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Who are you people that use putty on a Mac? Seriously what the hell. PCI auditors want us to regularly use Nessus to scan PCI vlan but want it to be a physical box instead of the VMware one we have. Queue installing Ubuntu onto a dell 7010 desktop. Enterprise grade advice oh PCI consultants.
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Bob Morales posted:Microsoft went from the IE model of HTML email to the Word model. Throws a wrench into anything you want to make look nice in GMail and Outlook. You get to use tables again!  Pretty well sums up the entire Lotus Notes philosophy.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:gently caress trying to make emails look nice on multiple platforms. Feh, that's easy. Text. Plain text. No colors, fonts, pictures, fancy "stationery", gimmicky formatting, nothing but text. (/me is easily pleased.  )Want all that crap? Create a document and attach it, let the recipient save/open it with the proper program. (And maybe scan it first, in case of Cryptolocker_delivery.PDF.exe or something.)
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Galler posted:I love this. IBM: gently caress your standards At least Sametime isn't the worst thing possible. I'm going to miss the screenshot tool when we move to Lync some time in the next thousand years or so.
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If you can't say something in Fixedsys then it doesn't need to be said. I wish there was a way to make Outlook convert every email (sent and received) to plain text automatically. All my new emails are plain text, of course, but replies always have rich text enabled if the original message had it. My replies always end up being a mix of dark blue and black text, because for some inexplicable reason Outlook defaults to dark blue for font color and then changes the color to black when you paste plain text, and I can't be arsed to fix it.
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Feh, that's easy. Subject: New beta out gently caress! How long's it been since we did one of these, 6 months? It should still be fresh in your memory, so go download the new beta and do surveys or something. Forgot already? Here's the link: http://www.fweemster-twirple.com/heppledork/sockittomesockittome@fe.fi/fo.fum Don't mistype that, you may launch nuclear missiles against norway, or some poo poo. Anyways, go do it. I'll check survey responses after my hangover wears off. Want the pretty version of this? Click here <not cryptolocker link> ME lovely incomprehensible title email address that may or may not get you on another spam list
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dennyk posted:If you can't say something in Fixedsys then it doesn't need to be said. Trust Center, Email Security, Read All Standard Email in Plain Text? You can also just change your font colour for replies?
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Trust Center, Email Security, Read All Standard Email in Plain Text? Something called "Trust Center" is clearly where one would expect to find message formatting options, ayup.  That's awesome, though, totally doing that tomorrow. Speaking of fonts, one thing that pisses me off is when I'm trying to read a web site that uses one of those godawful fonts that doesn't render properly unless you have that "ClearType" crap enabled:  Not all of us want our fonts to be as soft and fuzzy as our neckbeards, thank you very much.
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dennyk posted:Something called "Trust Center" is clearly where one would expect to find message formatting options, ayup. The formatting options are somewhere else!
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DagPenge posted:Finally got a boss that really wants me to use a mac, asked him for something else, showed up this morning to see a macbook pro sitting at my desk. I even have to install parallels and a windows VM on it, since many of the programs I use are windows only, however he insists that I need one since I am a consultant and some of the customers uses mac. Get a package manager - http://brew.sh/ is probably the most useful. Setup sensible editor, terminal, and shell. I use vim, iterm2, zsh with configs (slightly modified) from https://github.com/skwp/dotfiles. Go full sperg and read http://www.drbunsen.org/the-text-triumvirate/ Customize some multi-touch gestures with BetterTouchTool http://www.boastr.de/ Check out the OSX thread at http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3426005
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mim posted:Get a package manager - http://brew.sh/ is probably the most useful. Or don't do any of these things, because ricing the gently caress out of your terminal, editor, and shell is useless when most of your work is over SSH. The apple/command key plus a hotkey broadly does what you want. Command+tab. Command+c/v/x/z. Go into the trackpad options and turn off "natural scrolling". Install an RDP client (CoRD is reasonably good).
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evol262 posted:Or don't do any of these things, because ricing the gently caress out of your terminal, editor, and shell is useless when most of your work is over SSH.
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So I think a rack lost power, and with it brought down our web server and mail server. Since we have almost no monitoring I ended up having to just stumble into it before I called the on-call person to let them know.
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namol posted:Who are you people that use putty on a Mac? Seriously what the hell. I was going to say, doesn't OSX still have SSH built in?
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Paladine_PSoT posted:gently caress trying to make emails look nice on multiple platforms. What? You mean you don't only send email in plain text?
