Well, the continuing sage of my f*ked up computer ...
Yesterday I discovered something I needed to do but couldn't, since our website is incompatible with newer browsers. This morning, found out another. The only solution is to give me back my old computer (since they hadn't gotten around to wiping the hard drive yet). Somehow, the new one is not only incompatible with a lot of what I need to do, but it's slower than the old one; tech support guys say this is impossible ... but somehow it still is.
And it turns out that the problems with our email come from the fact that they moved all our info from the server to "the cloud" ... and didn't get it synched before wiping the server. So there's this frantic running around trying to get email and calendars going (yup, office-wide calendar is no longer there ... which means we're having to rely on word of mouth to figure out where someone is). I've suggested messenger pigeons, semaphores and smoke signals as alternative communication modes ... although the pigeons would get messy for internal communications and I suspect the smoke signals would violate building codes.
Obviously, there was a problem with the planning.
And as to why we're moving everything to "the cloud" ... I suspect because the guy who's in charge of our office tech support heard all the cool kids were doing it.
Ugh msbelle, that's frustrating as hell. So does this mean you are the one who put the lock on tennis for him? Glad that the counselor has your back on this one. School mang, it's always something.
Relatedly, we are stressing out because for some reason we couldn't get a hold of our kids' schedules before today, so now we have to wait until they come home to make sure they got into all the right classes.
Ugh, msbelle. I'm sorry. Will he be playing tennis just at school? Because if he does any local tournaments you might run into my nephews. I hope he actually likes it and it turns out to be a good thing.
I suspect because the guy who's in charge of our office tech support heard all the cool kids were doing it.
Oh, god, I think that's what drives a lot of our developers, too. "The Cloud! It's the next big thing! Our customers will love it, and if they don't they're just behind the times and not cool like us!" Never mind the fact that a lot of our customers work in rural areas with spotty-to-nonexistent Internet connection. But tell this to the develolpers, and they all get this look of "Who doesn't have good Internet? Why kind of yahoos are we dealing with? Tell them to update their systems and leave us alone."
Everyone loves the cloud! It's so... secure? or reliable?? or something else good?????
I did love taking tennis for gym in high school, but not to the exclusion of graduation requirements.
I would have loved tennis for gym if it had been an option in high school. I also would have enjoyed a fine art class of some sort.
Don't forget cheap.
And scalable! That's another word that makes tech execs giddy.
