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We have a "suite" of new software coming in at work, it's all to do with reporting, data analysis, that sort of thing. Rather than send us away for training or bringing an instructor in, both of which are very expensive, we are taking virtual training. It's pretty neat, we do have to install some things on the computer that we'll be using and can do all this at home so that there's no distractions. You log into a "meeting room" using Adobe Connect, which is where the course is held, and then there's another remote login using something called Citrix to get to the sofware that you use to do the exercises and labs. I haven't had any trouble with it so far (knock on wood) but one or two people seem to have. There are participants in the course from California, various in the easter part of the US, me in Canada and one poor sod from Ireland who started the course at 2:30 p.m. and will have to sit there until 10:30 Pm in his time zone! For me, it started at 10:30 a.m. so I got to sleep in a bit and I can sit here in comfy clothes and slippers. I have another course in mid December and potentially one at the start of December. I think i'll remove the software after all that. If i ever have to take another virtual course through the same company I can reinstall it, it wasn't that difficult. Don't like to have extra stuff bogging down the computer.
Speaking of which, I upgraded my little laptop to Windows 10 on the weekend. It seemed to go very smoothly. I'm not doing my desktop until after all this training is done, though. I also have Graham's laptop here but the windows 10 rollout still hasn't filtered down to his machine. He left it here in May because he's still using his desktop at home and will until he moves here. I turn the laptop on once in awhile so it can do the windows updates. It's a Windows 8 machine so the upgrade to 10 should be pretty smooth. He doesn't have a lot installed on it yet. I'm quite pleased with my laptop's upgrade, it didn't complain about anything I had installed and I have a couple of quite old programs. Mind you, I didn't check to actually see if they work or not. Just assuming. When I nearly updated my desktop, it stopped and said i had to uninstall my virus program as it wasn't compatible. Bastard. I'll have to install something else before i go ahead and do this one. Probably Avast as it was recommended to me over AVG which is on my laptop and which upgraded ok. I think. Anyway i'll get around to testing it all further.
I had a quick look around and tried the email application. Don't like it. Sticking with Thunderbird. I never liked Outlook much anyway and this is weirder. Perhaps if i played around with it a bit more it might be better but if i can still use Thunderbird, then that's what I'd use.
Speaking of which, I upgraded my little laptop to Windows 10 on the weekend. It seemed to go very smoothly. I'm not doing my desktop until after all this training is done, though. I also have Graham's laptop here but the windows 10 rollout still hasn't filtered down to his machine. He left it here in May because he's still using his desktop at home and will until he moves here. I turn the laptop on once in awhile so it can do the windows updates. It's a Windows 8 machine so the upgrade to 10 should be pretty smooth. He doesn't have a lot installed on it yet. I'm quite pleased with my laptop's upgrade, it didn't complain about anything I had installed and I have a couple of quite old programs. Mind you, I didn't check to actually see if they work or not. Just assuming. When I nearly updated my desktop, it stopped and said i had to uninstall my virus program as it wasn't compatible. Bastard. I'll have to install something else before i go ahead and do this one. Probably Avast as it was recommended to me over AVG which is on my laptop and which upgraded ok. I think. Anyway i'll get around to testing it all further.
I had a quick look around and tried the email application. Don't like it. Sticking with Thunderbird. I never liked Outlook much anyway and this is weirder. Perhaps if i played around with it a bit more it might be better but if i can still use Thunderbird, then that's what I'd use.