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It's time for this morning's 2 minutes of hate for Exchange.quote:Log truncation request to the Information Store using RPC has failed for storage group 'EXCHANGE\Storage Group 2'. Error code: 4294966264. Why do you do this to me, Exchange? I know you can read the logs. I know you're not getting an access denied message. I know this because I just stopped replication and moved the goddamn logs myself, and now you have happily deleted the logs on the active node and everything is fine. I know this because you truncated the logs for two storage groups and the public folders fine, but not for two others. I also know that you are going to do this to me all the time now just to piss me off. WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME
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Casao posted:Dear Apple, If they only updated the database, people like you would bitch that iTunes wasn't updating the ID3 tag.
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Backup Exec failed on backing up one of Exchange's storage groups last night. Apparently missing 25% of your backed up data does not qualify as an "error". After restarting the job, it picked a random tape out of a media set that the job isn't even supposed to use. Whatever. Backup Exec fills me with unending hatred and ire.
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| # ¿ Mar 27, 2009 13:37 |
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revmoo posted:Apple. Things that piss me off: uninformed dildos who don't look in the Services console. For a super pro-tip, you can turn off the iTunesHelper program and QuickTime from msconfig, and then you disable the Apple Mobile Device and iPod Service in Services. Maybe next time you could actually look there. How do you think iTunes knows when to start if an iPod is plugged in? Magic? It's not "obscuring" anything, you just don't know where to look. Sister Miyagi posted:It's not unprovoked, it's pre-emptive, since the same exact argument comes up every time Apple's lovely Windows software is mentioned. rage on man
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| # ¿ Apr 8, 2009 13:13 |
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Sister Miyagi posted:Since you just came in and did EXACTLY WHAT I PREDICTED? Yeah, think I will, thanks. Would it have been different if I had written it in a less snarky fashion? Apparently disabusing people of baseless complaints counts as MINDLESS APPLE NERDRAGE DEFENSE in your book? EDIT: There are plenty of reasons to legitimately complain about Apple's software on Windows, but the things he complained about did not fall into that category. If you want to bitch about something, it helps to be correctly informed first, instead of heehawing off on how Apple is HIDING THINGS FROM MSCONFIG instead of just disabling the services. chutwig fucked around with this message at Apr 9, 2009 around 14:00 |
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revmoo posted:Ok, just for shits I removed all the Apple iPod poo poo from this PC, four different items in add/remove programs. After a reboot I hit task manager and what do I see? mDNSresponder.exe. Now you can tell me I'm in the wrong here, but this is shady loving practices any way you look at it. Uh, did you remove the thing called "Bonjour"? Looks like you're just going off half-cocked again, because you didn't actually remove everything. Seriously, I'm not sure what's so hard about this all. I can understand why people would be annoyed about extra services being installed, but they are easy to disable and are not hidden away; the kind of people that actually care about this stuff are also the kind of people who should know how to disable them.
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| # ¿ Apr 9, 2009 18:17 |
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Syrg posted:Psst: if you get it thanks to Quicktime? That uninstall icon isn't there. I installed the iTunes+QuickTime bundle on this machine, then allowed it to install the MobileMe Control Panel and Safari from Apple's software updater after iTunes was installed. Whatever it installed in the process of all that is what's in that list. c0burn posted:The problem is you download and install "iTunes". Which installs a load of poo poo. And when you remove "iTunes" from the Control Panel, all the poo poo remains behind. I really don't know how you can defend Apple on this one. You're right, it shouldn't. I'm not defending that practice so much as I am pointing out that revmoo is continually ranting about some diabolical thing Apple has perpetrated upon him while only looking at half the picture. Besides, this can pretty easily be spun into a perfectly valid point about how this is a problem in the first place because Windows Installer doesn't understand or recognize package dependencies in the way that systems like RPM or dpkg do. Ideally, Windows should say something like "After uninstalling iTunes, would you also like to remove xxxx and yyyy? Removing these may impair the functionality of Safari and QuickTime and blah blah blah". This is a larger problem than just Apple, and it's been around since a long time before Apple produced any Windows software of note.
