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Come Inside... => The Computer Room => Topic started by: The Moan Ranger on April 02, 2008, 02:03:11 PM

Title: Stuff
Post by: The Moan Ranger on April 02, 2008, 02:03:11 PM
My PC engineer just came in to replace the motherboard on yet another blown up Dell Optiplex.

He left a little briefcase thingy called "Microsoft TechNetPlus" on it, without about 100 CDs inside. There is EVERYTHING that you could possibly ever need. What to do  whistle:
Title: Re: Stuff
Post by: Bar Wench on April 02, 2008, 02:12:50 PM
 whistle:
Title: Re: Stuff
Post by: Grumpmeister on April 02, 2008, 02:18:48 PM
My PC engineer just came in to replace the motherboard on yet another blown up Dell Optiplex.

He left a little briefcase thingy called "Microsoft TechNetPlus" on it, without about 100 CDs inside. There is EVERYTHING that you could possibly ever need. What to do  whistle:

What do you mean by everything? Give some examples  whistle:







We can start the pub auction then.....
Title: Re: Stuff
Post by: Snoopy on April 02, 2008, 02:25:32 PM
Take it home with you and deny everything. Tell him, when he calls, that he probably put it on the top of his vehicle and drove off losing it at the first bend. Say that happens a lot, be solicitous, offer to "ask around" for him and he'll thank you for your concern.
Title: Re: Stuff
Post by: tel on April 02, 2008, 02:35:41 PM
It is a very useful toolkit, but most of it is never ever used. We used to9 subscribe to it but you spent all the time trying to work out what bits you really needed. You get all sorts of obscure software that most companies never have. Not something for the home-user but still quite nice.

Depends on your conscience - with what just happened to me I would probably have kept it or at least copied the sexier stuff.
Although saying that I do have just about every piece of software I could want.
Title: Re: Stuff
Post by: Bar Wench on April 02, 2008, 02:46:27 PM
It is a very useful toolkit, but most of it is never ever used. We used to9 subscribe to it but you spent all the time trying to work out what bits you really needed. You get all sorts of obscure software that most companies never have. Not something for the home-user but still quite nice.

I'd have to agree. We have the same thing delivered here and I can't honestly remember the last time we used it.
Title: Re: Stuff
Post by: tel on April 02, 2008, 03:02:03 PM
I ended up with 4 cases of about 200 CDs in each. Thye are sitting in the cupboard and now that I'm gone, will probably stay there until they decompose.
Title: Re: Stuff
Post by: The Moan Ranger on April 02, 2008, 03:10:36 PM
I ended up with 4 cases of about 200 CDs in each. Thye are sitting in the cupboard and now that I'm gone, will probably stay there until I decompose.

Corrected for you  happy088
Title: Re: Stuff
Post by: tel on April 02, 2008, 03:28:56 PM
Ta very much.
Off to HQ now.
Title: Re: Stuff
Post by: Nick on April 02, 2008, 07:20:33 PM
My PC engineer just came in to replace the motherboard on yet another blown up Dell Optiplex.

He left a little briefcase thingy called "Microsoft TechNetPlus" on it, without about 100 CDs inside. There is EVERYTHING that you could possibly ever need. What to do  whistle:

Steal it!
Title: Re: Stuff
Post by: Barman on April 03, 2008, 04:14:46 AM
We used to get TechNetPlus – every month an envelope arrived full of new CDs which you had to swap out with the old version in the case…

I don’t ever remember getting a new disc and installing it – I certainly never got a disc labelled ‘New version of XP with no bugs’ or anything useful like that… I binned the whole thing in the end.  noooo:
Title: Re: Stuff
Post by: Darwins Selection on April 03, 2008, 09:12:29 AM
I certainly never got a disc labelled ‘New version of XP with no bugs’

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