It also sounds to me that this boss is LAZY and is expecting someone else to do his job for him!
I forgot to add that while his boss is looking for something thats powerful, versatile and reliable system thats also cheap there is no such animal. From my own personal experience (and...
My advice is to keep your boss in the loop with regular updates in your search to cover your butt.
This reminds me of everything I despise about members of upper management who are experts on topics they know nothing about. The best analogy I can think of is the restaurant owner I worked for...
I had a similar problem with my home network - I was trying to get my Win7 machines to "see" my Win2k Server. Turns out that if the time AND date aren't the same than they can't communicate.
The Win2K Server was told it was January 11th, 2013, not 2014! Fixed the time and date and eureka...
You're aces, RFC. I like what you have to write.
Thats a phenomenon that I see a lot here in my region of the country North East United States. There are a lot of people who think they need to be pushed along up the ladder; not because theyre qualified but for social promotion. They...
I have no problem buying old computer parts for some of my legacy machines. I would rather buy new parts but it’s getting harder and harder to find unopened boxes from the eras that I’m looking for but that’s the way it goes. I’ve also been burned from shops that have...
A year ago I was looking for a second processor to go into my 7210 Gateway server. I bought one from a local shop years earlier that didn’t have the same stepping as the first one so I put it in a box and forgot about for a while. I went to Amazon and did a search for processors with the...
Not for nothing, I was on the front lines and it was horrible in ways I couldnt imagine before I took this job.
The absolute worst was handling people with computer problems. I had to diagnose the problems over the phone and if I couldnt fix it then I had to go there myself or dispatch...
If theres a prize for the strangest newbie post I hope I at least get a nomination
The short version of this question: Has anyone figured out a way to take the heat generated by computers/servers and move that heat to a colder part of the house or building? Like using your house as a...
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