OwlFancier posted:

What on earth school do you work with that gives ipads to nursery children

notwithoutmyanus posted:

Also, for me is weird - the new company opens P1's/sev 1's all day like nobody's business. I can't tell if it's people being clueless and bad at managing technology or just "Everything is urgent so nothing is" mindset.

Sirotan posted:

Now I'm looking much more like the lobster sitotan in my av. Should have reapplied sunscreen, it burnnnnssss.

larchesdanrew posted:

and... weed-eating

go3 posted:

Maybe its different in Europe but in the US 'throw iPads/laptops at it' is the go to feel good solution for our collapsing education system.

Ozz81 posted:

Sirotan got Siroburned



Terrible joke, couldn't resist, my apologies

quote:

Just to be clear, having the facility to use email within Gmail was the primary concern I raised when we were first told of an overseeing company possibly being employed - and I had expected life to get easier and not harder. I was happy to have something which 'looked like' another email address since some people were obviously concerned with the appearance, rather than the practicality from the point of view of those having to use it, but I (and others here) find gmail is far better and more 'fit for purpose' than the Outlook style. Indeed, a true 'business solution' is one which helps the business being done, not one which makes it more time consuming, more difficult, more onerous; a true 'business solution' has nothing to do with how it appears - it is what assists rather than hinders the business, and having to spend three times as long doing something is not helping business. The latter is my experience with Outlook and why I have been convinced that it is not a helpful or useful tool compared to gmail.

As it is, there are rather too many things that I can't do on the Outlook email, as well as the mind-numbing, laborious prospect of replacing every single contact, seeing as not one has been transferred. Considering I do a huge amount of my work and communications via email, the prospect of having to revert to an inferior method of working is appalling, and I'd appreciate it if an effort could be made to find a solution that is workable for those that actually have to do the work - and focusing on the substance and practicality rather than 'how it looks'.

It would also be helpful to know if I can alter the visual of the new Outlook as I find it confusing and exhausting as it currently stands - very little difference between unread and read, the unread are scattered about throughout the list of emails so difficult to detect (gmail can be ordered so that all the unread are neatly and clearly at the top - is this feasible with Outlook?) and there is the equally tedious prospect of having to physically handle every single one into folders (and one folder only - so endless copies must be made to replicate the same information into multiple folders).

bitterandtwisted posted:

One user wasn't happy.

bitterandtwisted posted:

Recently took over IT support for a small organisation. They had used gmail addresses before now and we've set them up with Office 365 and user@companyname addresses. One user wasn't happy.


Underlining hers.

Erwin posted:

And people here insist on using Outlook with Google Apps. Basically no one is ever happy.

Erwin posted:

And people here insist on using Outlook with Google Apps. Basically no one is ever happy.

MiniFoo posted:

Also, a computer came in. Overheating, probably needs a new CPU fan.



It might just be pretty dusty though, so let's open it up and -

MiniFoo posted:

We have far too many clients that insist on this. Use the loving web interface!

Also, a computer came in. Overheating, probably needs a new CPU fan.



It might just be pretty dusty though, so let's open it up and -

RadicalR posted:

What exactly am I looking at here?

Jerry Cotton posted:

I think it's great that you'll have a generation of adults who can't write (as opposed to type) properly because instead of teaching them the motor skills needed for that in pre-school, they're given poo poo tech for idiots.

go3 posted:

Whoever suggested and whoever greenlit moving a company from Gmail to O365 and not Google Apps should be fired into the sun

Inspector_666 posted:

It looks like the hard drives have been taped to the case.

Dragyn posted:

I used to work on a ton of these towers. If I remember how those Dell cases work, the HD cage can be removed and is an absolute bastard to line up correctly and reattach. Looks like someone gave up.

Renegret posted:

Slimlines? IIRC the HD cage was mounted below the DVD drive which needed something else removed to access it or something. It's been a while, I don't remember that well.

Those loving power supplies though.

OwlFancier posted:

I like that "order a new cell tower" was a thing you can theoretically offer to do.

GreenBuckanneer posted:

Most places in america have like 1 cell tower that covers about 100-200km of space. That's sometimes shared amongst several thousand people.

