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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > More shit that pisses you off: What does that say about the quality of your emails?
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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 Seems like they would be pretty silly of them to do that, glad they aren't.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 I really like old computer books, as long as I have some bookshelf space I'll never throw away stuff like a Quick Basic 4.5 book.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 I've got an intel 86/88, 186/188 User's Manual on my shelf. No pic, forgot my phone today.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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ConfusedUs posted:

QA:
My team:

If you take this and extrapolate it to infinity, you get the entirety of modern corporate operations.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 Why wouldn't they do this, these are electronical?!

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 but jpg can carry viruses :ohdear:

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 I heard amazon was buying cargo planes and hiring last haul gig drivers themselves, so probably that.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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Bob Morales posted:

They ordered a $200 die

Hah. Sounds like a fun place to work if you are into metalworking :shobon: The company by machinists, for machinists.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 Taking your salary in office equipment eh?

Also, yeah tell them to hire someone unless they are going to pay for your truck's upkeep and insurance.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 Exception being if it's a small company where they really would let you borrow the truck if the situation was reversed I guess.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 Why not?

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 I didn't realize what thread this was and thought that was a personal project. Changing my opinion to Whyyyy

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 Someone please tell them about DIN rail and terminal blocks.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 Everyone got valuable experience. What do you mean by 'is it related to their normal job?'

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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Thanks Ants posted:

Wait a sec are both the inputs at the back just paralleled together?

Just in case one of the devices needs 40A. BTW a circuit breaker might be a good thing to put in there.

Thanks Ants posted:

Lol of course the case isn't grounded at all
Oh, that's fine, just have to make sure it has 2 layers of nonconductive material.. you know what nevermind

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 It'll work fine forever to spite us.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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duz posted:

What if I put it in the sink over the drain instead? Is that good enough?

As long as it covers the drain perfectly so it acts like a stopper and you never move it, ever.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 Cybertron sales associate doing a bangup job

Bob Morales posted:

Yea I'm buddies with a dude outside of work

Also - they are building four more of those power strips

Did they incorporate any changes into the design?

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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mllaneza posted:

The best sales job I've seen recently was inflicted on our Corporate Communications team. They wanted a PC that could drive 4 monitors in a slideshow to play in building lobbies. IT speced out a USDT machine with a PCI video card with 4 ports (Nvidia something) for under a grand. And that'd be a standard machine we keep parts for.

What I found when I went to fix a bad fan that Reception had called in was very much not that.

Take an HP Z240 workstation, 8GB/1TB. Stick one of those Nvidia cards in it. Run a DisplayPort cable to the Z240 and plug it into a DP-miniDP adapter so it can connect to the ports in the add-in video card, ignoring both of the two actual DP ports and the VGA port.

Now buy three more Z240s because you have three more displays to control ! That's right ! 4 miniDP, 2 DP, and 1 VGA port times four machines, minus 4 miniDP used, is a total of 24 unused video ports in that array !

I'd like to shake that salesperson's hand, but I'd count my fingers afterwards.

That's so extravagant I feel like sales would be too ashamed* to pitch that, and the customer demanded it for some stupid reason.

*I know they have no shame, could be they shot for the moon and hit and they are a hero

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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Woof Blitzer posted:

We need a backup generator. Here is the engine from a used F-150, you have 24 hours.

I'd work there, sounds rad. Assuming we use the generator for something cool and urgent and not to put aside until the power goes out a year later.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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Bob Morales posted:

Today XXXX asked YYYY and me to look into Reception computers and the Manager computer to look for suspicious .exe files. After setting restore points, I then used the following forfiles command::: forfiles /P C: /S /D +01/07/2020 /m *.exe /C "cmd /c echo @PATH" ::: I then continued to scan each computer using KVRT (Kapersky Virus Removal Tool). Manager came back with 6 detected threat objects which were either cured or deleted from the machine. The others resulted with no threats.

Starting to think XXXX is a problem.

taqueso fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Jan 14, 2020

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 They can maybe take your licenses away but you don't ever have to let them inspect poo poo or enter the building if you don't want to.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 Serial connections are not designed for hot plugging, but you can get away with it mostly.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 paint the shed danielson

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 nonessential employees get to die in the gutter

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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The Fool posted:

Yeah, but if the guy is having to cycle between vendors because of credit holds, his employer is bad at paying bills.

welcome to 70% of companies

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 some of our customers (the big companies of course because they know you aren't going to tell them to go away) negotiate longer terms than normal and then pay late every time and I know they aren't hurting for the little checks they are going to send us.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 and you can't trust the redactions anyway

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 But I've been assured USB-C is much more robust than micro usb :negative:

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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DelphiAegis posted:

Everybody makes fun of the bald guy until the barbershops close and we're the only ones who know how to cut our own hair.

:hf::unsmith:

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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The Iron Rose posted:

I learned a new word today - never heard of a styptic pencil before. Just one of those things you somehow never run across in your life before!
They essentially disappeared when people thought aluminum caused alzheimers.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 remember when joe would microwave popcorn and forget to check it? miss you guyz

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 Documems has a nice ring to it

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 When you bought the machine it came with v2 but you didn't pay for maintenance and now it's on v6

Also people buying used

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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klosterdev posted:

our shadow IT department has its own shadow IT department
what the gently caress man

BOFH spotted

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 It's been a long while since I've seen a 'maybe I should put folding@home on a work computer' post.

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 Nah just use a curation service

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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Blue Moonlight posted:

Sounds like they’re capturing the chaotic energy of their namesake well.

they are way more chaotic and evil than their namesake which is saying something

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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 I want a plush this is fine dog now

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


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Moo the cow posted:

Important Teams meeting and my PC has an unskippable 'Your computer is about to restart' counter ticking down.

The 'remaining time' bar has gone from green to yellow and now red.

I think this should be a permanent feature of all calls.

its the perfect excuse

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