One of my early job interviews, I was asked how I would spec a server for best performance. My answer was immediate: max it out at 4GB of RAM. I...

When my wife and I moved across the country two years ago, I ironically had to leave my former job because they refused to let me WFH, after I had...

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Gail, your post got me laughing out loud (literally) this morning. My coworkers are all moving away from me now. Apologies for adding absolutely nothing useful to the thread 🙂

'V' - wow, that brings back some memories

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I read through a third of this thread before noticing that the posts were 7 months old. So I just skipped to the end :hehe:

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Off the desktop or off the start menu?

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We set up our customer environments such that they get...

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