Anyone have any suggestions?
My boss wants a couple of flat screens put up in the main office to have daily info and in-house applications displayed for all to see.
How would we set it up to administer what is shown? Through the server, from a local computer, from another login?
Sound like something you have done or seen somewhere?
...read moreUsers will never understand security is necessary. To them it is only a roadblock to progress.
Enter laptop user, we'll call her Miss X. Miss X puts in a call to the helpdesk-- "High Priority" : unable to log in to laptop!. Help desk knows her password and instructs her to make sure caps lock is off etc.
...read moreMicrosoft Exchange server is... shall we say..... Strange, but this may make you think twice before going MS. About a year ago, when "The Boss" was setting up exchange, there were a few problems. Firstly, there were issues with accessing the admin tools. The rookie tech walks into the office and almost by magic, the exchange cp appeared!
...read moreA few months ago we had intermittent internet connectivity issues with our cable modem at home.
TL;DR: the modem was definitely failing. It was the adventure to arrive at that conclusion that matters.
Inevitably I'd call my cable provider (SWMBO always makes me do it; according to her I sound like I know what I'm talking about) and walk through a few steps.
...read moreIn our office, we get a daily report regarding our performance. It is considered for appraisal and everybody needs to track that every day. Now it just happened that our manager got a new laptop with Windows Vista and Office 2007. All other users are using Windows XP with Office 2003. He created a report in Excel 2007 and sent it to all of us.
...read moreOnce I was handling a foreign customer's technical support call and dozed to sleep since I was in night shift and had a heavy dinner. After two hours I woke up and found that the customer was still on line. When he asked me where I had gone, I told him that I went off to the lab to test some settings.
...read moreSeveral years back I had to install a printer
... in a classroom
... while the class was going on.
The printer had arrived late and was needed for that class.
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...read moreA little over two years ago we installed two digital color printers from Xerox with EFI Fiery front ends as a packaged printing solution. From the very beginning, many functions did not work as documented. Xerox basically put us off for a year by giving us work arounds and promising a fix to our problems in a coming new software release.
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