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I know I am not the only one on here who works in IT, or with computers a lot. Here is a thread for posting any little irritating bugs or problems you are having with computers or phones if you need a little help.
I will start it off with one I learned today. If you have a blackberry curve, or storm it is a well known bug that eventually your little trackball will stop working. With the pearl, and some other models this is easy enough to fix just pry up the silver ring and swab it good with a cotton swab, like a mouse ball. However these models require being fully disassembled, or taken to a repair shop to fix them. However I found a pretty good trick. Take a medium sized cocktail straw, and make a one inch slit to the bottom of one end. From there you can work it in between the silver ring and the ball and rotate it around 360 degrees multiple times.. Stop periodically and take a corner of a paper towel slightly dampened with Windex to it every 30 or so seconds until you stop getting a white powdery mixture to come loose and stick to the trackball, and it should fix your problem.
If anyone else needs a hand just let me know in here.
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I too work in the IT field, i shall offer a tech tip... The your computer's mouse or trackpad does not come equipped with with a right click button, immediately assume this computer is defective, and discard it.
Just kidding, don't want to upset any ladies or hipster guys.
So Jess, what manner of IT work do you do most often?
I too work in the IT field, i shall offer a tech tip... The your computer's mouse or trackpad does not come equipped with with a right click button, immediately assume this computer is defective, and discard it.
If I need any help, I'll ask you guys. Oh, that's right, I have a Mac. Never mind
I too work in the IT field, i shall offer a tech tip... The your computer's mouse or trackpad does not come equipped with with a right click button, immediately assume this computer is defective, and discard it.
Just kidding, don't want to upset any ladies or hipster guys.
So Jess, what manner of IT work do you do most often?
I run a small networking consultation and design company. That being said in this day and age I also do just about anything else. I pretty much stick with smaller companies that have high technology needs, but not a need fora full time IT person.
I too work in the IT field, i shall offer a tech tip... The your computer's mouse or trackpad does not come equipped with with a right click button, immediately assume this computer is defective, and discard it.
If I need any help, I'll ask you guys. Oh, that's right, I have a Mac. Never mind
It does not matter they never break or mess up right?
Druid, you were the main reason I retracted my statement, and lol at that picture yet again.
Jess, thats cool, until may of this year, I worked for a 3rd party IT company in Covington. We did pretty much anything that centered around technology. I specialized in networking, and Windows Domain Environment based client / server networks. I left that job for an IT job at a non profit mental health agency. The first 3 months here were lots of fun. They still had an NT3.51 server, and mostly windows 2000 machines (with some horrendous static group policies set), and their wide area network was Frame Relay based with a single 64k channel per site. Now I got it easy, Server 2008 with Active Directory, Managed Symantec Endpoint Protection, Sonicwall NSA 2400, mostly windows xp, and a MPLS Cloud, with all 5 remote sites connecting via full dedicated T1, and the main site connected via 3 full dedicated T1s.
s Now I got it easy, Server 2008 with Active Directory, Managed Symantec Endpoint Protection, Sonicwall NSA 2400, mostly windows xp, and a MPLS Cloud, with all 5 remote sites connecting via full dedicated T1, and the main site connected via 3 full dedicated T1s.
Well........I have a MacBook Pro.......so there ;D
s Now I got it easy, Server 2008 with Active Directory, Managed Symantec Endpoint Protection, Sonicwall NSA 2400, mostly windows xp, and a MPLS Cloud, with all 5 remote sites connecting via full dedicated T1, and the main site connected via 3 full dedicated T1s.
Well........I have a MacBook Pro.......so there ;D
Instead of charging the battery you just let a magical rainbow unicorn lick it right?
Actually I can help with pretty much any hardware, mac software questions should probably be addressed to you and Fishing Maniac.
I have experience with Mac OS9, but my root canal was more fun.. And for so reason, when I saw "Fishing Maniac" I read it as "Fisting Maniac", and I was bothered to say the least.
By the way, I don't own any of what I listed, that was what I have implemented for my company in 6 months... a server with Active Directory that is logical, and makes sense, a good way to prevent viruses and spyware for the most part, a way to offer secure outside in connectivity via sonicwall gvpn client, a way to block facebook (boy o boy did that start a shit storm) via Sonicwall's content filtering, computers that are stable and run fast (for the most part), and a wide area network that doesn't take 10 minutes to pull a report from a remote site.
Only problem is, IT problems are essentially non existent now, so I get to spend all day doing data entry, data correction, designing unix reporting modules, verifying insurance eligibility, getting prior authorizations, etc. All of this is incredibly boring shit that I could teach my left foot how to do in 15 minutes, but its a job with decent pay, great benefits, ample vacation, a great retirement plan, and people that I get along with for the most part, so I really shouldn't complain.
I am a big believer in Sonicwall as well, the MailFrontier is really the only efficient antispam system I have ever run across for SBS exchange users. I have a couple of clients with 2008, but I will be attempting my first migration from a 2003 machine Weds.