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GargleBlaster posted:What else... market research calls. We now have every man and his dog from the Asian continent phoning up with this drat mobile phone study that's doing the rounds. I shall be stealing this idea for my own amusement, thankyou! Pisses me off: Go on work trip overseas and use personal laptop that I sometimes use for work. Boss OKs this and added it to the equipment insurance for the trip. The inevitable happens and it gets broken thanks to the wonderful backage chuckers in 3rd world countries. eMail the boss saying that it is busted and to make sure to lodge a claim on it. A month or so later I casually comment 'drat that insurance company takes a while to process claims'. No claim was lodged and is now outside the lodgement window. Naturally I have my own insurance though so it wasn't all bad. ^ Replace the word laptop with 'Red Scarlett Camera' and you can start to form a pattern with our company (company owned equipment runs the gamble of being insured quite often).  update:New company have had some major scheduling conflicts and the filtering process is still happening, some applicants haven't even had their medical or federal security check results back yet. However the people I had down as references were called today, so that's a sign! Next stop, either drink in celebration for getting job or depression when I find out I am still stuck at current company.
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Carpet posted:Well son, you obviously don't know computers if you can't use DIP switches to manually set IRQs, like in the good old days Jumpers. You set IRQs with jumpers.
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Carpet posted:Well son, you obviously don't know computers if you can't use DIP switches to manually set IRQs, like in the good old days 
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I'm betting there are some OCD folk out there just hating that and wanting to make all the black squares a perfect diagonal line. Ninja Edit: Not OCD, but those graphs always bugged me a little Humphreys fucked around with this message at 12:01 on Nov 12, 2013 |
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Humphreys posted:I shall be stealing this idea for my own amusement, thankyou! One even offered to send me a cheque! Of course, if I believe that, let me just have a quick peek at this email from my long lost family member in Nigeria who I never knew about... Crowley posted:Jumpers. You set IRQs with jumpers.  Right, that's the car end attached. Let's do this! Humphreys posted:I'm betting there are some OCD folk out there just hating that and wanting to make all the black squares a perfect diagonal line. I don't think I'm OCD, but yes it bugs me :P
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Humphreys posted:I'm betting there are some OCD folk out there just hating that and wanting to make all the black squares a perfect diagonal line. gently caress, that was my first thought.
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Bob Morales posted:Microsoft went from the IE model of HTML email to the Word model. Throws a wrench into anything you want to make look nice in GMail and Outlook. You get to use tables again! Found it - http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
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gently caress those weird attachment files that Outlook adds when your emails are being sent in Rich-Text. Actually, I have no problem with the attachments, I have a problem with all the users who call and say I HAVE A VIRUS I NEED HELP THIS IS A CRITICAL PRIORITY 1 TICKET, I HAVE THIS ATTACHMENT IN MY EMAIL HELP.
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Why are all of my firm's clients unable to set up their mx records correctly?
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Misogynist posted:Erm, lots of professional sysadmins don't spend 90% of their time at an SSH window. Some people have these crazy tools like Packer and Vagrant that facilitate almost all the infrastructure work they ever need to do for production without needing to compulsively log in and run iostat somewhere every 15 minutes like it's the '80s. Nobody's saying that. I'm saying that tweaking the ZSH config and .vimrc on a workstation for someone whose principal requests are "RDP" and "SSH client" is a waste of time. It's also a waste of time with Docker, Packer, Vagrant, cloud-init, and whatever other infrastructure tool you want to name unless you have a specific reason why the default .vimrc and bash config isn't good enough.
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QPZIL posted:gently caress those weird attachment files that Outlook adds when your emails are being sent in Rich-Text. THIS, exactly! I'm dealing with the nefarious TNEF/winmail.dat issue now, and it's further confounding because I don't have access to O365 to run Set-RemoteDomain, or Get-ManagementRoleAssignment, for that matter. It needs to be off for default, but on for some specific remote domains so our Lync Room System can be included in meetings with outside organizations. The worst part is disabling TNEF in a user's profile affects Outlook, but Office365 conveniently uses that format any way.
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Humphreys posted:I'm betting there are some OCD folk out there just hating that and wanting to make all the black squares a perfect diagonal line. There's me fuming over the fact that COM ports are broken out individually instead of COM1/3 IRQ4 and COM2/4 IRQ3. Putting them all on their own IRQ is madness! That's valuable resource space!
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Crowley posted:Jumpers. You set IRQs with jumpers. Some older devices had dipswitches, modems most notably.
