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devmd01 posted:My former employer is going to have that as they shut down, they have announced liquidation to start next week. Every pc in the company will need to have its hard drive scrapped for pci-dss compliance once they start selling off assets after liquidation, have fun with that! I work at a big pharma company with, oh, 14,000 people on campus. We have a full-time person just for wiping drives and doing the paperwork.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:The source code for DikuMUD is open source. Fire up a MOO and get serious. PennMUSH was where it was at
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Tigren posted:It's really not that hard to understand why she's excited and truly appreciative of someone using her work as intended, right? Like, when users understand how to fill out a ticket form properly and don't require their hand held through the extremely self explanatory fields. Other departments, they're just like us! Head of Marketing is happy because someone used their logo and didn't do some combination of: * Convert it to a JPEG and add artifacts * Use an undersized source image, scale it up, and add jaggies (and make the JPEG artifacts far worse) * Screw up the colorspace * Lose the transparent background And you usually get all of them at once. The poor woman probably put up a whole web page under corporate communications, with hi res and vector versions of the logo, which nobody ever uses.
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LochNessMonster posted:Prepare for a six pack per day. When my doctor asks me about my alcohol consumption, he already makes these little "tsk tsk" noises after I answer. That's why I have -project and -product in my search terms on job sites. e: CloFan posted:It took 10 months to fully roll out Gmail HOW ?
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pixaal posted:I haven't really kept in touch with anyone there, everyone was against making any changes and any form of automation. I'm keeping an eye out though but I have a feeling they will. There was a known virus on the file server as well that an outside consultant was paid to make a script that was run every 5 minutes that cleaned up the payload.No one but me was at all concerned about this. It's like the system just gets Tourette's every so often.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Continue the cycle! Prepare three envelopes.... Seriously, just make sure everybody is on the same page of what to do week to week, cover contingencies and emergencies, plan for the next three years, and don't be an rear end in a top hat. And don't annoy the people below your direct reports.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Also Hotmail got pretty thoroughly integrated after its purchase. On the second try anyway. It turns out, 1998 isn't when you want to try and replace a huge server farm running BSD and Sendmail with NT4 and IIS 1.0.
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alg posted:Nope Notes really sucks Everybody in the whole world would be using Notes for workflow, forms, and document management if some asshat hadn't gone and implemented email in it.
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Sepist posted:A recruiter just sent me a network architect position where out of 48 words in a paragraph, 12% of them were the word "Architect". Used as both a verb and a noun, right ? My funniest experience with Microsoft certs is having taken their networking basics, discovering that I was working in a wrong answer. You know the one, which end of a really slow, high-latency link do you put DHCP and DNS for a remote office ? That was also the weekend that I found out the home office was going to be offline all weekend to set up their shiny new generator... when people started calling me to ask why the network was down. I didn't get a notification because nobody in Networks remembered that all services for my office ran out of their office. 
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Sometimes people wanting to get into IT ask me for advice. I get weird looks when I tell them to never show any proficiency in working on printers. Don't spill toner, but make sure that you're not the go-to guy for printers unless you're gunning for a job with Konica. I do that with phone system too. It's never worked. And now I'm at an MSP that fixes Xerox printers. At least they're EOLing the whole concept of incredibly poorly engineered solid ink printers.
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If you have a Trader Joe's nearby, see what they're selling Lismore's basic blended for. It's $16.99 a fifth in San Francisco and a really good regular Scotch for the price. And it makes killer Manhattans.
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Vargatron posted:Anyone have any advice for a Skype interview with a university? I got a call today for a 45 minute interview in a couple weeks. Skype interview ? Collared shirt, nice tie, boxers.
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Thanatosian posted:Yeah, you'd think charging departments based on how much security checking they do would create some terrible perverse incentives. Charge 'em for cleanups and create some proper incentives.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Too critical to promote.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Expense those. And some Unix books.
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Dick Trauma posted:I got a double high five for fixing an insidious issue with a live 3d rendering plugin for Revit. Outstanding ! Have a virtual fist bump too.
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Proteus Jones posted:I wouldn't think it was a bad thing. If I saw you actively taking notes during the interview (paper or iPad) that would definitely be a positive. At my last interview I had some Python code on my iPad, and when it came up I pulled out the pad and did the side-by-die presentation thing. It seemed well received.
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Ahh PTO. Back at one particularly hosed up job I kept bouncing up against the accumulation limit, 4 weeks a year after 5 years. I tried to use it I really did, but bullshit kept coming up. Like checking with my boss about coverage for next week's vacation and being told "I thought you'd already taken it." I'm the only person in that office so WELP. Then mom needs surgery and someone to look after her during recovery. She settles the date and I put in my FMLA request for a month off. The HR director tries to talk me out of it. He doesn't want me to miss a paycheck. Riiiight. I still treasure the look on his face when I told him, "that's ok, I have 20 days saved up." Oddly enough I was let go less than two months after coming back. I didn't contest it, I'd been praying to be fired with unemployment eligibility for six months. Or the sweet release of death, I was ok with either at that point. The moral of the story is, don't work for an advertising agency. Even if it's cool that they're Apple's agency and do really cool work.
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Vulture Culture posted:Back when I did desktop work, I had plenty of people ask me to take a look at the boss's computer during times he wasn't actively trying to use it. I've always had a policy if that it isn't worthing letting me have time to troubleshoot, it isn't that serious a problem to begin with. Now, implementing that policy wasn't always possible, but I've managed to get several hour+ breaks hanging out near an office "just in case".
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Internet Explorer posted:I'd also add that it's not a good sign that your new company is asking this. If you haven't given notice yet, this is an opportunity for a signing bonus. "Leaving my current position on less than two weeks notice would come at a cost to my professional reputation, so I consider it only fair that I be compensated in some way."
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Sepist posted:That's my ace, I only show that to the top tier guys. Oh cool, I'm a top-tier network guy now !
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Thanks Ants posted:They might have been a victim of their own bureaucracy and need someone quickly as the notice period on their previous employee is running out. Skipping the phone interview doesn't strike me as particularly unusual. It's only happened to me once, and hoo boy do I wish they had.
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Dick Trauma posted:Here's someone that never had to use Retrospect. Depends on the version. Classic Retrospect by Dantz was rock solid for me, but every version after that got worse. Also, gently caress ad agencies. I had PTSD for a couple of years after working for TBWA.
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GreenNight posted:Waiting to hear if Office 2019 is Windows 10 only. And browser based ! Just like Bill Gates' nightmares about Netscape !
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Super Slash posted:Oh yes, unless it's something I can do without needing creds or extra information taking a phone call means I'm leaving in 5 minutes and coming back later, same goes for being summoned and person doesn't appear/wonders off. Being left to look like a moron sitting around doing nothing is both disrespectful and time wasting. I have a billing code for that poo poo  ps. Tucson is much nicer, and never hits the same high temps that Phoenix does.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:For what it's worth, my general laptop is an HP x360 11t, and I've been nothing but happy with it. The HP 2-in-1's tend to be inoffensive mixes of decent performance and price, so you're gonna do fine with that Elitebook. We have the 840 G3 (and some 820s) in wide deployment (thousands of units) and they're pretty reliable. There are a couple of "OMG it won't turn on issues", but the fix for one can be done over the phone, and the other takes an L2 with a Phillips screwdriver. We're skipping the G4s (which probably won't haver those issues) and expect the G5s when those are available (oh god, another .0 release). We're starting to see the end of the G1s, but they're our bread and butter right now.
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DigitalRaven posted:Finance insisted we move from Latitude 72XX to 820 G3s. The 820 G3s are decent hardware, but they're going to run hot. YOLOsubmarine posted:Why the gently caress would I throw away my router due to a WiFi vulnerability? If it's not going to ever get a firmware update to fix a major security hole.
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Thanks Ants posted:I believe APs can be routers. I've skimmed the paper, and the problem is very deep in an WPA2/802.11 implementation. It also looks like a black hat could automate this attack. https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/547640/1/usenix2016-wifi.pdf
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DigitalRaven posted:When they're not bricked by a BIOS update (oh hi 30 hosed laptops...). And when HP's support remembers that "next business day" and "three days from now" are not the same thing and paying for the former shouldn't mean getting the latter. And when they don't require a replacement motherboard after build (roughly 4%)... You got a bad lot of laptops, we have hundreds of 820 G3s and thousands of 840s and haven't had more than a handful bricked. If you don't mind my asking, what's the product number on yours ?
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DigitalRaven posted:L3C65AV. I'm tempted to say I'm noticing the problems more with the HPs, but the rest of the organisation has confirmed a much higher failure rate with 820/840s than with equivalent Dells. The BIOS update fuckup was about 12 months ago, and the dead motherboard rate has been 2%-4% since the switch. Dead motherboards ? Heh, we had something start up earlier this year. The laptop will boot fine up until it hits the login screen and starts trying to play the welcome chime. The chime gets horribly distorted and drawn out, it can take two hours for the password field to appear after hitting ctrl-alt-del. The workaround ? Plug an Ethernet cable in. System immediately resumes normal function. And no, the cable does not need to be plugged in to anything at the other end. We've replaced dozens of logic boards this year for just that alone.
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CloFan posted:Wow, that's pretty weird, same with the work-around. The 840 and 820 G1 SmartCard readers had an appalling failure rate, and since the trackpad connects through the SmartCard reader the trackpad would get flaky and/or fail. And don't get me started on the G1 batteries. Or the time HP filled a 40 unit backorder for batteries by shipping from Europe.
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Sepist posted:There are also grid cards to really annoy people who refuse to use their phone. 
