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[SYSTEMS ADMINS & IT MONKEYS] ...maybe they should have hired a professional

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Yeah, there was an incident where a company was asking people for their facebook login information or something like that and it caused a whole big mess. As it rightfully should because that's some bullshit.

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  • BigityBigity Lubbock, TXRegistered User regular
    Texas had some bill floating around too, IIRC.

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    gavindel wrote: »
    Really depends on the employer. The more extraneous stuff they "demand" ,the more likely it is they're either attempting to screen 500 potentials for easy ways into the trash or that they're not really that serious about filling the position.

    I have told interviewers to their face that I won't give them my Facebook information because its personal and not professional. I was then not hired for said positions.

    Sooooo...Win some, lose some?

    That's 100% a "win some" situation. If my Facebook/Twitter/MySpace/Geocities accounts are a problem, then so is my entire personal-life. Employers are just completely overstepping their bounds in an economy that's been absolute shit for the lower and middle classes, so they feel they can get away with it. I know at least one state has (or tried) to outlaw that. I think it might've been Maryland.

    Definitely 100% win some.

    There was someone talking about browsing facebook of their employees when they took a personal day (sick day I guess, but you know it isn't called a 'sick day' in their handbook), and was pretty livid when an employee took a day off and you know, did personal things (like posting on their facebook about doing them).

    Mostly because they had submitted the days off a months ahead of time, but the management's buddy-buddy got the day off first somehow. So instead of taking up the slack, they bitched and sat on facebook the whole day, waiting.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • KakodaimonosKakodaimonos Code fondler Helping the 1% get richerRegistered User regular
    gavindel wrote: »
    Really depends on the employer. The more extraneous stuff they "demand" ,the more likely it is they're either attempting to screen 500 potentials for easy ways into the trash or that they're not really that serious about filling the position.

    I have told interviewers to their face that I won't give them my Facebook information because its personal and not professional. I was then not hired for said positions.

    Sooooo...Win some, lose some?

    That's 100% a "win some" situation. If my Facebook/Twitter/MySpace/Geocities accounts are a problem, then so is my entire personal-life. Employers are just completely overstepping their bounds in an economy that's been absolute shit for the lower and middle classes, so they feel they can get away with it. I know at least one state has (or tried) to outlaw that. I think it might've been Maryland.

    In some industries, you have to monitor your employees social-media accounts. Anyone who is associated with the Broker-Dealer entity has to allow our compliance team access to their accounts. There have already been a couple of firms that have received hefty fines and warnings for employees discussing trading information on their accounts without the proper disclaimers and warnings.

  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    edited July 2013
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    Here's a hiring question for anyone who's responsible for hiring: is it a must for an applicant to have a LinkedIn profile?

    I've spoken with a few people who've stated that if an applicant doesn't have a LinkedIn profile, it causes employers to be skeptical, like "What is he/she hiding?" One person even stated that their employer won't consider someone at all if they don't have a LinkedIn profile, which I find ridiculous.

    I got rid of mine a while back because it's basically just a social networking platform masked by being a professional. I was sick and tired of all these random friend requests, requests of people I used to work with that I would rather never have known, and stupid "Happy Anniversary" posts from people when it was my employment "anniversary." I just find the whole thing to be a big waste of time and incredibly lame. What I find is even more annoying is that some co-workers act all "Facebook and Twitter are for childish people with too much time," yet I see them on LinkedIn constantly. They'll lurk around trying to find out what people are doing and who else they can invite to their circle. And then if you don't accept a co-worker's friend request, they get all huffy-puffy; as I've stated before, I don't add co-workers to my Facebook account.

    Anywho, I'm asking because I'm trying to prepare for the job searching and don't want to screw myself over because of my desire to not be involved in another social networking site. If it comes down to it and I have to, then whatever and I'll just have to suck it up.

    Yeah this has been getting me recently. Same with programming jobs where suddenly if I don't have something published on github using a ton of my spare time, I can't be considered. The real problem is I don't have a facebook, or alot of social media accounts. So when they ask for it and I go "I don't have one", then I am a liar. Because it's facebook and I'm not 80 years old.

