MattPie Posted November 23, 2016 Report Share Posted November 23, 2016 (edited) I speak a little, though I'm not fluent. NTR is something like Note to Readers or something? AGM is some sort of shareholder end of year meeting? Simple translation: his client wants him to do a month of work in about a day. From what I can tell from my wife and friends who are accountants this ###### happens way too often. "Oh yeah, I never got that to you did I...you can still get it done by Tuesday, right?" Then the accountants work for 30 hours straight because the client has put this off to the LAST possible moment and they have to get it done before X day or else the SEC or someone gets involved. Accountants deserve your respect/pity. As long as we're getting into specific work issues: My company makes products (PCI boards) that are often sold to other larger companies to be put inside their product (usually a server) or larger solution. These larger companies are called Original Equipment Manufacturers, or OEM's. I can get more specific if thats confusing, but suffice to say before we enter an agreement with a company that they'll buy our product, we obviously have to make sure it works with them. These are called certifications, and I am going through one now. Usually the OEM sends us a list of things they want us to test and the equipment they want us to test them with, we do it, fix any issue we run into, then send them the results, and the agreement goes forward. The current cert I'm working on should be done by now, except one of the OEM's engineers wants to actually SEE some of the stuff happen. Fine, no problem, I set up a remote desktop app so he can watch me run some tests. Except I made it a very basic testing setup because my full setup got torn down a MONTH ago when I FINISHED this testing. Now he keeps asking for more and more pieces to this very simple test he wants to run. I worked an extra hour last night, and we're going to get started again in about 10 minutes. I'm so ready to be done with this. Side note, if anyone has a nice, easy way to remote into Linux from Windows, I'm all ears. Check out X2go or XRDP, we use both for remote access. If you're looking for something more like webex, I think Bluejeans works well on Linux (Redhat uses it for their meetings). https://www.bluejeans.com/ Edited November 23, 2016 by MattPie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampD Posted November 23, 2016 Report Share Posted November 23, 2016 Holidays just put a magnifying glass on the crazy that is my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabills Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 Check out X2go or XRDP, we use both for remote access. If you're looking for something more like webex, I think Bluejeans works well on Linux (Redhat uses it for their meetings). https://www.bluejeans.com/ Cool, thanks, I'll check that out on Monday. XRDP sounds familiar. We tried VNC Viewer but had problems connecting it. I ended up just SSHing in, but actually being able to see the screen would be better. Thanks MattPie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattPie Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 (edited) Cool, thanks, I'll check that out on Monday. XRDP sounds familiar. We tried VNC Viewer but had problems connecting it. I ended up just SSHing in, but actually being able to see the screen would be better. Thanks MattPie. My pleasure! XRDP is a bit confusing; I remember having a tough time figuring out where the current version is due to the "original" version (0.6.1, or so) was the last and then someone else kept working on it up to 0.9.0 or something. If it's in your package manager, use that. I'm still building RPMs from sources I had to hack up to work, but I think the current version is in EPEL for Redhat/Centos; I really need to test that and migrate so I can get away from my homebrew. I'm not sure about Ubuntu-based stuff, we don't use that at work. (Someone feel free to complain that that is one seriously jargon-filled post) Edited November 24, 2016 by MattPie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwksndmonster Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 It's thanksgiving and my birthday and I shouldn't hafta work dammit!...although my work is going to be incredibly easy and quite possibly lotsa fun... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubkev Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 (edited) I've never once in my life, worked or gone to school/class on my birthday. Not ever! Oh and work, ya know, that easy night I was crowing about in the awesome thread(or maybe you didn't read it/or care enough to remember, what do I care? you!) yeah, work sucked tonight! The thing about training people, they do things slower than you, and your OCD will kick in and make you a firey ball of hate(on the inside, cool as a cucumber on the outside). OK, that's over now. Bourbon! Lots of it! Edited November 24, 2016 by ubkev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Buffalo Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 Nuck walked into a case this am all messed up what a pain Happy TG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 So I fixed the oil cooler lines on my hooptie Roadmaster last weekend and was feeling pretty good about that. My other goal for getting this car ready to drive full time was to flush the cooling system because I think it's had green coolant mixed with Dexcool, which is not great. Well apparently Chevy LT1 motors are a bit more involved when it comes to this process. I've been waffling all week as to whether I really feel like attempting this and tomorrow has to be the day. Do I trust a shop to do this right, or