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| # ¿ Apr 9, 2009 20:50 |
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Oh VMware! You're such a card! Deleting your initrd image during remediation, failing to generate a new one, and then blowing up when you restart! Hooray!
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| # ¿ Apr 16, 2009 14:02 |
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boo_radley posted:Jesus. I have found that anyone who uses the verb "grow" as a transitive verb is guaranteed to be soulless and terrible. "Grow the brand", "grow the frontend", "grow the identity"? Total middle manager/jackass sales rep shibboleth.
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| # ¿ Nov 12, 2009 01:58 |
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I went to consult for a former employer yesterday who were replacing the old tape library with a new LTO4 autoloader from HP. We install the new SAS card, hook the library up, load the tapes. At some point it is realized that the rack is too shallow to mount the new autoloader, so it is left to rest on top of the old library and jams a few times before I put the feet on the bottom. We then open the box of new tapes and discover that instead of the ordered LTO4 tapes, they sent LTO1 tapes. Backup Exec, being the biggest piece of poo poo on the planet, then decides the tape drive is WORM and refuses to erase any old tapes. I hate charging for consulting when poo poo goes wrong and nothing gets done, but they didn't ask me before ordering the new autoloader, sooooooo...
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| # ¿ Nov 22, 2009 18:10 |
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lilbean posted:I don't think that LTO4 drives can write to LTO1 or LTO2 media. That would explain why, though Backup Exec was quite certain that this particular drive could write to LTO1/LTO2 - it listed them in its media list as Read/Write yes. On the other hand, it's Backup Exec, so trusting it is basically insanity.
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| # ¿ Nov 22, 2009 20:24 |
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I generally didn't have a problem with HP when I was there. In this case, it was a compounded effect of the reseller sending the wrong tapes and me not being aware that the LTO standard only specifies that the drive has to read the previous 2 generations and write to tapes of 1 previous generation. Now I am out of the sinful sysadmin business and much happier for it, though.  EDIT: not totally true. HP's website is a nightmare to navigate, Dell's a lot better in that regard. chutwig fucked around with this message at Nov 23, 2009 around 18:37 |
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Lum posted:England and snow The English attitude to snow is pretty remarkable in general. It's basically the same way Californians react to rain, or any sort of weather at all. The BBC informed me thusly: quote:Suffolk Police said it was a "horrendous night". They dealt with 230 incidents after up to 15cm (6in) of snow fell in the county, and dozens of drivers were forced to spend the night in their cars. I wonder if it was the wrong kind of snow to be driving in.
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In the US it's pretty common in IT, especially if you're browsing job sites like Dice or Monster. If a salary figure isn't listed, that makes me a little suspicious that the listing is an undisclosed contract job (which matters a lot in the US because you'll be on your own for healthcare expenses and other benefits, plus after 6 months or a year you'll be out looking for another job) or they're going to try to massively lowball you on the salary.
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| # ¿ Jan 22, 2010 00:30 |
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LakesGuzzler posted:Our mailbox limit is 500MB and causes riots. We find that just a "warning" limit (not an actual limit) is enough as the daily warning drives people crazy. People do have a habit of emailing 25MB+ attachments to each other internally though, no matter how much we try to educate them into picking some neutral area on the network drive and linking to it. (Externally the limit is 10MB to prevent them being silly and annoying recipients, which is worth the occasional request to drop a 40MB file onto FTP) At the law firm I worked at last (NEVER WORK FOR A LAW FIRM YOU WILL HATE LIFE FOREVER), we had like 5 people out of 150 who occupied roughly a third of the Exchange database. I ran weekly reports on mailbox usage and was always amazed how these people could add like 5 GB to their mailbox size in 7 days. When we converted from Single Copy Cluster to CCR (never do this if you want to preserve your sanity), we were so frazzled by the end that we forgot to remove the default mailbox quota of 2GB on the new storage groups. Oh, did the poo poo hit the fan that day. One fuckface attorney wrote this long diatribe from his personal e-mail and CC'd it to basically everyone in the company about how "the IT staff willfully and with clear premeditated intent has subjected us to this unwarranted and unlawful quota in order to prevent us from performing our much needed public service" or some such bullshit. Thank God I got out of there, because with each passing day I wanted more and more to hammer some nails into a 2x4 and hit lawyers in the face with it.
