(09-12-2011, 07:25 PM)Evil Cheese link Wrote: [quote author=Kirby the Dick link=topic=3709.msg222505#msg222505 date=1315869691]
Best part is, this laptop is a 2.4GHz Core2Duo with 4GB RAM. And it can't run Minecraft smoothly at all.

Minecraft.

2.4Ghz Dual Core.


What the fuck.

(09-12-2011, 04:34 PM)ThunderStain link Wrote: My roommates suck. Im the only one who ever does dishes and they let the garbage overflow with shit to the point where half the new can is old shit. Fuck.

(09-12-2011, 09:32 PM)Whendilin link Wrote: Putting down my dog tomorrow. She is 16 years old. I got her when I was 4. Gonna miss her.

(09-12-2011, 09:01 PM)Vlambo link Wrote: [quote author=ThunderStain link=topic=3709.msg222483#msg222483 date=1315863249]
My roommates suck. Im the only one who ever does dishes and they let the garbage overflow with shit to the point where half the new can is old shit. Fuck.

(09-12-2011, 04:34 PM)ThunderStain link Wrote: My roommates suck. Im the only one who ever does dishes and they let the garbage overflow with shit to the point where half the new can is old shit. Fuck.

(09-12-2011, 11:13 PM)matter11 link Wrote: [quote author=Vlambo link=topic=3709.msg222531#msg222531 date=1315879304]
[quote author=ThunderStain link=topic=3709.msg222483#msg222483 date=1315863249]
My roommates suck. Im the only one who ever does dishes and they let the garbage overflow with shit to the point where half the new can is old shit. Fuck.

(09-13-2011, 07:05 PM)Karth link Wrote: Ordered an HDMI splitter for PS3/360 for our TV.


It's got one input and two outputs.


GODGJANG

(09-13-2011, 09:46 PM)at0m link Wrote: [quote author=Karth link=topic=3709.msg222639#msg222639 date=1315958703]
Ordered an HDMI splitter for PS3/360 for our TV.


It's got one input and two outputs.


GODGJANG

(09-13-2011, 03:01 PM)at0m link Wrote: I'd go speak to the dept head in person first, but that's me.

(09-14-2011, 01:14 PM)cbre88x link Wrote: [quote author=at0m link=topic=3709.msg222608#msg222608 date=1315944090]
I'd go speak to the dept head in person first, but that's me.

(09-14-2011, 09:31 PM)Evil Cheese link Wrote: Oh where do I begin? Well without giving too much away, I work for a government contractor. I work for a group that hosts servers and services for other projects. My boss (PM) is overly ambitious about hosting new services without the resources to adequately do so. That means the current resources (employees) get stretched extremely thin to accommodate the needs of whatever new client he's after.

One of our higher profile clients is unhappy with the service we're providing. Initially our responsibility to said client was to monitor SNMP traps sent by telecommunication equipment. That was it. Easy enough right? Well in an attempt to make the client happy since providing that simple service is actually quite troublesome, we've slowly been creeping into more of a tier 1 first response/troubleshooting service. Since I'm one of the three people who was actually trained on the equipment (one was a PM who moved on to a different project and the other who is more senior than me has "wiped his hands" of it, not that I can blame him) that means I'm often taking trips to the client site. While I may know generally how all equipment works with each other, I don't have much practical knowledge with it. We're quick to escalate to the equipment manufacturer who will send out technicians.

That by itself isn't too bad. You also have to factor in that the telcom equipment is rather old. So old in fact that the manufacturer doesn't publicly support it. We can only passively monitor via SNMP traps because if we try active monitoring it crashes some of the equipment. The parts of the equipment responsible for monitoring also aren't very reliable as they will randomly stop sending SNMP information without warning and neither my company or the manufacturer has any idea what causes this. We've implemented every band-aid solution we could think of to try to circumvent these issues, but the monitoring is still unreliable and that makes the client unhappy. While there are plans to upgrade the equipment, it's one of those billion dollar deals that would take a year or so to implement and currently resides in contract limbo.

Well my boss's bad habits have finally come back to bite him in the ass. The client recently gave us an extremely poor rating in a customer survey, despite my boss's efforts to make the client "happy" via scope creep, and now the top brass has their eye on us. My boss's response is now to throw resources at the client whenever he blinks funny. So without thought of efficiency or actual productiveness I get scheduled to babysit the equipment at the client site while an irate man makes passive-aggressive conversation at me until the manufacturer's technicians can come out.

If I can make it the next two weeks without losing my sanity, I'll be impressed.