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Lazy Llama said:
Oh we dealt with an approved licensing partner who okayed what we were doing (this was at a previous employer). MS decided they had a different interpretation of the rules from the partner.

Still, not as bad as Oracle.
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Plenty of customers left Oracle for MSSQL because the licensing was less abusive. I mean, that's really saying something about Oracle.
 
Lazy Llama said:
Oh we dealt with an approved licensing partner who okayed what we were doing (this was at a previous employer). MS decided they had a different interpretation of the rules from the partner.

Still, not as bad as Oracle.
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It disturbs me greatly when I see all the Oracle hate, I am but a user but that was actually the best system I have had to dealt with so far, it is like when I was given a CAD system for excel I imagine, everything else before is disturbingly shit. Should I ever deal with whatever is considered to be useful software I am concerned for my own well being at the realisation of how bad things have been so far. A timesheeting system with a access 'database' over VPN with 150 concurrent users was, interesting....
 
newme said:
It disturbs me greatly when I see all the Oracle hate, I am but a user but that was actually the best system I have had to dealt with so far, it is like when I was given a CAD system for excel I imagine, everything else before is disturbingly shit. Should I ever deal with whatever is considered to be useful software I am concerned for my own well being at the realisation of how bad things have been so far. A timesheeting system with a access 'database' over VPN with 150 concurrent users was, interesting....
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I used to DBA Oracle systems, and there was no doubt that it was a solid, adaptable platform. I never got involved in the licensing directly, but I know we ended up in a world of hurt when we wanted to start running multiple mirrored servers and all that malarkey. To the point that scalability became a cost decision far more than it was a technical one.
 
existentialist said:
I used to DBA Oracle systems, and there was no doubt that it was a solid, adaptable platform. I never got involved in the licensing directly, but I know we ended up in a world of hurt when we wanted to start running multiple mirrored servers and all that malarkey. To the point that scalability became a cost decision far more than it was a technical one.
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I can understand using something that works because it does what it is supposed to, then not caring about the licensing because it is someone else's job until it fails. We seemed to purposefully make bad decisions. Timesheeting software is going out of compliance and there is an upgrade available, needs to be EU, gov, etc compliant and work with Oracle and numerous other bits of software. Lets write our own! We have 3 months until switchover and are not a software company, we were local government. I left two years later and it still wasn't working properly.
My new job seems to be all in on teams and sharepoint, I hate it. We had a shit intranet before and team folders but at least you could find things and it made at least some reason. Now I have 7 different teams in teams over two different laptops, with files stored directly in them thats referenced a lot and some things can only be done with one or the other. Also how did they make sharepoint so shit? Its like file explorer and internet explorer were put in a blender and clippy was put in charge of reassembling it.
 
newme said:
I can understand using something that works because it does what it is supposed to, then not caring about the licensing because it is someone else's job until it fails. We seemed to purposefully make bad decisions. Timesheeting software is going out of compliance and there is an upgrade available, needs to be EU, gov, etc compliant and work with Oracle and numerous other bits of software. Lets write our own! We have 3 months until switchover and are not a software company, we were local government. I left two years later and it still wasn't working properly.
My new job seems to be all in on teams and sharepoint, I hate it. We had a shit intranet before and team folders but at least you could find things and it made at least some reason. Now I have 7 different teams in teams over two different laptops, with files stored directly in them thats referenced a lot and some things can only be done with one or the other. Also how did they make sharepoint so shit? Its like file explorer and internet explorer were put in a blender and clippy was put in charge of reassembling it.
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The web gui is a mess. I hate administering it for the clients that are on it. I think Microsoft just want you to use powershell.

For files from a users point of I think its just meant to be showed as one drive in explorer, like a conventional file server. At least that's all our clients use it for. I'm curious. Do you use any of the other "features"?
 
On that note our boss turned of our file server without telling us. Which is mostly fine as we hardly use it anymore because one drive.

Except some scripts we had to query vSphere all relied on it and outputted there. I've spent last few hours trying to work out how to save directly to share point. I'm probably doing it wrong but my powershell isn't great.
 
