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Moey posted:We are slowly switching to Epson for all of our ceiling mounted poo poo. So far no complaints. I thought you were in Denver, did you move to Leadville or something?
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stubblyhead posted:I thought you were in Denver, did you move to Leadville or something? Just on the other side of the 10 mile range from Leadville, over in Breck.
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Oh god drat it, our senior EE resigned this morning just as I came in.  Ironically enough, we are a "real company" in the sense that we have no VC and are self supporting. You would think we still were if you walked in here at 10am- none of the engineers would be in yet and only half the other staff would around, the rest are either traveling, working from home, or showing up with the Engineers.
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Apr 11, 2014 18:17
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Sickening posted:Projectors have always made me nervous. They just aren't something you buy often enough to really know what is good and what is bad. The pricetag is also one of those things that makes buying a lemon scary as gently caress. We're probably a different case than most of you, since we're the ones who install and maintain them, but the "lowest" quality we go is Cannon, the main bulk of our install base is Sony, then sprinkle in some ProjectionDesign/Barco and Christie. In the low-mid to mid end of the market Sony's projectors are really strong.
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Apr 11, 2014 18:26
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Paladine_PSoT posted:No, he's right and you probably should pay attention when your manager talks to you about your wording. The fact of the matter is yes, bosses (or people who are higher on the chain but not your direct boss) can be dicks. This should be dealt with, but properly. Being abrasive, rude, or otherwise insubordinate is a fast track to getting canned with cause. I'm paying attention to my (actual) manager who told me to calm down. Like I said, the other manager started being a dick and I did it back. Its childish, but they at least know its reactionary rather than me going out of my way to cause trouble. I have been putting up with this rear end in a top hat for the last month and I know he's done it to others. For the last month (aside from this week) i've let the guy throw his tantrum, let it go and gotten on with my work. He's not in any way right. If he's going to throw a tantrum, i'll do it back. He's already been told that what he's doing is wrong, that's more progress in a day than i've made in a month. I won't get canned, there is a process that they have to abide by and the only reason they can fire me is if something I do seriously fucks over the company. This will get me a verbal warning, which is my first of four strikes. I'm perfectly willing to trade a warning to get this guy off my back. UK, workers rights and poo poo, basically.
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Apr 11, 2014 18:55
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SharePoint. We are buying it, there's nothing I can do about that, and 
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Apr 11, 2014 20:38
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Fortis posted:SharePoint. If I had to choose SharePoint vs some shitbomb our mediocre internal developers created and patched and jimmy-rigged for years and years, I'd pick SharePoint every time.
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Apr 11, 2014 20:46
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Fortis posted:SharePoint. I'm so sorry. Prepare to drink heavi-AN UNEXPECTED ERROR HAS OCCURRED. Oops, time to rebuild the web.config. Oh, and if you value your sanity, make your developers use this and use it yourself in Powershell: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.administration.spwebapplication.webconfigmodifications(v=office.15).ASPX - it'll auto distribute webconfig mods to all your servers so you don't have to do it yourself, and maintain them if you add a new server. It is the single most hidden but useful admin thing in SP, I swear. poo poo that pisses me off today: Stupid managers. "Why isn't everyone excited to use Chef to automate everything?!" Maybe because they have their job and it's not usually required to randomly learn Ruby just to script out your installs? I'm all for automation and I learned Ruby just for Chef, but I was explicitly hired to do that - I'm not some Joe Webdev that is used to working in C#/T-SQL that suddenly is given a language that is duck-typed and full of dynamic programming stuff and has a completely different syntax, doesn't work in Visual Studio, and has no intellisense unless you spend 3 weeks configuring VIM and Ctags to work exactly right. Urit fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Apr 11, 2014 |
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Apr 11, 2014 20:58
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Urit posted:I'm so sorry. Prepare to drink heavi-AN UNEXPECTED ERROR HAS OCCURRED. Sorry, something went wrong. v  vWorking on it... Which reminds me, I can't deal with the way the latest generation of MS software tries to talk to me like it's a loving person. gently caress you, SharePoint/Windows/Office. If you're going to simulate actual human conversation, at least skip including the part where you don't know what the gently caress you're talking about and give me details about the errors 
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Apr 11, 2014 21:06
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Fortis posted:Sorry, something went wrong. v Oh yes, I hate that. I actually stopped being a SP admin just as 2013 was coming out, so I avoided most of that. The first time I installed the beta and it poo poo itself (during the initial load of Central Admin after PSConfig no less) with "Sorry, something went wrong.", it made me cringe. I term that sort of thing "Obsequious Software", and I hate it. I agree, just tell me the bloody error and give me a stack trace so I can figure out what went wrong. It's even better when a user just sends you a screenshot (in a word doc of course) of the "Sorry, something went wrong" error page.
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Apr 11, 2014 21:48
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Urit posted:It's even better when a user just sends you a screenshot (in a word doc of course) of the "Sorry, something went wrong" error page. I almost threw a tape dispenser through my monitor and I should have punched out half an hour ago. Thank you for that...
