💩 Shit I just heard in my office
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Overheard yesterday
A: Do you know why it's called Table 71?
B: No?
A: Go into (App name) and type 71 into the screen selection. That takes you to Screen 71, where you configure Table 71.
B: Oh, really?Friggin AS400 terminal systems.
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"Any idea why the light's red?" (Referring to the big traffic light that shows our overall production status)
"...It's red? Huh. So it is."
This should be good.
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I do believe I have the perfect GIF for this:
http://replygif.net/i/308.gif
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This should be good.
Aww, it wasn't.
The wireless access points are down in all our warehouses. Sucks to be them I guess.
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Aww, it wasn't.
The wireless access points are down in all our warehouses. Sucks to be them I guess.
Who needs WiFi? BAKKIN MAH DAY WE HAD SERIAL CONNECTIONS. AND WE LIKED IT.
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Who needs WiFi
At a guess, all the handheld scanners. We've deployed some swanky package to allow them to interface with our backend.
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I have UTP. The guy who came to install the fibre connection (6 weeks after they shipped me the equipment. I don't know why they bothered.) was surprised that my order specified both wired and wifi.
The wifi is exclusively for the phone and e-reader.
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Email, April 15: "We will be moving all current [project] documentation to [our sharepoint site] April 22. The folder on [shared network drive] will then be deleted."
Email, april 21, paraphrased: "Tomorrow we will be moving the documentation as planned"
Email, april 21, reply to above: "By the way………….why would you delete a directory that I set up……………..I don’t want the directory deleted off the [network] drive until I have copied everything I want off of it."
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Paraphrased somewhat: "So your problem is that people are buying too much product, and you want me to fix it so they can't buy as much?"
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I could actually see that as a problem if you can't meet the orders due to production/shipping turn arounds or something like that, but then you want to make the slow down easy to rip out after you can meet it. But based on where it was put I'm guessing that isn't the reason.
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That's nothing. Nintendo did this on purpose with the N64. It worked out quite well for them. You just make too few to build hype.
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Nah, the issue has to do with the supply chain over-promising somehow. People were ordering things which were said to be available based on inventory levels based on shipments that may never occur, then being upset (and rightly so) when customer service said they can't get it after all. The actual solution is to change the supply chain software to not do that.
But the first bit was funnier.
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Email, April 15: "We will be moving all current [project] documentation to [our sharepoint site] April 22. The folder on [shared network drive] will then be deleted."
Email, april 21, paraphrased: "Tomorrow we will be moving the documentation as planned"
Email, april 21, reply to above: "By the way………….why would you delete a directory that I set up……………..I don’t want the directory deleted off the [network] drive until I have copied everything I want off of it."
That reminds me. ..
CEO of a company I once worked with, paraphrased: "Don't redirect My Docs to my user drive on the network. Unauthorized people might have access to sensitive information. Leave it on my local C drive instead.
Me: ...
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Your CEO may have came from our company.
I asked for more space on my windows share and IT questioned why when I had plenty on the NFS share.
I informed them that anyone can sudo to another user and access that user's private files on the NFS share.
They gave me more space on the windows share.
Fast-forward 5 years. Still NFS is insecure. I don't use windows anymore, but my local drive is safer for confidential information.
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I asked for more space on my windows share and IT questioned why when I had plenty on the NFS share. I informed them that anyone can sudo to another user and access that user's private files on the NFS share. They gave me more space on the windows share.
Our main filestore has both NFS and CIFS support, so that wouldn't help…
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Our main filestore has both NFS and CIFS support, so that wouldn't help…
As with most remote stuff, it seems the answer is encryption.
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It's been years since I played with C, and I'm still fairly new to Java, but wouldn't the end result be the same in both cases, regardless of language?
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Just had to listen to 2 cleaners having a standup argument about correct vacuuming technique.
- Vacuum back and forth quickly and go over each area of carpet numerous times.
- Vacuum back and forth slowly, going over each area fewer times but more thoroughly.
They did agree that the work must be done in strips.I must admit I couldn't care less but it was a fascinating discussion.
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"Isn't the reason we're not responsive down to phone is because there's a lot of content and functionality on the desktop that we don't want on mobile?"
"Yeah, so their solution is to serve up the whole CMS content bucket anyway, and they'll put responsive code in the articles to handle the mobile case."
FFS.
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The client is wondering why the remote server provider isn't working.
I can't telnet to it using the port our remote server software uses.
Their IT guy just responded. He said he hadn't seen traffic on it for a few days so it closed it due to security concerns. That was the extent of his investigation.
You know, with that level of thinking, they could just replace him with more software.
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You know, with that level of thinking, they could just replace him with
more software.a potted plant?
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That would be the point if you have software that's emulating a connection to the real server. It most certainly has to be listening on that port.
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I have actual apps that do IPC via raw socket in plaintext. I'll routinely give then a manual drive.
