The Office Support Guy

Liquidfox said:
ZoneAlarm is evil...

I don't see how Zone Alarm can stop people bringing Viruses in, that's what AV is for, no?
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Where did I mention viruses?

agent_paul said:
stick a linux live cd in his machine and reboot it when hes away on lunch.

by the end of the day he would have seen the the error of his ways
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He certainly would, he'd disable the CD drives.
 
Fanboys in any sense of the word are just moronic
"What did the PS3 say to the 360
I have no games, hurr hurr"

"What did the mac say to the pc
Nothing the pc had a virus"

SHUT THE HELL UP AND ACCEPT THAT THERE IS NO DOMINANT MACHINE, SOFTWARE OR WHATEVER.
 
There's definately no right or wrong anwser when it comes to these types of arguements. I just wish he'd accept that for certain things, MS isn't the way.
 
msm722 said:
There's definately no right or wrong anwser when it comes to these types of arguements. I just wish he'd accept that for certain things, MS isn't the way.
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At the end of the day it's right tool for the job. Sometimes that'll be MS sometimes it won't, but it all depends on what you are wanting to do and what experience you have.

Burnsy
 
Burnsy2023 said:
I'm using a Mac right now out of choice.
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Unclean. Go wash your hands. Touching an Apple product gives you AIDS (the bad kind!) :p :D

Caged said:
Mac fanboys are even more annoying in a Windows environment.
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All types of Fanboi are annoying be it Windows or PlayStation or BMW or Rolex or whatever. This is because they lack objectivity.
 
msm722 said:
I'm sure you've come across someone like this. Complete MS fan boy - raves on about IE7, office, windows OS and won't listen to reason. He insists that the company runs zonealarm on all our laptops, despite it making them horrendously slow. I was recently tasked with putting together an internal website, which I developed with PHP and MySQL, he then tells me it needs to be redone because it doesn't use ASP! His arguement was that PHP is for kids in their bedrooms, real developers use ASP. The nonsense this guy comes out with is out of this world.

Seriously, the list goes on. Any have similar experiences?

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I recently TRS'D MY PSG'S but my STQ's were broken so eventually i covered everything ni a creamy layer of SPM and that seemed to fix it. Next time ill CLL my PDG and see if i can DRF it.
 
msm722 said:
I was recently tasked with putting together an internal website, which I developed with PHP and MySQL, he then tells me it needs to be redone because it doesn't use ASP!
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It all depends, none of our developers would be able to use PHP or MySQL because they are not supported technologies within our business. So we would do exactly the same thing.
 
paradigm said:
Great. This however doesn't stop INTERNAL attacks by malicious software brought in by uneducated morons (you know, the kind of guys who lable the IT support as fanboys) on their USB sticks because they wanted to show Shirley on the next desk their photos of last weekends binge.

Try understanding the IT support perspective, rather than carrying on whilst being blissfully unaware.
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We scrapped running a 3rd party software firewall on our company laptops because it's just more hassle then its worth.

The user has to know whats a good application to say yes to, and what should be blocked from establishing outbound connections. Unsuprisingly our users just got used to clicking yes for absolutely anything, just to get rid of the bloddy popups. Software firewalls are nice, but only in the right hands.

We just use the windows firewall now, allowing certain management services. Windows firewall is nice because its not in your face all the time. Any outbound is allowed, but all inbound except what we have defined is blocked. Also you get group policy for configuring mass rules, and you can lock it down so they cant change the settings :)
 
Duroxis said:
Gah I can't stand these people, the best arguement is free linux versus MS OS. You could argue all day for linux and he wouldn't be able to win that round ;)
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That argument is void for serious business use, I pay £700 a year per server to redhat because I'm not running an unsupported OS. Any OS costs money when you're running critical production systems on it, so I wish people would stop using 'free' as an argument for Linux in a business context.
 
Schnippzle said:
PHP/ASP both suck, just use javascript. Just as powerful, not to mention functionalities of javascript > php/asp.
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I thought javascript was just for running in the end users browser, where as PHP/ASP were backend server side scripting languages for generating dynamic content?
 
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