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  • SentretSentret Registered User regular
    I kinda want to get the Venues, but I bet if you drop them on concrete they explode. :|

  • lwt1973lwt1973 King of Thieves SyndicationRegistered User regular
    Stop changing the admin password of the SQL database, you stupid control freak.

    I have rights so I just reset it. Don't you understand that?

    How I wish I could just lock her rights away but no, I have to be a team player.

    "He's sulking in his tent like Achilles! It's the Iliad?...from Homer?! READ A BOOK!!" -Handy
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    Sentret wrote: »
    I kinda want to get the Venues, but I bet if you drop them on concrete they explode. :|

    Pleased to be pointing me to the tablets that doesn't exploding on a concrete pleased thanking you.

    Cog on
  • SentretSentret Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    I was hoping that for three grand, the toughbooks would be in that category, but now I am filled with dread.
    Because for minimum wage, I shouldn't expect our warehouse workers not to use the tech as a bouncy ball.

    Sentret on
  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Cog wrote: »
    Sentret wrote: »
    I kinda want to get the Venues, but I bet if you drop them on concrete they explode. :|

    Pleased to be pointing me to the tablets that doesn't exploding on a concrete pleased thanking you.

    GvtzkO7.jpg

    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
  • DjeetDjeet Registered User regular
    General Dynamics makes some tough devices (under the name Itronix). They are stupid expensive, and 5 generations behind current tech, but those and the toughbooks are the only thing Id trust to hourly employees in the field.

  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    Mei Hikari wrote: »
    You'll start having issues with .local domains in the future as cert vendors won't be allowed to renew made up TLD in a few years.

    I've never seen a .local cert. Usually there's just a DNS record for, for example, mail.contoso.com that redirects to servername.domain.local

  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    If you want resilient electronics, you either pay out the ass for something shitty that comes it a portable padded box, or you lock it in a box and bolt the box to something.

    Warehouse workers objectively hate their jobs and take it out on your equipment.

    Cog on
  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Cog wrote: »
    If you want resilient electronics, you either pay out the ass for something shitty that comes it a portable padded box, or you lock it in a box and bolt the box to something.

    Did I ever tell the story about how they thought it'd be a great idea to put a PC in a marina?

    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
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    Sounds familiar, but I'm not against Old Man bowen's Story Time.

  • SiliconStewSiliconStew Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Cog wrote: »
    Sentret wrote: »
    I kinda want to get the Venues, but I bet if you drop them on concrete they explode. :|

    Pleased to be pointing me to the tablets that doesn't exploding on a concrete pleased thanking you.

    GvtzkO7.jpg

    http://youtu.be/8YX-gqRdK_8

    Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
  • Mei HikariMei Hikari Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    Cog wrote: »
    Sentret wrote: »
    I kinda want to get the Venues, but I bet if you drop them on concrete they explode. :|

    Pleased to be pointing me to the tablets that doesn't exploding on a concrete pleased thanking you.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCI5-y8wDNU

    or you know, the extreeeeeme version:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h77GYFzgU7Q

    Mei Hikari on
  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Cog wrote: »
    Sounds familiar, but I'm not against Old Man bowen's Story Time.

    Ex boss sold a PC to a customer and claimed it was submersible. Well, you and I know there's a difference between submersible and water resistant.

    They tested it.

    They weren't happy.

    He had to comp them like $2000.

    Funny how they didn't come back for more business (they were a long time customer already)

    Salt water is probably the most corrosive stuff I've seen. It's not super fast like acid, but over the long haul, holy shit does it just melt everything.

    Not sure why they wanted a submersible PC tbh, I think they just wanted a free PC and told him they submerged it and it died because they're not retards like my boss.

    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
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Not sure why they wanted a submersible PC tbh

    Because it sounds awesome, not sure why you don't

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    I won't lie, yeah it does.

    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
    I will never understand why a program does not allow using Tab as a way to switch fields or disables using Enter as a way to signify that you are done. I hate using the mouse and avoid it if I can; that's what hotkeys are for. Move, click, type. Move, click, click again because you missed the field, type, click OK. I just want to type, tab, type, tab, type, tab, type, Enter

    Okay, so maybe I could understand it with a consumer product, but not with something that is an enterprise product meant specifically for those with admin privileges on a server.

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    Djeet wrote: »
    General Dynamics makes some tough devices (under the name Itronix). They are stupid expensive, and 5 generations behind current tech, but those and the toughbooks are the only thing Id trust to hourly employees in the field.

    They stopped making the Itronix stuff like a year ago.

  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    I will never understand why a program does not allow using Tab as a way to switch fields or disables using Enter as a way to signify that you are done. I hate using the mouse and avoid it if I can; that's what hotkeys are for. Move, click, type. Move, click, click again because you missed the field, type, click OK. I just want to type, tab, type, tab, type, tab, type, Enter

    Okay, so maybe I could understand it with a consumer product, but not with something that is an enterprise product meant specifically for those with admin privileges on a server.

    There's just no reason at all to specifically disallow the ability to forego your mouse. Fuck you, mouse. I'm busy over here.

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Lazy programmers are lazy is pretty much the only reason why though, tbh.

    Really easy to tie into the enter event on a forum, you can even assign it to a specific button with ease. Tab order is just a matter of clicking through your controls, you have to really go out of your way to make tabbing not work. By default it would just move between controls as they've been added to the form by the programmer. Disabling it means a whole lot more work.

    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
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    Look, all I ask is that if you're going to shit up my file server with 10 gig of MP3s they at least not be shitty MP3s. Is that so fucking much to ask? I don't need 3 gig of Kenny G and John Tesh, where's someone with the new Black Keys album when I fucking need it?

