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I will always owe Mr. Pratchett for summing up my take on spirituality in one elegant exchange:"YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET — AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."
"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point — "
"MY POINT EXACTLY.”
Nicki wrote: "My heart's a bit broken over this news. It's been a day and I still feel all discombobulated. I'm writing a post on what Sir Pterry and his works meant to me for the Pratchett thread, but I need a ..."I understand.
I was just introducing my co-worker's kindergarten age son to Sir Terry this week.
true...
People can't actually be reading can they?
LOL!Not me, sadly.
Nor me... Work. They are kind of insisting that I do some. HUFF!
I just got home from work and now I have to figure out what to eat!
Becky wrote: "Nor me... Work. They are kind of insisting that I do some. HUFF!"What is up with that?! Don't they realize we have reading to do??
It's evil. But I've been on and off GR all day anyway, of course. LOL
Stupid people at work are actually expecting me to get work done!
I'm just bending SharePoint in ways the gods never expected or wanted it to bend. I feel like a malevolent and strangely literal genie, and nothing I do quite mollifies the person who dared summon me up.
^You feel powerful now, but wait until SharePoint 2017 makes you rewrite everything because its all changed again. :)
SharePoint?
MrsJoseph: Microsoft's attempt to merge portions of the Office suite, jam them into "the Cloud," and also control access to documents and information.Homeinmyshoes: I consider that part and parcel of the limited wishes. Next iteration they'll have to cough up the dough to re-summon me from the bottle.
Jeremy wrote: "MrsJoseph: Microsoft's attempt to merge portions of the Office suite, jam them into "the Cloud," and also control access to documents and information."Oh. Wow. That sounds like...a little bit of hell on earth. O_o
Speaking of hell on earth, anyone have any suggestions for a good (professional) Outlook substitute? My co-worker kills outlook's space and I need to find something that will allowing the saving of all emails all the time. O_O
MrsJoseph wrote: "Speaking of hell on earth, anyone have any suggestions for a good (professional) Outlook substitute? My co-worker kills outlook's space and I need to find something that will allowing the saving o..."GMail has an enterprise-level product a lot of companies seem to like. Email storage is one of the big selling points, but the emphasis is a bit less on scheduling, calendars, and resource control.
Jeremy wrote: "GMail has an enterprise-level product a lot of companies seem to like. Email storage is one of the big selling points, but the emphasis is a bit less on scheduling, calendars, and resource control. "He doesn't want internet based email. >:|
FML.
He can use Gmail and connect it to Outlook.
He does realize that email kinda relies on the internet, right?
Becky wrote: "He can use Gmail and connect it to Outlook."The problem is that Outlook (the software) only allows for a specific amount of space. My co-worker has over 28K emails in Outlook. A lot of them have attached huge data-hogging files.
I've had to have the computer repaired 3 times now due to corruption via Outlook. The last repair person said that "it isn't 'If' it's 'when'" the computer crashes again. Outlook wasn't meant to hold that much data.
Becky wrote: "He does realize that email kinda relies on the internet, right?"Yeah. At least, I hope.
I'd suggest looking into one of the "vault" style appliance/add-ins that accompany Exchange - Enterprise Vault from Symantec is a good model, IMO. This server appliance allows you offload e-mail archiving onto something more aligned to mass storage needs, and it allows Outlook to recall messages of a specific scope transparently to the user, so it mostly looks and feels like the archive is available locally to them.
Jeremy wrote: "I'd suggest looking into one of the "vault" style appliance/add-ins that accompany Exchange - Enterprise Vault from Symantec is a good model, IMO. This server appliance allows you offload e-mail a..."Ooooooooooh! I'm on it! Thank you!
My co-worker is refusing to relinquish Outlook as is and I'm refusing to spend all my budget on fixing this 4+ year old computer. Again.
Jeremy wrote: "I'd suggest looking into one of the "vault" style appliance/add-ins that accompany Exchange - Enterprise Vault from Symantec is a good model, IMO. This server appliance allows you offload e-mail a..."We use this at work. It is works really seamless when our servers are running properly. ;-)
Mrs J- I don't know what industry you work in, but have you looked into a paperless documenting system? We're required to keep emails and documents for 7 years per state law and we've transferred to paperless. We're required to tag all our emails in, which saves space on Outlook and the added bonus is that if you're out people know what you worked on, so they can pick up the trail if needed.
