What Are You Doing Right Now
-
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Doing some work with MailChimp. First time working with them.
HATE Mailchimp I dumped them and moved to active campaign instead.
But it has a cute little monkey!
-
Blew the guts out of some test equipment lastnight, now considering how to build a far more skookum version myself
-
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Doing some work with MailChimp. First time working with them.
HATE Mailchimp I dumped them and moved to active campaign instead.
But it has a cute little monkey!
They did just added their Automation tool even for the free level accounts. But it still sucks
-
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Doing some work with MailChimp. First time working with them.
HATE Mailchimp I dumped them and moved to active campaign instead.
But it has a cute little monkey!
They did just added their Automation tool even for the free level accounts. But it still sucks
Has API integration for some tools that I need to work with.
-
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Blew the guts out of some test equipment lastnight, now considering how to build a far more skookum version myself
Maybe you should create a superior mass mailing service... "Skookumail! We can gooder up your email campaigns, bud! We chooch 'em oot a few at a time, so nobody gets blacklisted!"
-
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Blew the guts out of some test equipment lastnight, now considering how to build a far more skookum version myself
Maybe you should create a superior mass mailing service... "Skookumail! We can gooder up your email campaigns, bud! We chooch 'em oot a few at a time, so nobody gets blacklisted!"
Oh frig bud, right on eh
-
Some systems, specifically stuff with embedded controls, will continue to run XP or older for some time. A great example is a CNC station, or an MRI station. In 2011, I was working with a client that had CNC stations still running '98.
-
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Some systems, specifically stuff with embedded controls, will continue to run XP or older for some time. A great example is a CNC station, or an MRI station. In 2011, I was working with a client that had CNC stations still running '98.
Sure, but are A+ cert newbies going to be supporting those? Not likely.
-
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Some systems, specifically stuff with embedded controls, will continue to run XP or older for some time. A great example is a CNC station, or an MRI station. In 2011, I was working with a client that had CNC stations still running '98.
You shouldn't have to test on things that are no longer supported imo, even if it's likely that companies aren't investing how they should. Screw em
-
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Some systems, specifically stuff with embedded controls, will continue to run XP or older for some time. A great example is a CNC station, or an MRI station. In 2011, I was working with a client that had CNC stations still running '98.
You shouldn't have to test on things that are no longer supported imo, even if it's likely that companies aren't investing how they should. Screw em
With that logic, we should only test current. Which might be a bit extreme. Knowing a range of things isn't bad. And what is or isn't supported is kind of a random bar to set. But "what is useful to a normal candidate" is pretty important, I think.
-
I am in the middle of recovering a Synology after a simple update reboot.
-
Because let's face it, in their career, 99% of people taking the A+ today will see, use and support Windows 10 in some capacity. 50% will do the same with Windows 7, 8 & 8.1 combined. 5% will do it for Vista and XP. Testing on Windows 10 is acceptable because it's that general as to be sensible. Testing on XP means your A+ exam is designed to steer the industry and candidates, not prep them for what is needed.
-
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Some systems, specifically stuff with embedded controls, will continue to run XP or older for some time. A great example is a CNC station, or an MRI station. In 2011, I was working with a client that had CNC stations still running '98.
You shouldn't have to test on things that are no longer supported imo, even if it's likely that companies aren't investing how they should. Screw em
With that logic, we should only test current. Which might be a bit extreme. Knowing a range of things isn't bad. And what is or isn't supported is kind of a random bar to set. But "what is useful to a normal candidate" is pretty important, I think.
Having a range of knowledge is good but you should need to invest in the future, not the past.
-
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I am in the middle of recovering a Synology after a simple update reboot.
Ouch, what happened?
-
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Some systems, specifically stuff with embedded controls, will continue to run XP or older for some time. A great example is a CNC station, or an MRI station. In 2011, I was working with a client that had CNC stations still running '98.
You shouldn't have to test on things that are no longer supported imo, even if it's likely that companies aren't investing how they should. Screw em
With that logic, we should only test current. Which might be a bit extreme. Knowing a range of things isn't bad. And what is or isn't supported is kind of a random bar to set. But "what is useful to a normal candidate" is pretty important, I think.
Having a range of knowledge is good but you should need to invest in the future, not the past.
But the future can easily involve things a little from the past. There is a balance. Certainly, learning to the future has little risk, leaning to the past has a lot.
-
@scottalanmiller normal firmware update. BAcked up the settings prior to update. Updated firmware and device reboot, now the Synology states is migratable even with a reset and everything. Just getting another drive to do a migration as las resource.
-
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller normal firmware update. BAcked up the settings prior to update. Updated firmware and device reboot, now the Synology states is migratable even with a reset and everything. Just getting another drive to do a migration as las resource.
Ouch, good luck.
-
Speaking of A+...
I just came across a product computer with a Windows Time issue. I seen that it was set to use the CMOS clock. So I checked that... and lookey what I found.
A+ would want me to waste hours of time on it... but I'm just going to have them put in an NCR, get them a new PC, and send this one back to Dell. Done. ( I did check to see if BIOS is up to date, it was.)
Pay attention to the time:
-
Cursing snap connection reset errors.
-
Just upgraded my work pc to Office 2016 from 2010. Outlook wont open, downloading my 3rd batch of office-updates-that-require-restarts from Windows Update. Started the upgrade process over an hour ago, still cant use Outlook.
