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Yeah, it's a 2011 model. E-waste it.
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Zapf Dingbat posted:A tickert:
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Zapf Dingbat posted:A tickert: Who in 2018 even uses CDs as part of their daily workflow?
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Who in 2018 even uses CDs as part of their daily workflow? [/quote] Disk access mouse cursor?
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Jonny Nox posted:Who in 2018 even uses CDs as part of their daily workflow? quote:Disk access mouse cursor? Archives of Bonzi Buddy Cursors
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I am under the impressions like 10% of our optical drives are busted but no one uses them. Couple years could go by before anyone bothers lol.
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GreenNight posted:100% HP isn’t bad. It’s good to standardize. It is! The reason HP was chosen is not known to me, and probably doesn't matter in the long run. Corsair Pool Boy posted:It was probably blinking because it didn't have any RAM. Pop some DIMMs in there and I bet it takes you right to the 'no bootable device' screen. Sounds as likely as anything else. We don't have spare DIMMs to throw in there and while fixing a hosed BIOS is within my job description, caring about why/how parts mysteriously disappeared is not. That is why the case of the missing parts is Asset Management's problem now, instead of mine. spankmeister posted:Yeah, or just write it off and stop worrying about it. Thanks Ants posted:Yeah, it's a 2011 model. E-waste it. Exactly. I wager that once the AM guys figure out where the gently caress the HDD/RAM went, we'll E-waste it. We don't have parts on hand to replace the missing poo poo and we're not so ungodly strapped for money that we have to keep this old hardware running. We have a stack of 6550bs that, since there is no patch for Spectre/Meltdown for them and they are vulnerable, are going to get similarly decommissioned and recycled.
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Our outsourced IT is worse than useless. We put in a ticket for a domain's SSL certificate expiring ten days ago. IT logged this as a "future event" and put it on hold. Cue yesterday when the certificate expired and nothing had been done with the ticket still on hold.
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Yesterday I got a Compaq Armada E500 back that apparently was still being used in production. Windows 2000 baby!
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u brexit ukip it posted:Our outsourced IT is worse than useless. We put in a ticket for a domain's SSL certificate expiring ten days ago. IT logged this as a "future event" and put it on hold. Cue yesterday when the certificate expired and nothing had been done with the ticket still on hold. Almost all outsourced IT is worse than useless. This coming from someone that deals (or rather dealt) with them on a daily basis.
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Malek posted:Almost all outsourced IT is worse than useless. We have some large customers who have outsourced IT so I can confirm this.
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We are the outsourced IT and I can also confirm.
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GreenNight posted:Compaq Armada
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The people at my job thought they hated "how bad IT is" until we we dipped our toe into overflow and overnight calls going to some outsourced people and lol that changed overnight.
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LethalGeek posted:The people at my job thought they hated "how bad IT is" until we we dipped our toe into overflow and overnight calls going to some outsourced people and lol that changed overnight. Same thing happened when we got bought. We used to be so slow and unresponsive and now people have to wait 2-3 days for a ticket to even be triaged/assigned and it's amazing watching the dawning realization that we are actually good and fast.
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dragonshardz posted:who would bother stealing the HDD and RAM of a base model Probook 6560b? A sata HDD is useful to anyone who knows how to use it. Any RAM is very sellable. We had a similar case. Someone brought in their machine. "I came back from vacation and it's not working." "Do you need files from it?" "No our team uses the network drives." Great. So we put it in the 're-image these' box, gave them a replacement of the same model that was ready-to-go and forgot about it for a couple months until we were desperate for used machines. Turns out it is hard to image something with no hard drive. At this point no one remembered who dropped it off. While the machine was on the AD, afaik we don't have a way of determining who last used it. The spreadsheet that connects machines to people was not reliable in this case: the listed person quit the company years ago resulting in a classic case of team leaders hoarding former employee hardware. We reported it to our boss where it became Not My Problem™. The machine was never seen heard from again. Hand it off to your boss or security officer maybe? It has become 'a security issue" what with potential company or personal info.
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Quick question before I go to the Haus of Tech Support, has anyone ever heard of 3d modelling software breaking sound on a computer? Possibly just Bluetooth, but I think the 3.5mm jacks on the back of the motherboard too. My wife installed the ZBrush trial and the sound stopped working. Then she uninstalled and restarted, it started working again (this was after a lot of fruitless troubleshooting). She loaded up Photoshop's 3D rendering tool, and the exact same thing happened. We ended up just doing a system restore to yesterday because I had no idea how to find the components of Photoshop and remove the 3D part without messing with all of the other brushes and stuff she's added. Now sound is working again, but I really want to see if I can figure out how to get 3d modelling working for her, it's really weird to me because I can't find anything about this happening.