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Apr 11, 2014 23:34
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Urit posted:
Haha did I tell you guys about the senior dev in another (related) team who wrote all of their apps using literally every bleeding edge tool/library/language he could find? We say things like "so how do you do a deployment?" And we get "uh the code is self documenting because it's all in chef well it used to be in PowerShell but half of it is now in ruby because I preferred the syntax oh yeah you should probably learn about rake files whatever". We have to take over their apps and are semi hosed because our (.net) developers are being driven insane by this guys answers. The simplest question either gets a blank stare or something like "well it's obvious".
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Apr 12, 2014 01:12
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47MB Excel document. 10k columns x 300 rows, 99.9% blank.
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Apr 12, 2014 01:19
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So our security guy is in super  mode today as it was discovered that the Rootkit installed on my work laptop (and other coworkers computers) came from our domain controllers.In an unrelated security adventure none of the machines not joined to our domain have been compromised. People are seriously talking about ditching our domain and going with local user accounts for everything because it's more secure. Lets just say that our domain was set up like a piece of poo poo from the beginning, with Domain Admins having literally 20 members in it and people running as local administrators (including Finance people and QA accounts) 
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Apr 12, 2014 01:31
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Lum posted:Post automated server status updates to Tumblr. Will work just like the above, but also people will reply to them with Sherlock GIFs and comments that your server should kill itself for being white and cisgender, even if it's actually an HP DL380 G5 with a PERC4 RAID controller. I think this is the best post in the thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m-e4PgiVfM Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Apr 12, 2014 |
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Apr 12, 2014 01:36
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Bob Morales posted:47MB Excel document. 10k columns x 300 rows, 99.9% blank.
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Bob Morales posted:47MB Excel document. 10k columns x 300 rows, 99.9% blank.
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Apr 12, 2014 01:40
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Bob Morales posted:47MB Excel document. 10k columns x 300 rows, 99.9% blank. I've seen a hard-to-reproduce bug that results in file size bloat, but the post above is probably correct: it's probably just formatting. Saving in binary format (XLSB) usually reduces the file size and file open time.
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Apr 12, 2014 01:55
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:I think this is the best post in the thread. I actually quite like Tumblr, but yeah, the middle-class teenage SJW part of it can go choke on a bag of dicks consensually.
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Apr 12, 2014 13:39
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Bob Morales posted:47MB Excel document. 10k columns x 300 rows, 99.9% blank. ~60MB CSV file with 1200 rows filled. The rest of 65535 rows were empty.
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Apr 13, 2014 20:46
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Bob Morales posted:47MB Excel document. 10k columns x 300 rows, 99.9% blank. Sounds like my current outfit. I've received a "cleanup" of one of my spreadsheets that looked suspiciously like someone had tried to make it look like a power point presentation. It ended up being around 60MB… Same person leaves columns A, B and rows 1, 2 empty. To improve the presentability of the spreadsheet - If the dataset is too big to be presented on a single page, i.e. it is greater than 30 rows or 10 columns, NEW TAB AHOY BITCHES!
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Apr 14, 2014 10:56
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We had a decent storm this weekend. The marketing HBIC called me up to set her new email account up on her phone because she's too busy to give me 10 minutes of her time last week. Of course, her phone is at 16% battery and she has no internet or power at her house. Go to loving Starbucks/McDonalds/TimHortons/random coffee shop/library "I have window washers coming at 10:30, I can't leave the house" #richpeopleproblems
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Apr 14, 2014 14:50
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Today now marks the FOURTH time I've downloaded a modern.ie image and it's been broken out of the box with a BSOD on boot. This is the third computer and second host operating system I've used.
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Apr 14, 2014 17:29
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With Monday comes yet another resignation, our engineering department is now 90% gutted. 
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Apr 14, 2014 20:24
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the spyder posted:With Monday comes yet another resignation, our engineering department is now 90% gutted. Either conditions are bad or your company is bottom of the barrel of the salary range.
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Apr 14, 2014 20:36
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Sickening posted:Either conditions are bad or your company is bottom of the barrel of the salary range.
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Apr 14, 2014 20:38
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God damned vendor is pulling the reporting tool our ticketing system uses and is replacing it with a different one that is harder to use, and has less granularity. After our IS department sent me the "instructions" (read incomplete poorly made word document) I spent several hours trying to replicate the report the old system gave us, and after failing I contacted the support team whose response was basically to "keep messing with all the different reports and options until you find something close to the old reports." What the gently caress kind of answer is that? loving massive pain in the rear end that I've already wasted half a day on. The ticketing system is already a horrible fit for my group and what we do that we've been shoehorned into at the bequest of IS, and this is just the cherry on top of the poo poo sundae.
