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Heran Bago posted:VLC lets me use the mouse wheel to turn the volume up to 200%. Media Player Classic lets me click anywhere on screen to pause or unpause video. Use XBMC and an MCE Remote.
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frogbert posted:Use XBMC and an MCE Remote. I don't have good experience with XBMC but it's been years. I just mean a normal pop-up, double-click to enter/exit full screen media player. One where I can use the mouse wheel to affect the volume, which will is able to raise the volume above the normal 100% without having to enter a menu. I had to look up MCE remote. I'm not buying a thing when I am happy using a wireless mouse. I want exactly two functions from my "remote" and I don't even need to look at the buttons to know what they do. mewse posted:Most people use the volume controls on their TV and a wireless keyboard like the logitech K400 Everything in Windows has its own volume and level. While this works, it makes the next sound coming from the PC to be unexpectedly really really loud unless I remember to undo it every time. A keyboard has crossed my mind; space is how you pause in VLC. I don't want to employ a second, wireless keyboard to bring across the room for one big button on it. This button could and should be on my wireless mouse. ThinkFear posted:Pretty sure theres a vlc plugin for that. Still another thing to install I guess. Heran Bago fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Nov 25, 2013 |
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Misogynist posted:Every Socket 7 system I ever used shipped with one, but the lower-clocked models (60/75/90 MHz) seemed to do just fine without. The higher-clocked ones (166 MHz+) often ran fine without them, but would get hot enough to literally fry things on: In that vein, I remind you of Project E.U.N.U.C.H.
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Next up on the little annoying things that turn into mammoth tasks that take me away from some important projects I HAVE to get finished before leaving the company next week: We apparently have a corporate YouTube account and the boss wants some old rear end promotional video we made about 15 years ago to go onto the page. "This shouldn't take you too long Humphreys" Problems: 1. It's on an old DVC tape. 2. YouTube account password was changed 11 months ago with no documentation 3. Password recovery sends email to some random gmail account 4. "The video isn't HD, make it look nicer!" Solutions: 1. Find a Deck in the electronics pergatory room and get it to actually work 2. Go through the motions of password recovery 3a. Call any ex-employee that I think might have had ANY form of knowledge and see if the password recovery was sent to their gmail 3b. After all this find out that the account isn't even the LIVE account, just a half asses attempt that wasn't used as certain managers were fighting over what to call the account due to another YouTube user having what we wanted. 4. It's a 15 year old 4:3 video digitized off a tape using a lovely Deck over SD-SDI, it isn't going to be pretty. 9 days, 1 hour, 15 minutes til I leave. 
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Nov 25, 2013 06:45
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Humphreys posted:Next up on the little annoying things that turn into mammoth tasks that take me away from some important projects I HAVE to get finished before leaving the company next week: You're missing the point of "I'm leaving anyway."
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mllaneza posted:You're missing the point of "I'm leaving anyway." And dodging the "Seeing as your performance is terrible, we are going to fire you and you don't get any benefits" 
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Nov 25, 2013 07:07
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Humphreys posted:And dodging the "Seeing as your performance is terrible, we are going to fire you and you don't get any benefits" So wait, you get a severance package for quitting, but not if they find a reason to fire you after you've put in your official and documented notice of resignation? None of this makes any sense to me. Where do you live? It's like the opposite of that here. If you quit, you get jack poo poo, but if they fire you during your notice period you have a case for applying for unemployment benefits at least.
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Langolas posted:Talk to your boss who can go to their boss and make policy that you can kick tickets back to them if they don't supply XYZ information. We already have that policy but they don't seem to follow it when it comes to us, so we would end up playing ticket ping-pong which looks unprofessional. Also, the problem is that none of them show any interest in voice technology so any ticket mentioning magic words such as "phone" or "hunt group" gets escalated without any further reading.
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Heran Bago posted:VLC lets me use the mouse wheel to turn the volume up to 200%. Media Player Classic lets me click anywhere on screen to pause or unpause video. Note, that volume past 100% in VLC is simply compressing the range and will result in clipping. Not much cop for audio fidelity, but I understand that a lot of videos may be quiet.
