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Here are some classic Midelne memoirs, pics included: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2834226&pagenumber=1224&perpage=40#post413450688 And a little something I did at my last job:  
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Inspector_666 posted:You have to put at least one reference to Fort Kickass in there, dude. 
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Sterling_Archer posted:I feel like this is already a little long. About as long as a novel. Now how about you spell it Novell? Good luck to you though, that will be a long and tedious job but so worth it to bring them into 2014 tech when it's all done. And yes, keep us posted. That was a long post but with a lot of good detail, no problem here.
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Since you're in Canada, blacksword, you should write the professional letter in English and the mean letter en francais.
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Dec 14, 2013 02:16
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tomapot posted:my boss was a theater major and the guy I now manage was a stage magician. Your boss:  Your subordinate: 
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Dec 21, 2013 17:11
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Kachunkachunk posted:There's also a dude that shares the name David Gilmour where I work. Can't help but think spacey tunes and thoughts when his e-mails go around. There's a David Mason at my office, every time he sends an email it triggers this in me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utl0NfisZQE
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Dec 31, 2013 18:57
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I don't know how you could post that without including a link to a reference article.  I work for an MSP, but spend a good deal of my time at one particular client. I actually enjoy visiting them, they're good people and appreciate my presence. And I never have a hard time with anyone there. They've been on a hiring spree the past few months and are pretty much out of not only vacant cubicles, but also places to put new desks. They have managed to squeeze in a few more along the outer walls (nice window view!) but due to a shortage of power & network drops, I've not only had to use a bunch of little 8-port switches and PoE injectors to get everyone's stuff connected, I've also had to daisy-chain power strips. Not keen on that. I even concocted one guy's desk out of two teardrop tables:  (New desks have since arrived, he'll build his when he's good & ready) Just found out a few days ago that they're going to reconfigure one side of the office to make room for more cubicles/desk space. Thus, 50ish users will have to migrate to the other side and double up in already occupied cubicles for a week while it's done. Never have I hoped more deeply for most of them to work from home that week, and for remote access to just work.
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Feb 9, 2014 10:13
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The client I work at most frequently issues ThinkPads with ThinkPad OneLink docks. The power adapters are the same, so everybody gets two - one for their dock and one for their laptop.
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Feb 18, 2014 19:55
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You need to dress up (and act like) Peter Gibbons meeting with the two Bobs.
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Feb 21, 2014 06:09
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I found at my old job that the best way to convey information to that boss was to write all the facts in an email, send it, give him a few minutes to digest it and then go discuss it with him. I did have to give him a few minutes because if I went immediately he'd just want me to verbally repeat what I just sent him. I'd rather he read the whole drat thing first where he can't interrupt it. Plus, the facts and communications are documented that way.
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Feb 26, 2014 04:48
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Moey posted:I probably have missed this, but where are you located at? I think Alberta, Canada.
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Feb 27, 2014 07:21
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Renegret posted:So, uh, logged into a tool at work and took a look at the URL: I remember old Sonicwalls doing that in the status bar.
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Mar 9, 2014 21:23
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A ticket came in.... last Friday at 5pm  Client's server has a folder on it with thousands of duplicate files, would like a list of them. I eventually find a free app that allows export to .csv for free, run it and send the result. I even get a thank-you email for it on Saturday! Today client writes back and wants to know, of the 82GB in this folder, how much of that is files 5MB and greater (11GB worth), and how much space would be saved by deleting their duplicates (6.2GB). I send her these answers, and she'd like to go ahead and delete duplicates 5MB and up. I'm not much of a scripting guy, but I imagine a batch file could do this - could it? EDIT: Never mind, looks like nirsoft has what I need!http://www.nirsoft.net/articles/find_duplicate_files.html Edit 2: Only thing it doesn't do is let me select only the duplicate files. TITTIEKISSER69 fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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Mar 12, 2014 22:56
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Hmmmm. I'll play with it and see. The current search result has 1,210 files including originals. Many files have more than one duplicate (I saw one with 13). Hopefully this gives me what I need.
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Mar 12, 2014 23:40
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:What kind of server is this? If they're stuck on Windows and you can get them up to 2012, deduplication will work wonders. 2008 (non-r2) SBS. I was able to do what I needed with Duplicate Cleaner Free by Digital Volcano, which is what I used in the first place to list all the duplicate files. Sorted!
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Mar 13, 2014 06:37
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ratbert90 posted:1) Get drivers Outlook 2013 does not support Exchange 2003.
