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I find it
intensely frustratinggreatly fascinating that it refuses to let me associate my email address with my Microsoft account. Apparently it's a “reserved domain” (because yes, it's my corporate address; that's what I use Skype for).Are you sure it's definitely for Skype, and not Skype for Business (formerly Lync)?
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@Helix Probably some deal relating to our students, but fuck knows really.
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@RaceProUK said in WTF Bites:
Are you sure it's definitely for Skype, and not Skype for Business (formerly Lync)?
Yes. I've had it for a long time, since well before MS bought Skype, and it is definitely a real Skype account.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
It's been years since I used Skype. I don't have any computer that might be logged into it right now. I have no idea if there's a Skype account that could be associated with my Microsoft account.
But just earlier you posted a screenshot that showed you could log into it with your MS account...?
I'm not sure if I have a legacy Skype username associated with my MS account. I know that when I was on Windows 8, I accidentally opened Skype once or twice through mis-clicks on the start menu, so that's why the MS account works as a Skype one.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Oh good. In that link, my Skype Name is not a selectable option. Yay!
It wasn't for me or my mom either, but it still worked to bypass 2FA.
Ah. Well in any case, I can't log in, and can't reset my password. Pretty sure nobody else can on that side either. If you do have the password to the Skype name
tsaukpaetra
, kindly pm it plz?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
If you do have the password to the Skype name
tsaukpaetra
, kindly pm it plz?Did you try "password" and "123456" ?
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
If you do have the password to the Skype name
tsaukpaetra
, kindly pm it plz?Did you try "password" and "123456" ?
Yeah, ended up locking out the MS account for a bit.
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@Onyx Ah. Needs 499MB freed but they used normal rounding rules.
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Cornell University Law School's Legal Information Institute apparently saw Wikipedia's fund drive method, and instead of reacting like a sane (" Get that shit out of my way!") decided to copy it pretty much exactly:
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7% of buyers don't even have a turntable.
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@TimeBandit Some people get them for the cover art, and I guess some get them to frame and put on display
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
7% of buyers don't even have a turntable.
I laugh every time there's one of these "vinyl sales are totes in dude!" articles. The assumption is always that it means a resurgence of vinyl as a medium.
No. It's somewhere between a fashion statement and a fad. Someone not too long ago went "wouldn't it be cool if I put out a collector's item that was a vinyl record". And people bought it because it was an interesting idea, and unique at the time.
Now it's a "me too" oversaturated bandwagon.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
7% of buyers don't even have a turntable.
Wait, people pay to listen to popular music?!
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
7% of buyers don't even have a turntable.
I've bought a few special/limited edition CDs which came with Vinyl, but I don't have a turntable (the vinyl wasn't the part I cared about). If they're counting those types of purchases, that could be part of the reason.
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I find it
intensely frustratinggreatly fascinating that it refuses to let me associate my email address with my Microsoft account. Apparently it's a “reserved domain” (because yes, it's my corporate address; that's what I use Skype for). It also won't let me do anything else meaningful until I add an email address. FUCK YOU, MICROSOFT!Maybe there is something special about domains to which corporate office365 accounts are tied. Though…
I have two accounts, one corporate for office365 and one, using exactly the same e-mail and name, on msdn, which can also be used in office. Confusing as hell. But I didn't try to associate either to (non-business) skype, so I don't know whether there would be any issue.
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@RaceProUK said in WTF Bites:
Skype for Business
It's surprising how big a piece of shit they made it. Me and my former colleague now both have office365 accounts, including skype for business, in different companies. So we tried to write to each other. Does not work. I believe it used to work back when the things was called “office communicator” about 10 years ago.
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Cornell University Law School's Legal Information Institute apparently saw Wikipedia's fund drive method, and instead of reacting like a sane (" Get that shit out of my way!") decided to copy it pretty much exactly:
Oh, yeah, seen that before. Here's a hint, guys - the begging doesn't work quite so well when your page is stuffed with ads...
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Maybe there is something special about domains to which corporate office365 accounts are tied.
I'm guessing that we've moved some of our students over there, or did at some time in the past (no idea if that's still current), enough that they added it to their special domains list. The idea that you might just use the email address for sending email about password recovery and so on without trying to figure out where the account is hosted, that's just too alien; they are going to insist on merging the account even if the account doesn't exist!
It might be related to how Exchange really likes to insist on delivering messages locally when it thinks it is in total charge of a domain, rather than acting as a mailbox holder with somewhere else being actually really in charge (maybe this got fixed in recent versions, but the way this interaction flow “works” doesn't make me hopeful).
Which wouldn't matter except that MS won't let me do anything else at all with the account until I've associated an email address with it. That is TRWTF.
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
laugh every time there's one of these "vinyl sales are totes in dude!" articles. The assumption is always that it means a resurgence of vinyl as a medium.
No. It's somewhere between a fashion statement and a fad.As far as I can see, this is neither new nor short-lived; on the contrary, the vinyl has never died, it's just some out-of-touch people who just assumed it would or already had; but on most concerts I've been to in the last 20 years, if there was merchandising it has always included vinyls, and people buy them.
Of course the comparison given here is additionally biased by the fact that many people don't actually buy music downloads, they just download music. Can't really do that with physical discs...
ETA: Note that these vinyls usually include some code or url with which you can download the audio files, so you don't actually need a turntable to listen to them...
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
7% of buyers don't even have a turntable.
Wait, people pay to listen to popular music?!
I pay for Google Music all access, but it's probably a bit of a stretch to call most of what I listen to "popular"
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Email from a customer:
I want to call a coworker. Their extension number is 104. How do I do that? It's not listed in the documentation.
Yes, we're talking about PHONES. You know, old things, sitting on your desk, buttons, handset, wires connecting them.