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jaegerx posted:Meh. It’s like 500 servers. I kinda want to historically report to show this idiot that just cause his lovely WiFi doesn’t connect doesn’t mean he’s offline. Bash script, something along the lines of: for $i in 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 do ping 10.30.120.$1 done
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Avenging_Mikon posted:The most important thing about a Skype interview is to not wear pants. The third most important thing about a Skype interview is to get the contacts arranged more than 24 hours in advance of the meeting. The 4th thing is to be ready to go with Hangouts as an alternative.
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Vargatron posted:Easy fixes are the best. 70% of "computer won't turn on" issues have been a loose power cable to the monitor for me. I had one yesterday that was some weird version of that. One monitor wasn't working. After juggling cable I wound up with both monitors working... with the original cables swapped between monitors. I just rearranged them in Graphic Properties and wrote it off to "Windows Will Do That".
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Notably company annual celebrations at the ad agency: Fly from SF to LA at dark o'clock. Lunch and a visit at the main office. Late afternoon awesome Mexican food and getting hammered enough I was poured onto the plane home. Dinner and drinks in Sausalito, a ferry ride back to SF to start bar hopping. Somehow* we end up getting detained by Homeland Security. A soju bar in SF. People were dropping on the dance floor. Our Australian CFO came in at 9am the next day and passed out on the couch in his office; I left him aspirin and bottled water when I left at 2:30. Last time I didn't schedule a day off after a company event. A spa weekend in Santa Barbara. The Aussie CFO gave me a ton of poo poo about what I did to the open bar tab, but I'm not the fool who held an open bar somewhere that had 18 Macallan and 14 Scapa out. I am later vindicated because I'm preeeeety sure he knows how one of security's golf carts ended up in the pool. We start at some bar with plans to hit a dance club later. Sometime after the tequila shots came out, and carrying someone else to a cab, I find myself falling out of another taxi four blocks from home. Thank god it was downhill. Ad agencies. They'll drive you to drink, but it'll be top shelf stuff and on their dime. * Someone got drunk enough that climbing around on the outside of the boat was a good idea. One slip and his dead, drunk rear end is 40 degree salt water in the dark. The crew took exception to that, and about 25 other things we did, and called their security. SF is an international port, so that's DHS people with badges and guns. And no senses of humor. The screened us out at debarkation and we got to stand round at the end of the pier caged in on three sides. I have some personal issues with the president of the agency at that time, but he did talk us all out of there in short order.
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SeaborneClink posted:If you're applying to places that you're qualified for, in a market that is short for qualified applicants (hint: it's all of them) I'm failing to see what a cover letter accomplishes unless you're targeting a specific company. Every cover letter should be specifically targeting the company you send it to. It's your chance to create the narrative of "looking at my resume is a formality". Tell them up front what you'd want them to parse from your resume. This saves them time and creates a good impression. "I'm great at $X, and I've done specific awesome things involving your bullet points Y and Z" A good cover letter will get you more phone screens than a good resume will. You tell them you're a good candidate. You explain why, briefly. You close with some details. No need to look at the resume for anything really important mllaneza fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Nov 10, 2017 |
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Internet Explorer posted:Is setting your password to something like "godfuckingdamnitfuckthisplace" like peak BOFH? Cause I think I'm almost there. At one shop ( the hosed up little telemarketing company) people were terrible with passwords and needing resets. Over time, the default password became "bonehead" and the "password reset fee" aka the sysadmin's benevolent fund contribution ended up at $10. Those jerks drove me to drink, they could pick up the tab.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:What if there was a smart phone with an even smaller screen and you could only use one hand? That sounds awesome, here's an unreasonable amount of money. And also you could take phone calls on it, stream music to your headphones, and all of your calendar reminders showed up on it ? 1.0-2.0 were vanity items or conveniences. iWatch 3 is a useful thing, 4.0 is going to be Dick Tracy, tell your watch to call someone and see their face in seconds.
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Internet Explorer posted:A month of training is pretty extraordinary. Like, I'm pretty sure that's what a surgeon gets before he operates on you or something. We're going to be doing some training soon. My team is two Level 1 techs, runners to drop off loaners, pick up systems, and ,maybe change a battery; and on paper we're 8 L2 techs who actually do warranty repairs, data rescue from crashed systems, etc. We're going in to the new year with 6 L2s and one of those is planning to retire soon. Coincidentally, I was turned down for two internal promotions in December. That had nothing to do with us being about to hit 50% staffing, nosirree Bob. Training for the 3 new hires will consist of two week shadowing an experienced tech and praying they remember every procedure the new guys need to know and remember it correctly. At about the 15 month mark I got called into the manager's office on a "close the door and sit down" basis. He wanted to yell at me for screwing up some inventory repeatedly over the course of those 15 months, but he screwed that up: he asked me how it came to be that I didn't know that very, very important procedure. "Nobody I shadowed did it, so it never came up" was my response. Shortest "close the door and sit down" meeting on record. I'm pretty sure their training checklists didn't get updated after that.  can't come soon enough.
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