UnderAnOpenSky said:
The web gui is a mess. I hate administering it for the clients that are on it. I think Microsoft just want you to use powershell.

For files from a users point of I think its just meant to be showed as one drive in explorer, like a conventional file server. At least that's all our clients use it for. I'm curious. Do you use any of the other "features"?
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It looks like a web gui for files, but without useful features like say, search. It also drops down within teams as thats how I get linked to everything and they don't have a clear way to show the sharepoint interface from this (I know its a bad implementation in general but its also my only experience with it, I am at a consulting company and we offered to fix it, to save huge amounts of billable hours looking for shit that should be somewhere reasonable but they said no cos budgets.....). It also means absolutely every single call someone says its in "teams" folder, then half the people get baffled about how to display two, or dont have multiple monitors, or whatever else reason. Then they try and verbally guide you to it, I take a snip and go find it later or from the file reference there at the time. It wastes so much time, I am on over average UK wage, my company charges out for my time at way more then that, the amount of time wasted trying to just find shit is insane. The accountant side of me wants to shoot someone in the face. I am not in accountancy tho so thats "someone elses problem". This is a major major council we are dealing with. I was at another one before and it was better, mainly because of less ridiculous procedures (still EU compliant tho) and also ability to actually do stuff without 14 people being involved in a simple action. We could do half of this with two and got way higher rated overall. i swear I have already had 5 figure projects where the involvement costs of a single email trail outspent the total contract value but it was a different cost centre.

Sharepoint to me on this system looks like a web version of explorer, minus all features, which are not exactly a lot of them. Tho most is done through teams > sharepoint (apparently?) but I could only even find sharepoint showed it too after spending hours digging into tech specs (yes that surprised me). I can't search? Say i want a specific type of authorisation doc for an example of what I am doing, good luck cos its click click click til you stumble into one. Based on what it appears my company costs the council involved I cost them over £150 just finding a file because search did not work. I feel that is not optimal. Then the file was badlt written and I had about 80 tabs open to get a vague idea, where the actual guide is, who knows, was not in the council induction or th thousands of files I opened.

I have heard about powershell and various other power apps, only ever used powerquery tho lol. There is no training on any of those available. It is also not the recommended route, we had to make our own procedures as the councils one was insufficient.. Can't share tho as they won't pay for it..... even if it would pay for itself in basically no time at all. During a hiring freeze, while they take on more staff but externally for more than employing locals. Its stupid.
 
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newme said:
It looks like a web gui for files, but without useful features like say, search. It also drops down within teams as thats how I get linked to everything and they don't have a clear way to show the sharepoint interface from this (I know its a bad implementation in general but its also my only experience with it, I am at a consulting company and we offered to fix it, to save huge amounts of billable hours looking for shit that should be somewhere reasonable but they said no cos budgets.....). It also means absolutely every single call someone says its in "teams" folder, then half the people get baffled about how to display two, or dont have multiple monitors, or whatever else reason. Then they try and verbally guide you to it, I take a snip and go find it later or from the file reference there at the time. It wastes so much time, I am on over average UK wage, my company charges out for my time at way more then that, the amount of time wasted trying to just find shit is insane. The accountant side of me wants to shoot someone in the face. I am not in accountancy tho so thats "someone elses problem". This is a major major council we are dealing with. I was at another one before and it was better, mainly because of less ridiculous procedures (still EU compliant tho) and also ability to actually do stuff without 14 people being involved in a simple action. We could do half of this with two and got way higher rated overall. i swear I have already had 5 figure projects where the involvement costs of a single email trail outspent the total contract value but it was a different cost centre.

Sharepoint to me on this system looks like a web version of explorer, minus all features, which are not exactly a lot of them. Tho most is done through teams > sharepoint (apparently?) but I could only even find sharepoint showed it too after spending hours digging into tech specs (yes that surprised me). I can't search? Say i want a specific type of authorisation doc for an example of what I am doing, good luck cos its click click click til you stumble into one. Based on what it appears my company costs the council involved I cost them over £150 just finding a file because search did not work. I feel that is not optimal. Then the file was badlt written and I had about 80 tabs open to get a vague idea, where the actual guide is, who knows, was not in the council induction or th thousands of files I opened.

