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I doubt that his college didn't give him some web space, especially if he's taking CS classes.
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Dark Helmut posted:Ian, I have a client seeking a resource just like you. 
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Oct 20, 2014 15:11
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Grouchio posted:Unfortunately the webpage it goes to is not only private, but happens to be on a thumb drive that I probably left on campus (the professor has it probably). Ian. We know when you're lying to us.
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Oct 20, 2014 15:19
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CLAM DOWN posted:Hey Grouchio Time for a new thread: file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3653857
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I'm struggling to breathe, send help. I can be found on c:/MySides/OhGodMySides/TheyFlewOff
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Not to interrupt the entertainment but I was thinking I might upgrade all our laptops from their OEM Win 8 Pro to Win 8.1 Enterprise. I want access to Bitlocker/Applocker and as a bonus I was thinking I could primarily run all the laptops from flash drives via Windows-To-Go. I'm going to start testing but is this a horrible idea from the outset?
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Oct 20, 2014 16:01
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Windows To Go works surprisingly well but having a large protruding thumb drive out of any device is just asking for trouble.
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Oct 20, 2014 16:04
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Does Windows-To-Go work on m2? I grabbed a 128GB m2 for my T440p and it's great. Gets around the protruding usb drive issue.
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Oct 20, 2014 16:10
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Tab8715 posted:Windows To Go works surprisingly well but having a large protruding thumb drive out of any device is just asking for trouble. I was indeed thinking about that, I've seen quite a few drives broken off in my years by users stuffing laptops into their travel bags. I figure I could buy a USB duplicator like this http://www.aleratec.com/1-to-10-usb-3-0-thumb-flash-drive-duplicator-copy-cruiser-mini-330113.html and just give out drives like candy. If I use GPO to force all files to sync on both the flash drive and OneDrive then hopefully anyone can use any drive anywhere. mayodreams posted:Does Windows-To-Go work on m2? I grabbed a 128GB m2 for my T440p and it's great. Gets around the protruding usb drive issue. Why would you put Win-To-Go on a hard drive that isn't removable? Sort of defeats the point.
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Oct 20, 2014 16:10
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You're suppose to use a certified drive and I tried making my own "non-certified" drive and it won't boot. I guess there must be something unique to the hardware, I can boot Ubuntu from the same drive but not Windows 8.
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Oct 20, 2014 16:12
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The device should have high read/write speed. That's all I remember.
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Zero VGS posted:I was indeed thinking about that, I've seen quite a few drives broken off in my years by users stuffing laptops into their travel bags. I figure I could buy a USB duplicator like this http://www.aleratec.com/1-to-10-usb-3-0-thumb-flash-drive-duplicator-copy-cruiser-mini-330113.html and just give out drives like candy. If I use GPO to force all files to sync on both the flash drive and OneDrive then hopefully anyone can use any drive anywhere. I guess that's true. How about SD cards? In a lot of newer machines they sit flush.
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I'm about 3 months into my first corporate/IT job. I had no clue it was possible to have this many meetings and conference calls. And the amount of corporate speak I've been exposed to... I thought it was only in TV and Movies.
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Oct 20, 2014 17:05
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Hughmoris posted:I'm about 3 months into my first corporate/IT job. I had no clue it was possible to have this many meetings and conference calls. And the amount of corporate speak I've been exposed to... I thought it was only in TV and Movies. Get your buzzword bingo sheet ready.
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Oct 20, 2014 17:14
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mayodreams posted:I guess that's true. How about SD cards? In a lot of newer machines they sit flush. That would be excellent but I have a feeling that most of these laptops won't support SD Card booting in the BIOS.
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Oct 20, 2014 17:30
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I really want to know how old Ian is now. I know he said college but I'd put money on a "continuing education" situation. Kids these days all know basic web design from the womb, it seems like.
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Oct 20, 2014 17:31
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Pudgygiant posted:I really want to know how old Ian is now. I know he said college but I'd put money on a "continuing education" situation. Kids these days all know basic web design from the womb, it seems like. Kids these days aren't any better than they were in "your" days. Probably worse, because we can reasonably expect Ian has always had broadband and grew up on Windows XP.
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Oct 20, 2014 17:33
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The average age of Facebook employees is 26. On average just by starting a grad program you'd essentially be aging yourself out of startup culture. I'm not railing against age discrimination by any means, just saying that whether it's true or not the stigma is kids these days ARE better at it.
