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| Do me a favour, send that to the Colour Printer Upstairs.... Posted: 12 Jul 2021 12:43 PM PDT A disgusting printer story I'd love to hear some entertaining feedback on; Recently we had an outside company come in and do an audit of access control throughout the building. so they sent in their big brain tech to come and point out where the electrical hazards were, in regards to wire gauge and safety features, from an electrical code standpoint and where the access control hardware was installed incorrectly etc... It took a while, like hours and days of running around with a ladder and flashlight, but they finally compiled sent in a report of their findings. We were emailed a link to a PDF. This fucking beast of a file was just under 750 MB. Do you fellow nerds ever normally run into PDFs that are this massive? I'd love to hear it...I've never dealt with one quite that large for any normal reason....it was easily 2 or 3 times the size of the biggest PDF I retain, which is a giant digital tool manufacturer catalog My boss said he could not open it on his computer so I told him I would look into it. So I set the thing to download from the site, came back and opened it later. It was several hundred full page full colour phone pictures along with like 20 pages of text. Now I CANNOT fucking stress this enough. Printing these pictures has NO VALUE to anyone in our company, it was just the insides of several access control metal boxes. you don't need to make a damn coffee table book out of the shit. its just piles of circuit boards and wires with no labels all jumbled together. Its a long very detailed story about the value of the photos, and ill spare you the sermon, but my tech support brothers, please trust me on this, these fucking pictures don't need to be printed, and nobody will miss them. So my boss calls me back as fast as his fucking fingers can dial the extension; "...Do me a favour, send that to the Colour Printer Upstairs...." lol...no problem. this guy just loves sending shit to the colour printer let me tell you... so I did just that, straight up. FYI: It's one of those huge printers that comes right up to your tits. As the infernal contraption was churning away up in the ivory tower, I selected the entire contents of the PDF copied and pasted them into a txt file and emailed that to him. i though this would be helpful, all the relevant info that you can share in 20 kilobytes...none of the 50 tons of digital fucking diarrhea. This reduced the file size by around 99.9972% but he would never have noticed or cared. He comes trotting down from the printer, with this near 2 inch thick stack of papers, prattling on about how this can be shown to the electrician or something. I never thought much of it, my mind is still reeling from trying to figure out why he always wants dumb worthless bullshit printed off... So the end of the day comes, I go home and its the final day before a quick holiday. And what story do I hear when I come back next week? Apparently this 740 MB PDF mangled the printer queue. so it printed once, then APPARENTLY the printer thought "oh this item is still in the queue I better start it again..." and so it did. Now somehow, magically, this kept happening. And we are shut down during the pandemic, so there are only a very scarce few managers upstairs to hear the printer yelping that its out of paper or out of toner. Well what do they know? they just kept feeding paper into the tray, and pressing continue. I guess this went on for a few days, until finally the other managers called my boss and were like "are you done printing this giant manual??? other departments have to use the printer you know!!.....". So my boss went up there to see what was going on, and saw the murder scene. Apparently IT had to be called to basically kick the cord out of the big printer because it was possessed by Satan at that point. I think the IT dude said that the file had printed it self over 40 times? we now have a stack of pictures of circuit boards its rumored to be fucking near 3 feet tall. nobody has ever seen the entire pile of paper in one room. I'd estimate 2 decades worth of scrap note paper for the department.... All this for pictures nobody cares about and notes you can share in an instant. Un. Fucking. Believable. [link] [comments]  |
| Off site backups? Yes, we have one of those! Posted: 12 Jul 2021 01:13 PM PDT A while back I worked for a tiny MSP and we got a call from a non-customer in a panic. They were very keen on the security of their company files and the designs that were their trade. So much so that they had no local copy - instead every night they copied their working folder to a write-once live DVD then deleted all the files off their daytime disk and the boss took the dvd home. Next day, copy it all back on and repeat. The problem is that to make a live filesystem work on a write-once DVD the DVD writer has to rewrite the table of contents after it writes the new files. Until the day it doesn't, they don't notice and nobody knows until they try to load the files back on the next day... Dud I mention that their files weren't all that big? They'd been using that same DVD for years. It was the only copy of all their company data. [link] [comments]  |
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