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So what do they do for those lovely systems that require 6-12 characters of [a-zA-Z0-9]? 
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euroboy posted:He held the mouse as normal, but twisted in hand in the direction he wanted the pointer to go. He twisted his hand and mouse 180 degrees to get it down, and it still went up! The mouse is clearly broken he told me. When I showed him how to properly do it, he was awestruck. I've told this to many people but few believe it, but I swear that it's true. Yes, there is people out there that actually is this stupid. I once watched my grandmother do this. She's a lot more comfortable with a touchpad on a laptop.
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Dec 15, 2008 00:08
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You guys think thermostat wars are silly? The last place I worked had light wars. This was a small development house where all of the programmers were at open desks in a single huge room. True to the stereotype, there were a couple of individuals who simply couldn't tolerate having window blinds open. Or lights on. At all. If someone 30 feet away turned on a desk lamp directed downward, one of them in particular would start angrily muttering to himself just loud enough to draw attention to how the light was "hurting his eyes." 
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Dec 16, 2008 00:18
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Nam Taf posted:Find your regional equivalent for the lighting standard (That's the European standard, for example), set it to standard-compliant, and then tell them to shut up as it's 'to standard'. I'm sure that the very existence of such a standard would have garnered further support for working in a nerd-cave so as not to submit to "the man."
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Dec 16, 2008 06:56
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Griz posted:in my experience, anyone who insists on being entered into the helpdesk database as DOCTOR Smith and has all their underlings address them as such is probably going to be more annoying than average. Or more generally, anyone who feels the need to demand respect from someone probably hasn't earned it.
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Jan 8, 2009 02:51
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chutwig posted:EDIT: I picked the phone up and nobody was on the other end. I think I need to send somebody up to remove the Caps Lock key from his keyboard. Push out a registry change that remaps it to ctrl. Eliminates the caps lock problem and provides a useful key in its place, all remotely.
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Feb 25, 2009 21:21
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Roundboy posted:Subject: Caps lock is not working The light doesn't come on when you make that registry change.  Issue Status: Closed ASDESIGNED
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Feb 25, 2009 21:53
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IndustrialPope posted:I think ISPs are required by law to blame eveyone but them, I've never ever dealt with one that claimed something was their fault. The closest you'll get is them asking you to reset your equipment after a short pause and some overheard typing. They won't explicitly tell you that they made a change on their end that needs to propagate, but when the last 5 resets you did before calling didn't do anything it kind of gives it away.
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Mar 5, 2009 22:47
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scottch posted:It never drops characters, and is drat impressive, all things considered. 2009 and, "it never drops characters" is grounds for calling a networked system "impressive." The idea that this class of problem hasn't been solved and considered trivial for 30+ years is depressing as hell. 
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Mar 12, 2009 19:20
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Nuke posted:----------------- CLOSED: FIXED [Attachment: Initech_Vision_Plan_Benefits.doc]
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Mar 18, 2009 22:45
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Lum posted:That's a pretty badly worded outage notice, it reads more like "gently caress off and don't bother calling us even if it's broken." The more words there are, the less likely it is that a user will read them. Looks like the message they went with was still over budget. Maybe, "It's broken. We're working on it." would fare better.
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Apr 4, 2009 20:17
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afflictionwisp posted:You can get lucky. At my first job, they had a phone manager, her name was jackie. she was an old woman, fat, blind in one eye, cynical as hell, convinced of her own divinity, and she was right. She had a great system of dealing with users - she did everything she could to intimidate the hell out of them. everyone at the company was either afraid of her or hated her, but she was drat good at her job. I loved Jackie, she was like the big black aunt I never had. This story is giving off at least two conflicting morals: Life is too short to catch every piece of poo poo that rolls downhill with your bare hands, or, Be careful whose lap you drop a mountain of poo poo into when you finally snap, because he might be a voodoo practitioner actually capable of wishing cancer on you.
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Nov 3, 2009 00:04
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CannedMeat posted:Yes they do. We have invested time and money to provide a secure and reliable company supported way for people to check their email on phones, and work from home on their company provided laptops. I understand that there has to be limits lest someone bring in their favorite parallel port scanner and throw a fit, but are you familiar with the phrase, "the tail wagging the dog?" No, users shouldn't get everything just because they ask for it, but denying anything that isn't on The List isn't any better.
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Nov 3, 2009 00:46
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xarph posted:This was on the workstation image for an entire classroom of winxp machines at Unitek when I was taking an MS SQL server class. Well it's not like they can use xp's built-in archive handling to unpack the rest of their pirated poo poo.
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Jan 1, 2010 23:45
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ab0z posted:Bad tech, bad manager, not easy to get along with, always has to prove he's superior to everyone but is actually inferior in just about every way. This is why I hate my boss. An interesting thing about tech fields is that when someone is scary-good at what they do, they never feel the need to assert it to anyone. The opposite also seems to be true.
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Jan 18, 2010 21:32
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Julianus posted:You look so much more professional with a BlackBerry. No wander he wanted it so badly ! Another office paradox: people who want Blackberries don't need them, and people who need them don't want them. 