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Oct 20, 2014 17:43
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I'm in the Stanley VCP5 class that's online and I'm thinking making my own lab would be a good idea and I also need a HTPC. Why not combine the two? This ThinkServer Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3 looks ok and I'll put in 16GBs, single SSD and whatever video card. My only concern, do I have to have the Xeon for just a ESXi lab? EDIT - Hopefully this isn't too off-topic but I wasn't sure where else to post this 
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Oct 20, 2014 17:45
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Pudgygiant posted:I really want to know how old Ian is now. I know he said college but I'd put money on a "continuing education" situation. Kids these days all know basic web design from the womb, it seems like. I have no idea how to complete that assignment and I'm 27, I guess that makes me an old man, though?
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Oct 20, 2014 17:55
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Inspector_666 posted:I have no idea how to complete that assignment and I'm 27, I guess that makes me an old man, though? Please stop making me feel ancient
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Oct 20, 2014 18:04
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We had to do a Geocities page for middle school computer class, it's a bit more complex than that. But for a college web design class, as homework, where the use of Google is implied? It's absolutely babby's first web page.
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Oct 20, 2014 18:07
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Pudgygiant posted:We had to do a Geocities page for middle school computer class, it's a bit more complex than that. But for a college web design class, as homework, where the use of Google is implied? It's absolutely babby's first web page. I'm not saying he shouldn't be able to do it, but "Kids these days all know basic web design from the womb, it seems like." is the same dumb "Oh this is all easy for you guys!" bullshit users like to say as if none of us worked at learning anything (and it's an excuse to not pay us more, too.)
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Oct 20, 2014 18:11
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Tab8715 posted:I'm in the Stanley VCP5 class that's online and I'm thinking making my own lab would be a good idea and I also need a HTPC. Why not combine the two? This ThinkServer Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3 looks ok and I'll put in 16GBs, single SSD and whatever video card. Absolutely not but the box is a great deal  Each version of ESX has a hardware compatibility list with a huge range of options. All you're looking for with Intel is a chip that supports VT which could even be the new Pentium. You would also want to make sure to pick up registered memory if you get a server board (the Lenovo above doesn't support it). It's probably rougher to learn, but you can install embedded ESX onto another virtual machine and do VM-ception without buying any new hardware
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Inspector_666 posted:I'm not saying he shouldn't be able to do it, but "Kids these days all know basic web design from the womb, it seems like." is the same dumb "Oh this is all easy for you guys!" bullshit users like to say as if none of us worked at learning anything (and it's an excuse to not pay us more, too.) Nah it was just a "drat kids get off my lawn" rant because I work with people significantly younger than me (and I'm only 28). If anything I agree with you, they're willing to work for less which makes it harder for people like you and me to get things like a raise or house or basic benefits. Pudgygiant fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Oct 20, 2014 |
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Oct 20, 2014 18:23
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Hughmoris posted:I'm about 3 months into my first corporate/IT job. I had no clue it was possible to have this many meetings and conference calls. And the amount of corporate speak I've been exposed to... I thought it was only in TV and Movies. 6 months into mine, and you're hilariously correct. Also, the Dilbert comic strip has new meaning to me. Relevant to one of my projects in which we were literally told "Ok well we decided to go with this other service so can you go back and change the graphs to back up that decision?" 
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I am working with a guy who literally refuses to consider using anything made this century, it's driving me crazy. Scripts? Gotta be ksh. Proxy? Gotta be Squid, lol what are nginx and varnish. Configuration Management? CFengine ftw you see computers reached perfection in 1998.
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Pudgygiant posted:Nah it was just a "drat kids get off my lawn" rant because I work with people significantly younger than me (and I'm only 28). If anything I agree with you, they're willing to work for less which makes it harder for people like you and me to get things like a raise or house or basic benefits. Pudgygiant posted:The average age of Facebook employees is 26. On average just by starting a grad program you'd essentially be aging yourself out of startup culture. I'm not railing against age discrimination by any means, just saying that whether it's true or not the stigma is kids these days ARE better at it. I'll take absurd over generalization for $500. Facebook isn't a startup anymore. But picking the average age of any startup employee and saying "kids are better" is inane. Go back in time and pick MS or Apple or any other company in their infancy. Startups are a young person's game and always have been. Saying "the average age of Facebook employees is 26, young kids ARE better, QED" doesn't make any sense without comparing to industry demographics (and while FB has smart people, it's not a reasonable descriptor for the company was a whole, or startups in general). As far as I can tell, the people who really think growing up with computers somehow makes you better at it are the media. People in non-IT fields probably have a leg up from familiarity, but that familiarity is much farther away from IT work than it used to be
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Yeah, I think the folks who grew up having to code BASIC stuff to play games or whatever are a shitload better off than people who grew up with iOS.
