy managed to break the swivel hinge on his 4400 two days after we got the newer tablets in. He was floored when I gave him an R40 as a replacement. I honestly thought he was going to cry.
hahaha that was great, we have a a21m and a t30 i would love to give to the next user who's broken stuff

i'm not sure if i've mentioned Symantec before, backupexec 12.5 apparently thinks it's ok to shut down services for upgrades while the backup is running, i'm not too sure that's wise. (even if liveupdate is set to run just on sundays, i'm guessing endpoint protection runs liveupdate and installs updates for BE too).
Oh and BackupExec 2010? dvd iso, yeah that's right you've got to download a 3.2gig iso on your 2mbit vpn-connection to austria.

Also, who thought it would be great to put ports that are similar in size right next to each other?

Click here for the full 972x1296 image.

That's usb, ethernet, esata AND displayport right next to each other, to top it all off the rj45-plug is so close to that metal cage on the right that my fat fingers have trouble fitting between to unhook it

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Sep 13, 2007


JBark posted:

You have to click the drat buttons to enter your password. Passwords can only be 6 characters. Who the gently caress designs a password system for online access that only allows a password of specific length?!
I bet it also sets the entered password as ****, so no-one can look over your sholder and see the password. I mean no-one can see what buttons you press on that mega keyboard (guessing the buttons also switch to red when you press them)

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Sep 13, 2007


Brand new Lenovo M58 machine with Win7 preloaded, downgraded to XP Pro SP3 by Lenovos official recovery disks.

Whenever i join the computer to the domain it takes 5-7 minutes for it to get an ip / show the "press ctrl-alt-del to logon" dialog.
if i join it to workgroup again everything goes as fast as it should.

I've had this thing out at the clients site three times already, now i decided to spend my time better by trying it here at my office.

This morning i installed XP from a actionpak cd, worked great, joined domain, worked great. Both with Lenovos 100mb(right) driverpack for the NIC and Intels own that's like 12mb or something.

Reinstalled the Lenovo XP which took three hours just to get the image onto the machine, then setup the preinstalled enviroment. Now i just joined it to the domain again and it takes 5-10 minutes to get c-a-d. this is really driving me nuts.

I just set it to static ip and it still takes 5-10 minutes, the dhcp gives
ip, gateway (correct) and dns (correct, is also the domain controller so there's no problem there).

this is turning out to be a real crappy week, i also just got a "thank you for beeing my friend"-reply from the girl i fancy. bah.

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Sep 13, 2007


Phuzion posted:

Do you have any GPOs pushing software to workstations? If so, it's possible that msiexec is hardlocking or choking on something, before bombing out and allowing the login prompt to appear.
no nothing like that, this happens both at our own domain and the client domain, i'm not sure how long i should spend troubleshooting this, since it's a lenovo image someone else must have had the same problem before.

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Sep 13, 2007


Microsoft "improvements"

From yesterdays "You Had Me At EHLO..." (which i think is a great name, they've probably stolen it from someone).

Dude, where's my rollup?

quote:

So I just installed RU1 on my brand new Exchange 2010 server and then I issue a Get-Exchangeserver -Identity MyExchangeServer and get the following output for AdminsDisplayVersion and ExchangeVersion:

Ok that looks a little familiar for some reason. I go to my Exchange 2010 RTM server and issue the same CMDlet and get:

...The same result! But one server has RU1 installed and the other is RTM. Shouldn't I get a different version number back?
Well... no. Exchange 2007 and forward do not reflect the version number either in the value for AdminDisplayVersion, ExchangeVersion, or at this registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\v8.0\<Role>\ConfiguredVersion as influenced by roll ups. This is a common misconception.
The most conclusive way to get the version of your exchange server, rollup and all, is to check the file version of ExSetup.exe in the BIN folder.

Can ANYONE anywhere in the universe explain to me why the hell you'd think checking fileversions on a setup-file in the installation dir would be a better way of seeing what version of something as critical as Exchange you have?

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Sep 13, 2007


monkeybounce posted:

What's killing me is the fact that experts-exchange.com has started not showing the answer to some questions at the bottom.

It used to be you could always scroll to the bottom. Now there's some weird javascript going on that removes the answers. I'm still trying to figure out if its questions with certain keywords or question views in X time frame.

vvv Between that an NoScript, it's pretty easy to work around. Still annoying though.
add http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/ user-agent switcher, set it up to identify you as googlebot, seems to work each time.
i use that and a stylish-script to clear out most of the junk.

