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We just purchased seven new PC-clients and I asked my supervisor to give me a list of seven asset numbers for them. He opened the inventory-sheet in Excel and started to type each of the next new seven asset numbers by hand - I interrupted him:

me: Um, you know you could just type the first two numbers below each other, mark them and pull the bottom-left cross down - so Excel will add the succeding numbers itself?

supervisor: Oh my god, that's awesome - I didn't knew that.

I couldn't believe this, Excel is his one of his most-used office-tools.

me: So I guess, you like to be mentally challenged? (I chuckled)

supervisor: Yes, I do - thank you very

Nowadays printers are commenly connected via LAN (or WiFi/WLAN) to your computer at home. They get their IP address from the router (thanks to DHCP), you find them on the network and everything is fine.

But after a certain time the DHCP-lease expires and all network devices (your desktop-computer, laptop, smartphone, printer, etc.) receive a new IP address within the DHCP-range. You still are able to get to the internet, but in some cases now your printer is shown offline even if it's turned on and connected to the network. In this case the printer has received a new IP address from the router and either you set the IP address as a new port in the printer preferences or you remove and re-in

Google Chrome shows a volume icon in the tab whenever this tab plays some audio. To stop that tab playing audio, you could go to that tab and search its website for a corresponding button to stop the audio playing.

Instead just turn the volume icon into a mute button with typing this into your browsers address bar:

chrome://flags/#enable-tab-audio-muting

and click on Enable

About me: IT-guy for family & close friends

A friend works currently on his bachelor thesis and asks me regularly for help because I "have always an answer to anything IT-related".

This happens while I'm in the train traveling to a doctors appointment.

Clueless Friend (CF): Hey, how is it going? Look, I need to scan a data protection agreement - do you have the ability to scan it for me?

Me: I'm just on the ride, so I'll scan it later. Where should we meet?

CF: Yeah, that's the point. I need you to print the agreement, write my name like you would write my name, scan it and send it back to me.

Me: Errrm... what do you mean with "write my name like I would write

Hey,

when creating a new event in my Google Calender there is the field 'location', but unfortunately whatever I type into it - it's not connected to my Google Contacts. So, e.g., if I have an appointment at my dentist, I am not able to get his postal address into this field - whereas I saved his postal address in his entry from my Google Contacts.

To solve this issue I thought about customizing the Google Calender event form either via

• an button named 'set Location from Contacts', letting a little popup appear where you search within your Google Contacts and a button to set the corresponding postal address as location in your Calender event, or (a more fancier solution):
• being able t

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About myself: I'm a 24 years old Jr. Sysadmin (Computer Science Expert for System Integration) studying Business Information Systems and being quite addicted to r/TFTS and r/sysadmin.

My Brother-in-Law is getting self-employed (switching from employed) and asked me about giving him some advice for the needed IT-infrastructure of his future office.

We had a nice meeting (he paid lunch) talking about websites, email-domains, Microsoft Sharepoint / Office365, possible laptop-models (I suggested a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E330 (with Win 7 Pro) as a budget solution & still being mobile) and some other IT-related questions. Afterwards he promised to get in touch with me when things are g

I just started as local sysadmin (12 hrs a week) at a limited non profit company (~ 20 employees, ~40-60 students) in order to help them managing their clients (till now there is only one server within my responsibility, but if needed, there is a budget for more).

• 1 Mac Mini (2013) with the Server-App
• 14 Mac Pro (2012)
• 4 Mac Pro (2014, not yet delivered)
• 4 iMacs (2013)
• 12 Windows Clients (some of them have only Windows 7 Home, it's on my todo-list) [There is also no Windows-Domain / or at least -Server]

Needing a small and easy to manageable solution for software deployment and inventory, I thought about Apple Remote Desktop (~70 Euro) for the Apple-Clients and PDQ (at first th