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Serious Business: Jun 22, 2009; by Tiny Fistpump

Crowley posted:

It seems that both HP and Dell have been pushing shady hardware now and again. The old saying about "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" is slowly starting to ring louder and louder with me.

Would anyone like to present their anecdotal evidence for why I shouldn't give HP and Dell the middle finger and marry IBM/Lenovo?

Because Dell make everything so easy with their Service Tag and Driver search. And that you don't need a CD-Key to install their OS Disks.

I would never be able to leave Dell because of those two things.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2009 18:31

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# ¿ May 24, 2013 00:05

Serious Business: Jun 22, 2009; by Tiny Fistpump

Neito posted:

I love when I get the following conversation.

what's better (thing I've never heard of 1) or (thing I've never heard of 2)?
I've never heard of either of those programs, but give me some time to do some research and I can probably give you an informed answer in a few minutes to an hour.
I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOOD WITH COMPUTERS WHY DON'T YOU KNOW THIS STUFF THESE ARE BOTH VERY POPULAR PROGRAMS IN THE FIELD OF (something more obscure than a Family Guy joke).

Or, when sitting down in the computer lab on campus, and being known as the "computer guy" by some, and getting this:

HALP MAH FARMVILL DOESN'T WORK ANY MORE FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT. FIX IT.

"I thought you were good with computers..." I hear it all the time, I know what you mean.

poo poo like this: "Hey I have [random windows error code 0XE03KD521], how do I fix it?"

I will reply with a "I would have to google it or come over and take a look".

Followed by the retard saying "I thought you were good with computers."

gently caress you!

# ¿ Nov 30, 2009 18:16

Serious Business: Jun 22, 2009; by Tiny Fistpump

Freaksaus posted:

Dialog windows that don't allow resizing

Seriously, why is this still done? Is it that hard to understand that people want to resize a drat window

Also, this loving window.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2009 12:58

Serious Business: Jun 22, 2009; by Tiny Fistpump

mono posted:

Doesn't beat the hoops you have to jump through on newer Dell laptops with their retarded Dell ControlPoint utility (or whatever its called).

Every Dell laptop I setup for users I disable the Dell Wireless utility. loving thing is more confusing and I certainly don't want to be the guy they call when they can't connect to a Hotel Wireless network.

Why can these loving companies just let Windows handle the wireless?

# ¿ Dec 8, 2009 22:30

Serious Business: Jun 22, 2009; by Tiny Fistpump

So, today I'm tasked to get our WSUS server back online after 6 months of inactivety due to my co-worker not configuring it correctly.

I go and unlink the GPO's for WSUS and the calls start coming in... "I CAN'T CONNECT TO MY FILES BLAH BLAH BLAH." I check the GPO and of course, Windows Firewall has been disabled in the WSUS GPO and not a proper GPO.

gently caress, what a mess.

Serious Business fucked around with this message at Dec 9, 2009 around 15:01

# ¿ Dec 9, 2009 14:49

Serious Business: Jun 22, 2009; by Tiny Fistpump

Dyscrasia posted:

I always thought you were supposed to clean this kind of stuff without soap.

Right, I don't think it's been said yet but if you do the dishwasher method, don't add soap.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2009 17:51

Serious Business: Jun 22, 2009; by Tiny Fistpump

Midelne posted:

I tried something new today for coping with Rod and took an issue directly to him as though I were asking for suggestions. We need to have a phone jack installed in each location at the point of demarcation for a modem that will be used to manage the new T1s that are being brought in, and since we have no centralized collection of information about the phone system whatsoever I'm going to need to go to each location, find a suitable line, and connect the pairs to the jack. Not rocket science.

Rod was insisting that I use the phone lines our old phone company tech used to use to dial into our phone system, which may or may not still be active and are also connected to decaying toggle-switches that swap between an internal-only and external-only phone line for the maintenance dial-in. I suggested that instead of calling up his old buddy who wired the phone systems (Hi Dennis!) and hiring him for several days to figure out what those numbers are and whether they're still used and wiring up more badly-labeled-in-Sharpie switches that users would have to be trained on, we should just piggyback on an existing fax line and turn the fax off on the rare occasions that our ISP needs to dial into the modem. Over the next ten minutes his argument shifted so many times that he eventually ended up literally drawing me a picture of how to do exactly what I'd suggested we do in the first place, then sitting back with a satisfied smile.