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So I screwed up massively at work. Our biggest customer had a major issue over a weekend that I was on call and I worked the whole weekend getting it straightened out. So now I am on the team that is supporting them and they request me by name. Yeah it's job security, but I went from a place where most of the issues I was working on I knew and I could just put my head down and crank out tickets to now where I am given tickets for a major customer because they are bleeding edge enough that no one knows their stuff exactly, but I am the one to figure it out. It would be a nice learning opportunity except for the time and political pressures.
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The contractors upgrading the floor for our new HQ hacked out at least half of the Ethernet cabling! EDIT: Goddammit! 
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Che Delilas posted:So wait, you get a severance package for quitting, but not if they find a reason to fire you after you've put in your official and documented notice of resignation? None of this makes any sense to me. Where do you live? It's a US thing. In the perfect world, the concept is that if you give two weeks notice (varies on HR policy), and they can find no terminable fault during that time, you get to cash out your Vacation/PTO in the final check. That way, you don't just slack off/float for the next 2 weeks and actually help the company during the transition time. Also, if they find a cause for termination, you often can't get unemployment benefits. So it's in the company's favor to find something wrong and sack you for it. It's vindictive and it saves dollars!
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Dick Trauma posted:When you consider how stupidly dependent people are on their cellphones it baffles me how so many lose the loving things. People are texting and Facebooking 24 hours a goddamn day to the point where they will literally walk into traffic while doing so and still they lose them. What type of phone? I have an Android (a couple, actually) and I'm able to bring up Google Play and it's able to show me roughly where my phone is. I mean, it'll show me the physical address but it's not going to tell me it's under the couch cushions. It will, however, let me have it ring at max volume so that it will help me locate it. I'm not familiar with iOS, but I would think they have something similar.
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Lord Dudeguy posted:It's a US thing. In the perfect world, the concept is that if you give two weeks notice (varies on HR policy), and they can find no terminable fault during that time, you get to cash out your Vacation/PTO in the final check. That way, you don't just slack off/float for the next 2 weeks and actually help the company during the transition time. Ah, I didn't think about cashing out vacation. I'm actually in the U.S., but my last job's policy was that you have to have at least 80 hours left after the cash out. So I basically just burned up all my vacation before I left.
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We just had to stop the company-wide roll out of forcing corporate branded standard signatures via exchange 2010 (instead of having individual ones) because it doesn't support postnominals and all the engineers are mad that they won't be able to put letters after their name in their signature i'm rolling my eyes so loving hard right now Alctel fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Nov 25, 2013 |
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Nov 25, 2013 22:44
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Dick Trauma posted:The contractors upgrading the floor for our new HQ hacked out at least half of the Ethernet cabling! This is magical. Apparently our SAP environment broke sometime on Friday and has been dropping inputted data at random. HP are hot on the case with a resolution time of "when it's fixed." 
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Nov 25, 2013 22:58
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Dick Trauma posted:The contractors upgrading the floor for our new HQ hacked out at least half of the Ethernet cabling! Wow, I think it is a cardinal sin to cut ANY type of cabling directly at the connector. Always leave enough cable for future emergency usage *just in case*
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Humphreys posted:Wow, I think it is a cardinal sin to cut ANY type of cabling directly at the connector. Always leave enough cable for future emergency usage *just in case*  Those things will never, ever get re-used in any respectable capacity
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Dick Trauma posted:The contractors upgrading the floor for our new HQ hacked out at least half of the Ethernet cabling!
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Dick Trauma posted:The contractors upgrading the floor for our new HQ hacked out at least half of the Ethernet cabling! What the gently caress is it with contractors and just chopping through anything that looks a bit in their way. On what planet is it acceptable to cut through stuff without asking whoever's booked you to do a job?