do I suck it up and try to get the job done myself? Harrumph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkman Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 (edited) It's thanksgiving and my birthday and I shouldn't hafta work dammit! ...although my work is going to be incredibly easy and quite possibly lotsa fun... I've never quite understood the whole taking birthdays off from work thing. One of my former employees would do it every year. He also loves sneakers and WWE. This added up to me thinking he was "special". Also, I think he only has one leg and uses his dick for a second leg as his wife is a complete smoke show and his special person persona never quite added up. D4rk, you know who I'm talking about? Edited November 24, 2016 by inkman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 I just skimmed the first page of this thread and that one about the Presidential candidates is post #2. Also, d4rk has too much to complain about and not enough time to do it. And, chz not knowing how to embed a video clip ... :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabres Fan in NS Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 It's not my Thanksgiving so ... I have been getting a lot of *robo calls* from North Carolina on both my office and mobile numbers. How many times do I have to tell them that I am not interested in raping and pillaging. Besides President Elect Trump will never let me into your fine country even if I wanted to rape and pillage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubkev Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 I've never quite understood the whole taking birthdays off from work thing. One of my former employees would do it every year. He also loves sneakers and WWE. This added up to me thinking he was "special". Also, I think he only has one leg and uses his dick for a second leg as his wife is a complete smoke show and his special person persona never quite added up. D4rk, you know who I'm talking about? I'm not into sneakers or wrestling. I am into not working. I prefer to not work as often as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 Found out that the nimrod that makes our schedule at work has no sense of shame. Been asking for two years to have less nigth shifts, to divide them more fairly among my co-workers. asshat gives me my first two morning shifts on 31st of december and 1st of january. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 I've never quite understood the whole taking birthdays off from work thing. One of my former employees would do it every year. He also loves sneakers and WWE. This added up to me thinking he was "special". Also, I think he only has one leg and uses his dick for a second leg as his wife is a complete smoke show and his special person persona never quite added up. D4rk, you know who I'm talking about? A certain tattooed individual known for never doing his job and who somehow wasn't you? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matter2003 Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 Bylsma is killing our offense hoping to win games 1-0...and failing miserably but still won't open up the offense... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spndnchz Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGR4GM Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 I wish I could post about how frustrated I currently am but I can't. Certain parts of my life right now are driving me up a wall and I can't do anything right now to fix that. Patience for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pi2000 Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 I wish I could post about how frustrated I currently am but I can't. Certain parts of my life right now are driving me up a wall and I can't do anything right now to fix that. Patience for now. Sorry to hear that, hope everything works for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickie Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 I wish I could post about how frustrated I currently am but I can't. Certain parts of my life right now are driving me up a wall and I can't do anything right now to fix that. Patience for now. I don't want to minimize it with a cliche; but what you're doing is "adulting." I'm glad you are exercising patience instead of lashing out. It's the good, responsible, thing to do, even if it makes you frustrated as hell inside. A big problem these days, imo, is too many people lash out. So I guess I'm commending you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 My friend's wife controls his life to an unbelievable level. I hate him for letting it become like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGR4GM Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 Sorry to hear that, hope everything works for you.Appreciate it, and it will with time. No lashing out, gotta be an adult Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubkev Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 My friend's wife controls his life to an unbelievable level. I hate him for letting it become like this How old is your friend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 How old is your friend?He's only 23. She's younger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubkev Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 He's only 23. She's younger Oof, sucker. Poor guy. Still, his fault though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGR4GM Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 He's only 23. She's youngerHow many serious relationships has he had? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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