I guess I win, but somehow this really feels like losing.

Today I emailed my boss for approval on a project a coworker and I have been working on. I had CC'd my coworker and he decided to run my email through a thesaurus, added in some dumb misused 'big words' and he sent it to my boss for approval as well. He even had spelling mistakes, but whatever. Anyway, his approval won but the emails were the exact same just worded slightly different with more adjectives. I think I have a Rod working with me as well

After the new episode of The Office tonight, I am going to drink myself to sleep. gently caress life.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2009 01:19

Serious Business: Jun 22, 2009; by Tiny Fistpump

Midelne posted:

One of the employees who's been here for decades has a coffee mug that he loves and a USB cup-warmer. He does not wash the coffee mug. I have been here almost two and a half years and the coffee mug has never been washed. There are hundreds of individual rings of dried, baked-on coffee in the mug because he leaves the mug on the cup-warmer -- turned on -- all day long.

I can never picture a human drinking from that mug, and then sometimes he does it. It's quite disturbing.

Midelne, I can't even picture what kind of place you work for with so many retards running around freely. Unless, that coffee mug guy is Rod isn't it?

# ¿ Dec 16, 2009 20:19

Serious Business: Jun 22, 2009; by Tiny Fistpump

Krieger von Rosen posted:

The IT class instructor at my school insists that reinstalling Windows every 6 months is the only way to keep a Windows machine healthy. He also claims to hate proprietary hardware, yet loves Apple products.

Biased hypocritical instructors are going to get you far.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2009 21:23

Serious Business: Jun 22, 2009; by Tiny Fistpump

I know this has been covered but here it is again.

It never fails when I talk about what I do for a living, someone will pipe up and say "I have a computer you can take a look at."

Like today, I had a family Christmas brunch with a side of the family I only see once a year (at Christmas). I always keep my loving mouth shut at these things because I can pretty much predict who is going to give me a 7 year old Pentium IV with 256MB of RAM to fix. Sure enough the moment came when someone asked: "Hey Serious Business, how is the job going?" Within 10 seconds, I'm not loving exagerating, 10 seconds the stinkyhole cut me off from me describing my job and bursting out with: "Oh, I have a computer that is getting the blue screen with white letters, can you fix it for me?"

Why sure, I have nothing better to do but to spend 4-5 hours diagnosing a BSOD, until I suddenly give up and just reformat your loving computer to find out you don't have high speed internet so I can bring it back to my house and finish this cock sucker off wasting another couple hours. gently caress. My. Career.

I loving hate that I went to school in this god drat bullshit field. I am ruining one of the few things I enjoy in life.

I've even tried getting out of this profession and moving towards web development. I came close to landing a client the other day until I realized he also wanted me to fix a few computer in his office where I turned him down and didn't get the loving job. gently caress it all.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2009 19:38

Serious Business: Jun 22, 2009; by Tiny Fistpump

UraniumAnchor posted:

Spot the car.

On topic, the fact that the wireless in this laptop likes to randomly not work after coming back from suspend until I disable and re-enable it from Network Connections, and that Vista's 'diagnose button' doesn't seem to do this step any more, so I have to do it manually every time.

If somebody knows a better way I'd love to know.

make a batch file to disable and re-enable networking?

# ¿ Dec 22, 2009 01:31

Serious Business: Jun 22, 2009; by Tiny Fistpump

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I hate dealing with software that requires local admin on the machine to run (and bonus points if it needs to be installed under their profile). This allows the user to gently caress up their machines beyond belief.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2009 19:04

Serious Business: Jun 22, 2009; by Tiny Fistpump

Thanks, BIMK & Midelne.

I may have to try that when I somehow catch up in my work. It's only a few proprietary programs that do this for us, so, it shouldn't be too hard to fix I'm guessing.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2009 19:18

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# ¿ May 24, 2013 00:05

Serious Business: Jun 22, 2009; by Tiny Fistpump

Working all day, no early leave. Not really working though, more just browsing SA and YouTube. gently caress it, it's Christmas Eve.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2009 18:07

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