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Caged posted:What the gently caress is it with contractors and just chopping through anything that looks a bit in their way. On what planet is it acceptable to cut through stuff without asking whoever's booked you to do a job? On the planet where it's cheaper by far to just repair the damage they cause than it is to fight them in court. Either you sue them for damages, or you refuse to pay them for their work, at which point they sue YOU (or put a lien on your building, I'm not sure how this works with commercial property). Either way you're going to get lawyers involved, and after about 5 minutes of that you've already lost more money than you'll ever hope to recover. Accountability, reputation, ethics, integrity, none of this matters in the world of American business. The only thing that matters, the ONLY thing, is the number on the quarterly earnings report. Because of this, nobody is willing to go after lazy shithead contractors who just sawzall through anything in their way, so they have no reason to not be lazy shitheads. 
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mewse posted:
Plus, they're punchdown blocks. I would rather they cut them right at the connector so that there's still enough slack in the wall to redo them if necessary.
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And that's why I prefer working for private companies.
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Inspector_666 posted:Plus, they're punchdown blocks. I would rather they cut them right at the connector so that there's still enough slack in the wall to redo them if necessary. I did not post pictures of the huge piles of chopped cables. 
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Do the flooring guys know the cabling guys? You could end up with the cabling people coming back in and ripping the floor out, then the flooring guys come in etc. We don't seem to have anywhere near the amount of wars between trades that I've heard you guys suffering from.
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Caged posted:Do the flooring guys know the cabling guys? You could end up with the cabling people coming back in and ripping the floor out, then the flooring guys come in etc. That sounds like a good racket rather than a war 
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Adding a couple HP 1022n printers to my print server just exploded the entire thing. I hate printers so much.
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A host based printer on a network. I feel so sorry for you now.
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Caged posted:A host based printer on a network. The 1022n is actually a network printer. ..barely. (still wouldn't touch it)
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I just threw them all out, hooray!
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Crowley posted:The 1022n is actually a network printer. I think he means it doesn't natively have a PCL or PS renderer in the printer, so the server needs to take the documents, render them, and then send them to the printer using some made up driver garbage. It draws your mind back to things like Winmodems.
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Adding a couple HP 1022n printers to my print server just exploded the entire thing. Enjoy all the HP-2382F23 SSID's that are in your building now and will come back every time the printers are power cycled even if you 'disable' wireless. My boss bought, and keeps buying pallets of those loving things because they are seven bucks cheaper than what I would rather order.
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We're remodeling the other side of our building and one of the things we'll have is a new training room so my boss went to ABC Warehouse and bought three 60" plasma televisions. Aside from the fact that the IT Director who probably makes double what I do has spent the last week deal-hunting to save $50 on a TV, and wasted countless hours discussing televisions and wall mounts with half the people in the company, the remodel isn't going to be done for 3 months. So I've got this taking up a ton of room in front of me, and now each person who walks by my desk gets to serve up their very own version of: "Hey Bob looks like Santa came early!" "Hey Bob my TV's came in!" "Hey Bob just load one of those up in my car" Not to mention the helpdesk guy gets to talk LCD vs Plasma and Smart TV vs non-smart TV for hours on end. 
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If you haven't picked a mount yet, look at Chief, their universal wall mounts for TVs are great.
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Consumer plasmas for static content  Been there done that etc., but it's not like it would have ever gone any differently with your boss the way he is.
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Caged posted:Consumer plasmas for static content "New plasmas don't have that problem" That room is going to be so loving hot.
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Inspector_666 posted:This wasn't wasn't quite as bad as a lot of others since we already knew the problem was network connectivity going in, but the other month I was trying to get scanning to an SMB share working and it just kept saying "FAILED." Today I had a 'new' Kyocera just reporting 'failed' for every scan it tried to send via SMTP. Turns out the time wasn't set correctly on the printer (it was a few hours off).
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Bob Morales posted:"New plasmas don't have that problem" Our 'New Plasmas' that served up our security camera pages got horrible burn in. The black background was white on them whenever anything else was displayed. Return them and get LCD or LED, so so much better.
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Edit: oh hey, new posts. This was about the LJ 1022. That specific model's also likes to break the local print spooler, preventing printing even to other printers, so badly that the only way I've ever found to get it working again is to manually delete the files that represent the print queue. It isn't a consistent behavior, some jobs just make it poo poo itself, and if you just try to restart the print spooler service without doing that it will just break the service again.
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