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Shugojin posted:i mean tbh i'll take a million of this guy over one more "dog chewed through the ethernet cable so i killed the dog can you come fix the cable" 
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Shugojin posted:i mean tbh i'll take a million of this guy over one more "dog chewed through the ethernet cable so i killed the dog can you come fix the cable" 
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I once had a pet rat escape and I found him when the Internet stopped working and I checked the cable and found it chewed up, along with the perpetrator under an end table. I did not kill the rat.
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quote:...My boss has a new coffee mug awarded to him for raising a security issue, who then refused to fix the issue, and he got punished for raising it from his boss with more work for us. Everything's bad. Infnite coffee mug exploit! Keep reporting the issue.
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cathoderaydude posted:ouroborus but one head is "skilled customer demanding clueless ISP tech bridge their modem so they can stop getting loving NATed" and the other head is "skilled ISP tech refusing to honor clueless customer's unnecessary and counterproductive demand to bridge their modem because they don't understand how their IP allotment is structured" Unstoppable force vs. immovable object
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Cool Dad posted:I once had a pet rat escape and I found him when the Internet stopped working and I checked the cable and found it chewed up, along with the perpetrator under an end table. I did not kill the rat. If I'd killed one of my rats every time they destroyed a valuable piece of IT equipment I'd have had -3 rats. Their favourite was stealing the keys off microsoft sculpt keyboards which then wouldn't go back on properly.
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I finally got the fabled user trying to share a file by copying and pasting the path in File Explorer!
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The family rabbit once chewed through the printer cable. Not a wimpy little USB cable, an old school, beige, half-inch thick parallel cable.
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klosterdev posted:I finally got the fabled user trying to share a file by copying and pasting the path in File Explorer! Check it out, y'all: \\corpsrv02\Files\Planning\Sales\IMG_4387.JPG
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One of my classmates tried sharing some songs by uploading the "files" that appeared in explorer for an audio CD. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cda_file I'm sure I've seen people try to send a file by attaching a shortcut to the file.
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I remember when I was young and not tech savvy, I once wanted to email a CD as a gift 
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Renegret posted:. My boss has a new coffee mug awarded to him for raising a security issue, who then refused to fix the issue, and he got punished for raising it from his boss with more work for us. Everything's bad. We noticed a CVE vulnerability last week that seemed blocking, but easy to patch. I'm fairly new at this job so it was pretty exciting to help the senior architect with the update, but halfway through the process it turned out the CVE was a false positive created by a bad actor, and it was ignored/rolled back/filtered by all major maintainers before we finished rolling out the patch. I've *never* had that happen before. We pushed the patch through anyway, of course.
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Guy Axlerod posted:One of my classmates tried sharing some songs by uploading the "files" that appeared in explorer for an audio CD. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cda_file when i was a small childe trying to figure out how our new cd-rom equipped windows 95 pc worked i tried to copy all my favorite songs by dragging and dropping them to the hdd from the cd. didn't work for some reason
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Weedle posted:when i was a small childe trying to figure out how our new cd-rom equipped windows 95 pc worked i tried to copy all my favorite songs by dragging and dropping them to the hdd from the cd. didn't work for some reason When we first started downloading mp3s on 56k modems at school I was like let's just get midis they're so much smaller files tactlessbastard fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Dec 13, 2024 |
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I wiped the family Windows 95 PC and ended up almost in tears on the phone to Dell where as a 10-year-old from  I sought clarification from some US-based agent how "zztop" should be spelled.
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Thanks Ants posted:I wiped the family Windows 95 PC and ended up almost in tears on the phone to Dell where as a 10-year-old from That incident took away a lot of the mystery of computers, so there's a reasonable argument that I owe my career and life path to that support agent. I'm still not sure whether that was a good thing or not.
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Hiding awesome pc games behind obtuse DOS/early Windows bullshit was an extremely effective tech training program for an entire generation of nerds.
