Re: Why are admins slow to upgrade?
It was pointed out that it is not just MS that is not getting updated.
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I was once asked, while being interviewed by my manager to-be for a position as network administrator, if I knew anything about TCP. I looked at him in a somewhat amazed way and said 'Yes, it's a requirement to be Cisco certified.'. He was the head of technical support and my certs were on my resume.
I have a 42" not-smart Samsung TV. I bought a $99 stereo amplifier, a 20" HDMI cable and an HDMI splitter from Amazon, and a wireless KB and mouse. The splitter is connected to the PC and shares the signal between my monitor and the TV. The HDMI cable runs downstairs to the basement where the TV is located. This allows me to replicate anything on my monitor to the screen in the basement, No need for smart anything.
it was, using (I think) PC Connect which supported both dial-up and network connections. One place I was working had an employee living in New York and dialing in (9600bpi) to a computer in our computer room (early 90's) and working on that, and a few years later I used it manage NT 3.51 and 4 servers in our offices across Canada (Frame Relay).
side panels often have locks as well. I was working in a warehouse situation where there were several wall mounted device cages, 1 day every 2 weeks after the old IT contact person left. A new warehouse manager started and asked me where the keys were so I told him I had no idea, and that it was the responsibility of the person who had them installed to have managed the keys. I had wondered that myself when they removed an AP from a connected outside structure by cutting the cable prior to demolishing the structure. I still don't know if they have located the keys.
A Vancouverite is unlikely to consider a Vancouver to Toronto trip a vacation flight. On the other hand, a Torontonian may consider a trip to Vancouver a vacation. Also, both Air Canada and WestJet, our 2 major airlines, both frequently mistreat passengers and their luggage and end up in front of the tribunal.
I think that one of the things you are missing here is that there are an abundance of choices for Linux desktops and the apps that run on them. Unfortunately most people are not techies and just want to sit down at a computer and know, pretty much, what is what. In the corporate environment they do not want to walk in and have to learn an entire new desktop environment, it is bad enough having to learn the specific apps that a company uses for it's business.
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"We will also have to standardise electric car charging cables, and I don't want the precedent that Ford can make a Ford-only cable that you have to have Ford adaptors or go to a Ford charger to use... which is exactly what happen if we don't dictate base-level standards occasionally."
Ford is switching to the TESLA connector, so that's that worry put to bed.
Last night i had the pleasure of downloading a 110GB image ISO from a one drive Sharepoint. It took 2 tries, failing at 12 GB the first try. Over all about 4 hours to do the download and the another bunch of hours to put it on a boot stick using Rufus. I wonder about who imagines a 110 GB image is a good idea.
On my Win 10 as well. However, for easy access to Emojis, I added the on-screen keyboard to which you can add what ever format of keyboards you like.
Many years ago, we were investigating changing our insurance management software to a package our home office was developing for IBM S/38s, later AS400s and were talking to IBM about localisation since we are in Canada and the Quebec language laws mandated French for use in the office. Our older software didn't support that, but it was kind of grandfathered. IBM suggested that the best way to localise would be to use message codes to look up the appropriate message in a language database before displaying it. We spent six months reviewing the package being developed and came up with 6 2" binders of required changes.
We put that in our requirements and got "For a million dollars, we'll change the spelling of check to cheque".
One company I worked in the for 80's had added a computer room late in the planning stages so the only place available for it was between 2 sets of elevators on the 53rd floor. They had a Halon system which had a don't flood button, which need to be held until the cancel button was activated, on a wall about 20 feet from the phone. Unfortunately the cancel button was in a sister company's computer room 2 floors above. Fortunately we never had a fire in there.