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Comment Re:Get em (Score 1) 115

What if it is identical to "geniune" Cisco gear? What difference does it really make, in terms of your ability to use the equipment?

In the IT world the warranty is very important. Business wants to know that if it's equipment fails it can get support from the manufacturer. For cloned gear, this aspect is completely missing and can cost businesses big money in the long run.

Comment From another IT guy (Score 1) 1

I love my job and what I do and I've been at it a little more than a year and a half. This was also my first IT position. It's (almost) perfect for me. In my company there's several smaller satellite offices and the corporate office. I'm the 2nd tier support guy at the corporate office so when the helpdesk can't fix things over the phone or VNC / Shadow I get to go take care of it. My situation is completely the opposite from what you've described. I've always gotten nothing but respect and admiration. People look up to me for the solution to their every computer problem. "Matt can fix it" is the solution to just about everything that goes wrong that involves a computer. I think I've made myself too indispensable. Alas, here's where I encounter dissatisfaction with my job: I'm always getting compliments but it doesn't always have anything to do with my work. Sometimes its about my appearance or my clothing or the cologne I happened to be wearing that day. [for this reason I stopped wearing fragrances to work altogether] Unfortunately for me, some of the older women tend to lay on the compliments WAY too thick... It's disgusting. I think my problem is I'm just too good looking for what I do. I KNOW that sounds conceited but how else do you explain this one; I overheard some women at lunch talking about who the hottest guy in the building was. Two names were mentioned and the unanimous vote was me. Yeah. I didn't need to hear that from someone who's old enough to be my grandmother. And I don't think that good looking, just maybe a little better than average, or just "work hot"... if you don't know what that means it's on urban dictionary. Maybe your problem is that people don't like something about you as a person and regardless of how nice you act toward them, you're going to offend. I work with other guys that seriously irritate me to the point that I act like a total dick to them just so they'll stay the f*ck away from me. One guy talks WAY too loud and his breath smells like he had a sh*t sandwich for lunch. The other guy has this anoying nasal drip and sits about 20 feet away from my desk snorting back the phlegm that drips down the back of his throat from his sinuses. Every 30 seconds or so you can hear him horking it back. It got so bad that I actually got up and shut my door today so I wouldn't have to listen to it. That says absolutely nothing about their skills as IT guys or their personalities. If it wasn't for those things that irritate the crap out of me, then I wouldn't put up the asshole facade. Something to think about.
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Submission + - How do IT guys get respect and not become BOFHs? 1

An anonymous reader writes: I work for a small software company (around 60 people) as the sole IT guy. It's my first time in a position like this and after about 1.5 years I'm starting to get a bit of burnout. I try to be friendly, helpful and responsive and I get no respect whatsoever. Users tend to be flat out rude when they have a problem, violate our pretty liberal policies constantly, and expect complex projects to be finished immediately upon requesting them. My knee-jerk reaction is to be a bastard, although I've avoided it up to this point. It's getting harder. For those of you who have been doing this a lot longer, how do you get a reasonable level of respect from your users while not being a jerk?

Comment THINGS IPHONE STILL NEEDS (Score 1) 606

I love my iphone apps. I'm an app-store and app sniper addict. I have more apps than even fit on the iPhone.I can deal with that... but the 9 page organization scheme HAS to go!

If there's one thing I would ask Apple for, it would be folders to organize my apps into, all accessible springboard style from the main page of apps.

Another thing I would love to see is customizable size icons. I would love to be able to view my apps in "list" view like OS X has in the finder.

I would also love to have a bigger "dock" portion of the screen to fit more frequently used applications.

I don't like that I can only have one ActiveSync-based account set up on my iPhone, even if I'm only using one for email and the other one for calendar only. I want BOTH my push email and my google calendar sync please!

Customizable alarm sounds and alerts!

Quick memory flush without having to restart!

Comment What kind of computer did they buy? (Score 1) 479

It's time for someone at your work to get a lecture about the difference between a consumer PC and a business PC. HP & Dell offer business desktop machines and servers without Windows.

Had they bought the machine SANS OS or with FreeDos or Linux they could have avoided forking out the coin for the extra windows license. (about $168 bucks these days)

Microsoft Accommodating Eee With Lightweight XP 386

KrispyChips writes "In what could be a first Microsoft is working to create a special build of Windows, just because Windows doesn't run very well on a certain computer. ASUS' runaway success Eee PC is now 'officially' available with Windows XP, but (according to APC magazine) is not exactly a great experience. There are none of the nice pre-loaded apps that come with the Linux version, for example. And XP has some real problems coping with the screen size and limited system specs of the unit. As a result, ASUS says it is going back to Microsoft and working on a special XP build that will be lightweight and more suited to UMPCs."

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