What Are You Doing Right Now
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just doing some really simple math on the cost savings of switching to the paid version of LibreOffice compared to Microsoft 365 Apps for Business (literally just the office suite).
$2,720 vs $15,840 annually.
Or simply put for just an office suite $13,120 a year in savings for an office of 160 people.
Mind blown.
There is a paid version?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just doing some really simple math on the cost savings of switching to the paid version of LibreOffice compared to Microsoft 365 Apps for Business (literally just the office suite).
$2,720 vs $15,840 annually.
Or simply put for just an office suite $13,120 a year in savings for an office of 160 people.
Mind blown.
There is a paid version?
There is. Its the recommended solution for businesses, specifically to keep the development of LibreOffice going.
And my numbers are actually a bit off, it's ~$19/U/Y for anyone checking my math.
But since the software is FOSS, many organizations are likely using it without support, the LibreOffice team is really urging businesses to get a paid version though.
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just doing some really simple math on the cost savings of switching to the paid version of LibreOffice compared to Microsoft 365 Apps for Business (literally just the office suite).
$2,720 vs $15,840 annually.
Or simply put for just an office suite $13,120 a year in savings for an office of 160 people.
Mind blown.
There is a paid version?
There is. Its the recommended solution for businesses, specifically to keep the development of LibreOffice going.
And my numbers are actually a bit off, it's ~$19/U/Y for anyone checking my math.
But since the software is FOSS, many organizations are likely using it without support, the LibreOffice team is really urging businesses to get a paid version though.
Is this what you're talking about? https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
There is. Its the recommended solution for businesses, specifically to keep the development of LibreOffice going.
I mean, I totally get the idea of businesses ensuring funding for projects that they use.
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this payment company has been trying to call me on my cell phone.
I just got an email telling me the ticket was closed because I wouldn't answer their calls.went through my call log - they have been calling me from 1+ (1) (800) xxx-xxxx
So I responded with " fix your outbound calling so I get notified and can actually answer the phone. My carrier must be automatically finding this as a spam call because of 1+ (1) (800) that you're calling from"
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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
this payment company has been trying to call me on my cell phone.
I just got an email telling me the ticket was closed because I wouldn't answer their calls.went through my call log - they have been calling me from 1+ (1) (800) xxx-xxxx
So I responded with " fix your outbound calling so I get notified and can actually answer the phone. My carrier must be automatically finding this as a spam call because of 1+ (1) (800) that you're calling from"
A company trying to get you money, or trying to get your money?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
this payment company has been trying to call me on my cell phone.
I just got an email telling me the ticket was closed because I wouldn't answer their calls.went through my call log - they have been calling me from 1+ (1) (800) xxx-xxxx
So I responded with " fix your outbound calling so I get notified and can actually answer the phone. My carrier must be automatically finding this as a spam call because of 1+ (1) (800) that you're calling from"
A company trying to get you money, or trying to get your money?
trying to help me get my customers where they can make money.
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@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
this payment company has been trying to call me on my cell phone.
I just got an email telling me the ticket was closed because I wouldn't answer their calls.went through my call log - they have been calling me from 1+ (1) (800) xxx-xxxx
So I responded with " fix your outbound calling so I get notified and can actually answer the phone. My carrier must be automatically finding this as a spam call because of 1+ (1) (800) that you're calling from"
A company trying to get you money, or trying to get your money?
trying to help me get my customers where they can make money.
Ah, like a collection agency but you are the customer?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
this payment company has been trying to call me on my cell phone.
I just got an email telling me the ticket was closed because I wouldn't answer their calls.went through my call log - they have been calling me from 1+ (1) (800) xxx-xxxx
So I responded with " fix your outbound calling so I get notified and can actually answer the phone. My carrier must be automatically finding this as a spam call because of 1+ (1) (800) that you're calling from"
A company trying to get you money, or trying to get your money?
trying to help me get my customers where they can make money.
