Posts made by NattNatt

@TeleFox said:

@NattNatt Omg that would be really funny... if a regular sitcom just got everything IT correct for the most part.

I'm down, we just need a few sponsors now ;D

And obviously we'd use British people...

@TeleFox said:

They always have Cisco IP Phones...

Not always... but a stupidly high percentage yeah...

Maybe we should make a TV show with loads of stuff we actually do/use?

p.s.

are my proof, and no, the small child is NOT me...

I miss that truck

EDIT Damn, it doesnt like facebook links...lemme upload somewhere else...

@RojoLoco said:

@MattSpeller said:

@RojoLoco said:

@MattSpeller can I come up there and be Canadian after this election goes horribly wrong? I know some IT stuff, and how to grow vegetables, and I am strong on plow.

I'll vouch for ya but there's no getting out of swearing allegiance to Lord BeaverQueen of Map'lSyr'p

Send me the pledge, I'll start learning it.... I already know most of your national anthem.

Isn't it just "oh canada" repeated time and time again?

@art_of_shred said:

@NattNatt said:

@Minion-Queen said:

@Minion-Queen said:

We have decided to not bother. If we are going to get an Ice Storm on top of all this is snow.. then if we leave the snow now it will be easier to get rid of all the ice later at least that is the theory.

Well it is deep enough Art had to go snow blow the driveway. It is still coming down hard though....

So jealous right now

It was well over a foot deep. Maxed out the chute on the blower. It's coming down harder than it was before, so I'm sure I'll be doing it again before the end of the day...

I'm gonna go cry in a pool of ice.

@Minion-Queen said:

@Minion-Queen said:

We have decided to not bother. If we are going to get an Ice Storm on top of all this is snow.. then if we leave the snow now it will be easier to get rid of all the ice later at least that is the theory.

Well it is deep enough Art had to go snow blow the driveway. It is still coming down hard though....

So jealous right now

@scottalanmiller said:

@NattNatt said:

@Minion-Queen said:

And our county now has a travel ban. Glad I don't have to go anywhere!

huh?! What? Why?

dangerous levels of snow. This is pretty common up there.

I'm Jelly

Also, I first read it as "our country now has a travel ban" and thought "I've not heard about that on the news" and went trawling trying to find if there was something big I had missed...Nope, just mis-read it lol

@Minion-Queen said:

Foot of snow since last night another foot or close to it today. And then supposed to get an ice storm on top of all of that. It is falling so hard and fast they can't keep up with it (and we have the infrastructure to do it).

New York Land? I want snow Send some over to the North of England?

@Minion-Queen said:

And our county now has a travel ban. Glad I don't have to go anywhere!

huh?! What? Why?

@dafyre said:

@NattNatt said:

Resisting the urge to troll this guy:

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1446388-the-most-challenge-in-it-job-experience-person-give-the-answer-please?source=homepage-feed

Why fight it?

partly because at that time of the morning I couldn't think of a good enough one :')

Merry Birthmas @art_of_shred

@scottalanmiller said:

@gjacobse said:

@IRJ said:

4x4 is a beautiful thing

Just means all 4 tyres spin..

And when tires spin... the car slides. With two wheel drive, two wheels tend to stay stuck to road. With all wheel drive, you easily have all four loose.

Can confirm. Slid into a ditch 3 days after getting my car (loose gravel, new driver, turn...in a manual...bad combo) because I was driving 4wd and thought it'd be better than RWD...nope. Learnt my lesson after that (also learnt to not cook the clutch on a curve...)

@scottalanmiller said:

@nadnerB said:

Ho-lee Krap!
I just this minute saw a proximity faux pas on Big Bang Theory! A show about geekiness and neediness and they can't get their gadgetry correct!?

I don't watch that show because of that stuff. There is so little basic common sense tech checking on it. I remember like the first episode they talked about how they were "so high tech" and had a T1. A T1 was embarrassing and a decade out of date by the time that episode first aired. Even the non-technical people on the show should have noticed how embarrassingly inappropriate that was and that it made the main characters incredibly non-technical and that they were anything but into computers, they didn't care about them at all.

I lost interest right there. I knew that they weren't taking their material seriously. And the characters are just insanely annoying and shallow. There is nothing to the show. None of it is well thought out and they just throw buzzwords around. Shows about "smart people" written by dumb people are the most annoying things ever.

and how many top level people use Alienwares..? They used to be good, sure, but now they're basically an overpriced dell with LED lights...

@scottalanmiller said:

And SW is down again.

It's up for me? But either way, they don't have any ongoing problems, so what do you mean again?

@nadnerB said:

lol, IT in TV shows? HA!
In The Mentalist, their Cisco IP phones aren't even on.

Most shows fail the smartphone test as the phones screen is on while it's up to their ear and their jibber jabbering away. There is a proximity sensor that turns this off. Shouldn't people research how stuff works?

Yeah that's my point, it's so B/S in the majority of shows this one came as a pleasant surprise they get commands right, and the processes right...and it just feels right...plus the main character reminds me of a dude I used to chill with... :')

Oh wow! That's amazing :')

@Breffni-Potter said:

@NattNatt said:

only seen the first episode.........

Right, I got up to episode 5 or 6 then had to stop. The drug stuff in the first 2-3 episodes I was ok with, it just takes a turn for the silly later on.

Keep watching

hah yeah, gonna limit myself to one episode a day etc...don't burn myself out on it too quick

@Breffni-Potter said:

@NattNatt said:

And tbh most CEO's I've worked with seem to have a similar mentality? That's how they get successful, by being ruthless...

Remember the homeless guy scene? - Do you think most CEOs do that kind of thing?

only seen the first episode.........

@Breffni-Potter said:

The problem is, for once we have a really intelligent TV show, which gets all the tech facts right (mostly) and could completely change perspectives.

But oh no, here's the weed smoking hacker who is completely introverted and awkward.

Here is the violent CEO type who will stab anyone to get his way.

I just think they could have been smarter with the characters.

Yeah, sounds like it, but then, this is the era in which the FBI and Mi5/GCHQ have lifted the restrictions on people who have used weed working for them, for the reason they weren't getting some of the best hackers due to that...amongst other reasons no doubt...So they're playing to stuff that's in the public eye more than what the truth within groups like this is, if that makes sense? At least it's getting better with the hacking/tech stuff in general, the use of Linux etc becoming more "mainstream"...

And tbh most CEO's I've worked with seem to have a similar mentality? That's how they get successful, by being ruthless...doesn't make them good bosses, but makes them successful in their business...

@Breffni-Potter said:

Mr Robot had so much promise but I stopped watching halfway through.

I just got bored of the drug scenes, I really don't care for it. It had so much potential and promise and it's like they flushed it down the toilet.

From a tech point of view, Mr Robot is amazing, just not convinced the story needed to be about that, there are plenty of us in IT who don't smoke.

Yeah I wondered how that's going to go along, it seems to be playing a bit into the hacker stereotype there with the weed...but then I'd be lying if I said I wasn't like that a few years ago, before I made a career in IT...

I guess that bit ties into his social insecurities etc, so that's how they're going with that line, but yeah, will see how it continues as I go further into the season..