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| # ¿ Feb 10, 2010 01:37 |
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Devian666 posted:This is exactly the thing that annoys me. Small mailbox quotas, and attachment limits for people who are actually doing work that involves large files. Problem 1 with conducting lots of business via large attachments is that everything gets reencoded as Base64 before it's sent, which can expand attachment sizes by like 20%. That automatically makes things bigger. Problem 2 is when people use it to send large files internally in the company instead of using the DMS or a file share. A 5 MB PowerPoint presentation, Base64-encoded to 6 MB, sent to 30 people in the company, suddenly becomes 186 MB. Problem 3 is when it jams up your spam/antivirus scanning gateway and the gateway or remote mail server just strips the attachment or consumes the message altogether. I have no problem with getting more storage capacity on mail servers. You seem to be confused regarding who actually controls the money when it comes to IT departments, because very few IT departments have the luxury of having their budget controlled by somebody who is actually an IT person. Nearly all businesses look upon IT as a cost center and try to minimize its costs in as many ways as possible, no matter how many times they get burned for being cheapskates. The budgetary fights and our inability to secure more money for Very Necessary Things like a new disk shelf to expand the storage groups onto (we were expressly forbidden from making attorneys clean up their mailboxes or enacting quotas), replacement servers for ancient systems that had no business being in production, or even an upgraded air conditioner to take some of the strain off the one overworked unit were the primary objections that precipitated my departure. Meanwhile, the very same attorney who sent the original nastygram about our malicious incompetence would regularly demand (and get) a brand new laptop, on the order of a new computer every few months, while we struggled to patch up the latest problems in some old piece of junk server. If you work at a law firm and you're not an attorney, you're poo poo to these people. If you ever wonder why lawyers are such objects of loathing, I promise you, it's hatred that's well earned.
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| # ¿ Feb 10, 2010 14:40 |
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Honey Im Homme posted:I gave myself a good 5 inch cut while removing a gbic fibre module from a switch I excised about half a cubic centimeter of flesh from my hand in high school when I was removing a stuck expansion card from a computer and it suddenly popped out and sheared my hand across a bracing beam that ran across the open side of the case. It didn't hurt until after I got it sewed up at the hospital, and then god drat.
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| # ¿ Feb 16, 2010 00:56 |
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, I only noticed when i saw my shirt was loving covered in blood about 3 minutes later.
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All the talk of monitoring products brings me to things that really piss me off: CA products. I use Spectrum a lot because we monitor a network with many thousands of network devices and servers, and Spectrum feels like it was written by psychopathic monkeys. The sad thing is, Spectrum is one of their more logical products. This is the CA product lifecycle:
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| # ¿ Mar 5, 2010 05:05 |
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Etherealm posted:I didn't know I wasn't the only one stuck with this piece of poo poo. Luckily, I still have a Ciscoworks box running that sends me alerts and I don't touch Spectrum too much. Not only Spectrum, but eHealth and Argis too! Hooray!
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I don't understand why finance people seem to love doing that. I had constant problems at my last job with the firm administrator, who would outright refuse to pay bills until the leasing company or Verizon or whoever threatened to cut off the service and send the collectors round with lead pipes in hand. This was a constant problem and it made my interactions with vendors needlessly harder because they would rightly wonder whether they were actually going to get paid without a fight.
