What Are You Doing Right Now
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And the issue I have most with this is the way this is stated.
interest free 12 month loan for a new laptopSo if he fails to pay this back in 12 months is there a fee or rate hike?
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The way I see it is, if a company employs you to do a job then they should provide the tools to be able to do that job, apart from certain cases when your self employed etc. Sounds like a bit of an ass of a company.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@notverypunny How do you like FusionInventory?
It does the job. Keep in mind that it's not a stand-alone solution but a plugin & agent for GLPI. The GLPI + FI combination does with an agent much of what SW did / does agentless.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Poking around with OSTicket.
That thing is a hunk of shoot
We use it here.... not a fan
Several people here on ML performed an evaluation of it and all came to the same conclusion.
Yeah, it predates me and is still liked by the guy(s) that set it up... I managed to get GLPI and fusioninventory going for scanning and inventory / asset management but haven't been able to convince people to move ticketing there from OSTicket.
Beyond that, just updated our base W7 desktop / laptop image and uploaded it to FOG while fighting with windows updates on my W10 laptop.
GLPI looks interesting. I've never heard of it.
It looks like it could be decent, but needs more polish. In looking at the demo a lot of the operational steps are difficult to find and generally rough looking.
If GLPI had a check-in/check-out function like Snipe-IT I would still be using it.
I noticed that it didn't have that functionality in the Demo. Just a "set asset to <employee>".
There's a Reservation system that might offer what you're looking for in the check in / check out type workflow.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
And the issue I have most with this is the way this is stated.
interest free 12 month loan for a new laptopSo if he fails to pay this back in 12 months is there a fee or rate hike?
Probably automatic payroll deductions. One of my old places would offer this to employees, honestly just to help them keep up to date with tech and let them take advantage of our business pricing as opposed to paying retail.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
And the issue I have most with this is the way this is stated.
interest free 12 month loan for a new laptopSo if he fails to pay this back in 12 months is there a fee or rate hike?
Payroll deductions, I pay a percentage of the total amount. if I get a new job, they will take the remainder of what I owe out of my last check.
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Home chilling after taking the wife to the medical medicine center 2hr drive away.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender how have you not looked at Snipe-IT yet, we've been discussing it for at least 1 Year plus on this forum alone, and there is a live demo you can play with.
You don't even have to deploy yourself to test the system out.
Time - I just haven't given it any yet. Same goes with MeshCentral though that hasn't been a year plus.
Fair enough.
Did @WrCombs ever get those laptops from you, and did you give him guidance on what he was trying to do with them?
No, I talked to Dash in person at a family event, and explained the situation a little more thoroughly.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
And the issue I have most with this is the way this is stated.
interest free 12 month loan for a new laptopSo if he fails to pay this back in 12 months is there a fee or rate hike?
Payroll deductions, I pay a percentage of the total amount. if I get a new job, they will take the remainder of what I owe out of my last check.
So you are beholden to the company and they are in fact making withholdings against your paycheck so they can get paid first.
This is loan-shark 101. I get paid first, screw you needing food, rent money or literally anything else.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with Windows updates taking down sites.
what was happening? what wasn't/isn't connecting?
Terminals werent finding fileserver, after rolling back the windows update sites loaded.'
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I have seen places say - we'll give you training, i.e. we, the company, will pay for it, but then you have to stay with the company at least 12 months after training is over.
EMC does something like that.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with Windows updates taking down sites.
what was happening? what wasn't/isn't connecting?
Terminals werent finding fileserver, after rolling back the windows update sites loaded.'
apparently the Windows update caused issues with the NICs and terminals werent able to communicate.POS terminals talking via SMB to a fileserver?
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@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with Windows updates taking down sites.
what was happening? what wasn't/isn't connecting?
Terminals werent finding fileserver, after rolling back the windows update sites loaded.'
apparently the Windows update caused issues with the NICs and terminals werent able to communicate.POS terminals talking via SMB to a fileserver?
correct.
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@notverypunny Ok thanks I understand.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with Windows updates taking down sites.
what was happening? what wasn't/isn't connecting?
Terminals werent finding fileserver, after rolling back the windows update sites loaded.'
apparently the Windows update caused issues with the NICs and terminals werent able to communicate.Which version of Windows?
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@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with Windows updates taking down sites.
what was happening? what wasn't/isn't connecting?
Terminals werent finding fileserver, after rolling back the windows update sites loaded.'
apparently the Windows update caused issues with the NICs and terminals werent able to communicate.Which version of Windows?
Terminals were xp and Office was 7
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with Windows updates taking down sites.
what was happening? what wasn't/isn't connecting?
Terminals werent finding fileserver, after rolling back the windows update sites loaded.'
apparently the Windows update caused issues with the NICs and terminals werent able to communicate.Which version of Windows?
Terminals were xp and Office was 7
I'm assuming this is a client site, and why for the love of God haven't they been forced to update their operating systems (and presumably server systems)?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with Windows updates taking down sites.
what was happening? what wasn't/isn't connecting?
Terminals werent finding fileserver, after rolling back the windows update sites loaded.'
apparently the Windows update caused issues with the NICs and terminals werent able to communicate.Which version of Windows?
Terminals were xp and Office was 7
I'm assuming this is a client site, and why for the love of God haven't they been forced to update their operating systems (and presumably server systems)?
Because Point of sales systems are expensive.
Upgrading a point of sales system is expensive.
Restaurants dont like change, "if something works, Let it work , dont change it"
We Suggest and push and try to sell so we do our part, but its always up to the customer at the end of the day.
If the customer says " No I dont want to spend money on a new system" They use what they have, I suggest and try to tell people to change hundreds of times a day.
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and here comes the BS
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with Windows updates taking down sites.
what was happening? what wasn't/isn't connecting?
Terminals werent finding fileserver, after rolling back the windows update sites loaded.'
apparently the Windows update caused issues with the NICs and terminals werent able to communicate.Which version of Windows?
Terminals were xp and Office was 7
I'm assuming this is a client site, and why for the love of God haven't they been forced to update their operating systems (and presumably server systems)?
Because Point of sales systems are expensive.
Upgrading a point of sales system is expensive.
Restaurants dont like change, "if something works, Let it work , dont change it"
We Suggest and push and try to sell so we do our part, but its always up to the customer at the end of the day.
If the customer says " No I dont want to spend money on a new system" They use what they have, I suggest and try to tell people to change hundreds of times a day.
We cant force people to upgrade, We can only suggest it.All this means is you as a business have to draw a line in the sand where you are willing to support a customer up until. And after that you fire the customer.
Dealing with Windows XP? Seriously. . . EoL was on April 8, 2014 that's going on 5 years ago now. And I suspect that the restaurants aren't paying MS for support either!
