See, thats very reasonable.

Althought I'd up the $$ just a little.
Times are tough

Yeah, I thought about it...its a rough draft. I'm not trying to make a living off of it just trying to make a little on the side and deter some away from taking advantage of me.

That's definitely a little low. Also, you might not want to commit to a diagnostic fee. Sometimes a job that's hours of work is actually hours of diganosis and minutes of repair.

Virus clean is definitely too low, unless you intend to charge more for difficult ones. I'm an expert virus battler but I would want $80 for a medium virus and $200 for a really nasty one.

I just charge by the hour. $50 for the first hour (to cover some gas and travel time), then $35/hour after that.

Fakking users and their PEBKAC errors.

srsly :fp:

:nerd:

http://wimp.com/ibmjeopardy/

I jested when Watson started guessing dumb shit like trousers and milk :roflmao:

Re: IT Thread
 

Ok time for IT thread resurrection.

We setup a new Windows server 2008 domain and have tried joining several machines from different departments/buildings to it with no issues.

Until today. There is one department that joins the domain, can login, but only their personal drives map. There are others that should map based on the users group but in this one department they wont map. Their personal/profile drives load but not the others.

Wtf

Did you look at the event logs on the DC and the client PC?

We haven't troubleshooted it too much. I grabbed a PC from a department that worked and took it to that building and it joined/mapped fine. But the computers that originated in that department won't. We're thinking that the tech that used to run that department must have done something crazy with all the machines. He either removed components that his domain didn't need or disabled something. They are currently on an OLD linux domain.

What's weird is, the machines in that screwy department join the domain flawlessly and allow users to login, change their password, access their personal drive, etc.

Just no extra shared drives :fp:

Will look into it more tomorrow. I'm tired.

Do those users work properly on PCs from other departments?

Re: IT Thread
 

Yes sir mr cao

I think we figured it out. The drive is mapped using GP Preferences. Apparently XP machines need an add-on installed to make use of them. I guess the machines in all the other departments had the add-on installed and that department never did. :fp:

Going to go test it out in an hour or so.

Yup, XP does require the GPP extension. I've never gotten GPP to work even after installing the extension, and I gave up trying.

Why not map home drives in the user properties?

Their home drives have been fine the whole time via user properties. It was the additional drives that weren't showing up on computers without the GPP extension. As soon as we installed the extension and logged out/in, they showed up.

I had read/heard about the GPP extension somewhere a while ago and knew it would be needed for some of the newer group policies but I thought mapped drives would have been an old policy that was in 2003 and even earlier so I completely forgot about the GPP extension until today.

OIC. Yeah, anything under the "Preferences" tree requires the GPP extension.

I think you can map drives in "Policies" too. Either way you can map drives with a login script.

Well the guy I work with setup the drives so I didn't know it was under preferences :fp: i assumed it was under one of the old categories. Oh well.

k fine,


Can't rly do fresh install.

has problem.

When I run the XP cd in the other workstation, it tells me PCI error on BSOD

Bring here, works fine in different machine. But in neither of the machines will the USB ports work when it loads XP

Those machines are teh homogay and should be expelled from Boy Scouts.

I concur.

damn Lenovo's

I think the USB port issue is because that install is fuxx0rd. As for the PCI error... you could have a bad mobo in that one machine like cao originally said :uhoh:

:rofl: u fgts did take the IT tawk to IT thread

I are doing chkdsk on hdd rightnow, is taking FOREVER

Well guys, I've been studying to take the CompTIA Network+ exam in a few weeks, that is why I haven't been on as much lately, been studying in my free time. I'm trying to get it and A+ before the new rules go in effect at the start of 2011.