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Originally Posted by MikeTbob Amen brother, I was just thinking the same thing. If he actually threw it away instead of trying to figure it out, then he has no ...
  1. 10-23-2009 #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeTbob View Post
    Amen brother, I was just thinking the same thing. If he actually threw it away instead of trying to figure it out, then he has no business in IT dept. If it were me, I would have at the very least.....wanted to know what it was. If he finds a Trojan horse on an XP/Vista work machine, will he throw that away too?LOL
    I worked some years in a big assurance company.
    The IT-Service there threw away a computer writing in Big letters VIRUS on it.
    I took it home.
    It simply had a virus in the mbr
    DOS:
    => fdisk /mbr ↵
    was the easy solution which the professional IT-men were not able to do.
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    I just installed Ubuntu to the harddrive, joined the Windows network, and put all our work related files back onto the computer. Mind you everything worked the same as it used to; the network, the billing server, the program we use to file our daily progress notes, the printer / scanner installed successfully, and then the spreadsheets we use as our timesheets opened just as well in Open Office as they did in Microsoft Office 2003.
    If you did that only to quickly fix a machine because you where busy, then hey maybe you should be the IT department
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    Quote Originally Posted by enyocnosaj View Post
    I think, as an IT department, all he's qualified to do is accept a computer after it's been donated to us, drive it to one of the group homes, plug it in, and then add some bookmarks to the services we interface with.
    Yikes! Not even a virus scan or re-format!
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    I find this not surprising anymore. Too many IT folks are 'Plug-&-Play' idiots. I will bet that 90% of them don't even know what irq is. I come from the day when you had to know what you were doing to setup a system and how to configure config.sys/autoexec.bat files. This is why I moved over to networking. You still need to know what you are doing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Freston View Post
    If you did that only to quickly fix a machine because you where busy, then hey maybe you should be the IT department
    Ha, thanks!

    Well, busy meant dealing with a low functioning client who wakes up all throughout the night and wants to do stuff she can't, and then won't process hearing no; No, you can't call your case manager at 3 a.m., no, you can't go into another girl's room and ask to borrow her purse four hours before she wakes up...

    I didn't have time to troubleshoot, but I had time to sit down and start installing something that I could leave for awhile and come back to after dealing with my client.

    On a truly busy night my girls are cutting on themselves and attempting to burn the house down.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lazydog View Post
    I find this not surprising anymore. Too many IT folks are 'Plug-&-Play' idiots. I will bet that 90% of them don't even know what irq is. I come from the day when you had to know what you were doing to setup a system and how to configure config.sys/autoexec.bat files. This is why I moved over to networking. You still need to know what you are doing.
    The biggest reason for this happening is because of people going to 'specialty' schools. People go in and come out as IT Certified in an hour. Thankfully, this problem is starting to decline as more and more managers become familiar with the names of good and bad schools.

    I never could get the hang of networking. The furthest networking goes with me is LAN parties.
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    Interesting story for sure, but I really don't think it was Linux that nearly got you fired so much as it was the act of you putting something on the computer that your IT guy was unfamiliar with. Not certain, but my guess is that the same would have happened if you had put BSD on that computer.

    Glad to hear that you are still employed!
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    From my own experience with the IT guys a work, a lot of them are really clueless about anything that isn't Windows. You'll get the odd one that has tinkered with BSD or Linux, but the majority don't have a clue.

    Anyway, I'm happy you are still employed. Maybe they should hire you as the IT guy.
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    Sit Them (your boss & (excuse for an) IT guy) down and MAKE Them watch this

    BBC NEWS | Technology | Ubuntu readies the Karmic Koala

    BBC NEWS | Technology | Ubuntu readies the Karmic Koala

    That's from the front page of todays BBC.
    Last edited by Roxoff; 10-28-2009 at 04:16 PM. Reason: Added a linky
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    Quote Originally Posted by enyocnosaj View Post
    ...On a truly busy night my girls are cutting on themselves and attempting to burn the house down.
    Don't tell me, let me guess...Windows users?
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