Jeremy wrote: "MrsJoseph: Microsoft's attempt to merge portions of the Office suite, jam them into "the Cloud," and also control access to documents and information.Homeinmyshoes: I consider that part and parce..."
If this stuff were easy I wouldn't get paid well. :)
I'm trying to think of why someone wouldn't want Internet email. I've had it since 1999 and would never go back.
Jackie wrote: "We use this at work. It is works really seamless when our servers are running properly. ;-) Mrs J- I don't know what industry you work in, but have you looked into a paperless documenting system? We're required to keep emails and documents for 7 years per state law and..."
We have this as well. We use Lotus Notes but have some email archiving and tagging system. I'm not techy, so all I know is that I have to tag emails as WIP (work in progress) and they can stick around a little longer, or company record which makes them last forever. Everything else gets auto-deleted after some set time period. The WIP and CR stuff gets archived into another server or something.
Jackie wrote: "Mrs J- I don't know what industry you work in, but have you looked into a paperless documenting system? We're required to keep emails and documents for 7 years per state law and we've transferred to paperless. We're required to tag all our emails in, which saves space on Outlook and the added bonus is that if you're out people know what you worked on, so they can pick up the trail if needed. "We're much too small for most of this tech. :(
We're not paperless but we do have specific things that we have to keep for an extended amount of time. I'm not sure but I *think* it's 10 years. But don't quote me on that.
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "I'm trying to think of why someone wouldn't want Internet email. I've had it since 1999 and would never go back. "I'm *guessing* it's the change to the workflow? My co-worker said it was the interface(s).
Tell him to pull up his big boy pants, drop his stone tablets, and adapt. Things change.
Becky wrote: "Tell him to pull up his big boy pants, drop his stone tablets, and adapt. Things change."^ This.
Becky wrote: "Tell him to pull up his big boy pants, drop his stone tablets, and adapt. Things change."Haha. I've always subscribed to the "adapt or die" mantra. Although I am getting older so I might be a little crotchety while doing so.
I wish. Ooooooh, I so wish.
So, I have a package being delivered via UPS. When I went to the UPS site to track my package it kept redirecting me to "register."
Did UPS change its policies to require registration to track packages WITH a tracking number recently? I have no interest in registering and logging into any site just to track a package when I supply the tracking number. *annoyed*
MrsJoseph wrote: "So, I have a package being delivered via UPS. When I went to the UPS site to track my package it kept redirecting me to "register."
Did UPS change its policies to require registration to trac..."
Not that I can tell. I just tried to track a package being sent by UPS and had no issue.
http://www.ups.com/tracking/tracking.... seems to work normally. The area on the right wants me to sign in to show recently tracked parcels, but the box on the left is still open for tracking numbers.
I only have a box on the right and it wants me to sign in. :(I wonder if its my browser addons?
If that site doesn't work for you, http://www.theupsstore.com/Pages/trac... pulls tracking data from the same UPS service and may work.
Jeremy wrote: "If that site doesn't work for you, http://www.theupsstore.com/Pages/trac... pulls tracking data from the same UPS service and may work."You are amazing! Thank you!
This thread should be renamed to 'Helpdesk'!
So true, lol
So...When students finish their labs/work in science, I let them play board games/chess (rather than going on their iPads). I have a learning chess set where each piece has info on how many spaces it can move and in what directions. The kids love it! (A few teachers have tried to "borrow" it).
A few days ago, a student asked me to sit down and showed me how to play. I've always wanted to learn. I was immediately hooked! So, I bought a book to read on chess basics, but I've been told there are apps and/or websites where I might play others? Any wisdom for me?
A lot of people use http://www.chess.com/, which is perhaps the most on-the-nose website URL left on the Internet. Ranked play, training videos, free tournaments - most of what you would want out of an online chess system.
Laurel wrote: "So...When students finish their labs/work in science, I let them play board games/chess (rather than going on their iPads). I have a learning chess set where each piece has info on how many spac..."
That's pretty cool!
Thanks, Hon!It's a good thing I've started studying, I was asked to settle a chess "dispute" between two of my students today ;)
I better work hard over spring break - they already expect me to be an expert!
Laurel wrote: "Thanks, Hon!It's a good thing I've started studying, I was asked to settle a chess "dispute" between two of my students today ;)
I better work hard over spring break - they already expect me to ..."
:-D
No pressure. No pressure. ;-)
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Rest well Terry. Condolences to the family, friends and readers around the world.