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Arsten posted:To contribute, it angers me when we can't be consistent and efficient. I can't go into detail without getting slapped around, but why must the single decision maker go around asking every single peon their opinion and then changing their mind with every single person that they talk to? Not a contradiction. ... Ah, yes. Craplets for laptops. No Dell (well, Sensible vision), FastAcces can gently caress right off, I dont want to install it so I can unistall it, and if it can tank performance, it had better be installed in the first place (It ain't). So can your supportsoft thing and your videochat poo poo and your ~*ONLINE DATA STORAGE*~. How does it grow to 1GB of RAM anyways? Ah yes. That lovely Caps Lock key. Hit it and a ~*SPECIAL DISPLAY*~ will display CAPS LOCK ON on your screen like in a cheesy nuclear power plant. It will also crash any application that dares to run. Unrelated but why does stopping services not actually stop them? The world wonders.
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Hear, oh peoples of this world, about the divine priorities in matters of maintenance. In the olden days a building was used to house offices for all sorts of servants of the Company. As the age of glass and iron came about, the lowest point was used to house the automatons and then the newer machines that made the Company run. There, under the ancient and sacred lead pipes laid down by the Romans, could be be found the rejects of polite society, toiling under the earth, ignored by the Light of Heaven, living form the darkness itself. There those cursed and deformed creatures of darkness worked wonders for thier Enlightened Masters. From nothingness, they forged an Archive of financial information that, by some eerie and obtuse magics, could be read and even writen from afar. As the years went by, the dwarves of the first age slowly died out. The Masters of the Domain of Light were not worried, indeed they threw a handful of firstborns down in the Nether. Those Accursed Ones, as it was prophetised, adapted to this dark realm and took for thier own the dark and unholy magics of the Children of the Stones. But those were Men not Dwarves and in thier madness they tried to see the Light of the Day. In thier endless attempts to desecrate the Light of the Star of the Day by thier presence they invented many claims. In thier madness, in truth, deprivation from seing the Masters, they even doubted the wisdom of the sacred Romans, saying that the lead was starting to give way. The Masters knew not to doubt. They knew the Accursed were trying to go into the Light. Thier demands were met with the scorn they deserved. The Masters took the money the Dark Ones begged for and used to venerate the Light futher. Then, beneath the earth, under the world of Men, a foul ichor started spewing forth for the pipes laid down so long ago. As if powered by intense intestinal distress, it started to taint the ancient homes of the Dwarves. The Accursed scurried away from the secret waste, leaving behind thier precious machines to weather the unkown plague that came upon them and started fleeing into the Light. The Masters sensed this crime against the very universe and hurried to at least witness, if not prevent it, the Birth of the End. AS they came upon the first of the Dark Ones, he screamed - the first words of the Accursed back into the Light - in perfect human from a deformed mouth: "I TOLD YOU FUCKS THAT SHITPIPE WAS GONNA BURST! GOOD JOB YOU HORSEFUCKING SHITEATING PLUMBING EXPERTS! FUUUUUUUUUUCK!". And those words heralded the end of an age.
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Some music to go along. As the foul ichor devoured the homes of the Dark Ones, the Masters realised that the so called victims had sabotaged the Sacred Pipes. There was no other option, the Romans could not fail, that was impossible. As the world ended, not in fire and blood but in water and excrement, a few of the Masters, shaken by the destruction of all that they held dear, began to doubt. The grass and trees had begun to wilt and so did thier certainties. Maybe the sacred metal truly had given way. And thus the finger-pointing began, these wise men facing the return of Zwärgh'ul the Shadow upon the World started to blame the Accursed. The response of the Endarkened had such brutality and arrogance that the Masters recognized the righteousness of the Sons of Man that these creatures remained, indeed these qualities could not be faked. As reports from half a world away came through to them they learned that the Sun had darkened in mid-flight. The doubts began to spread and the Masters recognised that some among themselves began to show weakness. These were the traitors, it was obvious, they were weak and thus guilty. The age of strife started with the designation of those that had ignored the now obvious signs that had heralded the cataclysm. The First among the Accursed then said that such complaints were useless, indeed the screechings of the wise were starting to bring back the most prized qualities of humanity burried deep within his warped form. And thus the Masters asked the Accursed to repair what they could as not to be useless themselves. "gently caress NO, THERE'S SHITWATER ALL OVER THE PLACE!" Truly, a new age had begun. The following has been send down our throats: numerous kebabs, many beers, some whiskey. And the following down the pipe: milk and yeast, condoms and pregnancy tests. Truly the janitors will hate us. Or not, we'll call a specialised cleaning firm. And never work in there again.