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rolleyes posted:I guess it goes along with the general workaholic culture you guys have stateside (massively reduced statutory leave etc) compared to us and the rest of Europe. Yeah, it's a little weird how Americans manage to get themselves stereotyped as fat and lazy yet workaholic simultaneously. Work 70 hours a week while eating 2 Baconators at your desk for lunch and dinner, shuffle back to your SUV to drive 30 miles to your home in featureless suburbia, and stop on the way to pick up a snack from BK. Not everywhere you go is work-obsessed, at least. Having worked at two different educational institutions (one state and one private), I can attest that at least as far as IT departments go, they are much more laid back. People come in and leave at their normal times for a 35-hour work week, can flex-time or work from home without an issue, get a less unreasonable amount of vacation time than private places, etc.
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Or, dare I suggest, that there might be an intriguingly named application in the Utilities folder named Console which even consolidates the various log directories for you into one UI?! Madness, I say! Naught but witchcraft and high-tech sorcery!
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| # ¿ Mar 25, 2010 22:54 |
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That's cool. . . It probably had a hardware problem. . . Kernel panic logs are kept in /Library/Logs/panic.log. gently caress yes. . .
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| # ¿ Mar 26, 2010 00:59 |
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Lum posted:Oh how obvious and intuitive. Another wonderful usability innovation from Apple. How is it more or less intuitive than looking for bugcheck errors in the System section of Event Viewer? I realize it's good fun to snark at Apple over everything that seems even slightly foreign, but if you're going to do that, don't do it because you don't know anything about the operating system. That just makes you look uninformed. chutwig fucked around with this message at Mar 26, 2010 around 01:16 |
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Lum posted:I spend just as much time snarking about Windows and Unix for stupid design decisions. ...but OS X is UNIX? I don't really understand what you're trying to argue here since 99.9% of users are never going to need to know or care about where OS X stores logs from kernel panics. If you want to discuss things that are supposed to be intuitive, look at commonly used functions in the OS, the design of the UI, user interface guidelines, things like that, not where to find a log that contains a stack trace from a kernel panic. For most users, the computer IS going to "just work", and at this stage in the game a kernel panic on OS X almost always indicates a hardware problem, owing to the lack of need for 3rd party kernel extensions for your average user. And that's a bummer that you got stuck next to an annoying Mac user for a week, but I've had to deal with my share of the Paul Thurrotts of the world, so does that make us even? There are annoying Mac users, there are annoying Windows users, there are annoying Solaris greybeards, etc.
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enotnert posted:Apple takes Unix base, fucks it in the rear end and makes it a bitch. I mean honestly, I do a lot of remote mounting, why did they need to change the loving mount command to be like 20 different effing commands, and why the living gently caress don't they leave ext filesystem support in the loving kernel? Your rants are incoherent. The mount command just invokes whichever mount command is necessary for the filesystem in question. While this is not exactly how Linux does mount, it's not a novel design by any standard, considering utilities like mkfs are split out into separate binaries for each filesystem type under Linux. In actual usage, there are scarce reasons to use mount itself unless you're trying to do something block-level, considering mountpoints are handled by diskarbitrationd and should be managed via diskutil from the command line. And why would it have ever had ext2/3 (assuming you mean these, and not the actual original extfs) support? OS X is not genetically related to Linux and would have no historical reason to support a filesystem used principally on Linux. This is once again all coming back to "I am unfamiliar with OS X and instead of spending 2 minutes with Google I am going to rant about how Steve Jobs is responsible for a poorly-designed gay OS used by dumbs and wannabe Linux users".
