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D. Ebdrup posted:Reports, deaths, exaggerated, et cetera.
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Arquinsiel posted:It's a genericised brandname at this point. You can pretty much always assume that when someone says "it's a flavour of Linux" they actually mean "it's a Unix-family OS with some differences that enrage me". Sure, it takes some adjusting, but that's why the OS' ship with man-pages. Of course, that's an issue where Linux seems.. less than stellar, so perhaps it's because people aren't used to man-pages?
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freebsd is garbage because the iproute2 commands don't exist also bsd coreutils use a real kernel you weirdo
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DigitalMocking posted:A ticket came in: Hahahahahaha Marketing or a Sales person, or is it one of the support engineers?
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kensei posted:Hahahahahaha Sales of course.
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Methanar posted:freebsd is garbage because the iproute2 commands don't exist also bsd coreutils Curiously enough, iproute2 is based on API-compatibility with JunOS, which runs FreeBSD (and incidentally, an appliance CLI does not belong on a Unix-like). And iproute2 was was a POLA violation and caused many ABI and KBI compatibility problems. Plus, the only reason Linux uses it now is that nobody thought "oh hey maybe it's not the best idea in the world if we let one of the core utilities not have an active maintainer for more than a decade, because that won't come back to bite us at all".  Incidentally, iproute2 is also the perfect example of the vendor lock-in; RedHat adopted it, so everyone had to follow. No matter what you think about System500, it's also a perfect demonstration that there is not as much variety in Linux now as there has been, which seems a real pity because that's one of Linux' biggest strengths.
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GreenNight posted:I agree 100%. But I have faith. The motherboard on that PC died last week and manufacturing got a replacement from ebay, swapped the CPU, and got it all up and running without any IT involvement. I was impressed. Find the kid who did that and put him in on the professional courtesy loop. He might come in clutch again. Or he might go cowboy someday and gently caress something up. You'll prefer to know him, either way.
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kensei posted:Hahahahahaha Government employee is also not outside the realm of possiblity
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No, that would be a private server.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:No, that would be a private server. Because government employees never use personal email to conduct business
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We were hit yesterday by a spoofed 'secure' email from an employee. I am a regional IT admin and do not have access to exchange online to run powershell at all, so all I could do was forward the instructions to the home office help desk (offshore) and wait for them to do the needful. The needful was never done. We had probably 40 employees I know of who clicked and tried to enter their O365 creds into an 'Adobe' site.  They all get changed passwords, scans and to redo security training!
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This week our head of HR responded to an email from our ex CEO asking to update his direct deposit information. Then shortly after she informed us that she believes it may be a scam. He's our ex CEO because he's been dead for two years.
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siggy2021 posted:He's our ex CEO because he's been dead for two years. Good job keeping on top of things. He can expect a solid middle score on his review, if CEOs had reviews.
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siggy2021 posted:This week our head of HR responded to an email from our ex CEO asking to update his direct deposit information. Then shortly after she informed us that she believes it may be a scam. Maybe he has  unfinished business
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That Dang Lizard posted:Maybe he has They're a CEO, so that would require them actually contributing to the business in the first place.
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GreenNight posted:I got a request to clone two IDE drives running DOS that controls mission critical manufacturing equipment at our manufacturing facilities. I'm working on a virtualization solution for systems like that. Sure, saying "image system, run in Quemu/KVM" is easy, but somebody needs to make an iptables forwarding rule for every domain controller. All hail clonezilla. All hail bash over "I'm not copying and pasting out of that file 20 times" GreenNight posted:I was talking to the Acronis dudes via their website and they told me that they don't support FAT16. Maybe it does and the guy from India was feeding me a line. They might not. They went from a consumer solution to enterprisey backup system in about a year. I've spent a fair amount of time this year working with the Acronis Advanced 12.5 non-public API and I can say this: they're doing good software, but they have cut a corner here and there. D. Ebdrup posted:No matter what you think about System500, it's also a perfect demonstration that there is not as much variety in Linux now as there has been, which seems a real pity because that's one of Linux' biggest strengths. System what now ? I googled "System500" and got synthesizer stuff from Roland. System400 got generic AS/400 links. So what's this System 500 stuff all about then ? Eikre posted:Find the kid who did that and put him in on the professional courtesy loop. He might come in clutch again. Or he might go cowboy someday and gently caress something up. You'll prefer to know him, either way. Having a knowledgeable pair of hands at a remote site is golden.
