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psydude posted:Anyone ever bring lunch to work but still went out for food as an excuse to get the gently caress away from the office? This is one of those days I do that every day. I tupperware my boring rear end chicken breast and broccoli or whatever to eat at my desk but always step out with a few dudes from other groups when they go to the food court. It's a good time to get the gently caress away but also gossip like mean girls about typical IT/organization bullshit.
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KozmoNaut posted:Reheated Assortment of Inexpensive Dishes ftfy
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Nov 14, 2014 06:05
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Weatherman posted:ftfy Noice
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Volmarias posted:It's not Having done lots of Google Apps and Office 365 implementations I'd say that if you have staff who are open to the concept of change or are happy to say "no gently caress you we aren't using Outlook any more" to them, then Google Apps is the far less painful quirky broken option. It doesn't have as many unused features as 365, but what's there works, and the web UI isn't awful.
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Nov 14, 2014 11:44
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So when the feds renewed our contract they explicitly barred us from traveling anywhere, even locally. I guess these 40 EOL devices at the 20 branch offices are going to replace themselves. The best part is that they're going to get mad at us when we can't replace them in time. 
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Nov 14, 2014 14:00
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Without anything being discussed, it seems my elevation path has been changed. It used to go from the on call support person up to the appropriate on call IT person. Now, it seems that it goes from the on call support person, up to their director, over to my director, up to their boss, and then down the IT chain, resulting in an all hands on desk conference call. Yyyyyyyes!
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Nov 14, 2014 14:14
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I go out to eat every day and spend exorbitantly because I'm worth it
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Nov 14, 2014 14:34
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Volmarias posted:Its Google and I can't stop humblebragging Do you work for the search, Android, or Chrome teams? If you're in search, loving sort out CJK searches If you're in Android, loving fix your VPN support. It was broken from 2.x to 4.0, and from 4.2 - now. If you work on Chrome for iOS, have a look at the bug that Cisco filed 2 or so years ago, because you've managed to botch VPN on iOS too, and it's irritating (I've actually bitched about all of this to my friend at Google but he's not on any of those teams and while he totally got the CJK issue when I explained it to him, he's about as able to change it as I am)
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Thanks Ants posted:Having done lots of Google Apps and Office 365 implementations I'd say that if you have staff who are open to the concept of change or are happy to say "no gently caress you we aren't using Outlook any more" to them, then Google Apps is the far less painful quirky broken option. It doesn't have as many unused features as 365, but what's there works, and the web UI isn't awful. For individual users, Google Apps is the poo poo. But if yo have to manage groups and stuff, it's a loving nightmare (I know there is PowerShell stuff, but out of the box it's all so loving rear end backwards.)
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Nov 14, 2014 15:38
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ookiimarukochan posted:Do you work for the search, Android, or Chrome teams? Why would you want to sort out CJK results by default?
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Zamujasa posted:This is basically every DVR on the planet, it seems. They're all Chinese garbage and rely on home-grown protocols and other poo poo that break if you so much as sneeze at them. Seconding this... However I seem to have stumbled onto an exception for the first time. We use Vivotek branded IP cameras at work. They provide a nice free software package called ST7501 that works only with their cameras. Surprisingly, it is some of the best DVR/NVR software I have ever used. Runs perfectly fine on all modern versions of windows, doesn't require UAC or any other security features to be disabled, its very stable, and the GUI is surprisingly nice.
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Nov 14, 2014 15:49
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An issue we've been fighting the client and Microsoft over for two weeks was fixed this morning by changing a login from domain\user to user@domain. Yay.
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ookiimarukochan posted:Do you work for the search, Android, or Chrome teams? I don't work on any of those teams!
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Volmarias posted:I don't work on any of those teams! How googly would you say your experience has been
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Inspector_666 posted:For individual users, Google Apps is the poo poo. But if yo have to manage groups and stuff, it's a loving nightmare (I know there is PowerShell stuff, but out of the box it's all so loving rear end backwards.) We're well north of 2k people in the google apps domain at work and it works well. Idunno what they use to manage it though, but probably some scripting on top of the HR system (or the AD that HR feeds into).
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Inspector_666 posted:For individual users, Google Apps is the poo poo. But if yo have to manage groups and stuff, it's a loving nightmare (I know there is PowerShell stuff, but out of the box it's all so loving rear end backwards.) We used Google Apps at a place I worked. Out of 35 users, 2 couldn't get their email one day. Support? What support? Some lovely online 'durrr have you tried this' stuff, and then you can send an email off to be returned with something like "Some accounts currently have limited access. We do not have an estimate of when service will be restored." poo poo started magically working about 24 hours later.
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Bob Morales posted:We used Google Apps at a place I worked. Out of 35 users, 2 couldn't get their email one day. third_party_application_support.txt
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KaneTW posted:Why would you want to sort out CJK results by default? Unicode treats CJK as one language - they've got gently caress all in common, it'd be like having RCG for "Roman, Cyrillic, Greek" - and Google weight the gently caress out of Chinese results which means that if you search for Japanese terms on Google.com you have a good chance of Chinese results being returned even if there are Japanese-only codepoints used. Google Japan, you can search for Japanese stuff fine, but it weights the gently caress out of Japanese results so you can't search for English stuff (i.e. any search for an API question / error on google.co.jp is basically useless) and I hate having to switch between search engines depending on language when they could easily throw in a CJK weighting toggle in the advanced search engine settings.
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psydude posted:How googly would you say your experience has been Trick question, I don't live in a lovely Vince Vaughn movie.
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My boss seriously needs to grow a backbone. I sent out the outages for the weekend and we always specify if systems will be down, when, and why. For this weekend we're doing patching on Sunday. For Saturday we made sure to put down there wouldn't be any systems down. Some manager couldn't read and started bitching about how our systems need to be up on Saturday. According to my boss it is our fault this loving idiot can't read and now we're bending over backwards getting his approval on what our notifications should look like.
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jim truds posted:My boss seriously needs to grow a backbone. I sent out the outages for the weekend and we always specify if systems will be down, when, and why. For this weekend we're doing patching on Sunday. For Saturday we made sure to put down there wouldn't be any systems down. Some manager couldn't read and started bitching about how our systems need to be up on Saturday. According to my boss it is our fault this loving idiot can't read and now we're bending over backwards getting his approval on what our notifications should look like. Write the notification in single syllable words. Thing* not work. We fix thing. To fix thing, we stop thing. Then we start thing. When thing back up, thing works! *I can't think of a one syllable word for computer or server, or whatever.
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SubjectVerbObject posted:*I can't think of a one syllable word for computer or server, or whatever. box
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Volmarias posted:Trick question, I don't live in a lovely Vince Vaughn movie. Would you believe me if I said I've heard actual real employees of Google use that term unironically?
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Thanks Ants posted:Having done lots of Google Apps and Office 365 implementations I'd say that if you have staff who are open to the concept of change or are happy to say "no gently caress you we aren't using Outlook any more" to them, then Google Apps is the far less painful quirky broken option. It doesn't have as many unused features as 365, but what's there works, and the web UI isn't awful. For some reason like a third of the people here want to use Outlook with Google Apps. I don't understand it, but it works okay unless you want to search through your email beyond the most recent 1GB.
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psydude posted:Would you believe me if I said I've heard actual real employees of Google use that term unironically? Yes, I would. It just tends to mean whatever the speaker wants it to mean, however, so it really doesn't mean anything. Same thing as "Amazonian" did at Amazon. That said, Google is definitely a whole different world from what I've ever experienced, and on the whole it's pretty great.
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My tech director just called me from home to help him connect to his home wifi on a Windows XP computer gently caress my life and promote me jesus christ
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Nov 14, 2014 20:52
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he's reading me every program on his start menu while he looks for the program that's managing his wireless
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Roargasm posted:he's reading me every program on his start menu while he looks for the program that's managing his wireless Bonus points if he's using SP1 with WPA/WPA2 and you have to talk him through getting the patch loaded to make it work!
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totalnewbie posted:But, storage. Storage is so cheap these days No it isn't. totalnewbie posted:Yeah, I was thinking of that a bit after I posted that. How much is a reasonable one for a 200 person office? 10-15k? Depends. Number of people isn't how you measure it. But for quality? 40k give or take after you buy all the software/service agreement poo poo. Networked storage in general tends to be the most expensive thing on the network. Rhymenoserous fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Nov 14, 2014 |
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BelDin posted:Bonus points if he's using SP1 with WPA/WPA2 and you have to talk him through getting the patch loaded to make it work! Bonus bonus points if the wifi hardware is so old it can't support WPA2
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Volmarias posted:I don't work on any of those teams! He gets their coffee!
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Nov 14, 2014 23:19
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Without anything being discussed, it seems my elevation path has been changed. It used to go from the on call support person up to the appropriate on call IT person. Now, it seems that it goes from the on call support person, up to their director, over to my director, up to their boss, and then down the IT chain, resulting in an all hands on desk conference call. Yyyyyyyes! I guarantee this gets changed quickly, especially if 2am calls for piddly poo poo are at all frequent. No way that senior director/CIO/whoever wants to get woken up for something he can't personally do anything about and can be fixed by a couple guys on the front lines.
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Rhymenoserous posted:No it isn't. Just to give an idea, a quick look at newegg shows their top 'Featured Product', which is just a NAS rack with no disks, at 7 grand. That doesn't include any service agreements or anything like that beyond the 3 year limited warranty. http://www.newegg.com/Rackmount-NAS/SubCategory/ID-2982?Tid=18252&Order=FEATURED
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So you want me to troubleshoot a iPhone app that wasn't distributed by my company. That is installed on a device that wasn't issued by my company. ..... Never loving call here again
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That Guy From Pearldiver posted:So you want me to troubleshoot a iPhone app that wasn't distributed by my company. That is installed on a device that wasn't issued by my company. Someone's not being customer-focused! Tsk tsk.
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I would have expected him to go the extra mile on that one. Very disappointed.
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I get to go in tomorrow and support a side of the building with very little training and on my own. I've been told that the folks over there will do everything in their power to blame me (IT) for production errors, lack of work done, and anything else they can think of. It's going to be fun.
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Che Delilas posted:Someone's not being customer-focused! Tsk tsk. I swear, if I have this seemingly innocuous conversation Coworker: "Hey Stripe the bathroom light is out" Me: "Oh word? I'll use the one upstairs, thanks" I will hear about it later because I was supposed to change the light bulb or something. Also yeah I still say "oh word?" because it's 1997. MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Nov 15, 2014 |
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