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Sep 13, 2007


BangersInMyKnickers posted:

Here's one that I simply do not get (and maybe someone can explain it to me): IP6 support on Server 2008/Vista and up.
try unchecking ipv6 on a 2008 server and rebooting it
you'll be lucky if it's booted five hours later since you can't just uncheck ipv6, you'll have to remove it from the registry too

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Sep 13, 2007


Dyscrasia posted:

Next month, I am teaching weekly classes to my coworkers on basic computer skills, such as file browsing.
i once was in a programming school, we had JAVA, Visual Basic, C, HTML, ASP and stuff like that. We were maybe 20 students, half women. On the last day of the JAVA class we had a big test, teacher put the .doc on a networkshare and told us to copy it to our computers, fill it in and save it somewhere as firstname-lastname.doc.

Twenty minutes later she yelled at one of the women because she'd started editing the original document, she somehow had managed three weeks of computer programming without the knowledge on how to even copy a file.

kalamaf posted:

People that say labtop instead of laptop
How about laptock?

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Sep 13, 2007


Accipiter posted:

Bad UI design. The culprit in today's case is Microsoft Excel. I find it absolutely amazing that Microsoft breaks their own interface guideline rules. Not a shock, considering they're half-witted hacks to begin with.

gently caress you, Microsoft. Seriously, gently caress you.
how about opening c:\work\accounts.xls and then c:\private\accounts.xls?
it's *impossible* to have two files with the same name opened at the same time.

m2pt5 posted:

I just want to know why the gently caress file extension hiding is still enabled by default. It causes far too much confusion in my experience. (Also programs that don't automatically append the extension when naming a file if you don't manually type it, but those are far less common than they used to be.)
"before you moved my files from oldcomputer to newcomputer this file called "file" worked fine, it no longer does."
yeah like i'd remove the extension.

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Sep 13, 2007


IT Guy posted:

This
you might be able to save a few gb by removing old definitions, both manually and by changing the settings in the sep manager, admin, servers, "local site", edit site properties. the liveupdate tab has revisions, i'm not even sure why you'd want to have any old revisions, the database tab could probably also be optimized..

not that it's a good solution..

fcking symantec.. tried the Symantec_Endpoint_Recovery_Tool_1.0.15_AllWin_EN.iso ? a bootable cd that has definitions from august 29:th 2009, an automatic updatefunction over ethernet that you cannot manually initialize so if something screws up at boot you're stuck with old definitions. of course you CAN put definitions on a usb-stick but if you try to remove the stick after upgrading the recovery tool it'll crash.

oh and the definitions are stored in a .jdb file, which you need to rename to .zip and uncompress first. why make anything simple..

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Sep 13, 2007


babies havin rabies posted:

I love it when you push F12 and Dell's BIOS just straight up ignores you and boots into Windows.
the correct way is to hit f12 until the input buffer is full and the computer starts beeping with each keypress, then slowly press once every second or so (with a beep) until it understands that you want to open the f12-menu. or ignore you.. (lenovo)

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Sep 13, 2007


Arsten posted:

Here's another trick:

Do you have something sticky (left over tape, etc)? Go over the sticky part with a dry-erase marker, let the dry erase dry, then go over it with windex and a rag in little circles. The sticky areas come off with only a bit of effort. The sticky sticks to the dry erase particles and then becomes not-sticky. Wiping in little circles moves the adhesive around, letting more of it come off while the windex keeps it from easily adhering to the surface it's on after it moves.

It also makes Julian fries!

the martha stewart of computer janitors

also

"The e-mail system was unable to deliver the message, but did not report a specific reason. Check the address and try again. If it still fails, contact your system administrator"

thanks. also thanks for putting nothing understandable in the logfiles, instead of just saying "you're trying to email 119 people but i only allow 30 recipients at a time"

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Sep 13, 2007


Software that ignores the fact that you're running terminalserver/remote desktop.

There ARE ways to detect that, stop using fading backgrounds and retarded poo poo like that when i try to fix the connection on a client laptop.

