It's that time again!
Our contract with our system managers ended this week, and of course my boss had to reel in yet another 'guy he knows'. And without even as little as an introduction, he began installing/modifying stuff on several computers.
Sure, I understand you would want to scan for virusses with a good program, and that Classic Windows mode takes less performace to run. But when I say there's a new version of that virus program, don't tell me the anti-virus is the newest. I did not mean that. And when he 'fixed' a collegue's Widescreen - he has a widescreen monitor, but drivers do not support widescreen, so he has been using a regular 1600x1200 resolution - I easily found out he just stretched the screen with the WIDE option of the monitor. And it somehow didn't reach to him that it was stretched out. "Look, it's 1600." "So? Height is 1200. Monitor is 16:9. Widescreen height should be 900." "Or 960."
My boss should seriously stop getting 'a guy he knows through a guy he knows' to do these kinds of things. This guy clearly is someone who probably set up a home network (maybe not) and knows a few performance tricks.
He also heard we couldn't get into the database folder on the server without a password. He clicked, clicked, and voila, he was in the folder. He proud. We facepalm. He found the folder that serves as a shared folder to every computer for accessing said database.
Since the beginning of this week, I've been looking at some information on handling/managing our type of server and the mail exchange. Hurray for 'free' PDF copies of "For Dummies" books. But what I would really like to know is what the main things/programs are to keep things running. You know, the basics. For dummies or not, books still go too much in-depth.
Sure, I understand you would want to scan for virusses with a good program, and that Classic Windows mode takes less performace to run. But when I say there's a new version of that virus program, don't tell me the anti-virus is the newest. I did not mean that. And when he 'fixed' a collegue's Widescreen - he has a widescreen monitor, but drivers do not support widescreen, so he has been using a regular 1600x1200 resolution - I easily found out he just stretched the screen with the WIDE option of the monitor. And it somehow didn't reach to him that it was stretched out. "Look, it's 1600." "So? Height is 1200. Monitor is 16:9. Widescreen height should be 900." "Or 960."
My boss should seriously stop getting 'a guy he knows through a guy he knows' to do these kinds of things. This guy clearly is someone who probably set up a home network (maybe not) and knows a few performance tricks.
He also heard we couldn't get into the database folder on the server without a password. He clicked, clicked, and voila, he was in the folder. He proud. We facepalm. He found the folder that serves as a shared folder to every computer for accessing said database.
Since the beginning of this week, I've been looking at some information on handling/managing our type of server and the mail exchange. Hurray for 'free' PDF copies of "For Dummies" books. But what I would really like to know is what the main things/programs are to keep things running. You know, the basics. For dummies or not, books still go too much in-depth.