What Are You Doing Right Now
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@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got a spiceup from a howto i did 8 years ago!
Which one?
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One about whitelisting/blacklisting thigns in Symantec Endpoint Protection. The first one i ever did.
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@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One about whitelisting/blacklisting thigns in Symantec Endpoint Protection. The first one i ever did.
Poor sap needs to get off of SEP.
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Grilling Burgers and ripping the dash out of the truck... after two years it was finally time. The rPi car project is on hold for now.
Hmmm I smell like grill -
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Fighting with Dynamic DNS updates on my home lab server.
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BAM! Man pages and thinking to the rescue
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Go home Steve you're drunk. I just... what?
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Diversify.
Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both. -
@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Diversify.
Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.Microsoft and hardware... I give you the MS Surface... A great idea,... but poorly built... they suck - the drivers suck... and the reliability is crap (opinion from what I have supported / seen)
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Grilling Burgers and ripping the dash out of the truck... after two years it was finally time. The rPi car project is on hold for now.
Hmmm I smell like grill -
Manly smell. They should make that a deodorant.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Diversify.
Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.Microsoft and hardware... I give you the MS Surface... A great idea,... but poorly built... they suck - the drivers suck... and the reliability is crap (opinion from what I have supported / seen)
Well, agreed, but if they would have started earlier. It might have been better.
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It just reeks of "Apple is doing it this way let's copy them." Microsoft is in much better hands now that Ballmer isn't in the picture.
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@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Diversify.
Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.Microsoft and hardware... I give you the MS Surface... A great idea,... but poorly built... they suck - the drivers suck... and the reliability is crap (opinion from what I have supported / seen)
Well, agreed, but if they would have started earlier. It might have been better.
I recognize that every company has their failures... Look at IBMs PS2 - proprietary hardware, MS IE and Edge,... But this is more 'cake' than anyone wants.
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@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Diversify.
Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.He tried. It failed.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Diversify.
Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.Microsoft and hardware... I give you the MS Surface... A great idea,... but poorly built... they suck - the drivers suck... and the reliability is crap (opinion from what I have supported / seen)
And then there are those Microsoft phones.
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@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Diversify.
Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.Microsoft and hardware... I give you the MS Surface... A great idea,... but poorly built... they suck - the drivers suck... and the reliability is crap (opinion from what I have supported / seen)
Well, agreed, but if they would have started earlier. It might have been better.
Or worse. Have they shown an ability to improve?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Diversify.
Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.Microsoft and hardware... I give you the MS Surface... A great idea,... but poorly built... they suck - the drivers suck... and the reliability is crap (opinion from what I have supported / seen)
And then there are those Microsoft phones.
Win98, ME, Vista...but - i digress
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sigh Tech Support (TS) at some places...
ME: I have these specific questions about your device; detail list of equipment and questions
TS: Yes, please see our guide at (web url).
ME: Why yes,.. Yes they are. I have seen this guide,.. however I had additional questions. could you please take a moment to address them? I have read your guide - the one included with the device and the one online. They did not address my questions...
sigh
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
sigh Tech Support (TS) at some places...
ME: I have these specific questions about your device; detail list of equipment and questions
TS: Yes, please see our guide at (web url).
ME: Why yes,.. Yes they are. I have seen this guide,.. however I had additional questions. could you please take a moment to address them? I have read your guide - the one included with the device and the one online. They did not address my questions...
sigh
TS: I'm sorry sir, that answer is not in my script. I am grossly underqualified to support anything, the only skills I have are talking on the phone and reading from a premade document.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
sigh Tech Support (TS) at some places...
ME: I have these specific questions about your device; detail list of equipment and questions
TS: Yes, please see our guide at (web url).
ME: Why yes,.. Yes they are. I have seen this guide,.. however I had additional questions. could you please take a moment to address them? I have read your guide - the one included with the device and the one online. They did not address my questions...
sigh
TS: I'm sorry sir, that answer is not in my script. I am grossly underqualified to support anything, the only skills I have are talking on the phone and reading from a premade document.