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Jan 18, 2010 22:35
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juggalol posted:Perhaps you didn't understand his request, you miserable excuse for a glorified mechanic: he has customer data that he needs access to immediately To: all@company From: it@company Subject: Please have patience We are working to restore affected systems as soon as possible, right after we finish with Jim's request. Jim has critical customer data he needs to access immediately, which will take priority over all of your other IT concerns at this time. Thank you for your understanding and support for Jim during this time.
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Apr 7, 2010 08:15
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duz posted:Don't forget that tax software that blindly wrote it's key to the MBR on the assumption you only had Windows install on it. The hell?? This is why apps should never have admin rights.
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Jun 5, 2010 23:41
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Phuzion posted:Keep in mind a lot of software that companies rely on for day to day operations were written in the Win9x days or earlier. Yeah.  Shenanigans like these are largely responsible for people wising up to why LUA is a great idea. At least the stuff being written today that businesses will be relying on in 2025 won't have this problem....right?
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Jun 6, 2010 02:24
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Phuzion posted:I wasn't particularly dissing AS/400, but just giving an example of a system that despite being decades old, is still in use at multi-billion dollar companies. Just because something is old doesn't particularly mean that it's bad. What I was getting at was that if you're trying to run an app that was made for Win9x in Windows XP or later, it could very well not know about standards such as "Don't gently caress with the MBR" or "Require administrative access to write to C:\Program Files". AS/400 is above this particular diss anyway - it actually limited what users and apps were capable of accessing. Systems as far back as the 1960s and 70s were able to get this right. Developers for personal computers through the 80s and 90s were the ones who didn't understand the idea of being good citizens on the system. The lack of any practical restrictions against being jerks and the justification of copy protection only encouraged them.
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Jun 6, 2010 22:30
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People like that are what email filters are for.
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Nov 16, 2010 17:11
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minivanmegafun posted:What OS X update costs $99? You're right, weren't most of them $129?
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Feb 23, 2011 18:24
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Science posted:In fact if you can avoid most software designed by IBM you will live 30 years longer, you will never bald, and your liver will outlast you. This is really good advice. IBM software is garbage.
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Apr 24, 2011 18:45
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Maker Of Shoes posted:A ticket came in...saying our department's new computers are in. Hooray! No more using these ancient P4's with a gig of RAM. 20 minutes later the ticket is modified by my manager... Sounds like your manager is asking you to make sure that XP mode is enabled in the stock image to me. 
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Jun 12, 2011 02:24
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: Make sure they are imaged with XP. I don't want any tool compatibility issues popping up.
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psydude posted:If he keeps paying me, I'll fix whatever. "I don't see why I should have to pay you again, this worked before you touched it."
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Mar 1, 2012 17:14
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Caged posted:Those mice are poo poo as well. I can understand them costing more because you're going to sell very few of them comparatively, but if you're going to charge me £80 for a mouse then it had better be built better than a £3 piece of poo poo. In the case of those things, they aren't. I've got a couple of these that I use now and frankly I disagree. They're built about as well as the average Logitech gamer mouse with the exception that you can pick at the front edge of the mouse buttons a bit. They have similar hardware sensitivity controls and the sensor itself is decent. Considering that I switched to one for actual RSI reasons and I don't get shooting nerve pain down my little finger into my forearm anymore I'm willing to cut these mice a lot of slack, but I was pleasantly surprised that I haven't had to.
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Apr 2, 2012 17:45
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Lum posted:Unless you label them or something. The K-cups thing described sounds different though. I assume they're buying them to share with coworkers, not to cater board meetings. It's like if the boss took the receptionist's candy dish on the front desk home to hand out to trick or treaters. Sure, they're there for others to enjoy, but taking the whole stash and repurposing it as private freebies elsewhere takes a certain kind of mild sociopathy.
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Oct 16, 2012 04:01
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TomBosleyExp posted:a ticket came in Has anyone ever run a Markov chain text generator on a large corpus of angry tickets?
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Oct 21, 2012 16:47
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Lum posted:We still use that. It's supposed to be going away, but head office can't figure out a way to give us access to their SVN server through the reverse proxy. The worst part of this is the implication that you're using sourcesafe over the internet and not just a lan. Glad to hear you apparently have a lot of time to get up to make tea or coffee!
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Jan 17, 2013 14:54
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KweezNArt posted:Not that you are in HR, Antioch, but if your sorry rear end gets dragged into any of the auxiliary (potentially legal) horseshit that comes up as a result of this, make sure that *this* is the stance you take. It was unacceptable because it was violent or hateful content that was directed at the company; not because it was about gays, or Christianity, or 'First Amendment Rights' or anything else any other lawyer tries to paint it as. Not only is this good advice, it's probably how you should pitch the issue to HR in the first place such that they aren't tempted to brush it under the rug to avoid the mess it will create.
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Apr 30, 2013 17:08
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CatsOnTheInternet posted:In MA, the state will fine you something like $5k for every state resident whose identity is compromised as a result of employees transporting PII outside the firewall without encryption. Only $5k and only if some metric of "compromised" is met? Pretty weakass piece of legislation, actually.
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Make sure it works with iPhones.
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