Setting Up
Posted: Thu 28 June, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Customer Services, Cynicism, Geeky, Work-related |3 Comments »Ah, I do love it when I have to sort out the PC of a new starter in a company.
Particularly when the IT department in the company are a bunch of smeghead chuffbags, and can’t get anything right.
So far, Windows Update has had to install 57 fixes that IT couldn’t be keffed to do.
As well as that, various useful things (in the context of the work we do, and how this company’s web stuff is set up) like :
- IIS (Internet Information Services, for those who don’t know- a web server that in this instance runs on the local machine)
- Subversion
- Tortoise SVN client for Subversion
- Firefox
- MS Office
- MS Outlook, along with setting up email account etc.
So, nothing important then. *cough*
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Describing IIS as ‘a web server that runs on the local machine’ is a bit mean, seeing as it’s the same one that runs on most Windows servers.
So what is it the IT department actually do, while giving you what seems to be all the work of setting up new systems?
Fair point, re IIS. I’ll amend that explanation a little bit.
As for what they do… Hmmm…. Can I get back to you on that one?
In fairness, they did the primary build – MS Office, Adobe Crapware, etc. It’s just that they didn’t put on any of the stuff that we’d actually, you know, asked for.