The 'I work in I.T' thread

[Oggy997]

Anyone here use Business Central?

It's ruining my life right now

 

[rctempire]

Love sharepoint.

It's a bloody good tool if you use it right.

 

[charltjr]

What’s people’s IT focused job search sites/apps of choice these days? LinkedIn obviously but any other go-to sites?

 

[R3k1355]

Love sharepoint.

It's a bloody good tool if you use it right.

You're the reason we're stuck with using SharePoint for things it was never intended for. That and apparently it's free.

 

[ChrisR]

Had the pleasure of installing a Sharepoint server yesterday to try and play with this latest security issue, installing it didn't make me want to kill myself which was a nice surprise.

 

[Oggy997]

What’s people’s IT focused job search sites/apps of choice these days? LinkedIn obviously but any other go-to sites?

Are you not at risk of hiring a complete f**king bellend by using LinkedIn?

 

[charltjr]

Are you not at risk of hiring a complete f**king bellend by using LinkedIn?

I’m thinking more of where I should look for a job

 

[Oggy997]

 

[Advikaz]

I’m thinking more of where I should look for a job

A lot of boards are pretty bare atm

Many staff staying put due to the state of the economy and job market etc

 

[charltjr]

A lot of boards are pretty bare atm

Many staff staying put due to the state of the economy and job market etc

Yeah my conclusion from a few hours of searching is that it’s dire out there. There are some jobs but the salaries are laughable, public sector ones are the funniest.

I quite fancy training as a HGV driver, might do that.

 

[Oggy997]

Yeah my conclusion from a few hours of searching is that it’s dire out there. There are some jobs but the salaries are laughable, public sector ones are the funniest.

I quite fancy training as a HGV driver, might do that.

It's what I'm doing, theory booked 3/9! Then a course down in Essex on the back of it. Not bad for £2k tbh.

Though how I think that'll be any more enjoyable when being on the road for 10 minutes in the morning winds me up enough already

I just got a request for a report, needed by Monday or there's a large financial penalty, and worded almost like it was going to be my responsibility for his bad planning, I'm sure it was to try and scare me into doing it faster, however it'll be done when it's done.
He can have a load of s**t today, or an accurate report when I'm happy with it.

I just am not a people person.

 

[charltjr]

The sales team did a s**t job in Q1 and my company missed its targets, so they’ve frozen recruitment to save money. All recruitment, including backfill.

We are three heads down at the moment, all needing to be backfilled, and we are blocked until at least Q3. Workload is high and I’m back on the coal face as a result. f**king joke. New hires I would kinda understand (although I bet they’d find money for sales/marketing) but backfill is existing budget. Absolute w*****s.

 

[Aaron..]

Thought I'd best ask here, or maybe it's the pc thread I need?

Our boat has a PC for the navigation. We're hitting big waves and it turns itself off. The power cable is loose in it. Is there anything safe that can glue it in place?

 

[YorkshireKyle]

What power cable is it?

You can get locking IEC C14/C15 cables

 

[Aaron..]

It’s just a round power cable I think it’s got pins/slots in it.
When it happens again I’ll take a photo.

Edit. It’s not one of those you posted.

 

[YorkshireKyle]

Ah it'll be a mini-PC with a barrel plug then?

 

[Aaron..]

Ah it'll be a mini-PC with a barrel plug then?

Yeah it’s only maybe 12 inch long and a couple of inch deep.

Ooh err.

 

[Advikaz]

Yeah it’s only maybe 12 inch long and a couple of inch deep.

Ooh err.

“Only”

 

[Donny_Dog]

 

[YorkshireKyle]

I can tell it's a Cisco just from the stickers

 

[SharkyUK]

 

[charltjr]

I’m such a f**king nerd

New-to-me server in the garage. 32 core/64 thread, 9.6Tb of spinning rust, a slightly mean 64Gb of memory but tons of room to expand that. Virtualisation heaven with no-one to piss me off about spending money on hosting costs. £150 from eBay.

I’m unreasonably excited by this.

 

[YorkshireKyle]

You should have said you wanted to buy a server

I've got f**king loads at work you could have bought

 

[charltjr]

You should have said you wanted to buy a server

I've got f**king loads at work you could have bought

b****cks Oh well, impatience and bored eBay surfing buggers me up yet again.

 

[SharkyUK]

Wanted: Full Stack Software Engineer. Competitive salary, starting from £18k. Central London, hybrid working (4.5 days a week in the office).

Essential skills: Must have a minimum of 7 years commercial experience in each of the following...

True story.

 

[YorkshireKyle]

You forgot the most important part

Somewhere to put all of that s**t

Without a DC and a DC team, most of the world goes to s**t

 

[SharkyUK]

The world goes to s**t with or without DCs or software.

 

[Donny_Dog]

Worth a watch..can't disagree with any of it.

 

[ChrisR]

 

[SharkyUK]

Unemployed bum for hire, will vibe code for soup and a half-glass of warm milk. Can hax and knows debuggering. Hit me up with any contracts going and let me know what flavour soups ya got.

 

[Stuflac]

Hello nerds,

Any chance someone can tell me what this set up does, and if I actually need it? I inherited the set up from the previous tenant.

The three black wires highlighted in red are no longer used (used to go into desk top phones).
The black wire highlighted in green goes into the signal box (?) for the VOIP set up I now have.
The yellow wire goes into the box to the left (what is this point of this?).
Blue wire into the wall.
Grey wire goes into a base unit.

As you can tell, my knowledge of this stuff is limited.

I assume it is just a port of some sort that allows me to have more options, but is it overkill? Reason I ask is that I am moving offices soon, and am assuming I can get rid of this (the base top mentioned will be replaced by a laptop). All other colleagues work from laptops as well.

Appreciated.

 

[rctempire]

As there are no leds on the switch for the black ones. Unplug and wait a few days see who moans.

They don't matter what port they come from or go into.

 

[Gavin.]

The small box to the left is a Cisco SPA112, it was used to allow an analogue phone to be used on a digital line. Doubt that would be needed these days.

 

[Rojer]

The small box to the left is a Cisco SPA112, it was used to allow an analogue phone to be used on a digital line. Doubt that would be needed these days.

I have seen them a lot in offices with fax machines.

 

[charltjr]

I have seen them a lot in offices with fax machines.

Ahhh fax machines. Not as clumsy or random as an email. An elegant means of communication for a more civilised age.

 

[Gavin.]

I have seen them a lot in offices with fax machines.

That brought back a memory of why we originally needed one, what a c**t that was.

 

[rctempire]

That brought back a memory of why we originally needed one, what a c**t that was.

In the glovebox to get the next job or location. Was a brilliant system.

 

[charltjr]

 

[Rojer]

Lovely call this morning from a CCTV engineer who has turned up on site asking for some ports to be redirected. We had no clue he was even turning up. Ask him what the external IP is and he gives me the site WAN IP because he is on site.....Asked him for the IP he uses offsite and he says they don't have one its all DHCP and roaming engineers. So a company who works in security wants to open up some ports on the firewall for the CCTV and leave it open to the world.

Mention this to the customer, they sign a LAF accepting it. Brilliant.

 

[ChrisR]

Oh dear.

That’ll be on Shodan soon enough then