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mllaneza posted:System what now ? I googled "System500" and got synthesizer stuff from Roland. System400 got generic AS/400 links. So what's this System 500 stuff all about then ? Roman numeral D = 500, it's SystemD.
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Eikre posted:Find the kid who did that and put him in on the professional courtesy loop. He might come in clutch again. Or he might go cowboy someday and gently caress something up. You'll prefer to know him, either way. Not a kid. 55 year old industrial engineer. He said he did it because I was on vacation. I need to go on vacation more.
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nielsm posted:Roman numeral D = 500, it's SystemD. Strong avatar post combo 
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mllaneza posted:Add in a really well done JAMF setup I think I found your flaw, not one of my previous (or current) bosses would approve a purchase that would bring macs under the rule of IT.
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I discovered a workflow in finance that involves intentionally renaming a csv to xls so that excel does not parse it correctly in order for them to run a macro. If you open it as a csv, the macro fails.
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Excel for some reason has a horrible workflow for opening CSV files and it seems like blind luck whether you get the opportunity to let it know what data types are in each column to avoid it turning a list of phone numbers into 1.23E+06 or whatever.
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Apr 16, 2019 21:24
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LibreOffice unironically handles csv files better than excel.
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yeah I ran into excel and CSV stupidity last night and was too tired to deal with it so I went to bed instead of working.; I didn't find 10 bux but I slept well.
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It is profoundly difficult to get Excel to keep the leading zeroes in a CSV it's opening. Even if it's the program that created the CSV in the first place.
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Apr 16, 2019 21:55
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Powershell, for all your .csv needs ! Or awk.
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mllaneza posted:Powershell, for all your .csv needs ! Unless your company bans Powershell on all endpoints!
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I've read that just renaming a .csv to .txt and opening it in Excel will get you to pick the data types every time because it doesn't even try to guess. Which is probably going to change my life.
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It also acts totally different if you open a workbook and Import a .csv opposed to just opening a .csv file by double clicking it FOR REASONS.
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Relentless posted:It also acts totally different if you open a workbook and Import a .csv opposed to just opening a .csv file by double clicking it FOR REASONS. Probably a totally different handler for each type of opening operation. You know. FOR REASONS.
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CSV gets extra fun if you live in a country with decimal comma and people just copy/paste their stuff into files in notepad and then wonder why it broke.
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Geemer posted:CSV gets extra fun if you live in a country with decimal comma and people just copy/paste their stuff into files in notepad and then wonder why it broke. I have spent so much effort stopping people putting the units in spreadsheet columns that I just don't bother now and they can enjoy not being able to manipulate the data in any way.
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Thanks Ants posted:Excel for some reason has a horrible workflow for opening CSV files and it seems like blind luck whether you get the opportunity to let it know what data types are in each column to avoid it turning a list of phone numbers into 1.23E+06 or whatever. I work with a bunch of codes in excel in the format of ##E### and I'd say it's 50/50 shot whether or not Excel actually listens to me that it's text and not a number that needs to be converted. I have better luck just throwing an apostrophe in front of everything.
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Oh dear. https://twitter.com/alexhern/status/1118478714621313024?s=21
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Thanks Ants posted:I have spent so much effort stopping people putting the units in spreadsheet columns that I just don't bother now and they can enjoy not being able to manipulate the data in any way. Guess none of those people took a modern science class where graphs were part of the report you needed to do. Or maybe they did and forgot.
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iospace posted:Guess none of those people took a modern science class where graphs were part of the report you needed to do.
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Wibla posted:LibreOffice unironically handles csv files better than excel. Yes this exactly... LO pops up a import box whenever opening a CSV that lets you define column formats, so that things like Dates, numbers with leading zeros, etc.. get pulled in correctly. LO is also good for opening corrupt files that Word/Excel would otherwise not attempt to open.
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Protip - Office documents are just zip files
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Apr 17, 2019 16:48
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Thanks Ants posted:Protip - Office documents are just zip files 
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Yep.. from 2007 onward I believe... The "x" formats, i.e. docx, xlsx, etc... are actually zip files. Open a DOCX in something like 7Zip and you'll see some sub folders and XML files. The actual content of the document itself is inside the "Word" folder as document.xml with formatting, styles, etc.. stored in other files. On a side note, I recently got sent a Apple .pages file to open from HR. Someone submitted their resume in this format. Absolutely nothing seems to support opening this format, not even LibreOffice which usually supports everything.
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