[SPAM] FW: RE: The logs could do with a courtesy flush

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RFC2324: Jun 7, 2012; http 418

TWBalls posted:

No, popcorn fuckin' stinks and lingers. Not to mention the morons that leave it unattended and cause it to burn.

true, but its such a basic snack, especially for basic people, that you would have some C levels secretary pissed off she can't have her popcorn

we literally have it in the free vending machine at work

# ¿ Oct 18, 2019 20:41

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# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 07:09

RFC2324: Jun 7, 2012; http 418

I have never used a microwave preset other than max power and I haven't burnt popcorn since I was a kid so :shrug:

# ¿ Oct 18, 2019 21:52

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Super Soaker Party! posted:

Who's max and why are you so attracted to him?

Staff Sergeant Max Fightmaster, and you are a fool if you are not attracted

# ¿ Oct 20, 2019 02:31

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Arquinsiel posted:

That's better than anything I could come up with. I was struggling to get a good joke out of the time Homer renamed himself "Max Power" or the character Kat Dennings played on 2 Broke Girls...

Yeah. Max Fightmaster is real :swoon:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-fightmaster-6586a576/

I also just learned that we have a Rad Heroman serving our fine nation.

https://www.wafb.com/story/12855307/marine-enjoys-one-of-the-coolest-names-ever/

# ¿ Oct 21, 2019 04:03

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Dirt Road Junglist posted:

My favorite was when we were working with MSFT Support, and they asked for an output of the client's config, so I sent it.

They replied, "Huh. Never seen it do THAT before."

sounds like a good tech to me. at least he was honest. did they fix it?

# ¿ Oct 23, 2019 01:43

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Arquinsiel posted:

When I was in Xbox support there were issues that could render a user's Xbox LIVE account unrecoverable. The KB article for the issue simply said "this happens sometimes. We don't know why"

yeah, that sounds like the KBs for xbox support

this was before they started hiring literal homeless people to man the phones lol

# ¿ Oct 23, 2019 12:56

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Sickening posted:

You are about to get dogpiled and probably for good reason.

Possibly. I guarantee they weren't being hired as a charity thing, however. It was in Texas.

And having spent a couple years homeless when I was younger, the rampant drug use is a good reason to be leery of hiring from them as a pool, and based on the reports from people who were still there when that happened was exactly the major problem. I heard stories of people shooting up at their desks.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2019 23:34

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Arquinsiel posted:

A dude I worked with in Xbox support turned up on Christmas day coked out of his mind, fell asleep in his chair for four hours and then woke up and sprinted out of the building. Nobody cared. I'm sure the people shooting up will be fine.

thats actually awesome and hilarious, assuming it was just a "I LOVE CHRISTMAS" thing and not a "I LOVE COCAINE!!!" thing

# ¿ Oct 24, 2019 01:00

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Carth Dookie posted:

I've never done drugs in my life but if I had to do Xbox Live support I'd probably start.

I already smoked a bunch of weed and had my own share of untreated mental illness, I only did it for like 6 months.

It was an outsourcer that MS had already cancelled like 3 contracts with before giving them xbox 360 support

# ¿ Oct 24, 2019 02:05

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Roundboy posted:

Egnyte allows you to put a file up and make a shareable link, so long as your install is accessable from the outside.

I know Google drive, box etc all have similar features. If you make a public sharable file and outside access is forbidden 100% / you can't change permissions then your IT sucks and needs to be called out.

It's a basic Tennant of all file shares in 'the cloud' or cloud-ish

You missed the fact that they are refusing to let IT address it as a tech issue

# ¿ Oct 26, 2019 00:43

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klosterdev posted:

Is gonna be DNS

Its all DNS, including the rain

# ¿ Oct 29, 2019 03:27

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Renegret posted:

My most embarrassing LP moment was a video game that used a stock alarm sound that happened to be the same sound effect for some poo poo rear end MMO I was playing at the time.

It made me jump up and slam the self heal button on my keyboard before I could register what happened.

this is why I don't like watching videos of other people playing games. I get so frustrated with the camera

# ¿ Nov 7, 2019 08:13

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Neddy Seagoon posted:

I get frustrated at them often missing simple game concepts or obvious solutions.

the rare occasion the camera work doesn't drive me away 30 seconds in, I realize how bad they are and feel better about myself.

see, i'm the guy who drives LoL players into a frothing rage by being bad and not giving a poo poo

# ¿ Nov 7, 2019 14:08

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Dirt Road Junglist posted:

When I was in the call center, we had rock solid Cisco handsets, but the headsets they provided were shite. The only port on the handset besides the usual coiled phone cable was USB, so you couldn't plug a standard audio headset in.