Ah, like a collection agency but you are the customer?
FFS, a credit card processing company. He is in the POS industry.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
this payment company has been trying to call me on my cell phone.
I just got an email telling me the ticket was closed because I wouldn't answer their calls.went through my call log - they have been calling me from 1+ (1) (800) xxx-xxxx
So I responded with " fix your outbound calling so I get notified and can actually answer the phone. My carrier must be automatically finding this as a spam call because of 1+ (1) (800) that you're calling from"
A company trying to get you money, or trying to get your money?
trying to help me get my customers where they can make money.
Ah, like a collection agency but you are the customer?
no, a credit card processing company.
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Reading about DNSSEC
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just doing some really simple math on the cost savings of switching to the paid version of LibreOffice compared to Microsoft 365 Apps for Business (literally just the office suite).
$2,720 vs $15,840 annually.
Or simply put for just an office suite $13,120 a year in savings for an office of 160 people.
Mind blown.
Percentage wise that appears to be huge. I'm not sure $13k is worth loss of a ton of features and productivity.
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@irj said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Percentage wise that appears to be huge. I'm not sure $13k is worth loss of a ton of features and productivity.
Well with the paid versions you get access to the developers to get features added, I know one such feature that isn't in LibreOffice Calc is Gant charts, but these are included in Excel. (there may even be a plugin for LBC).
Other than Gant charts I can't really think of any features that I'd miss. And even then I don't use Gant charts at all.
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Oh the joy of re-installing software... by copying over the directory. Mainly because the Installer / Updater is janky a F. But,.. 'Just copy to desktop, then copy to c:\program files \ program.
Like dude... Ever heard of RoboCopy?? Jeez.. Oh - and if you would allow certain scripts to run then I could run the damn script on my desktop and it would dump it to the specified computer. (But is that the RIGHT way?)
Ugh -
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh the joy of re-installing software... by copying over the directory. Mainly because the Installer / Updater is janky a F. But,.. 'Just copy to desktop, then copy to c:\program files \ program.
Like dude... Ever heard of RoboCopy?? Jeez.. Oh - and if you would allow certain scripts to run then I could run the damn script on my desktop and it would dump it to the specified computer. (But is that the RIGHT way?)
Ugh -
You somehow end up supporting the worst of all applications.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh the joy of re-installing software... by copying over the directory. Mainly because the Installer / Updater is janky a F. But,.. 'Just copy to desktop, then copy to c:\program files \ program.
Like dude... Ever heard of RoboCopy?? Jeez.. Oh - and if you would allow certain scripts to run then I could run the damn script on my desktop and it would dump it to the specified computer. (But is that the RIGHT way?)
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You somehow end up supporting the worst of all applications.
Cosmic Humor... I'm certain that I am not the only one that gets to support crappy designed applications... or networks. Had a doozy yesterday.
Sixteen minutes complete outage because 'reasons'... EVERYTHING seems to be routed via the Co-Lo.... Like REALLY?? This is worse than a Token Ring! Phones, Internet, Email, AND the core business application (the EMR) went down for sixteen minutes.
Good news is that NONE of our hardware was down. It was the Co-Lo Fiber. 'A breaker trip' Still waiting for the full post mortem.
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Either my boss is having a really bad day and just cant handle it or he is upset that I fixed an issue that he was helping me on and I may or may not have blatantly ignored his suggestion .. although at this point I couldn't tell you.. But what I do know, is I feel pretty good that i got this working and completely fixed.
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
/Sigh.
FML . Boss lady had a Coin Changer in her office for over 1 year. She gave it to me maybe a month ago. I had the coin changer working on the POS system Lab I have in the office in 45 minutes total (this was 2 weeks ago) so I did some documentation on it and passed it on to the tech i was working with.
We sent them a new cable to put on their existing Coin Changer (same POS system as my lab), 2 weeks ago, Apparently this call was passed onto me without me being on the email that passed the buck to me.
