IT BS thread

Pretty much any $300 HP or Dell will fit the bill just fine. Office supply stores like Staples usually have the best sales.

 

How about HP's? Wally World has them pretty cheap.
NVM, thanks Brett!

 

Is there going to be heavy porn surfing on it ??? You may just want to wait until next week for those Black Friday deals....

 

Duh.

www.virtualbox.org

Browse for pr0n worry-free.

 

Haha, no. I bought a laptop last year. I'm shopping for my old man, he wants to get my mom a laptop for Christmas so I really REALLY hope there won't be any porn surfing...

 

You can also check out Costco. They generally have pretty good deals on name brand hardware. Places like Target are opening on Thursday at 9pm and they carry a few lower end machines too

 

In the last 3 days we have had the following happen at our remote sites:

An IT dept at a remote hospital (not our staff, their colocation, our equipment)

-Moved a switch, without regard to where stuff was plugged in.

different site

-Had the cooling unit fail and shutdown their servers, but left ours on and didn't notify us until 4 hours later, good thing our MSA was smart enough to shut itself down.

Different site

-Local IT needed a power supply for a server, noticed we had 2 in ours (one hot spare) and decided to "borrow" it for a few days without telling us, naturally our snmp traps notified us that a power supply had been removed, so I called them out on it.



...Must be a full moon this week....

 

I'd be in prison awaiting manslaughter / murder trials if I had all this happen in my shop in one week, heh.

 

It's hard for me to believe that this is a professional environment with shit like this going on.

 

Shit like that happens everywhere, then when they do lock it down it means you can only do something with 35 different approvals while hopping on 1 leg.


On a brighter note, I just puchased the new Google Nexus 10

 

Anybody know shit load of information on Voip phones?

I am trying to figure out this voip phones and struggling with it. I am using Freepbx and Polycom soundpointip 355,450 and 650 phones.

 

I've played with them a little bit, what's the issue?

 

trying to configure Corporate Directory for these phones so i dont know manual input each name into the phones.

With free pbx i am trying get Isymphony to work but struggling.

 

Sorry can't help you there

 

IT professional here. I'm a Technical Engineer. Basically a data center operator with networking & helpdesk thrown in. ITIL certified.

 

Have you thought about a tablet instead of a laptop? Most tablets do everything a laptop will & have more processing power than low end laptops. If it has to be a laptop, I would avoid Walmart (Walmart doesn't give you the best deal on electronics & alot of their stuff is old technology). Like others said, Costco, & Tigerdirect are good places to look. Or blackfriday.com for upcoming deals. Best Buy ocassionally will shock me with good deals.
Look for a PC with windows 7 or 8. Avoid windows Vista.

 

How difficult was getting the ITIL certification? My work is wanting me to take it since I head our IT department.

 

The best way of accomplishing this is throughLDAP. It is part of Polycom’s Productivity Suite, and has become a freefeature with recent updates to their software. There is a lot of goodinformation in this Technical Bulletin on how to set it up: http://supportdocs.polycom.com/PolycomService/support/global/documents/support/technical/products/voice/Corporate_Directory_Best_Practices_TB41137.pdf



Outside of using that, you canpush a directory to every phone in the 000000000000-directory.xml file that thephone requests from its provisioning server on boot-up. This is a onetime configuration step, meaning once the phone has downloaded this file once,it doesn’t request it again until the phone is reset. The result is thatthe directory on a phone is not updated as changes are made to that

file. Only the phoneswhich most recently downloaded the file will contain the new contact changes.

 

thank You