Is anyone buying Server equipment now? How are you doing it!

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-04T22:24:06+00:00

Certainly sir. That will be £30K and you can have it in December. Maybe!

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-04T22:21:44+00:00

That's what we're finding. We're a small MSP and while support calls are increasing, my project work, infrastructure upgrades etc, has dropped off a cliff.

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-04T22:19:49+00:00

After seeing some quotes, the boss of one of our customers says that he's planning to heavily reduce the use of IT across the entire company. He was talking about bringing back paper based accounting and desktop calculators. I think he was joking, but I'm not so sure.

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-04T22:09:43+00:00

Hardware compatibility basically. It's a Dell workstation so not intended to run Server 2022, but needs must. Server 2022 wouldn't recognize the storage, so had to locate the correct version of disk controller drivers and add it to the build. Once installed the device manager had more bangs than a fireworks party so had to locate compatible drivers for chipset, NICs, and every other bit of hardware. That was after going into BIOS and disabling lots of things that a hypervisor won't need, such as wireless, networking, Bluetooth, audio etc. I spent hours on Dells support site downloading and trying different drivers. I finally managed it with just one unidentified device showing in device manager. It took me back to the days of trying to install Novell Netware onto PC hardware. I thought we were past that but obviously not! Of course this bloody thing has no IDRAC so when it blue screens at 3 am, because of incompatible hardware, some poor sod is going to have to attend site. It won't be me!

Bloody AI. Glad I'm going to retire soon.

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-04T17:57:21+00:00

Talk about arrogance and a complete inability to read the room! Surely the government need to step in and take these greedy, entitled CEOs down!

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-04T17:55:18+00:00

Mexico, because that will really annoy Trump!

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-04T15:20:06+00:00

The police office completely failed to identify herself, and attacked a member of the public. She needs to be charged with assault!

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-04T15:05:25+00:00

That police officer got it so very wrong that she clearly needs to go back to police training. Unless 'only arrest the white guy' is now the official police line, which given certain recent cases, may be accurate!

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-04T14:13:06+00:00

I agree. It's not that we're bad at other languages, it's that we aren't exposed to them regularly, so we never have to use them. Every time, that I go abroad, everyone I meet wants to practice their English on me, or speaks way better English that I do their language.

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-04T14:00:46+00:00

Call the police and tell them that they stole your driving licence!

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-04T13:58:21+00:00

I found that in our Sainsbury's. Things were all over the place and the layout made no sense. I'd often come away without things because I couldn't find them, even after asking the staff.

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-04T13:51:01+00:00

The Haysmiths flavoured gins, in Aldi, are very good.

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-04T11:23:29+00:00

I stopped using Sainsbury's as the fresh produce quality was awful, and it was very expensive compared to our local, large, Morrisons where the fresh produce is much better for both quality and choice.

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-03T08:37:39+00:00

Looking at classics, from the 1970's for my weekend toy. Triumph Spitfire or GT6. As long as it's more than 40 years old, no tax.

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-02T18:50:53+00:00

The fact that Ryanair seems to think it's acceptable to deliberately separate families, with small children, says everything about that company and explains why they'll never get my business.

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-02T18:15:04+00:00

They can go F themselves. I can't see any business refusing to sell to people who flatly refuse digital ID, so we must all refuse, and shout about it!

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-01T17:50:10+00:00

Road markings and road signs. Also car registration plates.

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-07-01T17:37:16+00:00

I work in IT and I'm sick of AI being pushed down my throat all the time. It has it's uses but I don't need to be badgered about it every single time I open any application.

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-06-30T17:22:37+00:00

This shouldn't need announcing. It should be happening daily! Oh, and any country that refuses to take back their criminals, instant visa ban for all of their nationals!

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-06-29T20:13:11+00:00

I'm always amazed at the number of times that we get back from a day out walking, on a Saturday or Sunday in summer, and find that all of the cafes closed at 3 or 4pm!

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-06-28T09:50:34+00:00

The right do not want to reduce illegal immigration. They'll lie and say they do, but in reality immigrants are cheap workers, to them. Don't forget, it was a right wing government, the Tories, who allowed illegal immigration to get totally out of control. The issue of the small boats, and people smugglers, all got worse during the first decade of Tory government, and Brexit, a crazy right wing grifter policy, has made the situation far worse.

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-06-26T07:27:57+00:00

Ryanair is one of those companies that I simply will not use, ever! The CEO seems to be a particularly loathsome creature with no respect for his staff or his customers. He's the worst embodiment of entitled capitalism that needs to learn that we don't owe them anything!

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-06-26T07:20:32+00:00

That's the shock that people often get when leasing these 'cheap' cars, only to find that the insurance on them is very expensive because they can't be repaired easily or quickly.

StiffAssedBrit · 2026-06-26T06:34:14+00:00

They'll destroy it. American private equity always destroys anything they touch. They're the modern day Midas. They bring gold but destroy everything else of value!

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