I read The Workplace more than I do here, but that's mostly to remind myself why it's so damned easy to appear competent and why social skills are important
Had a great long meeting with the MD (Where we agreed it) and things are good. He still intends to use me where appropriate/possible at the agreed day rate, and occasional support etc. Plus, he's happy to keep my account active so I can use their resources :)
Hard work at times, but yes, extremely - he also told me the door was always open if things go to shit, so that's a nice safety net
So I'm quite happy with the concept really - if I can keep in touch with things here, it'll help me massively and they get another resource when things get tight
There's a bit of me that wants to laugh and say "Fair Play", but to be honest, I see £30k per annum boarding school and just think "Rich cunts doing what rich cunts do"
that was on radio 5 last night, they interviewed the kid who sounded properly happy to get a ride on a marines landing craft. As well he might at that age, too
@RobM Oh, 100% - I just question a 16 year old in FTE who has available funds to book a 2x flights and a 5 star in hotel to the Dominion, but can't even be arsed to tell someone
I used to teach self defence and judo at a girls private boarding school when I was 18 and some of them probably could have had the money and willpower to do it!
My Technical Director thought it'd be hilarious to sit down, open up his e-mails and then tell me I'd done an accidental Reply-To-All when slating a 3rd Party
It's going to take all day for my heart rate to recover
I find myself strangely drawn to those "cop wars / traffic cops / road wars" kinda shows but even they're all the same after a while. Chav acts up, gets nicked, gets essentially let off by the judges.
We use openmanage essentials, I think its called, but that's because we have a Dell TAM who wants to be able to get direct notice of things like SAN h/w issues, etc.
We've also simply not bothered and phoned the faults in ourselves...
I would like to set up a Jabber server on one of our development servers, so all our developers always have IM, without being bothered by external calls etc. on Skype or Google Talk. How do I go about this?
@MDMarra Those that can read will see I say "Windows Server 8", not "Windows 8". I hope you didn't waste a downvote on that stupid mistake. — BradyKelly12 mins ago
My team currently uses Lenovo T430 - they look like they're from 2005 even though they're brand new. Recently we were told we'd standardize on a high end laptop and they were working out specs. I was asked if my team preferred a T440 or T440s (the s is for "slim" - ultrabook form factor)
So, I ask me team - normal formfactor or ultrabook
unanimous vote for ultrabook
then, yesterday, I'm told that ultrabook isn't an option
So my two choices are to drop it and disappoint the team, or push the issue and ruffle the feathers of the internal support guy that offered it to us without getting it cleared first
Then you'll just have to tell the team - they'll know you're not in charge of procurement and they'll get over it. It's new, free shit whichever way you look at it
@MDMarra It's just one of those things - you may do the work, but remember, there'd be no work if there was so sales, marketing, account management etc :)
Worried about the IPv4 to IPv6 migration? NetWare users had a similar migration when Novell finally got off of IPX and moved to native TCP/IP with the release of NetWare 5.0 on or around 1999. We've done it before. Like...
@Dan Then, one day, I was sitting in one of their office's and he started peeling off this strip of velcro that was on the back. It completely ripped off the metal cover that's over the network card.
@MDMarra I really couldn't do that - if I was literal, lottery win style rich then perhaps I could spend my time travelling, but I'd still have to have some goals whether they be charity, writing or whatever
But the idea of just existing as I do now, btu without having to work would bore the crap out of me
Yeah I think if i was in that position I'd want something to do as a hobby, but what it would be, I don't know. I do like IT/Tech so I'd want to do something involving it but I wouldn't be working in the job I'm in now
@Dan Every other job I've ever had, the company didn't contribute. It's now that I work for a "real" company that they'll match up to 5% it's worth doing.
I'm not honestly sure where it stores the various and sundry configs, and what ends up being global versus user. Except for a brief masochistic stint administering an OSX server I've only ever fucked with them as single user devices.
I think I'll have to make a note of this and dig into it when I get some time. This seeming discrepancy bugs me.
I would like to set up a Jabber server on one of our development servers, so all our developers always have IM, without being bothered by external calls etc. on Skype or Google Talk. How do I go about this?
