Posts made by dafyre

@thecreativeone91 -- This is what I think too, lol.

@g.jacobse After you get done with that one, check out Zabbix! (http://www.zabbix.com)

From what I gather... it is supposed to be your not-quite Spam box. Things you get a lot of but don't necessarily have to deal wiht right away...

If the kid could show the teacher the math to prove it, that teacher would be singing a different tune!

@scottalanmiller Methinks I need glassess... I thought his port number was blank, lol.

Try putting -1 in for the port number. Mine comes up that way and automatically picks a port after I enter my username & password.

I saw one spike to 11.5% on mine about 11:30AM EST... mine are generally between 2 and 3 %.

I don't have any performance issues on this box at the moment... just doing a bit of piddling with it.

@scottalanmiller said:

Okay, so if I Archive + Label, it will act like a folder, more or less?

What happens if you Archive but don't Label?

The message, for all intents just vanishes.... but you can get to mail that is archived with no labels on Gmail by searching for

-label:inbox and has:nouserlabels

That should get you there.

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

What is the volume of email that you have in your GMail account?

Getting about 20K emails a day. Just normal monitoring of apps as IT often has to deal with.

Ha ha ha.... Like I said... I figured you for an Enterprise guy. 8-)

I've had my Gmail account for a long time, and I don't even think I've got 20k emails in it... I can't imagine having to sort through (well, okay, letting my Phone sort through) that much email in a day. That's gotta be rough on your battery, lol.

@scottalanmiller I take it you are still having problems?

What is the volume of email that you have in your GMail account?

I'm sure you know this, but you can tell Android to only keep the last 2 or 3 days of email on your phone assuming you are "stuck" with an Android phone.

I think GMail & GApps are perfectly viable for business. Perhaps not at Enterprise scale...but for the SMB space, it is perfect! Granted, it's not without its issues as you are noticing, which could quite possibly be due to your current location and or internet service. Methinks I would probably classify your (company's) usage somewhere around Enterprise scale. 8-)

No issues for me today... I dunno... My problem is I like Gmail... It just works great on my phone and my Laptop and even Outlook if I want shudder at thought of using Outlook on GMail

@scottalanmiller Go back in and Edit the Filter... after you click the little Continue link, there will be a checkbox that says "Also apply this filter to x matching conversations...l. Click it, and then update filter.

@thanksajdotcom Nope! I find it quite normal. runs off to corner and has conversation with self

@thecreativeone91 said:

@dafyre said:

But aren't we often applying technology to improve or fix a broken process?

No, not necessarily. How do you consider not having web meetings to having them a broken system? Break/fix is a bad assessment of it. most of IT is consultation and design of systems.

We started with meetings that required everybody to be in a room. Somewhere along the line somebody said, "We can just do this over the phone." Boom! Some (IT ?) folks got together and built a teleconferencing system.

"Hey, we can do this using web cams now!" Boom! Some (more IT?) folks got together and bult a web meeting system that could be used with webcams.

Now, suddenly, IT is responsible for designing, and consulting with the business on how to improve their infrastructure to support said web conferences and meetings. In this setting, nothing was broken. IT Had to consult and design to improve the infrastructure enough to handle the new meeting servers, etc, etc. In essence the whole shebang that involved a lot of IT was an improvement on the process of having a meeting.

I agree that break / fix is a bad assessment, but it does depend a lot on your role in IT as well. I've been in IT at only 3 places, so my business level experience is limited, but I have been doing IT Stuff for my whole life, lol. At my first job, it was purely a break / fix scenario. At my second IT job, it was a lot of break / fix, but also a lot of impreovement, design and consultation with the stakeholders in IT probjects. In my current job, I do mostly design, consulation, and implementation.

@thecreativeone91 said:

I'm not sure how much I can agree with this line The job of an IT Professional is to fix, document, and improve. We fix things that are broken..

That sounds more like a Technician. I would say an IT Professional's job is to apply technology to the business process.

But aren't we often applying technology to improve or fix a broken process?

In similar light to the article's title... I've always heard of the seen words ofa dying business: "We've never done it that way before."

Similar in light to the "That's how we've always done it" -- only different.

Doing things because that's the way they have always been done without questioning it is when that becomes a problem. "That's how we've always done it."

What about this way?

"We've never done it that way before."

Why not?

@scottalanmiller The internet dish? Is that something you can drag around with you or will that only be for the current stop? -- or was that something completely different and I missed a bunch of posts somewhere?

nb: I just now noticed the quote button and will be using it in future posts, lol.

@scottalanmiller Is this one that you can take globetrotting with you?

@garak0410 Congratulations!

@ckhardy -- Welcome aboard!