IBM/Lenovo AccessConnections gave me a pretty image that kept fading, setting the connection to lowest resolution and 256 colors didn't really help even though both sides of the VPN had atleast 0.8mbit upload. It actually took 10 seconds for the yellow connection-ribbon to display, one slow updated line at a time.

gosh.

underlig
Sep 13, 2007


Billy the Mountain posted:

Oh, I know. If only it were so easy as bypassing one particular directory. It seems to change each night which file can't back up. It doesn't make any sense, we have been trying to fix it for close to 2 years, and instead we are moving, slowly, over to other backup solutions. Within a couple months Backup Exec will be a memory.
i gave up and created a loginscript that creates the files backupexec complains about each and every backup..
code:
md "c:\program files (x86)\symantec\symantec endpoint protection\smclu\setup\"
cd "c:\program files (x86)\symantec\symantec endpoint protection\smclu\setup\"
fsutil file createnew smcinst.exe 0
i also have c:\windows\system32\wmbuspipe.dll on another server. gently caress backupexec.

atleast i can be happy about having the same file each time, right ? :/

83 degrees F in the office today, no AC, the douchebag who runs the company sits there bitching about stuff i fixed a week ago, with a fan blowing down on the papers on his desktop. god forbid you'd get fans for all of us or even installing proper ac..

underlig
Sep 13, 2007


Backupexec finally stopped my job once too many, why "Only notify me of available updates (updates will not be installed or downloaded). You will be notified by a Backup Exec alert." set to run only sundays at 10pm would result in "The Backup Exec Server Service has stopped" at thursday 00:24am while in the middle of running a backup, just to install a hotfix, was a mystery for me.

Now i know better,

quote:

As you can't have 2 instances of LiveUpdate on 1 System all Symantec Products that use LiveUpdate share it in someway which is why SEP schedules can affect BE.depending on whether you are opted in or opted out - which can only be set using the command line tool. - Slight concern here is that I though the default for 12.0 was opted in and the default for 12.5 was opted out.

What really gives the game away is that if you run LUALL.exe from it's program files folder (and NOT from the menu option inside of the Backup Exec console). if BackuP Exec is listed in the installed components list (with LiveUpdate in Interactive Mode) - then you are opted in - as BE should not be listed when starting LUALL from program files folder. Noet in Express mode I don't think you see a list so can't tell as easily.

Either way you need to check your settings using beupdateops.exe (run in a command prompt) - note I don't think you can view the current status of the registration usng this tool - so you just need to run the command to set the status you want

beupdateops.exe -? = Show options
beupdateops.exe -AddBE -OptOut = Opt Out of LiveUpdate Schedules (from SEP)
beupdateops.exe -AddBE -OptIn = Opt Into LiveUpdate Schedules (from SEP)
beupdateops.exe -RemoveBE = unregister BE from LiveUpdate

also note that if you just run beupdateops in 12.5 and later it defaults to opting out, so Symantec must have been VERY much aware that this setting is a huge problem for anyone using more than one Symantec product on the same machine.
Why not automatically set it to opt out during the installation? the drat thing actually stops the jobengine while i'm running my backups, just to install a hotfix instead of notifying me, and the job doesn't restart/resume after the service resumes.

I also noticed that you still cannot run symantecs setup.exe from a folder other than c:\cd due to its limited path limit. So still no c:\shared\drivers\cd\SEP.11.0.6a\setup.exe for me..

underlig
Sep 13, 2007


baked posted:

this loving window:no loving vertical scrollbar, can't expand it.... it should be noted that when i first open the dialog box, NOTHING IS VISIBLE IN THAT STUPID LITTLE WINDOW!!
haha this window is a joke, i can't believe whoever designed this would ever get a job programming anything. it's so useless it's just ridiculous

** edit
having more phones tied to your activesync just adds more hidden rows in that window. retarded
** /edit

Melted_Igloo posted:

Why is my Users/Temp folder in Windows constantly filled with trojans
on the server, running exchange? trojan-attachments

on a workstation running Symantec Endpoint Protection? bug that's "fixed" in 11.4 or something (but still present), google for dwh*.tmp

quote:

Scan type: Auto-Protect Scan
Event: Security Risk Found!
Security risk detected: Trojan.Gen
File: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp\DWH630F.tmp
Location: Unknown Storage
Computer:
User: SYSTEM
Action taken: Clean failed : Quarantine failed : Access denied
Date found: den 23 juni 2010 11:27:36
i uninstalled the drat thing after the detected -counter reached 800.

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underlig
Sep 13, 2007


frozenphil posted:

Some entitled douche tried pulling this on me today. He came pounding on my door demanding that I give him an adapter for his Mac so he could give some presentation. I informed him that I don't keep Mac adapters because we don't officially support Macs. He then demanded that I give him a computer to do his presentation on. When I asked why he couldn't use the computer that was set up in the room and hooked to the projector for exactly that purpose he said, "because it's not a Mac".

This has been my experience with every Mac user I have ever met.

my mac-user complains that firefox opens two instances when he doubleclicks the quick-launch-icon

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