Clarification: Not ragging on Outlook but NINETEEN FUCKING COPIES
That can show like that even with "Outlook Windows" open... for example that could be 1 main window, & 18 overdue reminders or individual emails opened. So, it's not necessarily 19 copies of outlook running in fact probably isn't.Clarification: Not ragging on Outlook but NINETEEN FUCKING COPIES
I've got beer to drink and You guys are wasting my time.
I bet they accidentally tiled their windows.
By itself, I would tend to agree. Taken in the context of the rest of their taskbar I have my doubts.Originally Posted by Melcar
Actually, there was only one iteration of the OUTLOOK.EXE running in task manager. There were only 1 of all the affected apps.
Hovering over the task button for the respective program instead displayed what I (who is not a programmer) could only describe as class modules for various programs, like "sysfader", "dde server", "TNOTIFThisThreadSink", "ClientAppLog", and stuff like that.
I had a laptop that would flip out every so often and do that. Seemed to happen when I had a lot of memory intense programs running and switching around between then fast. But I could never get it to reoccur on demand. Just one of those random events you give a "WTF?" reboot and continue on.
"can you help us set the pones so they ring 5 times before going to voicemail"?
The system call timer is 20 seconds... which equals about 5 rings... So, yeah - sure, done.
I've got beer to drink and You guys are wasting my time.
Coworker asked me a few weeks ago what she needs to get an extra display for her personal laptop.
Um... buy a monitor.
Today:
Coworker: I bought the monitor for my laptop
Me: Okay
Coworker: But the laptop is in the way
Me: ... Pardon me?
Coworker: The laptop is in the way, the laptop screen is too high
Me: So move the laptop?
Coworker: But the laptop is in the way
Me: So move the laptop to one side
Coworker: But the laptop is in the way
Me: *annoyed at this point, I get up from my seat, walk to an empty desk and demonstrate* Simply move the laptop to the left or the right of the monitor. Or move the monitor to the left or the right of the laptop.
Coworker: But the printer's in the way.
Me: Of what?
Coworker: Moving the laptop. The laptop is in the way.
Me: So raise the monitor a few inches.
Coworker: It's already as high as it'll go.
Me: Put it on a stand! Put it on phone books! A milk crate! Elevate it!
Coworker: But the laptop is in the way.
I don't drink, but conversations like this make me realize why so many people do.
I sometimes got Mileron and Milaru mixed up but now they are clear in my head as if that was Milaru he would have set that person on fire already or raised the monitor up a couple inches on her lifeless corpse.
Seriously that is when I would want to set the person on fire.
Sounds like the kind of person who gets stuck while trying to operate the self checkout at the supermarket even though it tells you what to do in plain english.
Today we sail
On the Solar Rail
For there's much we just don't know
So farewell with a kiss
Then it's fast for the mist
Till we're sleeping in the cold below
I wonder if Windowkey+D would have worked.
Virtually all U.S. senators, and most of the representatives in the House, are members of the top 1 percent when they arrive, are kept in office by money from the top 1 percent, and know that if they serve the top 1 percent well they will be rewarded by the top 1 percent when they leave office
No way, THAT LAPTOP WAS IN THE WAY!
/meme
Got an email Monday, forwarded from one of our AAs.
"Alert: all tenants must be aware there MAY be a power outage of a minimum of two hours in the next few weeks due to electrical work being performed by our electric company. This outage will occur during business hours."
I immediately go to our office VP and explain that 90+% of my office would not be able to work from home due to the way our custom program infrastructure works, which runs off our file server.
He asks for some suggestions/comments, then sends an email to the landlord.
Meanwhile, our neighboring office, which is actually smaller than ours, and is the only other occupied office out of 11? suites in this building, sends the landlord an email saying "You can't do that, we have no generator."
Come to find out that the landlord had no idea that, after their biggest tenant moved out 18 months ago, the nearly-school-bus-sized generator they leased wasn't patched into the rest of the electric system for the building. To do so would take weeks of reconfiguring a 25 foot electrical panel (or so the maintenance manager states) so the landlord is "going into negotiations with the electricity vendor" to try to get our window of downtime moved outside of business hours.
However, naturally, I would need to be present at the start and end of this window, to shut servers down gracefully and bring everything back on once it's possible.
But upon informing Netops of the downtime, they still don't understand why we don't just leave everything alone - because they still have not absorbed/learned that the generator isn't connected, and that our aging APC Backups units will only power one server for 20 minutes (and I have 4, plus 7 routers and switches).
It gets better in an unrelated way:
Due to an offhand comment I made during my report to the office VP about the uselessness of most of our tools from a remote location that has no access to the internal server, I start getting a bunch of emails from the development manager and my manager asking for timing, speedtests, etc.
I tell them that I haven't worked from home since one of the tools was last updated, because it's slower than cold molasses in Siberia in January.
In-office, it takes ~18 seconds for the program to load and log in.
Out-office, it takes ~3 minutes. And that's not even going into searching, data edits, etc.
So the dev manager replies to me and says "Why don't you just copy the EXE folder for the tool to your PC and run it direct? It doesn't need to access the server."
*facepalm*
Well, considering none of our other tools in the last 8 years have had that capability, why would I suddenly hope that a new one would suddenly gain a level and be, you know, useful?
Place I work has hundreds of servers set up in arrays, and one array has over 100 desktop-design servers running off of about 50 APC shoebox-style UPS units. Well, I wanted to set up a time when that array is being used the least to take it down gently and run a UPS test on all 50 APC's and swap out the ones that have weak batteries (I refurb the ones that are removed with new batteries later on). But for the past several months, the golden boy of our Dev team has insisted on using the array during our maintenance time. So we haven't swapped out a unit in several months unless it catastrophically failed due to a battery short. Nobody seemed to care about regular maintenance, and my requests for a little down time were dismissed out of hand.
A week ago this past Sunday, there was a power failure that lasted about an hour. Naturally, all the units went down completely. I bet some of them, the ones that needed new batteries, lasted 10 minutes tops. So the entire array crashed instead of shutting down gracefully. Our awesome Dev team appears to have never closed a record in their lives, because they'll just have to re-open it later I guess is the rationale. So a graceful shutdown is kinda NECESSARY considering their shitty programming skillz.
Anyway, after the blackout and the entire Sunday spent fixing the boo-boos, it was *I* who got yelled at, because the UPS units "failed." Let's see, not allowed to do maintenance for 3-4 months, the power outage lasted about an hour, and we had two servers per UPS because $$$, but it's all my fault because I'm apparently the magical computer fairy and I should have brought along more pixie dust or something!
so today this guy walks into my office again and has the nerve to ask if his new laptop is due anytime soon. I truthfully respond with a polite "nope" and think to myself "not in this lifetime asshole". He of course whines about his personal machine having the broken screen and dvd drive, and the public one having broken usb ports.
I have a feeling this isn't over yet.
Somebody has to be the scapegoat. Hopefully you saved all those emails (and hopefully they were emails) you sent requesting maintenance and the replies that there was no way. Although it just sounds like somebody wanted someone else to blame when someone much higher came to find out why this happened.
Additionally, I bet you get your maintenance time for a little while now.
Yeah, I did a swapout of several UPS units Monday night.
is it possible to just tell the dev guys "Too fucking bad, there WILL be maintenance this weekend. Save your work on friday"
Today we sail
On the Solar Rail
For there's much we just don't know
So farewell with a kiss
Then it's fast for the mist
Till we're sleeping in the cold below
Apparently not, though that's what I kept telling my boss for months that we should tell the devs before this last blackout. He would just smile and ignore it.
Did you CYA with a paper trail a mile long?
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