They don't know how to make a call.
I...
I...
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@Onyx Maybe they don't know what an extension number is. I mean, what does it "extend"? Do you just dial it?
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@anonymous234 They do. They used the term "internal number". They understand. They literally didn't try typing 104 into the phone. Because that's it. That's the whole procedure. 104. Hit Send Or #. Or just wait 3 seconds. Either works. Just like it does FOR ANY OTHER FUCKING CALL EVER!
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I mean, I barely know how to do that; I've only had to do it half a dozen times in my life. I'm lucky I stayed in hotels as a child so my father could teach me. Nobody uses phones anymore.
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@Onyx UPDATE:
They activated DND on their phones. All of them.
And the natural thing to blame was the PBX. Of course.
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@Onyx My phone is linked to my active hours in Outlook, so it activates DND after 5:30. Sometimes it doesn't reactivate in the morning and I only notice when I happen to glance at the phone screen
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@Onyx
+1 if you make a step by step guide with pictures of a phone on a wooden desk ...
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They activated DND on their phones.
I wonder if the office phone has this. Nobody calls me there, the only time it ever rings is when somebody dials the wrong number. Don't even know why I have the damn thing.
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I wonder if the office phone has this.
If the phone itself doesn't have the feature, the PBX probably has. You just need to know what the code is. That depends on the vendor though, those things aren't really standardized.
Note that some phones don't have a dedicated button for this. On some of the phones we use it's the button that acts like the DND toggle when pressed while not in call, and the icon it shows on the screen is (some phones have an LED that will go red when DND is on though).
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@ben_lubar Navigate to sign-in preferences and if your Skype username is there, untick it.
If not: log into it and see what the username is. Then do the incognito reset process, and then do the above.You don't need to reset incognito. You just need to log in while incognito to start the merge process.
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Nobody calls me there, the only time it ever rings is when somebody dials the wrong number. Don't even know why I have the damn thing.
My office has a phone. It doesn't connect to a PBX; it plugs into a USB port on the computer. Its sole purpose is that Skype for Business uses its microphone and speaker on the infrequent occasions somebody calls me. AFAIK, it doesn't have an extension associated with it; I think I could and/or should have requested one from IT when I started, but of all the myriad things to do when starting a new job, that one kind of got overlooked. I've never really needed one; all calls with coworkers are done through Skype, and I have no need for work-related conversations with external people.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Its sole purpose is that Skype for Business uses its microphone and speaker on the infrequent occasions somebody calls me.
Now just convince them to buy you a headset that plugs into the phone (using RJ-11 or RJ-9, of course) and you've come full circle!
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
It doesn't connect to a PBX; it plugs into a USB port on the computer.
Actually, now that you mention it .. I'm pretty sure the phone has a SIM card and displays a signal strength icon. And it's only connected to a power outlet.
(Still, we have local extensions. Maybe those are handled by the phone?)
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Still, we have local extensions. Maybe those are handled by the phone?
They could even be handled by the Skype For Business. Because whatever shit it is, it is still SIP like the VOIP phones, so the local PBX should actually be able to talk to it.
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was looking at some current sites of companies I dealt with at a previous job. Found this in use as a background image:
you might think it was a png image with a transparent area and the boards are butchering it during upload, or I somehow managed a naked screenshot of a tiled image, but you'd be wrong. That's one jpg with a giant solid white block.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
They don't know how to make a call.
Maybe there's an app for that ?
I know! We'll call it "Phone"! That will make it so obvious what it does anyone can figure it out!
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@fwd I don't see the problem.
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@Onyx
When in doubt, assume the user turned on DND. Pretty much the one size fits all for phone dialing problems.
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@izzion oh, not that it was the first time. It's just the default assumptions people make that make my head spin.
I'm gonna start disabling that button on the phones that allow it I think, and only turn it on if anyone asks.
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@Onyx Talking about phones and PBX, this reminds me about a that exists for a long time but I didn't mention it here.
Those who read my rant may recall that I'm the type of person who hate to be disturbed while I'm doing work. Yet somehow the PBX of my company is configured that when the receptionist don't pickup her call for 30 seconds, the call will be transferred to me automatically. And remember, I'm a DEV and not support people or sales.
I raised the issue a few times to my manager but somehow it never got fixed (I mean, to transfer the call to correct people). Now I just mute the ringtone of the phone, and whether I pickup the call when someone calls me is determined by whether I'm looking at the phone while the backlight on LCD of the phone is blinking.
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That's one jpg with a giant solid white block.
At least that bit ought to compress fairly well.
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That's one jpg with a giant solid white block.
At least that bit ought to compress fairly well.
yes, but no at the same time. jpg is bad with solid colors. you're going to have to reduce the compression a bunch to not have artifacts anywhere in that block, and especially along the hard edges. and it's dumb to save something that could be replaced by html and css on the fly.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8MDCIlOEk
TBH if I had to put together a computer, I'd do it like that. But then again, I'm terrible at hardware.
Bonus WTF: their awful site:
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
TBH if I had to put together a computer, I'd do it like that. But then again, I'm terrible at hardware.
You'd probably be a bit better at it. Neater at least…
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
TBH if I had to put together a computer, I'd do it like that. But then again, I'm terrible at hardware.
Also you're probably not a company in the business of manufacturing medical electronic equipment who really should know better...
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Lost password recorvery on myACM:
- specify user name
- answer security question
- enter new passwords into form
- receive email:
This email confirms that the password for your ACM Web Account has been reset.
Not sure how this does anything other than increasing the attack surface, because you now have two more or less equivalent passwords/phrases. Isn't ACM kinda the people who
aought to get this right?
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aught
aught ≈ "anything"
ought ≈ "should" (describing preferred or probable state)