Spent today installing a PC specifically for labelling.
Well, that was the official reason for the visit. What actually happened was a little more involved…
It was a classic case of “While you are here, can you just…” – add appropriate labour intensive task here…

“This PC is running slowly” – Mundo examples of the latest nasty spyware striiping action later…
“The VOIP telephone system needs a DNS entry adding…” – Yeah right, more like a full DNS domain build…
“We need a remote dial in” – Telephone engineer chips in at this point “We simply connect to our 2k3 server etc etc…”
Yup – I REALLY look forward to configuring a terminal server from scratch, no planning, nada, especially since the client is running a 2000 server.
“you don’t want to use VPN, simply forward the ports etc etc…” – telephone engineer. Grrr…
I simply added a VPN router and whala! VPN dialin solved – OMG it works !!
Also the wireless that comes with this particular router is quite powerful, I could get a 100% signal clear across the other side of the premesis – the original router struggled across the office

I REALLY wish people (especially telecoms engineers, I have yet to find one that doesn’t know EVERYTHING about I.T.) would stick to what they know…

Just finshed the washing up (well, almost :D)
Bedtime…

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