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[Jzero]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Pex
My school used to ghost at the slightest problem.

Haha sounds like my mentality. I like to blow it all away if a reboot doesn't fix it. Over the years, I've grown tired of troubleshooting past the basics. I ain't got time for that Mickey Mouse bulllllllllllshiet. Ghost takes 10 minutes.

A lot of times it's faster to just slap a new image on there than to actually troubleshoot. This burns me up inside because I like to know why a problem occurred and how to fix it and how to prevent it, and doing this won't solve it.

But it takes 15 minutes to load up a new image and transfer the profile over. Time is money!

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: LordThing
Besides, what's wrong with whiping the computer if you encounter a boot issue like that? Only problem I can see if she has data on there she wants off. Then I would spend time retrieving the data and then whiping it. Who's to say that corruptions in ntdetect.com isn't signs of more corruptions or hardware failures.

When you have 2-3 people doing tech support for hundreds/thousands of machines, time is luxury

"whiping" causes confusion. Use "wiping" instead.

 

[LordThing]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: LordThing
Besides, what's wrong with whiping the computer if you encounter a boot issue like that? Only problem I can see if she has data on there she wants off. Then I would spend time retrieving the data and then whiping it. Who's to say that corruptions in ntdetect.com isn't signs of more corruptions or hardware failures.

When you have 2-3 people doing tech support for hundreds/thousands of machines, time is luxury

"whiping" causes confusion. Use "wiping" instead.

Sorry...I'm hooked on phonics and still going through rehab.

 

[skace]

KingNothing was right, as far as funding goes there is always a major problem where IT isn't viewed as revenue generating and thus is the first to have its budget cut.

Other trends:
People who lack talent in IT usually make it to management somehow. Most of the people who DESERVE to be fired never end up recieving it.

Management usually has an idea of what they want for an infrastructure, but no idea of how much it costs to get there. (Thus ending up with a project that dies around 50%)

Outsourcing in IT is A FREAKING JOKE. These companies that buy out IT services usually have the worst help desk which usually drives every person in the respective company insane. And then they usually drown the local IT people in paperwork.

I would say IT is a necessary function which requires a lot of work and good talent. When done correctly, it can be a great asset to a company. I just wish it was done correctly more often.

 

[Jack Ryan]

Originally posted by: skace
KingNothing was right, as far as funding goes there is always a major problem where IT isn't viewed as revenue generating and thus is the first to have its budget cut.

Other trends:
People who lack talent in IT usually make it to management somehow. Most of the people who DESERVE to be fired never end up recieving it.

Management usually has an idea of what they want for an infrastructure, but no idea of how much it costs to get there. (Thus ending up with a project that dies around 50%)

Outsourcing in IT is A FREAKING JOKE. These companies that buy out IT services usually have the worst help desk which usually drives every person in the respective company insane. And then they usually drown the local IT people in paperwork.

I would say IT is a necessary function which requires a lot of work and good talent. When done correctly, it can be a great asset to a company. I just wish it was done correctly more often.

yup

 

[DurocShark]

Ours is overfunded, if anything. And there's the problem.

Our IT department is bloated with applications and project managers. The project managers need something to do so they keep creating more projects, with more applications. But the core systems suffer. We've got SQL clusters that die several times a week. File servers that keep running out of space, and development schedules that are too rapid, resulting in buggy code.

If we were slightly underfunded, we'd learn to run lean and mean.