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@thecreativeone91 Congrats, hope it works out!

Thanks!

coliver

Client VPN connection is acting oddly. Works great for files but Outlook keeps asking for credentials. Seems to be happening on most VPN clients.

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

Phone interview when really well. That said I match with the culture well. They are getting an in person interview together with the executive management team in VA which is suppose to be about 4hrs long on Monday or Tuesday. And then the following week either have me come to Indiana or the Indiana management team come here.

Awesome, congrats.

handsofqwerty

Wrapping my day at work. Only one job today.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Phone interview when really well. That said I match with the culture well. They are getting an in person interview together with the executive management team in VA which is suppose to be about 4hrs long on Monday or Tuesday. And then the following week either have me come to Indiana or the Indiana management team come here.

Awesome, congrats.

Thanks. They said there's options to move to Kansas too. I no very little about Kansas.

scottalanmiller

Did they mention a city in Kansas? It's a large state with several mid-sized cities.

scottalanmiller

@handsofqwerty said:

Wrapping my day at work. Only one job today.

Sometimes I wrap my day as a present to my night.

Dashrender

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Phone interview when really well. That said I match with the culture well. They are getting an in person interview together with the executive management team in VA which is suppose to be about 4hrs long on Monday or Tuesday. And then the following week either have me come to Indiana or the Indiana management team come here.

Awesome, congrats.

Thanks. They said there's options to move to Kansas too. I no very little about Kansas.

I'd avoid Kansas City myself, unless you end up down south, but the other cities are pretty nice.

@scottalanmiller said:

@handsofqwerty said:

Wrapping my day at work. Only one job today.

Sometimes I wrap my day as a present to my night.

Sometimes people wonder about you. hahaha.

gjacobse

@scottalanmiller said:

Do I want to know which laptop is dead?

Uhm,... Depends. It might be that laptop,.. or that other one. It's not my personal laptop.

And really,... it's not dead,. it just won't POST, nothing on screen, seems to 'power cycle' itself. CPU fan and HDD power cycle at the same time.

I could replace the MOBO,.. but is that really practical.

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Do I want to know which laptop is dead?

Uhm,... Depends. It might be that laptop,.. or that other one. It's not my personal laptop.

And really,... it's not dead,. it just won't POST, nothing on screen, seems to 'power cycle' itself. CPU fan and HDD power cycle at the same time.

I could replace the MOBO,.. but is that really practical.

No warranty?

handsofqwerty

@thecreativeone91 said:

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Do I want to know which laptop is dead?

Uhm,... Depends. It might be that laptop,.. or that other one. It's not my personal laptop.

And really,... it's not dead,. it just won't POST, nothing on screen, seems to 'power cycle' itself. CPU fan and HDD power cycle at the same time.

I could replace the MOBO,.. but is that really practical.

No warranty?

Depending on the age, probably not or else he'd have called the vendor by now I assume.

gjacobse

@thecreativeone91 said:

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Do I want to know which laptop is dead?

Uhm,... Depends. It might be that laptop,.. or that other one. It's not my personal laptop.

And really,... it's not dead,. it just won't POST, nothing on screen, seems to 'power cycle' itself. CPU fan and HDD power cycle at the same time.

I could replace the MOBO,.. but is that really practical.

No warranty?

MFG Date: 1105 - very unlikely.

coliver

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Do I want to know which laptop is dead?

Uhm,... Depends. It might be that laptop,.. or that other one. It's not my personal laptop.

And really,... it's not dead,. it just won't POST, nothing on screen, seems to 'power cycle' itself. CPU fan and HDD power cycle at the same time.

I could replace the MOBO,.. but is that really practical.

Is it a Dell laptop from the early 2000s? Just had the same thing happen to one of ours. Would power cycle continuously until you pulled the battery. Even the hardware 10-sec switch wouldn't shut it down.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Dude upgraded my purchase from the HP Pro X2 612 4GB Ram 128GB SSD to a HP Pro x2 612 8GB RAM 256gb SSD. And then gave me 70% (the low spec one I actually ordered) off the base model. Awesome Reps. Didn't request it or anything. I think I will like this better than the Surface Pro 3 (thanks to @Kelly for posting about it.)

Thanks UPS!

Well UPS sucks but HP is cool.

@coliver said:

Is it a Dell laptop from the early 2000s? Just had the same thing happen to one of ours. Would power cycle continuously until you pulled the battery. Even the hardware 10-sec switch wouldn't shut it down.

I like dell desktops for enterprise. but, the laptops seem to lack the quality of the bussiness models should have. HP seems to do better but I don't really like using two vendors for computers.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Phone interview when really well. That said I match with the culture well. They are getting an in person interview together with the executive management team in VA which is suppose to be about 4hrs long on Monday or Tuesday. And then the following week either have me come to Indiana or the Indiana management team come here.

Awesome, congrats.

Oh, and the place actually stays up to date. almost all Win 2012 R2 servers, a handful of 2k8 r2. and Esxi 5.5. Desktops all windows 7, and planning to migrate to windows 10 within the next 6-9 months as they've already been testing it with the technical preview.

coliver

@thecreativeone91 said:

@coliver said:

Is it a Dell laptop from the early 2000s? Just had the same thing happen to one of ours. Would power cycle continuously until you pulled the battery. Even the hardware 10-sec switch wouldn't shut it down.

I like dell desktops for enterprise. but, the laptops seem to lack the quality of the bussiness models should have. HP seems to do better but I don't really like using two vendors for computers.

Odd. I've had the opposite experience. Dell desktops have been lackluster for me, while the HP ones I have are workhorses. Dell laptops are fantastic but the HP ones I inherited were sub-par and mostly broken when I got here, only 1-2 years old most of them.

scottalanmiller

We've had good luck with HP commercial laptops. Many, many years from them. Often pushing towards a decade.

coliver

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Phone interview when really well. That said I match with the culture well. They are getting an in person interview together with the executive management team in VA which is suppose to be about 4hrs long on Monday or Tuesday. And then the following week either have me come to Indiana or the Indiana management team come here.

Awesome, congrats.

Oh, and the place actually stays up to date. almost all Win 2012 R2 servers, a handful of 2k8 r2. and Esxi 5.5. Desktops all windows 7, and planning to migrate to windows 10 within the next 6-9 months as they've already been testing it with the technical preview.

Cool, sounds like a good environment to get into, good luck on the follow up interviews. Any Linux in there?