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CatsOnTheInternet posted:Talking about cars and their kids
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# ¿ Oct 25, 2013 13:12 |
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 18:17 |
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QPZIL posted:Yeah I should have googled first. Apparently SCP is the de-facto secure backup avenue. Oh well! Does FileZilla server for Windows support SCP? SCP and SFTP are two different things right? SCP = 'ssh cp' and SFTP = a whole different ball of wax?
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# ¿ Oct 25, 2013 20:28 |
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Sickening posted:Talk about overrated. Pretzel buns were never good. Ruby Tuesday has a good one
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# ¿ Oct 28, 2013 20:09 |
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QPZIL posted:Turns out the hard drive died, and he'll have to wait a day or two more for the new one to come in and get set up since I'm just now calling Panasonic support. Panasonic laptop? Where the gently caress do you live? Broken HD = drive over to best Buy, buy a HD/SSD, take a long lunch, come back and re-install Windows.
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# ¿ Oct 29, 2013 15:02 |
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demonachizer posted:I would assume that he is dealing directly with panasonic because it is a warranty case. At one of my old gigs I got everyone CompleteCare from Dell + accidental damage because everyone was clumsy and they were usually traveling so it was perfect. No matter what they did or where they were I could usually get it fixed the very next day. Nativity In Black posted:Got a call from a headhunter yesterday wanting to put me in a helpdesk position at an area bank. The pay is better and it's less than a mile from my house, but I'd be going from a full time salaried position to a contract. The guy assures me that this thing will be going for a year or so and they hire people all the time but I think I've heard this too many times to trust. I may go to the interview and hear it from the horses mouth before I give up though. At least go to the interview and see what's up. Worst case you burn a half a vacation day and you tell them you're not interested.
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# ¿ Oct 29, 2013 15:14 |
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wintermuteCF posted:At that point, you're down to $45k annually. Then you have healthcare costs, other incidental benefits, etc. Remember stuff like going 6 months without 401k contributions and crap like that
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# ¿ Oct 29, 2013 16:29 |
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A job-hop could cost you $1,500 in retirement savings if: You make $50,000 a year You are putting in say 8% and employer matches 4% You don't start your new 401k until you're in for 3 months Job hop 3-4 times and that can add up. Of course you could fix that buy just chucking the $ in an IRA but it wouldn't be pre-tax or have an employer contribution (free money)
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# ¿ Oct 29, 2013 17:44 |
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Man, and I thought our Core Duo-based Xeon VMware servers were slow. P4? Really? Santa better bring me some servers this year.
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# ¿ Oct 29, 2013 21:09 |
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It takes 45 minutes to install something that should take...10?
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# ¿ Oct 29, 2013 21:15 |
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Bob Morales posted:It takes 45 minutes to install something that should take...10? "They are servers they just sit idle most of the time. They are not going to be upgraded." Okay. I'm never going to upgrade them, ever and refer to that email when people ask why. Ever.
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# ¿ Oct 29, 2013 21:27 |
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fivre posted:Either way, content filtering is usually stupid enough on its own, but content filtering by whitelist rather than blacklist? Are you nuts?
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2013 16:45 |
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We have an massive file cabinet full of stuff like USB and VGA cables. I could see keeping around 10, maybe 20 of each. But I bet we have a hundred each.
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# ¿ Nov 4, 2013 14:13 |
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Powdered Toast Man posted:OK, I think using a computer to cool off your beef stew is completely new to me. I'm pretty impressed. The advantage of combination kitchen/server room.
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# ¿ Nov 4, 2013 19:31 |
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Caged posted:All I know about old PBXs is that a guy I worked with who dealt with the Avaya stuff we had used to drink heavily. I kinda miss the old AUDIX box at my old job.
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# ¿ Nov 5, 2013 15:23 |
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They're remodeling the other half of our building so my boss (IT Director) is way more concerned with what the drywallers and painters are doing, and right now he's standing outside telling the dumpster guy that he need to put some oil dry down because they just blew hydraulic fluid all over the parking lot. IT DOES NOT CONCERN YOU GET THE gently caress BACK TO YOUR DESK AND WORK ON SOME PROJECTS
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2013 14:46 |
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gently caress compiling anything on Linux these days when you can just load up a Bitnami appliance all ready to go.
