Root Access

A good chunk of my workday the past week has been "disconnect PC at <location>" then wait for a (another?) contractor to move the rather heavy/ornate desk for it out and replace it with an identical one

We once had one of the two PCs we needed to... I donno, disconnect and label get put off cause we had a customer who was using the room

allquicatic

1:19 PM

it's good that it's at least A Job, but that's terrible-sounding

Paul Vargas

Bob

It sounds fairly typical for a short contract :/

Journeyman Geek

@allquicatic It actually pays better than my semi-junior-sysadmin desktop support job

@Bob some of the longer contract guys are doing desktop refresh

allquicatic

well if they want to pay you to disconnect PCs, let 'em

Journeyman Geek

yup

well and some imaging... which everyone hates, and some decommisioning, which is almost fun

Bob

1:20 PM

It's also the kind of thing commonly given to interns

Journeyman Geek

@Bob apparently one of the long termers was doing it solo

allquicatic

people at my work get paid twice as much as I do to administer Sharepoint -- fricking Sharepoint -- because it's apparently a rare enough "skill" (?!) that only a few people ever put it on their resume

Journeyman Geek

However, they... kinda don't know the tricks for snaking cables in tight places while staying clean

Bob

@allquicatic that actually sounds reasonable based on the few times I've tried :/

allquicatic

@Bob I mean, it's a piece of shit, but how hard can it be to create a site with a few places for people to upload documents and shit? we basically use it as a file repository

Journeyman Geek

1:22 PM

One of the other teams actually basically said "if they extend your contract, we want you"

allquicatic

@JourneymanGeek XD good

Journeyman Geek

(I have great work ethic, and a gift for cheerfully doing the most annoying shit)

@allquicatic its requests/it inventory tho

Not quite as technical as I'd like

Bob

@allquicatic The answer is "very very hard"

Especially if SSO is involved.

Permissions in SharePoint are a mess

Interop (for documents) is worse

Journeyman Geek

@allquicatic I think its a balance between having a job (yay!) having a secure job (not yet) and doing what you love (which I'll do anyway)

allquicatic

@Bob O.o okay then

and yeah, SSO is involved, AD

Bob

1:26 PM

@allquicatic I'm sure we just messed up somehow, but... ok, so we have one AD-login account who has admin privs over a site, but we have a separate non-AD account (which we need to disable SSO to access?!) that's required for whatever the instance-wide admin stuff is.

Oh, don't forget trying to give AD users privs over a collection. PowerShell + magic strings = yay?

Yea...

Also, apparently a SP 'expert' consultant was hired for a couple days to sort out some of it... the result was a bunch of horribly-written PS scripts :S

And some really weird AD FS relay rules that were a pain to untangle.

allquicatic

wow

Bob

btw, @allquicatic, can you see the Allo messages?

I'm sure our SP instance is just horribly set up, but that does show how confusing it can be... and why SP experience can be pretty valuable.

'course, the guy who set it up here had never touched it before and wasn't even familiar with the FS SSO stuff. Which is apparently how I got semi- dragged into it.

allquicatic

1:42 PM

@Bob I haven't launched it lol

Bob

@allquicatic o.O no notifications?

allquicatic

nup

did you use a phone number or email?

bwDraco

2:07 PM

roar

So starting today, I'll be taking a different approach to chat. I'll be focusing on staying in control of myself and thinking before I post so that when things happen, I'll be making the right decisions.

DavidPostill

@bwDraco Great! :)

bwDraco

I know I've said similar things before, but I am going to dedicate more effort to behaving like the ♦moderator I've always aspired to become. Real effort, not talk.

It's about time.

I'm going to be busy the next several hours as I'll be on the job. I'll check in when I can.

bwDraco

2:24 PM

@JourneymanGeek Like pretty much anything else, work ethic is a learnable skill.

Burgi

@DavidPostill i meant by population

i'm back now btw

bwDraco

One of the big ideas that I've floated for a while is playing games like roguelikes where you need to be patient and check moves closely to avoid death.

Games can be a powerful tool for learning and practicing vital skills like patience and thinking before acting.

I've been playing the desktop version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for a while, and though I have not made much progress lately (constantly dying well before even the first rune), I'm using it as a test platform for these skills.

By the time I manage to fetch the Orb of Zot and win for the first time, I might just be ready to take up the mantle of a mod.

Bob

2:42 PM

@allquicatic Phone, I suppose. It found you by phone..?

bwDraco

Firefox is eating your SSD – here is how to fix it

This is not news to me...

Apr 22 at 1:35, by bwDraco

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Q: Firefox writes megabytes of data per minute to disk, why?

iotop -a (accumulated I/O) on Linux shows after about 10 min. of browsing Internet: Total DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE: 0.00 B/s TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE> SWAPIN IO COMMAND 17330 be/4 wojdyr 1540.00 K 38.48 M 0.0...

browser.sessionstore.interval is set to 120000 (two minutes) on all my devices.

@Bob ^ this may be important to you considering how many tabs you maintain

The "eating your SSD" part was indeed a concern for me because I did in fact notice excessive amounts of disk writes with lots of tabs open.

Bob

3:21 PM

*meh*

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco I have great work ethic cause not working sucks

bwDraco

Well, improving work ethic has been a major goal for me these last several months at home...

Bob

I calculate... 12 GB/day

*meh*

@allquicatic It has your name and everything :P

Can you see me on there?

bwDraco

Alright, got a sports photography job to do in a bit. See ya in a few hours or so.

Bob

@bwDraco Put it this way. In half a year (~150 days powered on) I've written 8 TB. Warranty says 5 years or 150 TBW. At 16 TB/year, this would last me 9 years.

Not really worried about the write rate.

Also, that only averages to some 50 GB/day.

I'm sure I have many, many other things writing to it. If I'm required to actually care about them, I'd just ditch the SSD and go back to a HDD.

@JourneymanGeek You remember the Yotaphone 2 I might've mentioned in here a few times? :P

Journeyman Geek

3:34 PM

possibly

Bob

It's a bit old now, but apparently available for some 150 USD. Hmmmmmmm. I really don't need it...

But it has an e-ink screen on the back, which is interesting.

Journeyman Geek

quuuuite a while back no?

Bob

And potentially very useful, since some 25-50% of my battery usage is from the screen while reading...

Journeyman Geek

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=Yotaphone+&room=118

Bob

Could double battery life...

@JourneymanGeek Oh, so I did :P

Hm. Anyway, I'll get to see just how good/bad MIUI is first-hand in a week or so.

@JourneymanGeek Oh, did you say comGateway does consolidations? Do they charge for it?

'cause Amazon apparently decided it'd be funny to send one lot of (Anker) USB cables separately from all the other (Anker) cables and chargers... scheduled to arrive on the same day?!

Which is great and all 'cept that's another $25 to forward a separate package...

Journeyman Geek

3:38 PM

@Bob IIRC no

Bob

@JourneymanGeek No they don't charge?

*phew*

Journeyman Geek

just wait for all the stuff to come in, assuming its within their hold time and ship em together

Bob

Ah, nice.

Journeyman Geek