@johnhooks said:
So I called the company I was supposed to start with yesterday to let them know I won't be taking the job and starting on Monday. The HR lady didn't answer, so I left a voicemail and explained everything. I haven't heard anything from her yet.
Why are you expecting to hear from her? If I was her, I probably wouldn't bother calling you back, what would I have to say? As you say, you've explained everything in the voicemail - what more is there to discuss?
I find listening to music with headphones on a bit distracting, so don't generally do it. Some of my staff do and I don't have a problem with it. Whatever people find helps them.
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty certain that whatever caused that PC to fail was nothing to do with the environment it was located in.
I imagine computer manufacturers store new computers in warehouses that are colder than 17C for months on end, without worrying about damaging them.
Anyone play? It's my son's 11th birthday this weekend, and he wants to start.
If you do it on the image you spend the time on a VM doing it once for them.
On a VM? Not sure exactly what you mean.
What would be great on this thread would be for someone to list the steps that I should follow to setup 10 PCs - ie creating the image, installing the image onto the other PCs, sysprep, which software I should use for the imaging, updating drivers etc etc - the whole process from start to finish. With rough time frames on how long each step should take. Because I'll confess, I've never actually done it! I paid a guy to do it once and he made a complete mess of it and it took him ages (too bad I was paying by the hour), which has undoubtedly clouded my judgement.
We have a Games Workshop in our town and they run free clubs on Sundays for kids to turn up and get help with painting and playing. They also organise competitions. The shop is just one guy, and he's pretty cool. It's all free. I say "free", but the proviso is that you buy everything from the shop, which is fair enough, but precludes buy stuff cheaper online.
My lad has tried to get his mates interested, but without success. So initially, he's going to want to playing with me. I like the opportunity to bond with him, but I have no interest in the game (although I like the painting). He's moving to a new school in September and I'm hoping they have a club there.
Google provide the plug-in, not Microsoft. Installing it also add a "Google Drive" tab to the ribbon in Word and Excel.
@hobbit666 said in So we are leaving..............:
The bottom line for me is it's happened so lets unite together and get through this and build a stronger UK.
I blame the Welsh 
"I don't want to buy a second notebook for home just so my son can install a few apps."
I think that's almost certainly what he should do. The first laptop is effectively a "work" laptop, with all that that entails, that he's annoyed at having to pay for and wants to also use as a personal laptop. I can relate to his annoyance at having to pay for a school device, but we're always having to pay for things at school that used to be free when I was at school - it's just the way of the world.
It's a bit like paying for a school trip and then getting annoyed that his son can't visit a different museum whilst he's on it.
I have various WhatsApp groups for family and friends, which is perfect for my needs. My niece loves to hear that my daughter won her swimming gala, but a bloke I went to school with who I haven't seen in 20 years really doesn't want to know. So WhatsApp group great, Facebook rubbish.
I just wish Facebook didn't own WhatsApp.
@iroal said:
Am I the only one without Facebook in this World?
I don't think so. According to my niece no-one under the age of 25 bothers with Facebook any more - "it's for old people".
I wouldn't know, as I'm old. Then again, I only use it to find out what my mom is up to 
Nice graph. Although it's worth pointing out that average wages isn't necessarily the best indicator. A lot of people prefer to use median wages. This is because inequality has increased dramatically in the US - the rich have got richer, much richer. Which pushes up average wages but most people don't benefit from that, median wages are pretty stagnant.
The best explanation I've heard of that is a bar full of people earning $50k. Bill Gates walks in to the room and suddendly everyone in the room becomes a multi-millionaire on average.
@LAH3385 said:
2nd question: Would you run the inventory application on a virtual machine..say virtual box..scrap it after the first trial and reinstall everything again to use the same trial the second time.
I'm pretty sure this is unethical. If you want to be sure, ask the software company if it is ok. If you know they will say no, then it's unethical.
Also, a lot of trial licences prohibit usage for anything other than testing. Ie you can't use it to do commercial work. You can't benefit from using it, you can only test to see if you would benefit if you purchased it. Autodesk is like this, for example.
I like to ask around for help and advice wherever I can get it. I generally try and only select IT suppliers based on personal recommendations. But I have found that other IT people can be a bit cagey and unwilling to discuss their businesses. I suspect this is a fear of looking silly, like @scottalanmiller calling me weird for buying Meraki, or @JaredBusch telling me I sound like a media person not IT, or just shyness. But I have no qualms about looking silly these days.
I know a few one man band IT managers that don't go on any forums or go to seminars or really talk to any of their peers in the industry - they appear to operate in a vacuum. I couldn't imagine working like that.
We used to run a user group for our ERP system, and it was a game just getting people to turn up. A forum was setup and hardly anyone would use it. People seem to prefer to figure things out for themselves, rather than asking the advice of someone who has been through it all before. Madness.
Just ditch Welsh and display everything in English. Problem solved
Looks really good. I'd like to see a few stock photos of some beautiful people.
Without wishing to take the thread off-topic, it feels like about 10% of the threads on ML relate to problems with Microsoft cloud services. At the same time, I get called an idiot for still running on-premise Exchange and Sharepoint (which to date have chugged away in the corner with zero downtime and minimal maintenance).
It's all anecdotal, but my confidence in Microsoft keeps getting eroded and I worry that their infrastructure is still too immature to be the obvious solution versus continuing with on-premise for another few years (ie another major Exchange/Sharepoint on-premise upgrade will keep us sweet for another 5 years).
I'm not an MSP, but I'll add one:
"You can't sell"
I had a guy who left to set up on his own. He was brilliant. Really clever, really experienced and cheap. The kind of guy every SMB would benefit from employing. His business failed very quickly because he couldn't sell himself. He couldn't sell himself to new clients. He only got gigs with people that already knew him, and that wasn't a big enough pool to sustain him.
Ultimately, this is the reason I've never set up my own business. I'd need a partner who could sell, but I've never managed to find the right person at the right time, so it's never happened.
Should you have 3 accounts - a non-admin one, a Domain Admin one, AND a local admin one? I've never been sure about logging on to PCs with a domain admin account. I figured you should reserve domain admin accounts for purely, you know, domain admin (ie only use the domain admin account to log onto servers)
I know no-one does this, but I'm not sure if you should.