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Their IT guy just responded. He said he hadn't seen traffic on it for a few days so it closed it due to security concerns. That was the extent of his investigation.
Had something similar here. Went to open up $important_tool in the dev environment, couldn't connect to the server. Tried to log in to the server itself, no response. Asked the infrastructure guys if there was a problem with it, and got back the response "we turned it off because $old_app_db is turned off and the server is useless without the supporting database." I had to point out that, while we were no longer using $old_app, the server didn't just host $old_app, it also hosted $important_tool, which we need to keep running until we get everything migrated over to the new version (hosted on a different server).Didn't stop them turning it off again a few weeks later. It's been OK since then though, so perhaps we've managed to convince them not to randomly turn things off without confirmation.
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We sell a web-based application as an adjunct to our main (GUI) product. It's pretty old, but it works, and it was designed half a dozen years before I got here. It allows for a fairly large amount of customization, albeit in a rather clunky manner: an ini file.
One of our trainers sold the web app to an existing customer, and I helped them install it. She just emailed me and asked me how to control the site name that shows up in the top of the page, and said "I think I found the right parameter but I want to be absolutely sure."
That's where she drives me up the wall on a semi-regular basis. She has an instance of the application on her laptop. If she wants to be absolutely sure, she can look up the parameter name in the documentation, but she can also edit the fucking ini file and try it out herself--it's very easy, if a rather outdated method.
But that could be considered a technical thing, so she won't do it, so whenever she needs to do something like that, she always asks me.
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she can also edit the fucking ini file and try it out herself--it's very easy, if a rather outdated method.
But that could be considered a technical thing, so she won't do it, so whenever she needs to do something like that, she always asks me.
Show her this Rosie O'Donnell flowchart:
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START => Find someone who has the above flowchart near their computer => Bug them till they fix it for you => You're Done!
:-P
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START => Find someone who has the above flowchart near their computer => Bug them till they fix it for you => You're Done!
Yes, that's her workflow, and it annoys me when she uses it on things she should know.
Bear in mind her job is to train our customers how to use the software, so this example in particular, she should already know how to do!
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ah.... that kind of person
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Standard operating procedure for a service that listens on a port though, it's really one of the best ways to quickly troubleshoot infrastructure issues from almost anywhere since the telnet client is so ubiquitous.
This bit me in the ass so hard though when Microsoft disabled it by default in Windows Vista or so, especially when I didn't have admin access to the machine I was trying to test from.
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A Real ini file, or a rant inducing faker? Asking for a friend.
it is, in fact, a real ini file, that happens to have no [section_header]s in it.
Also it has comment lines that start with //, is that valid?
And someone wrote "Classic" ASP to minimally parse it, rather than using the Windows API. So you could call it a rant-inducing faker.
Like @Arantor's entire job, there's lots of stuff that can stand to be fixed, but nobody ever does because there's no time.
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Also it has comment lines that start with //, is that valid?
Let's ask @blakeyrat. He cares deeply about the INI file format.
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Let's ask @blakeyrat. He cares deeply about the INI file format.
There's more than 200 posts in this thread, so @blakeyrat's probably muted it by now.
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There's more than 200 posts in this thread, so @blakeyrat's probably muted it by now.
Possibly, but the discodevs made sure that @blakeyrat can't mute me.
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Is it more horrible than what we call ini files? That doesn't even use equals signs.
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Is it more horrible than what we call ini files? That doesn't even use equals signs.
Nope, this actually more or less is an ini file, except, as I said, for the lack of [section]s or whatever they're called.
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Shit heard during a panel at this tech conference: " I tried asking around about how to send an http request from a raspberry pi. I got two answers: I don't know and it can't be done. Turns out the secret is a program called cURL."
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"I tried asking around about how to send an http request from a raspberry pi. I got two answers: I don't know and it can't be done."
I…
*toddles off, wondering what is wrong with humanity*
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if i had another option i would pull a farnsworth and say:
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I'm guessing he's calling CURL from like C++ code, too. For maximum WTF.
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I'm calling CURL from an abomination of a "configuration language", that gets a mutant child of CSV and JSON from a custom HTTP server written in C++ to retrieve some values from a database.
The C++ bit was written by me.
Am I doing it right?
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No. CURL is not an API.
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Am I doing it right?
no. you're missing a trip through javascript, run on an javascript interpreter that is itself written in javascript but compiled to MUMPS
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It is, however, the only thing I can configure to have proper timeouts and error detection in Asterisk.
It can do ODBC connections, but if it can't connect there is a fairly big chance it will get stuck and have the call that initiated it hang forever, leaving dead channels all over the place. Also, the ODBC driver doesn't seem to recover from it, so the only way to have it connect again is to restart the whole service.
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Ok. You're still doing it wrong.
Don't ask if you don't want to hear the answer.
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We need a smiley for that...