@Dan Lucas's dismissal of my not liking the comic was worse than the comic itself. Having a stupid comic posted and removed isn't a big deal. Basically getting told to grow a thicker skin for not finding it funny is a lot more.
I'm going to put an end to this. 1) No more links to *that* comic. 2) The Comms Rooms is not anti-woman and does not promote domestic (or otherwise) violence. 3) TomBull, see me after class. 3b) That's a paddlin'
Stupid thing done. Objection said. Objection handled mostly well. Apology offered gracefully. Everybody trying to find out what the others mean and trying to explain their own meaning, without fighting or name calling. This is what I like here.
I'd just like to clarify that, of course, The Comms Room does promote violence in the context of SysAdmin Vs User - which, as we know, is allowed under Protocol IIII of the Geneva Convention
you have no idea how happy I am about that @FalconMomot - I've turned down otherwise good jobs because it would mean sysadmming notes again. I might be willing to take a job with notes if task #1 in the new role was migrate from notes to something sane.
I also wonder what idiot decided to put the whole program into one thread, meaning that if you send a large email you need to wait for the program to unfreeze until it's sent
Speaking about violence... In the middle of an upgrade from HPUX 11.23 to 11.31. Finally in the load testing stage for $PROGRAM. Finding that there wasn't as much of an improvement as we'd expected. Running strings on the binary. Finding that the developer had decided to not use the new 11.31 development machine, but instead compiled his code on 11.23, i.e. without whatever improvements in libraries and stuff...
I'm trying to remember the name of the e-mail system IBM had on their MVS mainframes WAY back in the day when I was an operator. Even that was less quirky than Notes.
@LucasKauffman yeah, at my place... as I was being hired 3 incredibly skilled people quit for overwork, so things are actually fairly relaxed in an attempt to reduce turnover.
@TomO'Connor The car geek in me just smiles that something so revolutionary was being delivered on the back of a van that almost certainly didn't even have indicators :D
I would like to setup my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server for a backdoor in case ssh crashes. I would simply connect to the server and restart ssh manually but this is not possible. Contacting the system administrator so he can restart it takes too much time aswell.
So is it possible to setup a web term...
First off, apologies to @kalina and @JennyD. No offense was meant and of course I am highly against violence against women. I didn't think he was killing her in the comic, I just thought she cried herself to sleep and didn't see anything wrong with it until it started getting flags and Jenny's reaction.
@RobM is "off-topic because it is about bypassing security procedures put into place by operations staff" in the custom close reasons already? because it should
@dawud and for those people, me saying that their god doesn't exist would be insulting, but for non-believers, having somebody else's belief enforced upon you is equally insulting
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@dawud That's one of the reasons I like learning foreign languages, in any given language there are some concepts that have words that don't exist in other languages
@dawud Yep. In Swedish there's a word "lagom" that means "just right, neither too much nor too little". I can't think of a matching word either in English, or German, or French.
@LucasKauffman @Dan I was an Afghan Army embedded training team member. I was the mentor for two of the Brigade level staff officers. Really made me feel good to do the teaching and mentoring and I miss that.
It was pretty neat. There were some older, retired Army guys there that had been there for about 5 years doing the training and mentoring. Very respected by the Afghan commanders
@JourneymanGeek I got lucky with that...I was normally S-1 and the occasional S-6. I did the mentoring for about 6 months before they finally pulled me from it and dumped me as the Battalion S-1 NCOIC
I was hoping to make it through TA infantry and get out on one of the last tours, but an old medical condition put pay to that. I still intend to join, but not right now
I'm having an issue at work with network drives. Suddenly some computers and users aren't getting there mapped network drives from the logon script. I am NOT a domain admin, I don't have permission to login to the domain controller. And I know very little about active directory.
The issue seems r...
Gah. I'm remoted into my desktop using logmein and I keep using the back button on my mouse to go "back" pages. Doesn't work like you think it does. :P
@Travis Big ordeal for me last night... somebody on my team was either up to no good, or unwittingly harboring malware on their workstation that got transferred to the server when they RDP'ed to it
@RyanRies Active Directory is like a wife...all nice and friendly when you push the right buttons, but do something wrong or try to bring a 3rd party into the relationship and all hell erupts.
@JennyD I hear you, my biggest complaint here was/is two things: Grumpy/mean coworkers and older tech. The second one, with a lot of push from me is starting to move in the right direction - and the first one, is getting a bit better as I get to know them
@Travis Hard to tell. The script could do more than just map drives or might map drives incorrectly and the person sees errors thinking it only maps drives. The real issue here is " I am NOT a domain admin, I don't have permission to login to the domain controller. And I know very little about active directory." which basically means somebody else should be troubleshooting this with him internally that does have access to those things. Posting the batch script may help you answer...
When Internet Explorer 8 came out, they introduced compatibility mode. In the registry there is a way (And the only way) to configure the setting for applications which use the IE8 API's.
Two main settings: 8000 = Use IE8 rendering. 7000 = Use IE7 rendering
@TheCleaner I've seen it used, but actually my issue is the opposite. My app embeds IE and, for some reason, it takes it upon itself to enable compat mode which breaks the rendering
@JennyD My current team is 5 sysadmins including myself and then my manager. One guy basically just does VMware and a little SQL/basic Windows admin, another strictly Unix/Linux and storage/backups, a Domino/Notes/Basic Windows Admin and the other one can barely install Windows + deals with CA. Then there's me.....that does all the things which is frustrating since we really dont have a lot of Unix/Linux/Storage work so that sysadmin calls out a lot and does really nothing.
No one wants to a.) learn anything new and b.) learn anything out of their comfort zone .The Unix admin only scripts in ksh - no one else can script even in VBscript/batch files/etc. Simple Windows admin stuff.
I need some longevity somewhere, I have almost 7 months here now, if I can at least hold out for 12 months it'll be easier - get some bigger projects to slap on my resume, and move to a place that appreciates me.
Because he's the sys admin Waters deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our sys admin. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark admin.
@Dan I didn't know there were so many sizes of HDMI cables.
I still like how Cell phone manufacturers agree to all use mini-USB cables for charging... Try to find one with a mini-USB plug - they're all micro-USB.
Also, a giant "SCREW YOU" to RIM for implementing some crazy unique USB charging protocol so it's micro-USB, but their chargers don't work on other phones and vice versa.
Dunno what it's like in the US, but there's a big push here to get people back "On the high street", and it's shit like this that makes it fucking impossible. I'd gladly get in my car right now, drive to a shop and purchase the cable. But not for 4x the price as online I won't
How to add new properties to *Win32_UserAccount* class and add values to it? I have used wbemtest command and Have created a new property to the class Win32_UserAccount. How to make it fetch the values from the user's attribute. For Example I have created a new property named Department. It shoul...
Right, you don't need it, but you can't not have a server assigned (though I suppose you could assign it to a server, then decommission that server - but AD will still think that server is responsible for the IM role)
I would like to setup my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server for a backdoor in case ssh crashes. I would simply connect to the server and restart ssh manually but this is not possible. Contacting the system administrator so he can restart it takes too much time aswell.
So is it possible to setup a web term...
