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Biowarfare posted:What is the proper response to The Delete button.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 19:33 |
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Biowarfare posted:What is the proper response to Google the article from a few years ago when Hotmail was deleting random inboxes and was unable to restore it. When people blogged and complained about loosing their life's work the industry pretty much replied, "It's free. You get what you pay for."
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 19:34 |
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Biowarfare posted:What is the proper response to Send them this: 
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 19:36 |
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Biowarfare posted:What is the proper response to For serious: Look through their terms of use. There may be disclaimers about using the free service for business purposes, which would give them a nice easy method of stfu. Otherwise, delete and ignore it, unless it's a C-Level, then let them set up their own and block live.com at the firewall.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 19:44 |
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Biowarfare posted:What is the proper response to "Would you trust business communication from something ending @hotmail.com? If so, congratulations, you've just inherited 200,000 POUNDS STERLING from a distant aunt and I need a good-faith deposit so that the escrow company will release it to you." This might also be a good place to laugh at high-placed political figures that attempt to use this exact same methodology, what with a 'hacker' just having been sentenced.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 19:44 |
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I have a serious distrust of small business that have a domain name but use a free email service. "Check us out on the web at acmewaterstore.com or email us at watrstre1342@yahoo.com" I mean really, it's not that costly to add a few email accounts to your hosting plan. Sadly I know that real reason for this is that the owner or some employee only knows how to use MSN webmail and switching to something as "complicated" as Outlook Express is out of the question.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 19:52 |
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Pointed out "We may cancel or suspend your service and your access to the Windows Live ID network at any time without notice and for any reason.", got rid of that issue. I'm new to the whole IT thing and reading the first few hundred pages tells me that inane soul crushing madness happens on a regular basis. 
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 19:54 |
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Biowarfare posted:What is the proper response to "The same reason we haven't outsourced your job to Molly Maids."
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 20:01 |
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Dick Trauma posted:Send them this: I just spent about twenty minutes on youtube trying to find the interview that's from. Would love to see him actually say that - do you happen to know when it's from, Dick?
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 20:08 |
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Biowarfare posted:What is the proper response to President and CEO of the old company I worked for would use aol.com as his primary work email address. This is a multi-million dollar defense company. Also, he required AOL 8.0 installed on his desktop to access his emails. He used that when I got there and to my knowledge, still uses it after 10 years.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 20:14 |
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Oh god, our alert service is reporting 7/10 public DNS server resolution failures to our domain. Apparently only 3 public DNS servers can resolve correctly. Queue a ton of tickets going "fix the internets dns please" 
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 20:20 |
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fleet21 posted:I just spent about twenty minutes on youtube trying to find the interview that's from. Would love to see him actually say that - do you happen to know when it's from, Dick? This was from an appearance on Conan. They did a skit where the executive producer was going to ask Harrison trivia questions and they asked something really silly like the color of the tip of Indiana Jones's bullwhip. That was the queue for Harrison to pretend to have one of his famous grumpy moments. But he really is a grumpy sumbitch.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 20:22 |
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Biowarfare posted:What is the proper response to That said, you can go the whole Google Apps route and get Gtalk, but why bother when you can set up your own Jabber server and maintain control?
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 20:24 |
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Biowarfare posted:What is the proper response to Oh poo poo I just remembered. I think you guys may see more requests like this. Facebook is rumored to start giving away @facebook.com email accounts to compete with Gmail.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 20:28 |
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rscott posted:I might have mentioned this before, but up until circa 2006, Owens-Illinois (they make like 75% of the glass containers used for food in the US) factories exclusively used Token-Ring networks for everything. In factories this kind of makes sense. Token ring networks IIRC have very predictable performance and latency, so they have advantages in the same kind of situations you'd use a RTOS. I could be talking entirely out of my rear end though, I've only once seen a token ring card in person and never used it on an operating network. For all I know they could just have kept using it out of pure inertia.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 20:30 |
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Bonzo posted:Oh poo poo I just remembered. I think you guys may see more requests like this. Facebook is rumored to start giving away @facebook.com email accounts to compete with Gmail. Oh gently caress. We're doomed.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 20:33 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Oh gently caress. We're doomed. A chinese restaurant I go to occasionally has a printed out paper on the wall. There is no link or what to search for. Just a giant facebook logo and the like button. (also, "verification required")
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 20:39 |
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SmellsOfFriendship posted:Oh god, our alert service is reporting 7/10 public DNS server resolution failures to our domain. Apparently only 3 public DNS servers can resolve correctly. DNS is fun. Our parent company's IT department is currently hunting for a mistake in DMZ configuration as the culprit for why I have seventy customer and other business-related emails sitting in my mail server's queue waiting to be delivered. Emails to @companyname.com work fine, but the abbreviated @cmpnme.com domain - which they also administer, and which should be pointing MTAs to the exact same server, but isn't - just sit in the queue with a message that the remote server failed to respond. I told them to look at MX records for the two zones that we're concerned with, since they're resolving to a variety of different addresses, but I don't think they paid any attention. What do I know, right?