    I recently made a linkedin profile to help network, as any job I have ever gotten was through networking as I am terrible at interviews and people know the hard work and effort I put in. I immediately realized my mistake when it constantly bothers me over stupid shit that has nothing to do with business and everything to do with constantly surfing their site to give more information and gain them ad revenue.

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    gavindel wrote: »
    Really depends on the employer. The more extraneous stuff they "demand" ,the more likely it is they're either attempting to screen 500 potentials for easy ways into the trash or that they're not really that serious about filling the position.

    I have told interviewers to their face that I won't give them my Facebook information because its personal and not professional. I was then not hired for said positions.

    Sooooo...Win some, lose some?

    That's 100% a "win some" situation. If my Facebook/Twitter/MySpace/Geocities accounts are a problem, then so is my entire personal-life. Employers are just completely overstepping their bounds in an economy that's been absolute shit for the lower and middle classes, so they feel they can get away with it. I know at least one state has (or tried) to outlaw that. I think it might've been Maryland.

    In some industries, you have to monitor your employees social-media accounts. Anyone who is associated with the Broker-Dealer entity has to allow our compliance team access to their accounts. There have already been a couple of firms that have received hefty fines and warnings for employees discussing trading information on their accounts without the proper disclaimers and warnings.

    If it came down to it, I would straight up delete them.

    Listen, I'm not going to be talking about work on my free time. If you need to police me, you're failing at making it not tempting to give out your trade secrets.

    So, basically, what I'm saying is, you're probably paying someone a paltry wage.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • KakodaimonosKakodaimonos Code fondler Helping the 1% get richerRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    gavindel wrote: »
    Really depends on the employer. The more extraneous stuff they "demand" ,the more likely it is they're either attempting to screen 500 potentials for easy ways into the trash or that they're not really that serious about filling the position.

    I have told interviewers to their face that I won't give them my Facebook information because its personal and not professional. I was then not hired for said positions.

    Sooooo...Win some, lose some?

    That's 100% a "win some" situation. If my Facebook/Twitter/MySpace/Geocities accounts are a problem, then so is my entire personal-life. Employers are just completely overstepping their bounds in an economy that's been absolute shit for the lower and middle classes, so they feel they can get away with it. I know at least one state has (or tried) to outlaw that. I think it might've been Maryland.

    In some industries, you have to monitor your employees social-media accounts. Anyone who is associated with the Broker-Dealer entity has to allow our compliance team access to their accounts. There have already been a couple of firms that have received hefty fines and warnings for employees discussing trading information on their accounts without the proper disclaimers and warnings.

    If it came down to it, I would straight up delete them.

    Listen, I'm not going to be talking about work on my free time. If you need to police me, you're failing at making it not tempting to give out your trade secrets.

    So, basically, what I'm saying is, you're probably paying someone a paltry wage.

    You'd have to bring it up with the SEC. It's a legal requirement that all possible communication channels with clients are monitored.

  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    edited July 2013
    Obviously we all agree on the Facebook aspect, but what about LinkedIn? I mean, it's "supposed" to be for professionals and job searching and the likes, but I have my own sentiments about what people really use it for. Regardless, if you were looking at a group of applicants, would the fact that one of the them doesn't have a LinkedIn profile/account cause you to be dissuaded?

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    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • Jimmy KingJimmy King Registered User regular
    I don't care if someone has a linkedin profile or not. I have one, I keep the jobs, skills, and education up to date because a lot of recruiters find me that way. If someone is able to find work without doing that, good for them.

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    I use linkedin and the stackoverflow thing as basically "web resumes."

    Obviously I've connected to people I've worked with on things with linkedin, but that's actually pretty rare. I think I'm linked with the guy that made Seven Kingdoms because I was in charge of the OSS project but had to stop because of work/life issues.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    Well I appreciate everyone's feedback on that. It's been almost 10 years since I had to go looking for a new job, so it's like a new frontier for me again. Now people have to use cover letters, which is foreign to me. Meh.

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    edited July 2013
    I don't have any other way right now of testing, so I'm asking here. Anyone use Adobe SendNow via the browser? If so, can you test it to see if it's working for you? I get to the part where you click Send Now and then it just goes opaque. It's not frozen, as you can click on other shit and switch between tabs. It just won't send. Their initial level tech support was no help and have escalated it. I've tried different machines, different browsers, no proxy, no AV, disabled geo-blocking. Everything ends up the same.

