Ronnie

Can anyone recommend a good tablet for one of my kids Christmas? I was looking at the Nexus 9 but have also noticed Dell so a slightly smaller (physically) android one for almost half the price..

We have 2 or 3 electricians who we work with and they will always put the spurs in for us and test. I actively use the fact we do not install the spurs (as we're not qualified and/or more importantly competent ) and those other firms just chucking in spurs are probably breaking the law. Those non-electricians who install spurs - do you test the work you've done and do the paperwork etc? Thought not.

AM currently runs on a new fancy pants all in one but it has a small (compared to normal) SSD. I could do with moving the correspondence file elsewhere as it's by far the largest folder and we have loads of space on our NAS.

Does anyone know if this can be moved to a NAS drive and run from there instead of on the C drive?

Using the same kit by the sounds of it, we are just over £100 dearer and you'd need an electrician to install the spur on top of that and then there's VAT. It's a very good price (depending where you are in the UK and even more if that price includes VAT) as long as they install it properly.

Perhaps he thinks it's poor pay? In an industry set on self-destruction what do you expect?

Is this a wind up?

I do and sometimes that means picking up sub work when we're quiet. The last 12 months of jobs (1 hand???) have been more about keeping up relationships (sometimes at cost I'll admit) rather than requiring work but I'm not one to burn bridges. Who knows what will happen!

One which came from you guys a while back mate, you know how the national accounts merry go round works.. When I started 5 years ago was all stubby work now we do a job every job now and then - we struggle to do a good enough job (to our standards) in the hours given. This particular client we've done maybe 4 or 5 new stores Just to be clear it's sub request.. Sorry I know you don't like that capitalist type of working..

No joking - bang a link of something I can read in the jacuzzi and I'll give it a whirl...lol but seriously

Pi$$ off you communist! I read rapp and reacher on the beach!! Fighting for freedom from oppressive regimens!!Nuts??? Really! I have a brain...

I've seen the prices available for texe gear on the net and we're talking minute margins - almost at trade price sometimes and If they're not getting a huge distributer discount then it can't be worth it unless it's a loss leader to other more profit ale product. Saying that I see how far we push our distributors on price and am amazed how far they move.. It's dog eat dog from the top to the bottom... We stopped making money on kit a long time ago.. We are busy and profitable and it ain't from shifting white boxes!

Lol, it is of you're born into my family!!

You'd be ace if you weren't so ******* socialist!! That's meant as a compliment by the way.

Lost count of how many coops we've done without call backs.. Imagine if I knew someone doing national account supermarkets and having problems with contractors..

Lived in Okehampton for 2 years and covered Cornwall, Devon, up to Bristol and over to Dorchester.. I know all about SW traffic..

Was in Cornwall Tuesday and Wednesday, not as busy as I would have thought for this time of the year?

There is the option to start and end but not on a hourly/daily schedule - it would work out of the box but I'd have to manually change the dates everyday which isn't really automated..

I want to setup an auto reply from our main email address from 1700-0900 & weekends to say "office closed, please call X for out of hours emergency - this email will not be dealt with outside of office hours" or something like that.. I can't see the option anywhere to automatically do this everyday & weekends - any ideas?

That's why I bought Dell with extra warranties blah blah.. Next day on site fix. Since we started in 2008 we've always bought Dell except one laptop which was HP. Will always buy Dell from now on.. It's a cracking bit of kit

We're obviously small compared to a lot on here but I'm in the process of sorting out our small IT system. Currently running 2 tower PC's, a NAS and an old laptop as UDL server. Just received a new Dell AIO (thanks to Jef recommendation) and will replace our other PC at some point with another one of these. We are just about to run some CAT6's into the office for our 2 PoE phones and WAP. Then remote from Office in a cab we'll have the NAS, UDL server, PoE switch & router on UPS. All email is cloud based exchange. It works OK as it is but the new setup will be more compact, quicker, cheaper to run and hopefully more efficient.

Cloud based exchange.. I wouldn't have a clue with a server..

I got plenty of advice but you won't like any of it.

We have 2 copies and retain the top one as this has the "proper" signature on and is most likely to be legible.