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Today, I fixed a device that had the problem noted in sharpie on a piece of duct tape..."BAD SD CARD." Sure enough corrupt. Made sure that I was last person to send box of 1,000 pre-formatted SD cards to client. Called and sent device back and closed ticket after confirming they still had several hundred cards remaining. WHY WASTE MY TIME AND OUR RESOURCES ON YOUR LAZINESS. Oops caps lock rage there sorry. Kinda dip-switch related: Which CPU (Is that even correct?) allowed you to unlock capabilities via well placed graphite from a pencil? Ok, not related. But still neat.
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SammichBacon posted:Today, I fixed a device that had the problem noted in sharpie on a piece of duct tape..."BAD SD CARD." Sure enough corrupt. Made sure that I was last person to send box of 1,000 pre-formatted SD cards to client. Called and sent device back and closed ticket after confirming they still had several hundred cards remaining. WHY WASTE MY TIME AND OUR RESOURCES ON YOUR LAZINESS. Oops caps lock rage there sorry. I've had motherboards with jumper controlled FSB/Multiplier before. Those were fun.
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SammichBacon posted:
That was the old Athlon CPUs. I am not sure if you can do anything like that on the modern CPUs though. Edit: VVV you guys are slow... like an Athlon CPU without the graphite trick. 
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SammichBacon posted:Kinda dip-switch related: Which CPU (Is that even correct?) allowed you to unlock capabilities via well placed graphite from a pencil? Ok, not related. But still neat. Socket A Athlon/Duron edit: that'll teach me to leave a tab open for too long
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SammichBacon posted:Kinda dip-switch related: Which CPU (Is that even correct?) allowed you to unlock capabilities via well placed graphite from a pencil? Ok, not related. But still neat. Athlon XP. Possibly other Make/Models, but that's the one I remember being capable. ***edit*** Well, poo poo. Beaten.
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poo poo that's been pissing me off the last few days: Mails stored under Inbox are kept for 60 days, then deleted from the server. If you need to keep something for longer you have My Personal Archive with 3 years of retention. People at Global HQ, in all their wisdom*, decided that new users shouldn't get MPA anymore. If they really do need to keep mail for that long they can put in a request, and they'll get MPA back. Too bad this change is also affecting existing users. Retention policy for existing MPA folders were changed to 60 days, with no communication about it. Users have been calling non-stop about all their business critical mail being gone after they had to restart Outlook. Of course there's no backups, so if the mails aren't under Deleted Items there's nothing we can do. *the same people decided that iPads with Numbers, Pages and Keynotes would make an AWESOME replacement for laptops running Windows and Office. Cheers.
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Currently in a meeting with the boss to help him do his job. He was given some proposals to review (literally just compare them to what we requested) and he didn't do it. Now it's urgent that it get done today so he schedules a meeting with the proposals attached and says 'make sure you read them'. He clearly has not read them, and is now using five people to go down the lists one by one to compare everything. There is no way this requires five people, nor any of our technical knowledge, to accomplish.
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I was happy to hear last week that our most incompetent staff member was fired. Today I find out that she took off with her company-provided laptop. Then I realized I don't have an equipment acknowledgement form for this laptop signed by her (she works remotely and when we had someone bring her the laptop, they weren't able to meet with her and get the form signed... and then I apparently forgot about it.  )Furthermore, she's claiming that she had been using her personal laptop the whole time and that it went missing from her office after she was fired. The best I can do is dig up a few emails from July where she said her personal laptop died and I told her I was sending her a company one. I haven't screwed up too bad in my year at this company, but I'm sure I'll end up getting reamed for this one. It's only a $500 laptop but we're a ~*non-profit*~ so it's kind of a big deal.
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rolleyes posted:drat, jacking a laptop from a charity on your way out the door is pretty scummy. Not all non-profits are charities. Non-profit at my previous job simply meant "The reams of money we suddenly started making go into the pockets of the CEO, the new C*O position he created, and the entire herd of managers he got hired instead of any kind of shareholders."
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To resume the earlier chat about having a common firstname.lastname@gmail.com address: Dear Person With The Same First Name As Me But An Entirely Different Surname, Congratulations on managing to land yourself an interview! In future, please remember to get your name correct when specifying the email address your prospective employer should send a psychological/personality assessment test to. Since I have no other contact details for you, I have taken the trouble of replying to the email to let the hiring company know of the error. Having failed the fairly basic filter of 'candidate should be able to remember their own name' I think your attempt might not get too far on this occasion, but you never know.Regards, Me.
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