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 21:05 |
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rscott posted:I might have mentioned this before, but up until circa 2006, Owens-Illinois (they make like 75% of the glass containers used for food in the US) factories exclusively used Token-Ring networks for everything. I did some consulting work for one of the largest Health Insurance providers in the US. Their entire network was built on Token Ring. Every computer had an adapter to convert from Ethernet to Token Ring. We were doing email backups over the network and it would take hours to backup a 500MB mailbox.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 21:13 |
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wolrah posted:In factories this kind of makes sense. Token ring networks IIRC have very predictable performance and latency, so they have advantages in the same kind of situations you'd use a RTOS. I could be talking entirely out of my rear end though, I've only once seen a token ring card in person and never used it on an operating network. For all I know they could just have kept using it out of pure inertia. I could understand if they were factory machines but the entire office and all the workstations on the shop floor were token ring as well. There is a lot of inertia in large companies like that, but Christ what would you do if you walked into a company that was using IPX in 2010? It's kind of the same thing IMO.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 21:17 |
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rscott posted:There is a lot of inertia in large companies like that, but Christ what would you do if you walked into a company that was using IPX in 2010? Probably fume at the image of whoever writes Cisco routing exams shouting in triumph that there was finally a justification for the persistent mention of how important a feature the support of IPX is for Cisco-proprietary protocols.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 21:25 |
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Puck42 posted:I did some consulting work for one of the largest Health Insurance providers in the US. Their entire network was built on Token Ring. Every computer had an adapter to convert from Ethernet to Token Ring. We were doing email backups over the network and it would take hours to backup a 500MB mailbox. For factory work, there is at least a semi-sane reason for token ring/fiber network stuff. Some of the older unshielded or partially shielded motors used in metalforming machines and just about everything before 1975 have some hilarious as gently caress rotating magnetic fields. These will ruin the data integrity of RS-232 being driven at like 12v, much less impedance matched lines running at 1.something volts. For shits and giggles I took some 10baseT ethernet links and draped them over the top of the VMC we had running, I ended up with something like 95% lost/malformed/retransmitted packets, the only time it would work is when the spindle spun down to change tools.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 21:47 |
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:For factory work, there is at least a semi-sane reason for token ring/fiber network stuff. Some of the older unshielded or partially shielded motors used in metalforming machines and just about everything before 1975 have some hilarious as gently caress rotating magnetic fields. These will ruin the data integrity of RS-232 being driven at like 12v, much less impedance matched lines running at 1.something volts. That might make sense for fiber, but you can run ethernet or token ring over STP or UTP depending on your environment. I think it is most likely that these are just legacy installs from the days when token ring was more prominent (and frankly it was the way to go when compared to thinnet/thicknet ethernet. gently caress tracking down missing terminators) and they are just going to keep running that infrastructure until it completely blows up.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 21:56 |
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Bonzo posted:Oh poo poo I just remembered. I think you guys may see more requests like this. Facebook is rumored to start giving away @facebook.com email accounts to compete with Gmail. please tell me you're loving kidding. why does the world have to be so cruel? 
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 22:04 |
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notwithoutmyanus posted:please tell me you're loving kidding.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 22:07 |
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But you can't block facebook, I need to get to my facebook email! This affects patient care!
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 22:38 |
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Midelne posted:Our parent company's IT department is currently hunting for a mistake in DMZ configuration as the culprit for why I have seventy customer and other business-related emails sitting in my mail server's queue waiting to be delivered. Logged onto the parent company's Citrix farm, opening Outlook on one of their servers per usual to check my mail on their side of things.  Unplanned outage, several hundred users, Friday afternoon. I'm not involved in any way. 
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 22:39 |
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J posted:But you can't block facebook, I need to get to my facebook email! This affects patient care! When they pull that line out of their rear end can you never just look at them and go:  Bullshit.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 23:45 |
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Done. loving done. Time to go drink.
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| # ? Nov 12, 2010 23:46 |
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couldcareless posted:Done. loving done. Time to go drink. Another drone is free !
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| # ? Nov 13, 2010 00:01 |
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J posted:But you can't block facebook, I need to get to my facebook email! This affects patient care! Get them fired for handing patient data to an unauthorized non-certified third party, in that case.
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| # ? Nov 13, 2010 00:05 |
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couldcareless posted:Done. loving done. Time to go drink. *Virtual hug*
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ESC 2010 Never Forget
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couldcareless posted:Done. loving done. Time to go drink. 
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| # ? Nov 13, 2010 00:14 |
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Learned a new one today: a "tile 3" day. This one particular IT guy at a customer of mine keeps left-over beer from an office party under the 3rd tile in the 1st cold aisle of their server room.
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| # ? Nov 13, 2010 00:24 |
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couldcareless posted:Done. loving done. Time to go drink. Cheers! I had a job interview today. I've never interviewed for a job while currently employed at a job that I'm ok with. It's a strange feeling to not be hungry for a job, just interested in the opportunity. On the plus side, if I get it, good bye 60 hour work weeks!
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| # ? Nov 13, 2010 00:28 |
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couldcareless posted:Well, technically, the secretary is here, but she is so old and disgruntled I doubt she would care. Hell of a way for them to say good bye. However you are only useful for the day. You are already forgotten.
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| # ? Nov 13, 2010 00:28 |
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couldcareless posted:Done. loving done. Time to go drink. They say goodbye? How much big a pile of poo poo did you leave them?
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| # ? Nov 13, 2010 00:40 |
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Independence posted:President and CEO of the old company I worked for would use aol.com as his primary work email address. This is a multi-million dollar defense company. Also, he required AOL 8.0 installed on his desktop to access his emails. Yup, I had the same problem; except this was at a startup. He was still using it when I left in April. I always called that particular startup "Web 1.5," is it was made up of a bunch of people from places that survived the dot-com burst trying to make a new website.
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| # ? Nov 13, 2010 00:41 |
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customer called in because she changed someone's password and now the user is not only able unable to login, but he also doesn't appear anywhere in the program's user list, and trying to recreate him gives an error that the username is already in use. so I went into the database and looked at the employees table "I see the employee in here, and I also see that his hire_date and effective_from fields have been set to the year 3000 which means he won't be able to login until then" "oh I changed his password and then it said I had to enter a hire date so I put in some random date" 
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Huh, all of our DNS check servers are back online and not a single ticket to fix the internets. I am attributing this to posting a pre-emtive whine here. 
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