Crowley posted:

We're a Danish municipality that covers a large part of the, eh.. less inhabited part of the country. When it was time to renew the telecoms contract we joined forces with a few other municipalities and offered a sizable contract to attract better offers than we're usually getting.

The local dominating telco, TDC, guarantees 98.5% 3G coverage in Denmark. The problem is, that that's measured by population, and with the large cities easily covered you'll find spots in the countryside that remain on 2G, and that's just not good enough when so many modern services - like in-home nurses for the elderly and disabled - require always-online data connections for direct links with doctors, medical databases and such. Joining forces with other municipalities made us a nice fat target for one of the competing telcos who wound up guaranteeing 99.8% coverage geographically in our area, with 100% coverage in public buildings, two "free" cell towers we could order installed at sites we'd like better covered, and the option to buy extra towers as needed.

After the install is done we're extremely pleased with the results. When I'm in the boonies I've come to expect no less than full 3G coverage, and usually pretty decent 4G coverage except in hilly or forested areas. One of the other IT guys lives on a farm 20 miles from civilization, and he wound up cancelling his spotty ADSL because he could get 50 Mbit with a common USB dongle in his laptop at home. The only drawback for him is the 100 GB monthly limit on his new connection, but he'd rather have the extra speed for the same price. (~$58/mo)

Edit: I'd be weary of comparing the US to Denmark, or Scandinavia or Europe at all. We're much more densely populated, and thus easily covered with cellular.

Thanks Ants posted:

What the gently caress is a computer that still uses IDE doing outside of a beach in India getting picked apart by children?

Segmentation Fault posted:

That's insane. In the states there's still plenty of places where dial-up is your only option for internet.

MiniFoo posted:

bitterandtwisted posted:

Recently took over IT support for a small organisation. They had used gmail addresses before now and we've set them up with Office 365 and user@companyname addresses. One user wasn't happy.


Underlining hers.

MJP posted:

It's not gonna be fun tomorrow when I fake a medical emergency and not be in for a few hours. Not the first time I've had to but last time I played that card was a few months ago.

As much as I want out I feel like I should be saving no-shows with emails of "wife had seizure" etc. for the real deal, especially given that I forced my boss' rescheduling of his own stuff, but I don't know how much of this is just residual interpersonal-interaction guilt or just inertia. I really don't feel good that I couldn't make this happen legitimately but there was no way they would let me have time off on the first morning of the new guy coming in.

bitterandtwisted posted:

Just to be clear, having the facility to use email within Gmail was the primary concern I raised when we were first told of an overseeing company possibly being employed - and I had expected life to get easier and not harder. I was happy to have something which 'looked like' another email address since some people were obviously concerned with the appearance, rather than the practicality from the point of view of those having to use it, but I (and others here) find gmail is far better and more 'fit for purpose' than the Outlook style. Indeed, a true 'business solution' is one which helps the business being done, not one which makes it more time consuming, more difficult, more onerous; a true 'business solution' has nothing to do with how it appears - it is what assists rather than hinders the business, and having to spend three times as long doing something is not helping business. The latter is my experience with Outlook and why I have been convinced that it is not a helpful or useful tool compared to gmail.

As it is, there are rather too many things that I can't do on the Outlook email, as well as the mind-numbing, laborious prospect of replacing every single contact, seeing as not one has been transferred. Considering I do a huge amount of my work and communications via email, the prospect of having to revert to an inferior method of working is appalling, and I'd appreciate it if an effort could be made to find a solution that is workable for those that actually have to do the work - and focusing on the substance and practicality rather than 'how it looks'.

It would also be helpful to know if I can alter the visual of the new Outlook as I find it confusing and exhausting as it currently stands - very little difference between unread and read, the unread are scattered about throughout the list of emails so difficult to detect (gmail can be ordered so that all the unread are neatly and clearly at the top - is this feasible with Outlook?) and there is the equally tedious prospect of having to physically handle every single one into folders (and one folder only - so endless copies must be made to replicate the same information into multiple folders).

MiniFoo posted: