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Most small businesses could get away with a couple of Meraki PoE switches, APs and a gateway, something not totally poo poo to store files on, a VPN link into Azure/AWS to run domain controllers on and spend the money they didn't spend buying servers on an internet connection. Unfortunately a shitbox server with no redundancy running Windows Server Essentials is £600 so there will be a lot of people cleaning up after someone who 'knew something about computers' for a long time to come.
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Ahahaha, that's the most transparent 'gently caress you' I've ever seen. Unless you're HR I guess in which case you can't see a problem.
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Nov 1, 2013 16:55
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Sounds like it's YOTJ time then if possible. These sorts of organisations don't deserve to have people with ambition and talent working for them. Is there a reason why IT budgets always get hammered, or are there a bunch of janitors on a forum somewhere complaining that their employer won't give them new mops and it's just a thing that happens in bad companies?
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It does seem like there are a growing number of companies that 'get it' though when it comes to running IT. These also seem to be the places that subscribe to the idea that not making your offices a horrible place to be means your staff are happier and get more done. I think it's also safe to say that the companies that don't understand it by now are never going to.
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Nov 1, 2013 23:36
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That does make sense actually. Maybe my perception is a bit warped since the ones doing it right tend to shout about it, whereas nobody really wants to publicise the alternative.
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McGlockenshire posted:While fixing the clock on our our ancient PBX, I discovered that every phone in the building is actually able to set the time. It's a PBX so the menu system is probably more secure than a password.
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All I know about old PBXs is that a guy I worked with who dealt with the Avaya stuff we had used to drink heavily.
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Nov 4, 2013 22:31
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nitrogen posted:Can someone explain to me why people that infect their orgs with cryptolocker aren't immediately fired? Being bad at computers is still a completely reasonable excuse in all bad organisations, and there are a lot of bad organisations.
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Nov 7, 2013 20:03
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There seems to be a growing number of vendors coming out with their "cloud" solutions for file storage and proclaiming the death of the file server/NAS/whatever. I don't understand who they are aiming this at, a business with a fat internet connection but not enough money for a NetApp?
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It appears that everywhere you look the tech. press are trying to stretch the definition of the word "hack". The latest one I've seen is describing writing some Python to host a website, send emails and interface with other devices on the networking using manufacturer supported APIs as "Raspberry Pi hacking". What the gently caress, no it isn't.
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Nov 9, 2013 14:31
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In a previous job I used to quite regularly get spoken to by my boss because people would send in complaints either to him or via someone higher up because I wasn't able to assist them with doing something in Excel or Photoshop or whatever, and instead suggested that they look at the help file or have a look on Google (I took the time to explain that I could help them if the app wasn't loading or was crashing). Apparently I was supposed to work out how to do what they want and then write this down as a step-by-step entry in our FAQ system. The guy was totally unaware of the entire concept of "scope of support", and refused my requests to go on various Adobe training courses to pick up the skills necessary to be able to teach them. The organisation loved him because he'd take on extra roles and responsibilities on behalf of his department without asking for any increase in budgets or head count, and would always try to mash some old poo poo together to do a bad job at solving an issue as opposed to doing anything properly. And those are reasons for it being a previous job.
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Nov 9, 2013 19:57
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Yup, somehow stuff knows when it's being chucked out. Whether it's deracking an old UPS only to have any sort of way of carrying it break off, or throwing some old servers into a skip and getting your hand caught on a rail that's decided at that moment to slide out.
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Nov 10, 2013 21:55
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Is there a reason to use FoIP when email gateways are a thing that aren't poo poo and are dirt cheap? Edit: The place I worked at last had a multifunction fax printer thing connected to a Cisco ATA and nothing set on it specially for fax / data. 6 minutes per page and it looked like trash.
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Agrikk posted:Another grammar/spelling rant: Does it actually matter if you give a VM cores by adding cores to a socket or adding single core sockets? I'm assuming it's mainly to allow people to be flexible with software running on the guests which is licensed per socket, and then some edge cases where it's marginally faster with certain workloads?
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Nov 18, 2013 22:02
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And while you're copying and pasting poo poo into Outlook go and find that setting that removes the formatting from everything you paste.
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TWBalls posted:The techs that have been here a number of years have worked hard to get these idiots to go through the proper channels of opening tickets and paging the on-call tech when it's an emergency and in less than a year, this moron has flushed all that work down the drain. I dunno, I'd say whoever decided to call someone directly instead of using the official channels and then got pissy when their request wasn't logged has flushed it down the drain.
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Nov 19, 2013 22:00
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That changes things, if the guy was called out of the blue by someone who managed to get hold of his number then I can understand why you wouldn't want to spend any more of your day off calling it back in to the helpdesk. If he's been handing out the personal number to try to suck up to people then gently caress him.
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Nov 19, 2013 22:15
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Do they not have a provision for an external GPS antenna hidden under a plastic cap or something?
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Nov 20, 2013 15:48
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I'm more surprised there's a beach theme in what is supposed to be an ~enterprise~ application.
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Nov 20, 2013 19:17
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They've probably used it once before in a previous job a decade ago and it got them their very own 'custom program' for cheap (because the intern did it). They haven't had to deal with the fallout, and as far as they are aware it's a way to make custom software. And custom software will always be better than off-the-shelf because it exactly mimics the current workflow, regardless of whether that workflow is in any way efficient.
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Dick Trauma posted:The contractors upgrading the floor for our new HQ hacked out at least half of the Ethernet cabling! What the gently caress is it with contractors and just chopping through anything that looks a bit in their way. On what planet is it acceptable to cut through stuff without asking whoever's booked you to do a job?
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Nov 26, 2013 00:41
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Do the flooring guys know the cabling guys? You could end up with the cabling people coming back in and ripping the floor out, then the flooring guys come in etc. We don't seem to have anywhere near the amount of wars between trades that I've heard you guys suffering from.
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Nov 26, 2013 01:45
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A host based printer on a network. I feel so sorry for you now.
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Nov 26, 2013 16:10
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Doesn't it still rely on the server doing the work?
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Nov 26, 2013 16:25
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Consumer plasmas for static content  Been there done that etc., but it's not like it would have ever gone any differently with your boss the way he is.
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Nov 27, 2013 02:45
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Lots of frustration and jobs taking needlessly longer than they should has taught me that test equipment says Fluke on it, and anything else can go in the bin.
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Nov 27, 2013 15:52
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To be fair that search up / down is completely pointless and it's caught me out before. It should at least default to searching the whole document.
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Nov 28, 2013 17:44
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It would be nicer to not have to work around lazy design. Just make all the ports USB3 and charge a few dollars more for the computer. Nobody should have to think what version a USB port is before plugging something into it.
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Nov 29, 2013 01:34
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Is your internet connection something that cares about the MAC address of the kit it's plugged in to? Might need to reboot some ISP kit or get them to clear out any reservations.
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Nov 29, 2013 15:16
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Obviously the correct response to making a configuration change at 1PM that visibly and immediately fucks things up is to put off rolling it back until 4:30 and then decide it's time to go home and leave it until Monday. I mean, that's definitely the most logical way to deal with a problem like that. There are no alternatives.
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Nov 30, 2013 01:58
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None of those are reasons to pick their product over another. I get very suspicious when companies start talking in terms of "we're still here guys, we used to be awesome!". Just show us what the product does.
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Dec 2, 2013 16:46
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Experience has told me that anyone who references their position in the Gartner Quadrant has a terrible product.
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Dec 2, 2013 17:38
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The Eaton 9130 range is very well priced, and as far as I know it's a true double conversion unit.
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I don't think you could pay me enough to repair that mess. Rip it out, start again.
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Dec 4, 2013 16:34
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Firmware coming out next year will let you have it on a different subnet to your Wi-Fi clients (iPads etc), so you can keep using the internet while on the ClickShare. Will involve certain things in DNS a bit like how you point Windows clients at KMS, and obviously some routing between the subnets.
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If it's not going to cause legal problems then you can put together a form in Google Drive that will populate a spreadsheet for you.
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GoatShaver posted:Not entirely sure i'm in the right thread for this, but it involves some bitching so... You want this thread http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2943669
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Isn't the charge for deleting it early, not just restoring it?
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I have about 100GB of business-critical stuff copied to Glacier as the final resting place after it's already been copied to storage in another building. If I need the files back then I don't mind waiting for it. If you really really need the stuff back instantly can't you move it to S3 and pull it back at S3 rates?
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