We got these Logitechs that only had one earcup, a solid mic boom that couldn't be adjusted aside from rotating up or down, and the sound quality was sub 80s rural telephone levels of bad. Even worse when it was someone also calling from a rural shithole with a bad headset, or if they were doing construction in our office after hours.

When I got promoted, I got a $250 stipend to buy better headphones.

It really is like being a second class citizen when you're on the help desk team at work...

I'll have you know my grandparents phone in the 80 and 90s worked and sounded great.

As long as it didn't rain

# ¿ Nov 16, 2019 03:29

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mllaneza posted:

The expectations for first-tier help desk are a line drawn on the floor. Literally everyone every help desk routes tickets to is surprised that most of the helldesk staffers can find the office every day. They don't give help desk people the good equipment because of a certain apprehension that it will get drool on it. Most of the people in this thread graduated from that particular kindergarten and know this, welcome. And most of us know someone who spent more than ten years in that role and weep for them in weaker moments.

In most orgs, help desk won't even get new keyboards; not even the ones that come with new computers. Which they don't get either. Instead, someone with some promise is offered a special project. The special project involves a jar of sani-wipes and a pile of old keyboards. Anyone who doesn't eat any of the sani-wipes and manages to successfully weed out the actually broken keyboards (it's only the broken keyboard part that's actually important) is marked for possible advancement off of tier one. Guess how many candidates pass the test.

No, lower.

Again, congratulations for making it out !

Okay, question for the thread. What's the easiest test you've set someone that got completely botched ? I once was handed a candidate for part-time IT at the hosed up little telemarketing company I used to work for and told to find them something to do as a test. I had just put out six new computers with monitors, but not done any of the cabling.

I gave the candidate twelve power cords and six extension strips, pointed out the ones that went from monitor to computer (late-90s Macs had a power supply with one outlet for the standard cord that goes to power, and a special outlet for a female-female power cord for the monitor, this saved a power outlet), and the ones that went from computer to extension strip. I'm sure I mentioned that the extension strips plugged into the wall.

Their success rate ? Two of six were wired up correctly. None of the four failures were done wrong in the same way.

How many of the "incorrect" ones worked?

If they all, or all but maybe one, worked, I'd say they passed whether they did it your way or not.

Less than a 66% success rate on that would be a fail, because they just cannibalized instead of doing it in a way you didn't expect

# ¿ Nov 16, 2019 09:06

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mllaneza posted:

None. Correct means the monitor and the computer both turned on.

Of six machines, given all the cables, only two had power to both the computer and the monitor. Since the four incorrectly configured workstations all had different mistakes, I'm assuming the two correctly set up workstations got that way by sheer chance.

The six power strips only plug into the wall.

The six power cords for the computer could plug into the monitor or the computer at one end, but the other end only plugs in to the power strip.

The six power cords for the monitor could connect to the monitor or the computer at one end, but the other end only plugs in to the computer. One of the four failed setups had a cable connected to the computer at both ends.

I appreciate that you're trying to give the benefit of the doubt here, but the person I was testing plugged a power cable in to a computer at both ends and then came and told me they were done. They hosed up. Badly.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2019 03:23

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Truga posted:

i use the rightmost button on my mouse for that. the third one, that most mice don't have anymore nowdays

I use one of the 2 thumb buttons all but the cheapest mouse has nowadays

# ¿ Nov 21, 2019 02:23

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DelphiAegis posted:

See, I was thinking ligature marks, not the text definition of ligature.

My first thought was that they were photoshopping ropes marks in to make you look even kinkier.

And yes, I know there is no picture

# ¿ Dec 11, 2019 00:54

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nexxai posted:

I really did not want to be this angry on a Saturday

Its an old posting, its already been filled.

by a goon

# ¿ Jan 4, 2020 22:37

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Weedle posted:

I�m generally opposed to capital punishment but that Rogue Ales guy should get the chair for selling beer brewed from his beard yeast.

I'd be fine with it(I think its pretty loving cool) if I felt confident they are keeping it separate and marked with giant neon labeling so no one can possibly drink it without knowing.

otoh, I dislike all rogue beers anyway so its probably poo poo

# ¿ Jan 5, 2020 06:03

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Sickening posted:

Look into areas around austin.

Having lived in Austin for 5 years and now living in an actual accepting place, Austin is only accepting on the scale of Texas. Its not even as weird as they like to think.

I'm loving Denver atm

# ¿ Mar 1, 2020 23:04

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Ghostlight posted:

i'm the only one with an office in the open plan and it's colloquially known as the swear cube.

is sitting in there a form of punishment for your co-workers?

# ¿ Mar 3, 2020 03:16

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The Iron Rose posted:

a country that cares about its own citizens and won't bankrupt you for having the audacity to get sick.

I think americans are proving time and again that we can't handle this situation

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 04:44

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Arquinsiel posted:

Honestly if you don't speak English better than the English are you even trying?

you wot mate?