    Everything went fine last month, but no potatoes today

    Le_Goat on
    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    gavindel wrote: »
    Really depends on the employer. The more extraneous stuff they "demand" ,the more likely it is they're either attempting to screen 500 potentials for easy ways into the trash or that they're not really that serious about filling the position.

    I have told interviewers to their face that I won't give them my Facebook information because its personal and not professional. I was then not hired for said positions.

    Sooooo...Win some, lose some?

    That's 100% a "win some" situation. If my Facebook/Twitter/MySpace/Geocities accounts are a problem, then so is my entire personal-life. Employers are just completely overstepping their bounds in an economy that's been absolute shit for the lower and middle classes, so they feel they can get away with it. I know at least one state has (or tried) to outlaw that. I think it might've been Maryland.

    In some industries, you have to monitor your employees social-media accounts. Anyone who is associated with the Broker-Dealer entity has to allow our compliance team access to their accounts. There have already been a couple of firms that have received hefty fines and warnings for employees discussing trading information on their accounts without the proper disclaimers and warnings.

    If it came down to it, I would straight up delete them.

    Listen, I'm not going to be talking about work on my free time. If you need to police me, you're failing at making it not tempting to give out your trade secrets.

    So, basically, what I'm saying is, you're probably paying someone a paltry wage.

    You'd have to bring it up with the SEC. It's a legal requirement that all possible communication channels with clients are monitored.

    Do they have a tap on your personal phone? Have you tailed to find out secret dead drops? Then they're not doing their jobs!

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  • Mr_RoseMr_Rose 83 Blue Ridge Protects the Holy Registered User regular
    Phyphor wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    gavindel wrote: »
    Really depends on the employer. The more extraneous stuff they "demand" ,the more likely it is they're either attempting to screen 500 potentials for easy ways into the trash or that they're not really that serious about filling the position.

    I have told interviewers to their face that I won't give them my Facebook information because its personal and not professional. I was then not hired for said positions.

    Sooooo...Win some, lose some?

    That's 100% a "win some" situation. If my Facebook/Twitter/MySpace/Geocities accounts are a problem, then so is my entire personal-life. Employers are just completely overstepping their bounds in an economy that's been absolute shit for the lower and middle classes, so they feel they can get away with it. I know at least one state has (or tried) to outlaw that. I think it might've been Maryland.

    In some industries, you have to monitor your employees social-media accounts. Anyone who is associated with the Broker-Dealer entity has to allow our compliance team access to their accounts. There have already been a couple of firms that have received hefty fines and warnings for employees discussing trading information on their accounts without the proper disclaimers and warnings.

    If it came down to it, I would straight up delete them.

    Listen, I'm not going to be talking about work on my free time. If you need to police me, you're failing at making it not tempting to give out your trade secrets.

    So, basically, what I'm saying is, you're probably paying someone a paltry wage.

    You'd have to bring it up with the SEC. It's a legal requirement that all possible communication channels with clients are monitored.

    Do they have a tap on your personal phone? Have you tailed to find out secret dead drops? Then they're not doing their jobs!

    More like "they have solid precedent for shoving that liability off onto the individual(s) involved" since it doesn't directly involve hardware the company owns.

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  • KakodaimonosKakodaimonos Code fondler Helping the 1% get richerRegistered User regular
    Phyphor wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    gavindel wrote: »
    Really depends on the employer. The more extraneous stuff they "demand" ,the more likely it is they're either attempting to screen 500 potentials for easy ways into the trash or that they're not really that serious about filling the position.

    I have told interviewers to their face that I won't give them my Facebook information because its personal and not professional. I was then not hired for said positions.

    Sooooo...Win some, lose some?

    That's 100% a "win some" situation. If my Facebook/Twitter/MySpace/Geocities accounts are a problem, then so is my entire personal-life. Employers are just completely overstepping their bounds in an economy that's been absolute shit for the lower and middle classes, so they feel they can get away with it. I know at least one state has (or tried) to outlaw that. I think it might've been Maryland.

    In some industries, you have to monitor your employees social-media accounts. Anyone who is associated with the Broker-Dealer entity has to allow our compliance team access to their accounts. There have already been a couple of firms that have received hefty fines and warnings for employees discussing trading information on their accounts without the proper disclaimers and warnings.