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That's gotta be some weird driver conflict or something of that nature.
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ConfusedUs posted:That's gotta be some weird driver conflict or something of that nature. Agreed. I know that Windows hates the driver that came with my aftermarket soundcard. Everytime Microsoft pushes a major update windows "helpfully" updates the driver to the Microsoft generic version and changes the line-in 3.5mm jack to a microphone jack. The first time it happened I was unprepared and the increase in volume plus the automatically applied +20db boost drat near destroyed my speakers.
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Heran Bago posted:Hand it off to your boss or security officer maybe? It has become 'a security issue" what with potential company or personal info. Already handed off to the people whose job it is to look into these things - AKA, not me!
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LethalGeek posted:I am under the impressions like 10% of our optical drives are busted but no one uses them. Couple years could go by before anyone bothers lol. I just keep a couple usb opticals to loan out on hand whenever someone needs to read a disc. I don’t loan them out very often.
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The Nastier Nate posted:I just keep a couple usb opticals to loan out on hand whenever someone needs to read a disc. This is what we do. It works very well.
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Classic....
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Ahdinko posted:Classic.... Ticket Solved: Restored all users except for [BLANK]'s.
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Ahdinko posted:Classic.... Please tell me it was protected from accidental deletion.
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quote:Good Morning NEXXAIS-BOSS,
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nexxai posted:I must be having a stroke That's always nice, I think I've had a single client, one time, send praise to a manager/someone other than myself.
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nexxai posted:I must be having a stroke You may take an extra 5 minutes on your lunch break today (you will have to stay late to make up this time).
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MF_James posted:That's always nice, I think I've had a single client, one time, send praise to a manager/someone other than myself. We have a monthly meeting with our primary software vendor's support, and I always try to make a point of mentioning anyone who was helpful to me or went out of their way for me. I'm not super happy with their support, but there are definitely some people there who do their best and deserve some sort of positive reinforcement.
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nexxai posted:I must be having a stroke Frame it, ask for raise, champ!
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What is the best private VPN provider and how do you research them? I’d ask in the IT questions thread but I’m a few thousand posts behind. Nord VPN is offering 3 years for $99 (better than the SA deal) but I don’t know if it’s actually good. https://slickdeals.net/share/iphone_app/fp/363079 This was in the comments: Quote from smile17: For torrents, TorGuard is the best. I can keep connection for days. I got their VPN for 2 years for $50 (so $25 per year) with 50% off code: TGLifetime50 7 days free to try. 1. First go to their home page: https://torguard.net/index.php 2. Up top click on Anonymous VPN 3. Top-right Annually 59.99 Buy VPN 4. Next page will show option for 2 years: $99.99USD Biennially 5. Follow prompts, enter promo code, and so on. yummy Bigass Moth fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Aug 25, 2018 |
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Nord VPN is fine. It's cheap, it works, and it's based in Panema. Not sure what else you'd really want?
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I like NordVPN for how easy it is to select an exit node in a country of your choice. Great for circumventing dumb regional restrictions.
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Yeah I looked into NordVPN a bit and the reviews and stories don't seem to set off any alarm bells, and they won't play ball with Netflix which means I won't have to turn it off every time I want to watch something.
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Why don't you just spin your own. Algo let's you spin up your own using a cloud provider of your choice. Then it generates all the keys and profiles for iOS/Android/windows/Mac/Linux, etc. Google Cloud has a $300 trial which should last you quite a while as long as you don't do heavy streaming through it. Then you can generate a new email address and spin up another Algo box quickly.
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Mustache Ride posted:Why don't you just spin your own. Algo let's you spin up your own using a cloud provider of your choice. Then it generates all the keys and profiles for iOS/Android/windows/Mac/Linux, etc. Unless they changed I believe GCP is $300 or 3 months, whichever comes first. E: you're right. I wonder if they changed it or I just burned $300 in 3 mo. BallerBallerDillz fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Aug 25, 2018 |
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Pretty sure it's $300 or 1 year.
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You can also run Algo on a digital ocean droplet. If you actually care about privacy, you should not use a public VPN service. https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
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Corsair Pool Boy posted:Yeah I looked into NordVPN a bit and the reviews and stories don't seem to set off any alarm bells, and they won't play ball with Netflix which means I won't have to turn it off every time I want to watch something. You do need to turn it off for netflix though.
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