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 10:46

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Proteus Jones posted:

This is definitely going affect the �put all the eggs in the outsourcing basket� mindset.

Ah who am I kidding. Upper management and the board have the memory of goldfish. Any company that survives is going race to the bottom to keep that margin going and learn nothing.

Old company I was with had about a 10 year cycle of outsourcing, then bringing it back because it got so bad, having local people fix everything, then outsourcing again to save money for a few years.

Why yes, the CEO was an accountant, why do you ask?

# ¿ Mar 25, 2020 06:47

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Arquinsiel posted:

Just one user needs to leak a link and all hell breaks loose.

Not that I am advising such a thing...

I feel like this would be the funniest version of goontu.be

# ¿ Apr 8, 2020 13:18

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tactlessbastard posted:

I'm job interviewing via video from home these days and we've tried a lot of things to dull the roar in the background, but we've pretty much resigned ourselves to putting all the kids in their carseats and having my wife drive around the block.

kalhua and ice cream my friend. Just get the kids drunk enough to pass out :v:

# ¿ Apr 8, 2020 15:57

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Thanatosian posted:

Are you hiring? I've never done it before, but I'm pretty sure I can go without checking my email or logging into VPN for weeks at a time. Like, I feel like I could pick that up really fast.

poo poo, I bet I could do just about any position that pays, given those job reqs

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 21:36

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Dirt Road Junglist posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PsqnDF_cns

Meanwhile, I need to get into the office to build a hardware lab with an IP KVM. I'm on the list to get building access, but only for an hour a day. Obviously, hooking up and configuring all of this is going to take more than an hour, especially as no one has been in the lab for two months and everything is in disarray.

Somehow, this requires a CEO direct report (L2) approval. Somehow, this is impossible to get because, quote, "I feel like the top of our vertical is too busy to answer that question."

Okay.

Hold up Windows engineering for the entire company for lack of testing because each of us has one or two computers at home because an exec is too busy to rubber stamp some poo poo.

I'm glad to be employed at the moment, but this is loving asinine.

just ask for a home lab instead. provide them with options

# ¿ May 13, 2020 19:35

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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

wait is this an actual thing....?
I need a GPO for this like right the gently caress now.

afaik its only on macs. I did it to my mom when I was a kid

# ¿ Jun 4, 2020 03:15

RFC2324: Jun 7, 2012; http 418

for i in $allservers;do ssh $i 'cat /dev/urandom > /dev/audio';done

# ¿ Jun 9, 2020 18:05

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Undersea vaults are the answer. By the time a society is advanced enough to crack them open, they are advanced enough to go 'oh poo poo maybe we should be careful'

# ¿ Jun 15, 2020 16:28

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tactlessbastard posted:

Oh hey cool, look at this easy building site. Don't even have to clear it!

A black stone surface is the Arizona sun isn't something people without air conditioning can live on. You are talking 110°+ heat without the black magnifying it

# ¿ Jun 16, 2020 15:48

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Jaded Burnout posted:

Who says it'll be humans

dolphins come next, and they are going to be dumping their waste on the land

# ¿ Jun 16, 2020 20:15

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Thanatosian posted:

That seems loving awesome for legit stuff, but seems like it would be a pain in the rear end for spam texts.

do you get more spam texts than spam emails?

# ¿ Jun 16, 2020 22:48

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devmd01 posted:

So, related to the samaccountname disaster on Wednesday, they went live with the cutover of the user provisioning data source yesterday morning. It all went well so everyone�s updated title started flowing through to AD.

I get contacted at around 1:30PM, two of our applications pull data from a separate LDAP server that syncs data from AD and weren�t seeing the new titles.

While there were three overall root causes, one of the main ones was that a VP�s new full title is 68 characters long. The attribute in the LDAP schema was set for max 64 char, so it crashed the ldap sync as soon as it reached that user record.

do you work at a bank? because thats some insane title bloat

# ¿ Jun 20, 2020 16:42

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Nth Doctor posted:

I extracted a promise from my boss once upon a time that I can put Regex Master on my business cards whenever I decided I wanted some.

I just want "guru"

that when they come looking for the rear end in a top hat who took down the network I can just pretend I am there to meditate

# ¿ Jun 21, 2020 03:03

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As in the song or tv show?

# ¿ Jun 22, 2020 15:54

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Thanks Ants posted:

The UKs largest mobile carrier has finally stopped using IP addresses from the 19.0.0.0/8 allocation for their CGNAT implementation

why would people from the UK care about ford? :v:

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# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 07:09

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kensei posted:

So Mitch is doubling down on the USB device that was unplugged and destroyed not realizing it was a licensing dongle and likely business critical?

and it sounds like is going to be trying to get someone fired over it!

# ¿ Jul 6, 2020 17:18

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