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| # ¿ Feb 5, 2011 23:36 |
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Spider Navy posted:those java automatic update install popups that steal focus and minimize fullscreen games, often crashing them. The best part is if you disable java autoupdate/turn it to notify only, the next time it helpfully auto-reenables automatic update. I love those. Go in control panel and turn them off and they are off. For the interface. Oracle / SUN decided that telling you they were off was enough. Handling something on the lines of not having write permissions was too hard. You need to use regedit. It is in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy And there is the executable that needs to be kicked off a "Run" list somewhere.
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boo_radley posted:Well we just had a remote location report that a sewage pipe burst into an electrical conduit. Guess what's in our extension site's raised floor room? Be advised that some hardware can be salvaged from that mess. Such as one single 40 u rack. We managed to get the rest to be dumped as "biohazard" bacause there was executive poo poo in there.
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| # ¿ Jul 26, 2011 15:13 |
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Corvettefisher posted:Five9 is down and our company uses it for "CLOUD VOIP", I hope our company now will listen to me and let me do VOIP locally, maybe get some cisco switches :positive: I have seen a server room litteraly drowned in poo poo and yet your company manages to have engineered a shittier IT than that one. Their dedication to loving things up must be commended. E: Wicaeed posted:Saw a post on Reddit that linked to this article on serverfault.com: http://serverfault.com/questions/29...mation-he-wants What the gently caress is that auditor thinking and why hasn't the poster already called all known security agencies on his rear end? EE: By "security agencies" I mean all contract killers, mafias and cartels on his side of the planet. SIGSEGV fucked around with this message at Jul 27, 2011 around 20:32 |
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The amount of stupid contained therein was detectable from low orbit. The only way any of that makes sense is if the auditor is trying to socially engineer the passwords from that companies Sys Admins.
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Scaramouche posted:Had a funny one that's happened twice(!) this week. One of my CJs puts 'cialis' on the hard block list for exchange. Turns out you can't spell 'specialist' without 'cialis'! (e.g. half the job title/sigs of people we work with) A most cl
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| # ¿ Jul 27, 2011 20:35 |
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boo_radley posted:
How did their pre-release testing failed to pick up: Oracle posted:Apache Lucene Core and Apache Solr are two Apache projects, which are I'm pretty sure a segfault is kind of hard not to notice, especially since getting an actual segfault in java that gets out of the JVM is pretty hard. Wait... Oracle posted:
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| # ¿ Jul 29, 2011 19:57 |
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Jesus Christ, Oracle. Some of our Money Taking software relies on Lucene, which is apparently hard hit by Java 7.
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lovely documentation for industrial network protocols. Can't make up your mind if the S7 protocol is used or not? Don't worry, no one will mind. Being a subset and being a subnet are the same things, didn't you know? Carrying a layer 4 protocol over another makes perfect sense as well. That's by design, by the way. Referring to streams as connections. Speaking of layer 1 protocols as logical entities and then pissing over the competition as not respecting the OSI model. Not knowing what protocols are supported by your equipment. And finally that tendency to daisy chain (industrial) Ethernet switches everywhere. No, they don't turn into hubs or anything but dead useless bricks on failure. It might make sense with sensors and actuators because any one of them not responding should make the PLC stop the whole chain. But recommending daisy chaining PLCs when an infamous problem of the previous protocol and medium was the SPoFs at the terminating resistors which needed a power supply? All perfectly normal. Now I just need to reread that thread with the guy with his PLC that took data and put it into postscript files and routed them to an inkjet office printer that he needed to bring to modern technology standards. Reread and dream. SIGSEGV fucked around with this message at Oct 11, 2012 around 23:49 |
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I hope it'll be another hilarious downtime fest like the last time. Remind me, the main attraction of the cloud apart from the nebulous buzzword is the way it's taxed as CAPEX rather than OPEX or the other way round or something like that, no?
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| # ¿ Oct 22, 2012 19:26 |
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Hey you, the guy with the corporate blog right there, please don't use the blog used to clarify your open specification wonderful protocol thing (300$ to read the spec, a few hundred thousands to implement it on anything) to be a freeper. I don't need to know what a huge lie global warming is or how Kenyan Obama is, I wanna know what the gently caress this thing is supposed to do and how it will interact with other poo poo.
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Lum posted:Is this the point in the thread now where someone brings up a ring main and all the American electricians go Relax, "network" architectures can get worse. For example the profibus protocol used in industry to connect PLCs together is a bus modeled over token-ring, only cut in half so it's more token-bus. If the stations at the ends are down for any reason you lose the entire network segment. Don't fret they solved that problem in profinet, its ethernet based successor. They recommend using a daisy-chain pattern so that if the ends fall, you only lose the ends. Nifty, isn't it? Of course you can just say that any failure should be immediate Big Red Button but it's a pain during maintenance.
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