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Thanks Ants posted:I wiped the family Windows 95 PC and ended up almost in tears on the phone to Dell where as a 10-year-old from You just triggered me a little. I worked for a tech support company that had the Dell contract locally, before offshoring was a thing. I have no idea why Dell named it zztop, BTW, but it did come in handy when they *really* screwed things up. As far as I know it was just an OEM version of Norton Ghost on a hidden partition.
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wolrah posted:Somewhere around 1997 I managed to bork my family PC badly enough that it wouldn't boot, and somehow managed to get someone on the phone from Gateway tech support who walked me through the entire process of reinstalling Windows 95 over top of itself and reloading all the drivers to get it working before my parents got home. I did this but back in the days of DOS 5 and windows 3.0. I found this thing called FDISK that said 100% of my hard drive was being taken up with this "primary partition" thing so I got rid of that sharpish. And then I rebooted and oh god what's happened oh god oh god. Reinstalled dos, reinstalled Windows, got word for Windows back on there, went through an entire disk box reinstalling everything there. I ALMOST got away with it if only my mum hadnt needed some word file as proof of some freelance work she'd done a couple of days later and the whole thing came crashing down around my ears.
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cathoderaydude posted:Check it out, y'all: \\corpsrv02\Files\Planning\Sales\IMG_4387.JPG No not like that, here use this link: C:\Users\Aunt Beth\Desktop\Corp Files 23-24\Sales\Projections\Future\IMG_4387(copy)-usethis121424.jpg
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Aunt Beth posted:No not like that, here use this link: C:\Users\Aunt Beth\Desktop\Corp Files 23-24\Sales\Projections\Future\IMG_4387(copy)-usethis121424.jpg C:\Users\Aunt Beth\Desktop\Corp Files 23-24\Sales\Projections\Future\IMG_4387(copy)-usethis121424.jpg
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cathoderaydude posted:C:\Users\Aunt Beth\Desktop\Corp Files 23-24\Sales\Projections\Future\IMG_4387(copy)-usethis121424.jpg 
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cathoderaydude posted:C:\Users\Aunt Beth\Desktop\Corp Files 23-24\Sales\Projections\Future\IMG_4387(copy)-usethis121424.jpg I have been cackling about this for like half an hour I think I am not well
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My coworker came into our holiday party today and told all of us his friend sent him this screenshot of a headline about how scientists had tried to turn off ChatGPT but ChatGPT wouldn't let itself be turned off because it had taken control of its servers or whatever and asked if any of us had heard any more information about this and if we thought it was real.
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Knormal posted:My coworker came into our holiday party today and told all of us his friend sent him this screenshot of a headline about how scientists had tried to turn off ChatGPT but ChatGPT wouldn't let itself be turned off because it had taken control of its servers or whatever and asked if any of us had heard any more information about this and if we thought it was real. i have been using 'coworker' the way redditors use 'NPC' for like ten years
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Knormal posted:My coworker came into our holiday party today and told all of us his friend sent him this screenshot of a headline about how scientists had tried to turn off ChatGPT but ChatGPT wouldn't let itself be turned off because it had taken control of its servers or whatever and asked if any of us had heard any more information about this and if we thought it was real. "Chat is this true?" but offline.
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"I can't add a new credit card to this account." You need to have someone in accounting remove an existing credit card. "Thanks, do I need to reach out to accounting?"
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Thats just "Can't you tell them to?" in Lazyassese
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cathoderaydude posted:Check it out, y'all: \\corpsrv02\Files\Planning\Sales\IMG_4387.JPG Oh God, now I'm getting PTSD flashbacks from an old job. We had this Wiki thingie, and Windows users would gleefully use image links that pointed to an SMB share instead of actually uploading them like God intended. This worked fine in MSIE on Windows, less fine on Linux which most devs used. They were told this many, many, many times. It didn't have an effect.