    If it came down to it, I would straight up delete them.

    Listen, I'm not going to be talking about work on my free time. If you need to police me, you're failing at making it not tempting to give out your trade secrets.

    So, basically, what I'm saying is, you're probably paying someone a paltry wage.

    You'd have to bring it up with the SEC. It's a legal requirement that all possible communication channels with clients are monitored.

    Do they have a tap on your personal phone? Have you tailed to find out secret dead drops? Then they're not doing their jobs!

    If you make the mistake of ever doing any business on your personal phone, then yes, you have to allow them to record the calls. The amount of arbitrary and annoying hoops you jump through on the compliance side of things is really annoying.

  • hsuhsu Registered User regular
    About ass kissing your boss...

    You will always have to do some level of ass kissing with your boss. Always.

    Your boss is not your peer, no matter how flat you think your company hierarchy is, your boss is not your peer. If they don't like you, they can make your life miserable, while you cannot retaliate. So at minimum, you will always have to do just enough ass kissing so that your boss thinks of you neutrally.

    It really sucks, but that's work.

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Well, typically, a boss is supposed to be your peer. Just because they give you orders doesn't mean they're "higher" than you socially. Money probably sets them apart though. That doesn't mean I don't do favors for my boss, and sometimes my boss does favors for me. But if my boss is a dick, forget it.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    edited July 2013
    The issue here is that this individual is not my boss. She's not even in my department. The only interaction I have with that department is when they have technical issues. She's basically just whining and moaning to my boss's boss about me because of the issue described above. She also has a track record of not facing any of such issues head on and making other people do it for her or ignoring them until the person is gone permanently. It's my personal opinion that she's a sub-par manager to begin with, but that's just me.

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    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    In managerial derpery:

    Our dept has some machines that another dept is borrowing, they're using them remote. So they're still physically in our space. After a while they're basically given to the other dept, as they were needed there more than here. But now we need that machine count back, so we order and pay for brand new machines. That are going to go to the other dept's space. And we get to use the old machines again.

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  • MyiagrosMyiagros Registered User regular
    My company used to be part of the one next door. When the machine shop was bought by the current owner the old company kept all their IT procedures and equipment and we started fresh. The whole time though they have left one of their old database servers in our server room and requested that we sign a form that says we take all responsibility for it. Multiple times we have told them to take it since we don't want it here, they just ignore those messages. One day their IT guy will drive in and find it sitting on the front step.

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  • MyiagrosMyiagros Registered User regular
    I moved our spare printer to an area with about 10 users who used to walk about 250+ft to the nearest printer. I'm installing the drivers for them today and one of them says "leave me on the other printer because this one is just going to break within a week". Someone nearby asks what he's talking about and his response is "it's too close to the bathroom and there is no room in the hallway, someone is just going to run into it and break it". The hallway is at least 10 feet wide and already has a water cooler in it that is no wider than the printer, the guy must have some sort of vertigo issues where he falls into things if he doesn't think there is enough room.

    iRevert wrote: »
    Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
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  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    Myiagros wrote: »
    "it's too close to the bathroom and there is no room in the hallway, someone is just going to run into it and break it".
    My new favorite bullshit excuse.

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • MyiagrosMyiagros Registered User regular
    I just about laughed directly in someone's face after they asked for help. New guy, maybe here for 3 weeks, he's like 55-60, slow as hell at everything. Asks for a new keyboard because his B button is not working and neither are some other keys. I give him a new one this morning and he calls about 5 minutes ago and says that it isn't working either. I go down with another one and someone else is just leaving his office. He turns to me and says that it is working, he just wasn't clicking in the box before trying to type....

    iRevert wrote: »
    Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    edited July 2013
    Okay here's a real headscratcher.

    I am currently setting up Print Management in Windows Server 2008 R2 for GPO deployment. Currently the print services reside on Win2003 box and are simply being shared over the network and deployed via logon script.

    Now, GPO deployment works fine on our Win7 machines, as it should. However, we still have a number of XP machines and here is where I run into trouble. I have deleted the old printers from the XP machines, but upon logging on to some of those machines (and on some it works fucking fine), the printers from the R2 box are not installed. Instead, the old printers are re-installed. Doing some more testing, I re-imaged an old retired machine with one of our XP images and when I logged in I saw that the old printers were installed again. This computer had just been re-imaged and was not on the domain, or even plugged in to the network yet.

