Slightly OffTopic - DealExtreme order taking forever to ship

camcabbit · 3 days

I ordered this, got it today, it took a week. It works great.

trevercj · 3 days

So what happened then...?

grdlock · 3 days

Heisenberg Principle

darksim905 · 3 days

I hope so, it sure was a headache here!

darksim905 · 3 days

FYI - perhaps fixed by now, but as of 12/11 Malwarebytes and Sophos did not play nicely together.

USELESS_PHOTOSHOP · 4 days

Robocopy > backup.txt > blat backup.txt you@email.email

StrangeCaptain · 4 days

Not a wimp and looks out for his guys. Double Win!

StrangeCaptain · 4 days

Sometimes those 3am phone calls create a situation where the manager of that other department needs to be notified immediately of the situation. ;-)

-sixsicsix- · 4 days

Next, it's meetings with executive staff to determine "why we are unwilling to solve this problem".

trylleklovn · 4 days

On mine, the 3-lead device next to the 2832 demodulator.

trylleklovn · 4 days

Mine didn't even work until I took it out of the case and bent the voltage regulator up 90 degrees.

i_like_pretty_things · 4 days

This is guaranteed: when the inevitable disaster strikes you will be first in line for the blame. Make sure you perform your due diligence and email your bosses with the results.

DoubleRaptor · 4 days

There was a post yeterday about a failed RAID array and "hardware was a problem for the backups". A retired/recycled workstation running Ubuntu can serve as a backup destination. No Excuse!

DoubleRaptor · 4 days

Nothing is more important than backups. There is no excuse for not doing backups, free alternatives are available for the software and you can always cobble together something for a target.

borzakk · 5 days

Any possibility that USB is the bottleneck?

psykiv · 5 days

ARIN says that netblock is assigned to Eli Lilly:

NetRange 40.0.0.0 - 40.255.255.255 CIDR 40.0.0.0/8 Name LILLY-NET Handle NET-40-0-0-0-1

jumajuma · 5 days

Offices without IT staff are typically < 50 users. Plan on spending 5-10% of your time following up on overdue invoices.

jumajuma · 6 days

My business consists of two parts: direct support for organizations with no IT staff and as support on demand for places that don't have enough IT staff. For the direct support I only work on retainer, 2 hours minimum per month. Most work comes by referral.

The support on demand usually consists of being on site from a few days to a few weeks. There is a lot of this kind of work, but you have to be persistent to get paid. You get a lot of exposure to various technologies this way but you're expected to be an instant expert on everything.

1099 employment has a lot of tax implications, make sure you understand how Social Security works, and do a SEP for the savings and tax shelter.

sad_rabbit · 6 days

How do you find the vegan at a party?

Don't worry, she'll find you.

greenmars · 6 days

Sometimes "crisis management" means "let the crisis happen".

djobouti_phat · 9 days

I had one new manager buy Lotus Notes. Don't do that.

layer2router · 9 days

It was deaf everywhere, turned out to be thermal related. How is FM BCB? What kind of antenna are you using?

dgibbons0 · 10 days

I haven't had the pleasure with the Instant. Perhaps they're getting a bit competition from Ubiquiti?

dgibbons0 · 10 days

Aruba works well but the learning curve is steep. Unifi works well and you can be up and running in 15 minutes.

USELESS_PHOTOSHOP · 10 days

I work with a company that does both (2 domains). They've been burned before by Yahoo, however unlikely that may seem.

layer2router

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