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# ¿ Nov 8, 2013 01:42 |
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Reminds me of one our helpdesk guys. Makes the users feel so stupid because they aren't nerds. REALLY? YOU'VE CALLED ME ABOUT THIS TEN TIMES BEFORE!!! JUST HIT CTRL-F, TAB, TAB, F8 AND IT CLEARS YOUR COOKIES. loving MORON11!!!!
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# ¿ Nov 11, 2013 22:31 |
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Paladine_PSoT posted:gently caress trying to make emails look nice on multiple platforms. Microsoft went from the IE model of HTML email to the Word model. Throws a wrench into anything you want to make look nice in GMail and Outlook. You get to use tables again! There's a website that has a much bigger list - anyone know what it is?
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# ¿ Nov 11, 2013 22:56 |
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Bob Morales posted:Microsoft went from the IE model of HTML email to the Word model. Throws a wrench into anything you want to make look nice in GMail and Outlook. You get to use tables again! Found it - http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
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# ¿ Nov 12, 2013 14:06 |
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rolleyes posted:drat, jacking a laptop from a charity on your way out the door is pretty scummy. At every place I've worked there's a certain level of employee where you just don't give your laptop back
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2013 00:46 |
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HalloKitty posted:I had a sound card fairly late, but I do remember having to change jumpers on various devices to adjust the IRQ. Then again, I enjoyed PC Speaker music. Especially when you had a decent driver, not just a stupid buzzer like today. PC speaker has always been 'just a buzzer'. And there was never 'PC speaker music'
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2013 17:52 |
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HalloKitty posted:Tell that to Pinball Fantasies. Or Lotus III. Or Monkey Island. Or Leisure Suit Larry. I knew that you *could* but I just didn't remember any games actually doing it - it was mostly just bleeps and bloops but I remember downloading little one-trick programs that would play a terrible rendition of certain songs or noises through PC speaker. Once I got my first 8-bit Soundblaster card I was blown away.
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2013 19:03 |
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Fil5000 posted:Didn't you also need "T4" or something in there? I'm sure mine used to have it in. code:
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2013 19:14 |
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Paladine_PSoT posted:AT E1Q0V1X4 &C1 &D2 S0=0 S11=34 Don't forget M0 we don't want to wake up the baby with 100 decibels of modem-dialing. Unless you're a scrub who didn't have an external modem with a volume control.
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2013 20:50 |
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My local ISP started with dial-up shell accounts so you could login as 'bobm' and you got a UNIX shell. Then one day they started to offer PPP internet access, so you could use Windows Dial-up Networking, and just change your login to 'bobm@ppp' and after you connected you could start Netscape or whatever. Once I dialed in from Procomm at a friends house (he was still stuck with DOS) and I used 'bobm@ppp' and was treated to a Matrix screensaver-like explosion of extended ASCII characters all over the screen.
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2013 21:17 |
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Paladine_PSoT posted:S0=0 shuts off the modem speaker You sure? Mn : Speaker Control Sn : Select a Specific S Register
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2013 21:45 |
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Agrikk posted:Are you nerds really debating the proper command for a technology that no one has used in twenty years? Maybe you need to go re-live DOS and modems http://www.masswerk.at/googleBBS/
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# ¿ Nov 14, 2013 14:41 |
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nitrogen posted:"Here, let me show you, its really easy!" and then rape him in the face with a heavy crescent wrench. That's annoying as gently caress when you're troubleshooting some issue with a vendor and you're on a cell phone because you can't get a desk phone in that closet or whatever. Get one of those cell extender things you plug into a network port.
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# ¿ Nov 20, 2013 14:16 |
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TWBalls posted:Yeah, I've been doing healthcare IT for ~13 years, so this shouldn't surprise me. It's also incredibly annoying when the company is on the opposite coast and only has support techs 8-5 their time. That's some bullshit. If you know you have customers in another time zone, you ought to be able to support them during normal business hours in that time zone as well. If you're in the USA don't ever, every buy software from a small company in Europe. Ever. That poo poo like 5 or more hours ahead of us.