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I'm going for both. No one has been "happy" in that department since everyone was switched to Salary (effectively giving a 20-30% pay cut- on the flip side, there were engineers over billing everything). Their managers style has not helped either. We're a growing company that still has the start-up management structure in place and the pains are obvious. Overall, it's a good thing- but only if we can quickly get qualified people back in here. I'm just sitting here in horror, like most the other supporting staff.
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Things pissing me off today. I get a text message from a coworker saying another coworker quit last night. He sent an email to our boss last night and dropped off his laptop, badge, and test phones. So now we are down an airwatch tech. That means more tickets being assigned to me for a platform that I am only somewhat familiar with. No idea why he quit other than being really frustrated, but we all are. We get assigned project work, but are expected to keep working tickets. Might by time to yotj for me soon. I have been looking to leave the east coast, or at least this city for a while.
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antisodachrist posted:Things pissing me off today. I get a text message from a coworker saying another coworker quit last night. You should ask him, he might know something you don't. Also the place he is going might be hiring.
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frogbert posted:You should ask him, he might know something you don't. Also the place he is going might be hiring. He has been there for maybe six months, and I have been there for three years. I have had no issues, but we need headcount and they won't give it to us. Apparently people with three years experience with mdm software are like the Holy Grail for recruiters.
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I am working with a consultant who is getting a bit big for his boots. His service is a strange one, he provides documentation for us, obviously many people can document an IT setup, I think his USP is that he has a strong relationship with our auditors/client. Part of the dilemma is at the start of the project we were asked for the type of documents this guy produces and we refused as it was not part of the contract we have in place. Then someone in their infinite wisdom decided to bring this guy on board for a couple of weeks to do 'just the basics to keep the client happy' Fast forward approx 6 months, my line manager has opted to leave the project to focus on his day job and Mr Consultant has accrued many hours - I believe he has now identified the gap where my line manager has left and is trying to jump in and make a place for himself that isn't really there. I'm not ultimately responsible for the budget that pays him so I don't care on that front. However I did notice he has manage to add around a dozen tasks into the project plan and is now directing me to complete them! It is somewhat irritating when this consultant said he would be here this week to lend a hand in any way he could... and then is a no show. He likes to report to the Project Owner that everything is on time and he will do anything to avoid any slippage, which the project owner seems to be impressed by. so tl;dr - consultant is brought on to do a small piece of work and has now convinced management we need his service even though our initial stance was his service wasn't contractually required. He has also started barking orders at various people after impressing project owner with buzzwords and claims of delivering much more than he really does, project owner yet to notice as consultant is essentially doing his job for him. Time for a chat with the boss!
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angry armadillo posted:I am working with a consultant who is getting a bit big for his boots. If it can be done appropriately, you may just want to come out and ask him what he sees his role as. If he gives some broad-sweeping "I solve problems", then he's likely a hammer looking for a nail. (Don't be the nail.) If he has a specific set of activities and responsibilities, that may be okay, depending on what the list is.
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He has done the I solve problems bit already so there are alarm bells ringing! He sent me around a dozen emails yesterday, all probably in within 5 minutes and every single one was 'can you do x / can you check y / please do z and tell me when it's complete' which was probably where I went 'hang on a minute I need to challenge this' I think the challenge will be explaining to a non-IT person (the project owner) that this consultant is trying to milk things a bit by blinding him with science/bullshit - meanwhile the project owner is happy that this guy is stepping up to fill the resource gap of my boss leaving... but in reality, we don't need the resource, we have a plan - I'm quite capable of delivering - and my boss IS at the end of the phone if we run into anything that requires a decision.
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angry armadillo posted:He has done the I solve problems bit already so there are alarm bells ringing!
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Is this the right thread to complain about how Outlook and GMail IMAP interact? Because trying to move a 21GB pst file into an IMAP account is getting unjustifiably hard. Why does outlook stop every other operation to sync its accounts? Why isn't the default behaviour "sync the whole account not just the main folders" ? Not featured in this post: "why did my outsourced colleague set up POP accounts for such huge mail accounts?" and "why are we using Outlook if we don't have an Exchange server?".
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Char posted:"why are we using Outlook if we don't have an Exchange server?". Here's your problem distilled down into one sentence. Outlook needs to be viewed as an Exchange client, and not a standalone PIM type application. If you aren't on Exchange then using Outlook will just cause you unnecessary hassle.
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angry armadillo posted:He has done the I solve problems bit already so there are alarm bells ringing! If he's not in your chain of command then tell him to piss off, and remind him that he was hired to do X. If he pushes it then perhaps upper management would be interested in knowing that the guy is seriously over-billing your company for services that were neither negotiated nor approved.
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 Hi eithedog. X told me to do this this and this. Well, what specifically did he say how to do it? Well - he thought you'll know how to approach it as you've integrated it. Ok, but what exactly did he say? I've never worked on this project, so... You're never going to tell me what did he said, will youAnd he never did!
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Char posted:"why are we using Outlook if we don't have an Exchange server?". Because it's better than the alternatives.
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