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Yaos posted:Has anybody switched away from the "5 years, time to replace!" cycle on purpose and not due to lack of funds? Is that an actual cycle anybody follows, or a lie spread by OEMs and computer "journalists"? We do 4 years desktops, 3 years laptops. It's just a taxation issue, can't claim on old machines. We've disposed of almost everything older than 755s. I know there are at least 2 or 3 280s still creaking along that have been setup for a specific purpose, if they were actually being used daily for any real work I'm sure they would have been long gone.
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CrazyDutchie posted:A ticket came in... We've had a long running "to do" item on the IT dept whiteboard "Fire Alarm/UPS Trip?" Our manager pointed out that if one of the machine rooms is inundated, that there is no guarantee the UPSs will trip out. Thereby making the server rooms a bit zappy. The alarm company don't seem to think it's their issue so we've all agreed that if the computer centre floods we just go home.
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A little bit OT, but we've noticed that our most demanding users always seem to be in the accounting dept. Out of 600 odd users, there is only about 10 or so accountants. But if there is complaining to be done you can bet your rear end it's gonna be about freaking Excel and the interminable slowness of their 780's with 4gig of RAM. WTF accountants?
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Dravs posted:We had SEP and people thought it was great because it never detected anything. Eugh.. we use SEP. What an absolute piece of trash, it's basically useless.
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Crowley posted:We're working with a vendor to improve the time-management software we use, and integrate it better with AD and Exchange. Nice one. Today I worked on a Lotus issue at a site in Bangalore, using sccm remote tools via RDP to our server in Oslo. I'm in Australia.
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SumYungGui posted:Three complete desks powerstrip daisy-chained to one UPS, and the kicker? A loving coffee maker on the UPS too. This type of thing would have been photographed and reported like a goddamn triple homicide scene at my work.
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