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# ¿ Nov 20, 2013 19:27 |
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Sickening posted:He really is a nice guy. He just doesn't understand infosec and doesn't take it seriously. Hey boss-that-doesn't-know-jack-poo poo buddy. Our IT director yelled at a user for hitting 'send/receive' too many times. He said "You're flooding the network and causing collisions" by hitting that button over and over.
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# ¿ Nov 21, 2013 14:50 |
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Agrikk posted:I remember upgrading a chip, I want to say it was a 386 but I can't be sure, to a 486DX4 running at 100MHz using one of those wonky voltage converters. I remember those poo poo 486 upgrade chips for 286's, you'd be stuck with the bus and all your old poo poo components on your 286 Friend of mine had a ultra-lovely 486DLC or something weird with a 256k VGA card and it could barely play Wolfenstein worth a poo poo.
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# ¿ Nov 21, 2013 21:29 |
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Adding a couple HP 1022n printers to my print server just exploded the entire thing. Enjoy all the HP-2382F23 SSID's that are in your building now and will come back every time the printers are power cycled even if you 'disable' wireless. My boss bought, and keeps buying pallets of those loving things because they are seven bucks cheaper than what I would rather order.
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2013 16:55 |
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We're remodeling the other side of our building and one of the things we'll have is a new training room so my boss went to ABC Warehouse and bought three 60" plasma televisions. Aside from the fact that the IT Director who probably makes double what I do has spent the last week deal-hunting to save $50 on a TV, and wasted countless hours discussing televisions and wall mounts with half the people in the company, the remodel isn't going to be done for 3 months. So I've got this taking up a ton of room in front of me, and now each person who walks by my desk gets to serve up their very own version of: "Hey Bob looks like Santa came early!" "Hey Bob my TV's came in!" "Hey Bob just load one of those up in my car" Not to mention the helpdesk guy gets to talk LCD vs Plasma and Smart TV vs non-smart TV for hours on end.
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2013 17:03 |
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Caged posted:Consumer plasmas for static content "New plasmas don't have that problem" That room is going to be so loving hot.
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2013 17:11 |
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TWBalls posted:I can download Windows Defender offline and burn it to CD, but as old as this system is I'm not sure if it'll boot from CD, nor am I sure that it will be powerful enough to run it. Looking at the system requirements page, it needs a minimum of 768MB of RAM. This thing only has 256MB. I don't even know if it would clean out a Windows NT 4.0 machine.
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# ¿ Nov 27, 2013 22:24 |
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Ynglaur posted:The bad thing here isn't the up or down search: it's that your minion isn't using a proper text editor with multiple-file search, regular expressions, syntax highlighting, and a billion other useful functions. Or install something like Cygwin or some other way to run 'grep' inside of WIndows.
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2013 16:39 |
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evol262 posted:Yeah, like powershell's "select-string -pattern", which comes by default on every modern version of Windows Some of us are running iMail on Windows 2000 and don't get fancy modern stuff like that
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2013 17:16 |
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Swink posted:Are there services out there for testing the upload speed of a link? I need to verify the capacity of our newly installed internet link. Everything Google turns up like speedtest.net is a tiny upload file which is usually finished in 5 seconds. Some CDN's like CacheFly have 100mb files you can try (which won't take long at all on 20mb) http://www.cachefly.com/ Here's a 1GB test: http://test.gorillaservers.com/ Really what you could do is get a box with 100mb of bandwidth (whould be very cheap, think Linode or Digital Ocean) and just blast away at it.
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2013 16:18 |
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demonachizer posted:I think he wants a test for his upload not download. Not sure I see an upload test of a large size on those sites. He can still blast away at a VPS or dedicated server.
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2013 17:19 |
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 18:17 |
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:Welp. I just got out of a meeting with the ops manager and I had to tell him that inbetween last Wednesday and today, it appears that 10 laptops appeared to have walked off the premesis. I have a feeling that this is going to end poorly Are they not issued to specific people or did you just have a table full of laptops that were waiting for something?
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2013 16:39 |