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My Dell LCD at home has begun developing a yellow line or two on the right side when the monitor is cold. Once it's warmed up, the line disappears, but now I've noticed two lines when the monitor powers on, and it's the kind of problem that isn't likely to get better over time. The monitor came with a 3-year warranty, so I call Dell up to get a replacement. I first call at work and describe the issue, after explaining at length that the monitor does not have a service tag, but wasn't able to go through the troubleshooting steps from Sanjay's book because I wasn't in front of the monitor, so I said I would call back later. Rest of the day passes and I get home. I call Dell up again and start over with José. José is helpful and understands the issue when I describe it to him as the blue subpixels in that column not working when the monitor is cold. He gives me a case number and puts me on hold to transfer me to exchanges. "Exchanges" apparently means the global call queue, because after 10 minutes Vijay picks up and I start all over again. After a minute of explaining the monitor does not have a service tag, I give him the case number and the order number. He then tries to drag me through the same troubleshooting steps again and refuses to accept my repeated insistence that when you disconnect the display cable from the monitor, it goes into power save mode and does not go into the wandering color bars mode that older Dell monitors did. I explain multiple times about the blue subpixels and the monitor needs to be cold and so forth and he continues to tell me to disconnect the signal cable again because I didn't do it right the first time. I finally give up and just hang up because the last time I got into a protracted argument with some idiot in Dell's call center in Bangalore, it ended with a broken cell phone.
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FISHMANPET posted:I'm not normally one for subterfuge and deceit, except when it comes to tech support. Just lie. It should be pretty easy to figure out what they want, just tell them that. I don't even know what they want. José was happy to send me to exchanges until he hosed up and put me in the wrong queue, and I thought it was all resolved when I got a case number and he took the notes. Dell tech support hurts like a fissure in my rear end.
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27 March 2010, 16:49 Call Dell again. Call the same number I have called 3 times already. Am now informed I am in the wrong department and have called small business when I should have called SOHO. On a previous call when I called SOHO I was informed I was in the wrong department and should have called small business. Transferred to new random tech support agent and begin process all over again. Resolve to never do business with Dell after this even if they offer the most ridiculous deal imaginable. Wilson keeps talking about pepperoni pizza. Murderous thoughts are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Update: tech support agent hangs up on me in the middle of the call. Word "kafkaesque" comes to mind. chutwig fucked around with this message at Mar 27, 2010 around 21:00 |
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enotnert posted:"I have some grant money I need to spend I want to buy 4 64gb wifi/3g apple iPads, once they get here I want them to dual boot with linux, and I want them running matlab w/ *insert gaggle of pain in the rear end packages here*" Call from a payphone and laugh derisively for a while, then laugh some more. Professors are like lawyers, only with lower pay and better job security. 
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Puck42 posted:Europe pronounces it as "rooter", I think America is the only place that says "rowter". I don't know about other people, but I use "root" when I'm talking about walking or driving somewhere and "rowt" or "rowter" when I'm talking about networking (American).
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| # ¿ Apr 13, 2010 15:48 |
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Syano posted:The entire Microsoft Learning site network along with the people that work for it and around it are notoriously inept. You'd think the people who handle education and training stuff would be less than completely idiotic, and yet almost every trainer I've met, Microsoft or otherwise, has been a complete moron.  Kind of falls into that whole "if you can, do, if you can't, teach" category.I signed up to take the first part of the MCSE once upon a time and showed up for it only to be told that it had been cancelled without notice. I got a new job the next week and ever since then I have had a bookshelf with all sort of MCSE training materials on it that are just going to sit there forever.
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| # ¿ Apr 21, 2010 16:12 |
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enotnert posted:Wait?!?!? They have lines in england? Don't you know? The British national sport isn't football or cricket, it's queueing. There is something innate about 2 people standing in a potential line configuration that will naturally attract other Britons to it, regardless of what it's for or where it's going.
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| # ¿ Jun 3, 2010 03:17 |
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Crowley posted:I have the same views as he does - sort of.. If I don't exercise my rights they will slip away. My German Sheiße porn may not be sensitive information, but why would I let some random person in an airport in Delaware get a laugh on my behalf? See, this is how we know you're a filthy foreigner and need to have your personal belongings searched. Nobody flies into airports in Delaware, they all fly into PHL. 
