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04-21-2015, 04:58 AM | #2276 |
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Sucks because chrome ftw
*waits for cao opera reference
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04-21-2015, 01:48 PM | #2277 |
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Meh. Opera is no Java expert, at least not the old Opera version I use...not sure about post-Chromification.
New Opera is built on webkit/blink back-end from Chrome source. That would be all well and good if they hadn't done that at the height of the "hory shet Google is evil too" era, but more importantly, if they had implemented all the old features. Instead they fucking put out a bare bones piece of shit, which I assume has since regained some of the missing features. We are truly in the malaise era of web browsers.
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04-22-2015, 03:09 AM | #2279 |
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stop using old-ass shit
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04-23-2015, 04:08 PM | #2280 |
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What do you guys charge for side work? I rarely do it but now that I'm in desktop support, i've had a few peeps ask. Talked to a few others and I'm thinking $50/hr with a 1 hour minimum. If I do it at their house, the time starts when I sit down at the machine and stops when I leave. If I bring it home, I keep track of the time actually spent sitting at the machine and charge them that. It saves them $ because I can do other stuff while it's scanning/installing/etc. If anyone asks me to drive hella far then I may tack on some kind of travel charge but I'm pretty central here so that shouldn't really be necessary.
Thoughts?
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04-23-2015, 04:21 PM | #2281 |
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50 an hour seems low. If your going to do that, then you should tack on a trip charge or charge time for the trip to their house.
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04-23-2015, 04:50 PM | #2282 |
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$50 first hour, $35/hr after, but I mostly only work for two really nice guys I've been working for for 15+ years and I generally tell them a smaller number, then they write a check for a higher number...
I do the same thing regarding at their place vs. mine. If I was taking on new customers often I'd probably go higher, DNMFW to deal with people's shit for not a lot of money.
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04-23-2015, 05:00 PM | #2283 |
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Well I was just referred two people from a coworker who recently decided to stop doing side-stuff. He did $50/hr so I kept that rate. I could start telling new peeps that it's higher.
But I didn't say any less for hours after the first, I just said $50/hr First dude says his machine won't boot and says something about drivers or corrupt registry. Hoping I can repair his registry and get it booting. If not, I'll back up his entire HD somewhere and reinstall Vista (lol) because he has the original disc. Luckily, he agreed to let me bring it home and work on it. Second woman just says her computer is slow. That's it. So I'll defrag it, run a virus scan for fun, see if there's unnecessary crap that runs at login, maybe disable aero or something depending on the OS it's running. If it's super old with no RAM, I'll do what I can and recommend a new machine soon (or just more RAM if the processor is decent). Getting back into the swing of side-jerbs and desktop. Been working with servers too long
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04-25-2015, 05:59 AM | #2288 |
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Old lady had a 5 year old machine with a meh AMD processor and 2gb ram. Disabled aero and some other shit. It was already defragged, no viruses, no crapware. Told her RAM will help but she might as well save the money since she mentioned wanting to buy a laptop to replace it soon.
---------- Post added at 09:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:56 PM ---------- Oh and removed some toolbars to speed up her IE ---------- Post added at 09:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:57 PM ---------- Old dudes machine has a hosed registry. Got it to boot but its loading a temp profile. It looks like his Windows, Users, ProgramFiles folders got copied to C:/Windows.old/Windows. Dafuk Copying it back so it can find his profile. ---------- Post added at 09:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:59 PM ---------- Stupid Vista
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04-25-2015, 06:52 PM | #2290 |
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Srsly. He was like "my friend told me to get 7 but I can't find it cheap"
I'll be telling him the same thing. Go it booting at least and got his profile back, I think I'm done with this one for now until Vista suicides again.
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04-26-2015, 04:25 PM | #2291 |
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http://www.reddit.com/r/microsoftsoftwareswap
can get cheap, legit keys from there. I've bought from s5ean a few times
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the starbucks one
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05-27-2015, 10:10 PM | #2295 | |
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dem stories man
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05-28-2015, 03:28 AM | #2296 |
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Classic fucking book.
Also, this is the story of my life:
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06-25-2015, 02:19 AM | #2297 |
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So, may have jerb with Equifax. Had an interview today, it went very well IMO
...one thing that freaked me out tho was yesterday at my current jerb I got a 10% raise and an iPad Mini 2. Weird how that happened the day before an interview. I took a half day today, wonder if they think something is up? We had 3 people quit last month... Wonder if Equifax contacted them? IDK seems more than coincidence...
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06-25-2015, 02:27 AM | #2298 |
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Dfw 10% and iPad mini
Although prefer a Nexus 9
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"sup baws, lettin u know im puttin in 2 weeks notice. about that ipad...."
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