    So, I deleted those printers and restarted the computer. Lo and behold, upon logging in the printers had returned!

    So, it would appear that somewhere, somehow, Windows is installing all those printers locally. I have been working on this one all godamned day and for the fucking life of me cannot find anything anywhere about godamned any of this shit.

    Anyone have any ideas? Cause I'm all out.

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  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    Seems like an old GPO is still being deployed to XP machines. I'm not an expert on GP, but is there a way to flush old GP entries? Maybe try doing a GP update and then reboot. If that works, I guess maybe run a login script on XP machines that forces a GP update?

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    Best thing I got pushed through was upgrading all of our machines to Win7 64bit a couple years ago. Mearly at workstations with dual monitors, decent mice/keyboards.

    Shame the people using them are about as novice as you can get.

  • SiliconStewSiliconStew Registered User regular
    edited July 2013
    Run mmc on the XP machine. Load the group policy snap-in. Try to find the local group policy object that is controlling the printer settings and remove it. Someone likely added a local GPO before the image was made.

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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    edited July 2013
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    Seems like an old GPO is still being deployed to XP machines. I'm not an expert on GP, but is there a way to flush old GP entries? Maybe try doing a GP update and then reboot. If that works, I guess maybe run a login script on XP machines that forces a GP update?

    I have done several, dozens even, gpupdates

    regardless, like I said, it's not even on the network or domain

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  • Mei HikariMei Hikari Registered User regular
    I'm guessing the image has the printers pre-installed on a machine level.

  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    Probably, but why do they come back after I delete them and then log off and on?

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  • Mei HikariMei Hikari Registered User regular
    edited July 2013
    They could have jobs pending in their queue.
    There could also be a local GPO or script adding the printer back. Check msconfig or gpedit.msc and dig around.

    Either way, I'd recreate this image from scratch as it's obviously got something going on.

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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    Well, the problem there is I have about 20 machines running this image, so I need to get this problem sorted. I can't re-image all of them.

    I did manage to find where the printers were coming from. They were hidden in 3 separate places in the Registry. So, I've got that problem fixed, now the issue is just getting the new printers deployed.

    Which is not working.

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  • gavindelgavindel The reason all your software is brokenRegistered User regular
    http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/18/technology/microsoft-earnings/index.html?iid=HP_LN
    Results were negatively impacted by a whopping $900 million write-off of Microsoft's Surface RT inventory.

    Um. Ow?! What kind of inventory were they expecting to sell?!

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    edited July 2013
    They were expecting tablets to be the next best thing. They designed their OS around tablet users even. But, you know, if I'm going to have a computer, windows 8 falls short of doing computer things. It does tablet things, but, when I need to have more than one app going at once it really fucking blows.

    No matter how many people tell me windows 8 is fucking amazing and the interface is to die for, they're fucking liars. It's annoying as piss to get any real work done unless my job consisted of having microsoft word, and only microsoft word, open for 8 hours a day.

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    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Yeah sure I could windows + D or set up a program to boot me right into the desktop. Or I could keep using windows 7 and not give a fuck.

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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    Windows 8 is pretty great actually if you install a Start Menu replacement like Start8. But yeah there is no reason to upgrade over Windows 7. I only did cause I got it for $15.

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Yeah the forced use of metro really put me off to it originally.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    I... I like win 8...

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    They were expecting tablets to be the next best thing. They designed their OS around tablet users even. But, you know, if I'm going to have a computer, windows 8 falls short of doing computer things. It does tablet things, but, when I need to have more than one app going at once it really fucking blows.

    No matter how many people tell me windows 8 is fucking amazing and the interface is to die for, they're fucking liars. It's annoying as piss to get any real work done unless my job consisted of having microsoft word, and only microsoft word, open for 8 hours a day.

    You get that you click on the little desktop pane at the bottom left of the metro interface to go to desktop, right? And desktop works just the same as windows 7?

  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    We probably shouldn't do this in here.

    Though we can all agree that Win 9 will probably be pretty baller.

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
    bowenSyphonBlue
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