  • BigityBigity Lubbock, TXRegistered User regular
    Yup that's the worst. If I have to move/delete your files from where they shouldn't be, at least have the courtesy to buy SOMETHING I would like. Even just one album.

  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    I set up quotas that prohibit the saving of any audio or video files to the server. Some people aren't happy about it. I personally don't care. I know for a fact that if you give them an inch, they'll eat up the whole god damn server like it's their personal music and video storage.

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    I'm pushing for it but there's a lot of push back due to our marketing files.

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Can you use quotas to nix certain extensions?

    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
  • AiserouAiserou Registered User regular
    I have a user that thinks our internet is down constantly because he searches for things using Bing and it doesn't find what he wants, and then he searches for it on google and finds it.

    Guys I'm starting to worry about how much my eye twitches. We could be looking at some serious neurological damage here.

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    I'm fairly positive that no jury in the world would convict you of murder.

    At the very least, you'd get off on an insanity plea and sit in a mental institution for a decade or so.

    Cakewalk.

    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
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Can you use quotas to nix certain extensions?

    FSRM can target specific extensions, yes. It's actually a pretty nice and pretty functional feature.

  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    Aiserou wrote: »
    I have a user that thinks our internet is down constantly because he searches for things using Bing and it doesn't find what he wants, and then he searches for it on google and finds it.

    Guys I'm starting to worry about how much my eye twitches. We could be looking at some serious neurological damage here.

    DNS Alias bing to google.

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Cog wrote: »
    Aiserou wrote: »
    I have a user that thinks our internet is down constantly because he searches for things using Bing and it doesn't find what he wants, and then he searches for it on google and finds it.

    Guys I'm starting to worry about how much my eye twitches. We could be looking at some serious neurological damage here.

    DNS Alias bing to google.

    ... I ain't even mad.

    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
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    The simplest solutions are often the most elegant.

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Cog wrote: »
    If you want resilient electronics, you either pay out the ass for something shitty that comes it a portable padded box, or you lock it in a box and bolt the box to something.

    Warehouse workers objectively hate their jobs and take it out on your equipment.

    Set it up so that their time using it is logged, and if it gets broken on their time, well then I guess it comes out of their pay packet.

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    Cog wrote: »
    If you want resilient electronics, you either pay out the ass for something shitty that comes it a portable padded box, or you lock it in a box and bolt the box to something.

    Warehouse workers objectively hate their jobs and take it out on your equipment.

    Set it up so that their time using it is logged, and if it gets broken on their time, well then I guess it comes out of their pay packet.

    Keep in mind, your employer asking you to replace broken tools, equipment, and property is illegal in most states.

    So is docking your pay.

    This is considered the cost of doing business and what insurance is for.

    If you're ever in this position contact a lawyer immediately.

    bowen on
    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
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    They'll take it out on communal devices. Our warehouse was notorious for delivering flying kicks to the digital time card machines.

    I mean, that's cool with me I guess, if you want to ensure you can't punch in/out.

  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Cog wrote: »
    If you want resilient electronics, you either pay out the ass for something shitty that comes it a portable padded box, or you lock it in a box and bolt the box to something.

    Warehouse workers objectively hate their jobs and take it out on your equipment.

    Set it up so that their time using it is logged, and if it gets broken on their time, well then I guess it comes out of their pay packet.

    Keep in mind, your employer asking you to replace broken tools, equipment, and property is illegal in most states.

    So is docking your pay.

    This is considered the cost of doing business and what insurance is for.

    If you're ever in this position contact a lawyer immediately.

    Right, they'll just fire the shit out of you. That's much easier than fucking around with an employee with a history of willful destruction of company property.

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    Cog wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Cog wrote: »
    If you want resilient electronics, you either pay out the ass for something shitty that comes it a portable padded box, or you lock it in a box and bolt the box to something.

    Warehouse workers objectively hate their jobs and take it out on your equipment.

    Set it up so that their time using it is logged, and if it gets broken on their time, well then I guess it comes out of their pay packet.

    Keep in mind, your employer asking you to replace broken tools, equipment, and property is illegal in most states.

    So is docking your pay.

    This is considered the cost of doing business and what insurance is for.

    If you're ever in this position contact a lawyer immediately.

    Right, they'll just fire the shit out of you. That's much easier than fucking around with an employee with a history of willful destruction of company property.

    Willful is different than accidental though, which does happen (plus rough, but normal wear and tear, which will happen in the field).

    They can fire you, but the labor board will be right on your fucking ass if you try it.

    Most people just don't file claims because they're dumbfucks.

    bowen on
    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
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    Also at-will employment states make it a stupid fucking mess in the first place. When they can literally fire you for no reason at all, claiming they fired you for no good reason is tricky.

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Cog wrote: »
    Also at-will employment states make it a stupid fucking mess in the first place. When they can literally fire you for no reason at all, claiming they fired you for no good reason is tricky.

    The secret to at-will is if you get hit with something that's federally enforced by the DoL like that (including race, gender, pregnancy) they better as fuck have a paper trail since the onus will be on them to defend themselves against the allegations that it was discriminatory or retaliatory.

    In this case at-will probably won't protect them, so yay small victories!

    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
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    Getting fired in an at-will for arguably breaking company shit on accident or maybe purpose is a messy case.

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    You'd probably be open and shut for accident (assuming it could possibly happen on accident like dropping on the floor and your company didn't buy a case for it), you're right though, on purpose would be the express train to fuck you in the ass town.

    bowen on
    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
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    I'll never understand what it is about that job (aside from it probably being a shit job) that makes people want to take it out on our equipment.

    What did my thin client ever do to you, a hole?

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