I have heard about powershell and various other power apps, only ever used powerquery tho lol. There is no training on any of those available. It is also not the recommended route, we had to make our own procedures as the councils one was insufficient.. Can't share tho as they won't pay for it..... even if it would pay for itself in basically no time at all. During a hiring freeze, while they take on more staff but externally for more than employing locals. Its stupid.
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It's this kind of shit that causing my partner no end of headaches on university course she's started. Being told things are just "on teams". I installed One Note for her and it's a bit easier to find, but it's a badly thought out mess.

Do you use one drive? You might be able to sync these files to your local PC and use them in explorer.
 
UnderAnOpenSky said:
It's this kind of shit that causing my partner no end of headaches on university course she's started. Being told things are just "on teams". I installed One Note for her and it's a bit easier to find, but it's a badly thought out mess.

Do you use one drive? You might be able to sync these files to your local PC and use them in explorer.
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Yup one drive, teams files (no idea this existed), sharepoint (wish this didn't). Can't sync anything it seems. I gave up and created my own folder structure. Replicated it across the laptops. Had to seek permission to send files from one to the other.

Everything is manual, I got assigned a new 50k project. On going through this I had 7 new ones..... I'm on about 13m per annum responsibility based on assigned contracts .After about 14 working days.

Both laptops are shit. Top out at 8gb ram on w11.
 
Snagged a long as hell ethernet cable from work so I can finally get a good speed on the PC. Will need to take up the carpets or maybe put on the ceiling to use it permanently, wife probably isn't going to approve of it lying about as it is or having it draped across the roof mind.

Any suggestions for decent home wifi-boosters? I get a signal but its so shit from the hub which is annoying because its literally only a room away. Guess its just not able to go through the wall enough.

Somehow I don't think work will let me steal one of the new Merakis we're configuring but theres hope.
 
We just moved in so I'm working through options.

Its frustrating because the laptop picks things up fine so I can work but the desktop can be very patchy. I raised it up the other day which seemed to help.
 
Artaxerxes said:
We just moved in so I'm working through options.

Its frustrating because the laptop picks things up fine so I can work but the desktop can be very patchy. I raised it up the other day which seemed to help.
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First choice would be an access point on the end of eithernet.

Power line as ruffneck23 suggested?

If the laptop is fine how a better WiFi adapter for the desktop. Some of them have cables so you can position them (or use a USB extension), the one I have as a backup does this.
 
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Trying to remember how to import SSH keys
newme said:
Yup one drive, teams files (no idea this existed), sharepoint (wish this didn't). Can't sync anything it seems. I gave up and created my own folder structure. Replicated it across the laptops. Had to seek permission to send files from one to the other.

Everything is manual, I got assigned a new 50k project. On going through this I had 7 new ones..... I'm on about 13m per annum responsibility based on assigned contracts .After about 14 working days.

Both laptops are shit. Top out at 8gb ram on w11.
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Is this option not available to you?

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Artaxerxes said:
Nah I'm good, I might just pick one of these up first. Boost the range of existing card or move it closer.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/WayinTop-W...eywords=pc+wifi+antenna&qid=1674329779&sr=8-5

Enabling hard wire is longer term project but doable
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That might work. :)

Much more expensive, but maybe an option if you are planning to hard wire in future is TP Link Omada? You can run the APs in mesh mode and then when you have cabling hard wire them. It's what I did when we moved as the house is over a few floors.
 
We're only in a two bed flat so I don't want to do much or do to much cloud work. I'd prefer not to wi-fi at all for main desktop aside from why I bought the wireless nic which was for VM use and a separate network.
 
Am I right in thinking that if I put a 256Gb card in my phone, I can fill it with stuff... then, USBC - HDMI, I can play on hotel TV?
 
So boss sent us out a road map for the current year. Lots of exciting projects which should help me keep up skilling. I'm looking down the list and get to September and see the launch of a 24/7 help desk. I've asked for clarification but I did not sign up for this. Hope I don't need to start looking for a new job. :(
 
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