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Oct 20, 2014 19:58
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evol262 posted:I'll take absurd over generalization for $500. FB is a terrible example to use anyway when talking about average ages, since Zuckerberg is on record saying that younger people are just smarter, to the loving founder of Oracle, of all people (I think that's who it was). With an attitude like that from the CEO, is it any surprise that they hire young?
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Oct 20, 2014 20:18
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Has anyone worked for a place where their tier one tech was in charge of purchasing phones/ipads/laptops/desktops?
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Oct 20, 2014 20:43
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the spyder posted:Has anyone worked for a place where their tier one tech was in charge of purchasing phones/ipads/laptops/desktops? Yes, where I work currently. We have like 100 employees.
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Oct 20, 2014 20:45
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Apparently this course is a pre-requisite for a massive 4-language IT class crucial for IT majors. Which is why it's so very rigorous. I have two weeks to do this next assignment on forms. I will certainly be talking with my advisor about this. And I may withdraw.
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Oct 20, 2014 21:09
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along the way posted:Yes, where I work currently. We have like 100 employees. How well does it work out? Are they purchasing off a list of pre approved systems/phones? Does the department manager sign off? I'm just a bit shocked by this one firm that wants to give 100% control to a brand new employee.
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Grouchio posted:Apparently this course is a pre-requisite for a massive 4-language IT class crucial for IT majors. Which is why it's so very rigorous. I have two weeks to do this next assignment on forms. It's really not that rigorous as far as web design goes. The mistakes you're making in your posting about it are incredibly elementary and not even related to knowing how HTML works. Also why do they have a 4-language class?
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Grouchio posted:Apparently this course is a pre-requisite for a massive 4-language IT class crucial for IT majors. Which is why it's so very rigorous. I have two weeks to do this next assignment on forms. You should be talking to your professor during office hours to find out why you think it's so difficult. It's his job to teach you and help you through this stuff (within reason). Make use of it. What is an "IT major"? Is that CS? MIS? CIS? CE? Go look at w3schools. Bluntly, nothing you've posted is rigorous. It's the kind of stuff you would have found in a "teach yourself HTML in 24 hours" book in 2003 (it probably still is in those books), because you can teach yourself how forms and postdata work in 45 minutes with reasonable instruction and a little aptitude.
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Anyone have experience with lovely installs/updates? Some genius tried to update bit9 on like 300 machines and hosed it up, and was also stopped before rolling it out to more thank god but he was then fired before he could fix it. I have been handed this seemingly Gordian knot and am confused as poo poo. I tried to install the update and it says "hey, there is no bit9 to update." So I go to try a fresh base install and it says "hey, bit9 is already installed you doofus" so I try to go uninstall it and its not in any uninstall list and has no uninstaller in the folder. I tried to outright delete the folder, cause hey looks like its not attached or seen by anything, but am told I can't because SYSTEM owns the files. Elevated my rights, tried to delete again and no go. Logged in as admin and tried, same thing. How in the poo poo do I remove this? I thought re-installing/trying to repair would give me what I needed to uninstall or patch but I cant do that, and I cant patch because nothing is installed. I just gave up for the afternoon but am going to try again in the morning with Revo or some other similar crap but I dont have much hope.
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the spyder posted:How well does it work out? Are they purchasing off a list of pre approved systems/phones? Does the department manager sign off? It works out okay. No list really. We just work directly with our vendors and service providers and try to stick to the same models to keep support as simple as possible. We select the equipment based on business requirements, discuss it with our manager, and have him approve the purchase. Yeah, I dunno the situation there, but that does seem potentially problematic. Hopefully the FNG will use common sense with surveying the current inventory and what's in production before making purchasing decisions.
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along the way posted:It works out okay. No list really. We just work directly with our vendors and service providers and try to stick to the same models to keep support as simple as possible. We select the equipment based on business requirements, discuss it with our manager, and have him approve the purchase. Yea, it's a complete mess. All 100% custom built "gamer" desktops ranging from 3 months - 5 years old. No WDS, WSUS, software management. Ugg. At least it's not my problem. I'm just not seeing this as a good idea.
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the spyder posted:How well does it work out? Are they purchasing off a list of pre approved systems/phones? Does the department manager sign off? I ended up doing most of the end-user hardware purchasing at my first IT job, which was a ~80 person startup. I was technically under the IT Manager but he was incredibly lazy and happy to pawn off any responsibilities he possibly could to me (which was awesome for learning opportunities  ). It was pretty much as you said, we had a set list of 3-4 different machines and phones people could have depending on their role in the company (sales, developer, ~~Executive~~). When someone was hired, I'd fire off an order to Dell/Apple and have the finance person sign off. Wasn't a big deal.The responsibility wasn't handed to me on day 1, but maybe 6 months into the job.
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