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| # ¿ Jun 19, 2010 00:19 |
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Erwin posted:
As much as Cisco annoys me, I hate Juniper a whole lot more. Their config format is terrible to look at and maintain, upgrading JunOS requires you to accept that for each thing that will be fixed by the upgrade two other formerly functioning components will break, and my personal favorite where the routers randomly reindex all their interfaces whenever they're restarted and completely break statistics collection via SNMP. We have a new building router evaluation coming up in September that will fall to me, and there is no friggin' way I am going to say one nice thing about the EX3200s or whatever we'll be testing. I hate Juniper.
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| # ¿ Jul 22, 2010 16:25 |
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Honey Im Homme posted:My second day on the job here I had to replace a toner in a canon photocopier - The ones with a giant open slot that is full of toner. Ofcourse I didn't know this at the time. One of my summer college jobs was working in repro for an engineering firm, where we had big Océ plotters. The toner for these came in giant bottles. To reload the machine with toner when it got low, you unscrewed the cap of the bottle, screwed the bottle into a swivel on the machine, then turned the bottle upright and hit it for 30 seconds to get all the toner out of the bottle and into the machine. Waste toner was also collected in a little plastic bag right underneath this, which you couldn't securely fasten to the machine very well, so it was easy to knock the bag off during the reload process and send a giant cloud of toner into the air. I still find toner stains on my pants occasionally from 7 years ago. We also had another machine that was used to reproduce blueprints for clients that wouldn't accept black and white for whatever reason (some local governments stipulated that plans going out for bid had to be blue and white instead of black and white for whatever reason, or the firm thought they did, or something like that). This machine made heavy use of ammonia and smelled god drat terrible. It was like 1950s-era technology, because it was basically two heavy rollers, a light source, and the bath of ink/ammonia/whatever it was. You had to take the special paper, take the giant transparency which was about 24x36 or 30x48 for huge plans, line them up exactly, and then feed both through the rollers at the same time. Making 20 sets of plans on this thing was not fun and had a tendency to leave me feeling light-headed.
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Kidney Stone posted:drat! You pay alot for your drinks - you should start working for the government. I wish I could go to a vending machine and pay the equivalent of $1.40 for a tasty brew. 
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PirateDentist posted:Mine says "RF OUTPUT FREQUENCY: 2450MHz" on a info sticker inside the door. I'm sure many people have made the connection between the food cooking box and their cordless phone. I'd be surprised if most of this planet could make the connection between dropping a brick on their foot and their foot hurting afterward, let alone understanding the nature of radiation, frequency, and wavelengths.
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| # ¿ Aug 16, 2010 21:21 |
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Yaos posted:Novell is really trying to become the worst software company after the tax assessment company we use. For no reason, after locking the computer in Windows 7 and trying to unlock, the Novell client will claim that it can not contact the server. It let's us unlock locally, and if we do so we find that we have no problem logging into the user's Novell account. The fix I found was to uninstall and then reinstall the Novell client. This is a known issue with the client, and the latest client was supposed to fix it, it was not fixed. Computer Associates would like to take issue with this claim, because they have worked very hard over the last decade to acquire all manner of companies and then turn whatever it is that company made into total poo poo.
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enotnert posted:Another one that I come across quite frequently from CS students and other bullshit. Did you know that with all the smug Linux superiority you exude from every pore, you're as bad as the supposed Mac fags you love to complain about? EDIT: enotnert posted:Want better? enotnert posted:Ok, let's not make this a mac/pc debate, but I'll be honest. I'll say it right here, I'm a loving linux enjoyable human being. I'll tell people they're better off running linux, well unless there is a specific reason they cannot. enotnert posted:I love macfags though, they see you using a mac, come over and start complimenting that slick skin, and asking what kind of software you're running to make it look like that. . . enotnert posted:Yeah, osx and it's lack of middle click. . . . enotnert posted:I just like acting like a smug bastard to the majority of macfags I come in contact with, who buy a high end MBP to use iPhoto for their "art". I mean I wish I had some disposable income or a trust fund. chutwig fucked around with this message at Aug 30, 2010 around 21:04 |
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