So now I'm putting out a fire on a client I've never worked with directly while taking the responsibility for this issue cause the other tech stopped responding to emails..
am I wrong to be Pissed off at this? - Maybe I'm over reacting to it. . -
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Either my boss is having a really bad day and just cant handle it or he is upset that I fixed an issue that he was helping me on and I may or may not have blatantly ignored his suggestion .. although at this point I couldn't tell you.. But what I do know, is I feel pretty good that i got this working and completely fixed.
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
/Sigh.
FML . Boss lady had a Coin Changer in her office for over 1 year. She gave it to me maybe a month ago. I had the coin changer working on the POS system Lab I have in the office in 45 minutes total (this was 2 weeks ago) so I did some documentation on it and passed it on to the tech i was working with.
We sent them a new cable to put on their existing Coin Changer (same POS system as my lab), 2 weeks ago, Apparently this call was passed onto me without me being on the email that passed the buck to me.
So now I'm putting out a fire on a client I've never worked with directly while taking the responsibility for this issue cause the other tech stopped responding to emails..
am I wrong to be Pissed off at this? - Maybe I'm over reacting to it. .Why is your boss upset? Because the issue took 2 weeks with the previous person working on it and simply ghosted the customer?
Or because you were able to get the issue resolved?
In any scenario if you're still working for that crappy company, why haven't you worked to get let go and collect unemployment while you get a better job?
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Either my boss is having a really bad day and just cant handle it or he is upset that I fixed an issue that he was helping me on and I may or may not have blatantly ignored his suggestion .. although at this point I couldn't tell you.. But what I do know, is I feel pretty good that i got this working and completely fixed.
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
/Sigh.
FML . Boss lady had a Coin Changer in her office for over 1 year. She gave it to me maybe a month ago. I had the coin changer working on the POS system Lab I have in the office in 45 minutes total (this was 2 weeks ago) so I did some documentation on it and passed it on to the tech i was working with.
We sent them a new cable to put on their existing Coin Changer (same POS system as my lab), 2 weeks ago, Apparently this call was passed onto me without me being on the email that passed the buck to me.
So now I'm putting out a fire on a client I've never worked with directly while taking the responsibility for this issue cause the other tech stopped responding to emails..
am I wrong to be Pissed off at this? - Maybe I'm over reacting to it. .Why is your boss upset? Because the issue took 2 weeks with the previous person working on it and simply ghosted the customer?
Or because you were able to get the issue resolved?
In any scenario if you're still working for that crappy company, why haven't you worked to get let go and collect unemployment while you get a better job?
I have no idea why - I have theories - like I said above.
I think it's more so because I didn't listen to his advice on waiting for the vendor to get back to me rather I just fixed it .it was longer than 2 weeks..
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Either my boss is having a really bad day and just cant handle it or he is upset that I fixed an issue that he was helping me on and I may or may not have blatantly ignored his suggestion .. although at this point I couldn't tell you.. But what I do know, is I feel pretty good that i got this working and completely fixed.
@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
/Sigh.
FML . Boss lady had a Coin Changer in her office for over 1 year. She gave it to me maybe a month ago. I had the coin changer working on the POS system Lab I have in the office in 45 minutes total (this was 2 weeks ago) so I did some documentation on it and passed it on to the tech i was working with.
We sent them a new cable to put on their existing Coin Changer (same POS system as my lab), 2 weeks ago, Apparently this call was passed onto me without me being on the email that passed the buck to me.
So now I'm putting out a fire on a client I've never worked with directly while taking the responsibility for this issue cause the other tech stopped responding to emails..
am I wrong to be Pissed off at this? - Maybe I'm over reacting to it. .In any scenario if you're still working for that crappy company, why haven't you worked to get let go and collect unemployment while you get a better job?
why would i want to lose my only source of income ?
I have many things riding on me bringing home a paycheck (like my son and I having a house still)