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Mar 18, 2014 18:20
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porktree posted:A ticket came in.. HR has purchased a half-dozen TV's to display 'Company News' to put in the break rooms. Now they want to know how they get the news from their PC to the TV. Maybe they should have thought about that earlier in the process, but HR. I have a client with four TVs on the walls around the office, normally showing Bloomberg TV, but they did ask me to put on the Olympic hockey games and now March Madness games. Anyway they all use these and there's one computer in the server room as the source. Works great.
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Mar 22, 2014 06:40
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HalloKitty posted:I can't remember who, and he'll probably chime in on this thread moaning back at me, but in the laptop buying thread there was a guy who posted a photo of his completely ruined HP laptop, covered in duct tape, saying he'd always treated it well. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3552651&pagenumber=212&perpage=40#post429016786
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May 5, 2014 20:35
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Bravo! If you're leaving any friends behind, see if you can score them an interview too.
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May 28, 2014 19:37
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Manslaughter posted:Duct tape one of these to a normal speaker and you're all set! 
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Jun 5, 2014 17:12
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A little levity keeps us all sane.
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Jun 9, 2014 16:59
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A termination came in... (not mine!) I work at an MSP and spend a lot of time at one client, who is growing pretty rapidly. I've been working with this client since the end of September, and in that time I've known of two people getting canned. This is the second guy. I wasn't there yesterday but I was on Gchat with the office manager, who was working from home. She gave me a heads up that the termination request was incoming, and it was immediate. Apparently the guy was let go around lunchtime, stormed out, and slammed a handful of change on the floor as he left. The change will have to be mailed to him.
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Jun 26, 2014 11:00
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Godsped posted:She joked about doing that but instead she's going to sort through all of them. I'm pretty sure this thread was where I learned about a tool that will export emails from Outlook into .pst files by year. It might make her task easier if she uses that - sort thru 2014 emails, then 2013, etc.
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Jun 27, 2014 16:54
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The MSP I work for has had the pleasure of offboarding a notoriously difficult client. This is a memory of them from/for the archives:
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Jul 8, 2014 20:51
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I once saw desktop PCs running Windows 7 with static page files, set to 18000MB min and max.
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Jul 13, 2014 08:41
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Fortis posted:I asked my boss about that right away and he said "we will support whenever people work". 
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Jul 17, 2014 04:37
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Today I accidentally discovered WinKey+Tab on Windows 7.
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Jul 25, 2014 20:56
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MJP posted:Anyone still got a Cryptolocker infection that this could be tested on? https://www.decryptcryptolocker.com/ Man if I wasn't going out of town today for 11 days I'd love to try this on a laptop I haven't wiped yet.
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Sep 3, 2014 22:34
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Maybe Real Alternative will do the job.
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Sep 6, 2014 15:13
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Not an Anthem posted:True story I live three blocks or so from real HQ. It's a huge fancy building with landscaping. What the hell do they do anymore? Produce carbon dioxide?
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Sep 8, 2014 17:12
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anthonypants posted:An e-mail from the CIO: So he can keep the System Restore feature!
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Sep 9, 2014 19:06
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pr0digal posted:I was getting this today Dear God, that reminds me so much of my old boss.
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Sep 15, 2014 20:34
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One client I visited asked me to assess their current desktop PCs and recommend upgrades/replacements. For some reason a lot of them had the page file set to exactly 18000 MB.
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Sep 19, 2014 02:51
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Rohaq posted:I honestly didn't believe this would ever happen: 
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Oct 15, 2014 15:35
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Manslaughter posted:.Bort!? Who names their file extension .Bort!? My extension is also named .bort 
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Oct 16, 2014 20:13
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Collateral Damage posted:Well I can add some complaining of my own re: Lync.. My offsite boss complains if I'm not signed in to lync at all times. If I'm offline when I should be at work he'll call me up and ask where I am. You can use Do Not Disturb. Still, I'm a bit sad that my favorite client switched to Lync 2013 from Spark.
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Oct 24, 2014 20:50
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m.hache posted:We had a driver pull away with his cargo doors open once and dump cargo all over the place. We printed his face with "WORLDS BEST DRIVER" and stuck it to the front door of the building for him to see when he came back. "My door is always open!"
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Nov 4, 2014 19:38
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I work for an MSP and one of our remote access tools is ScreenConnect. It gives you a four letter code to give the customer to join the session. This happened today: 
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stubblyhead posted:Oh god now that's just sick. Yep, sounds pretty scuzzy.
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