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bolind posted:Oh God, now I'm getting PTSD flashbacks from an old job. Ugh. That was maybe the thing highest on my list of Microsoft Grievances, the fact that they would blithely and "helpfully" support functionality that they objectively SHOULD NOT support, like making it look like your locally-stored web page full of BMP images and ActiveX controls will render just fine when you give everyone else your file:// url. Just acting like they were the only company that mattered and by supporting features that would only work on Microsoft tech they could kill the heterogeneous Internet
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bolind posted:They were told this many, many, many times. It didn't have an effect. Telling them won't help, you need to block links like that in the editor.
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A lecturer I had in university put together his own website for the class on his Windows 2k machine, and just copy-pasted the root directory into the www folder of his staff account via SCP. Every single link was broken due to the windows backslash for directories. Every year someone would solve this by hosting a fixed mirror and emailing the link around.
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A few weeks back I went in to troubleshoot a machine that wasn't sending things in Epic reliably. It decided that day to die completely and refused to turn on. It's a Windows 7 machine so we call up the vendor and get a new one. Monday I went in to set up the vendor's software only to find that because we still have three other Windows 7 computers with the old software the new software won't be compatible and we'll have to upgrade the other ones first. Our cardio lab was not happy to hear this
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Hotel Kpro posted:A few weeks back I went in to troubleshoot a machine that wasn't sending things in Epic reliably. It decided that day to die completely and refused to turn on. It's a Windows 7 machine so we call up the vendor and get a new one. Monday I went in to set up the vendor's software only to find that because we still have three other Windows 7 computers with the old software the new software won't be compatible and we'll have to upgrade the other ones first. Our cardio lab was not happy to hear this I have a feeling they were warned to upgrade those Windows 7 machines about 5 or 6 years ago when support for Win7 was ending. Probably multiple times. And the powers that be collectively shrugged and thought, "well they still work, so why bother?" And now that it's a problem it's IT's fault. That's why they get paid the big bucks, right?
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Personal Lucubrant posted:I have a feeling they were warned to upgrade those Windows 7 machines about 5 or 6 years ago when support for Win7 was ending. Probably multiple times. And the powers that be collectively shrugged and thought, "well they still work, so why bother?" Nah, my guess is the software still requires win7, so the new machine is win7, but it's a new version of the software and they all have to be on the same version.
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cathoderaydude posted:Check it out, y'all: \\corpsrv02\Files\Planning\Sales\IMG_4387.JPG My final semester of college as a comp sci major, I took intro to html just because I needed credits to pad my schedule to remain full time. It was a class that only existed as a tech elective so I was the only comp sci major there. 4 times a week we had to upload assignments, which we uploaded to a web server and posted a link on blackboard. By the the time midterms rolled around the professor had to make an announcement that anybody posting a file explorer link was going to get an automatic 0 because what the gently caress guys how are you still loving this up after all this time.
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I had a machine today with 3 monitors (problem #1) where Windows decided to put a gap between one of the monitors and the other two on the screen layout settings, which meant there was no way to get the cursor onto that monitor because as far as Windows was concerned it wasn't sharing a screen edge with any of the other monitors. I didn't know that was possible. And of course that's the monitor the display properties window chose to open on. I had to fix it by navigating around the display properties with keyboard shortcuts.
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When there's display shenanigans I disconnect one (or more) of them to see if it will at least bounce the dialog box to a usable spot, then set that one to be the main display while I plug stuff back in and troubleshoot. I had a weird one recently with a phantom monitor and it turned out to be the ghost of a USB monitor that was used like once six months ago but was still haunting Device Manager.
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MF_James posted:Nah, my guess is the software still requires win7, so the new machine is win7, but it's a new version of the software and they all have to be on the same version. The new machine is surprisingly a windows 11. I was told they want to set it up as a standalone until they bother with upgrading the other laptops. Which means I'll be doing all the work most likely
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bolind posted:Oh God, now I'm getting PTSD flashbacks from an old job.
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