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  My home office works better than my office RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-14 10:55 +0000
    Re: My home office works better than my office Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-15 12:37 +0000
    Re: My home office works better than my office Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-15 13:58 +0000
      Re: My home office works better than my office RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-16 16:09 +0000
    Re: My home office works better than my office Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-16 18:09 -0700

#1582 — My home office works better than my office

From the «conference call in my skivvies» department:
Title: My work-from-home setup's better than the office. It's GLORIOUS
Author: StorageBod
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:56:07 -0400
Link: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/11/its_choking_the_life_out_of_me/

And I pay less for top-notch gear than my employers. Good, innit?

Storagebod  I’ve been fairly used to the idea that my PC at home is
substantially better than my work one; this has certainly been the case for
me for more than a decade. I’m a geek and I spend more than most on my
personal technology environment.…

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On 2014-03-14, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> From the «conference call in my skivvies» department:
> Title: My work-from-home setup's better than the office. It's GLORIOUS
> Author: StorageBod
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:56:07 -0400
> Link: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/11/its_choking_the_life_out_of_me/
>
> And I pay less for top-notch gear than my employers. Good, innit?
>
> Storagebod  I’ve been fairly used to the idea that my PC at home is
> substantially better than my work one; 

Don't we all? But a company has vastly different priorities to you. For
one thing, as I have repeatedly mentioned to people over the years, it
isn't "your" PC, it's your employers.


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On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:55:11 +0000, RS Wood wrote:

> From the «conference call in my skivvies» department:
> Title: My work-from-home setup's better than the office. It's GLORIOUS
> Author: StorageBod Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:56:07 -0400 Link:
> http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/11/
its_choking_the_life_out_of_me/
> 
> And I pay less for top-notch gear than my employers. Good, innit?
> 
> Storagebod  I’ve been fairly used to the idea that my PC at home is
> substantially better than my work one; this has certainly been the case
> for me for more than a decade. I’m a geek and I spend more than most on
> my personal technology environment.…

Indeed. I only have three PCs in my office at work...

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#1682

On 2014-03-15, Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:55:11 +0000, RS Wood wrote:
>
>> From the «conference call in my skivvies» department:
>> Title: My work-from-home setup's better than the office. It's GLORIOUS
>> Author: StorageBod Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:56:07 -0400 Link:
>> http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/11/
> its_choking_the_life_out_of_me/
>> 
>> And I pay less for top-notch gear than my employers. Good, innit?
>> 
>> Storagebod  I’ve been fairly used to the idea that my PC at home is
>> substantially better than my work one; this has certainly been the case
>> for me for more than a decade. I’m a geek and I spend more than most on
>> my personal technology environment.…
>
> Indeed. I only have three PCs in my office at work...

This article resonated with me, which is why I posted it.  Until
recently my office consisted of your standard (blah) Exchange server +
outlook accessible over VPN or by Blackberry, with some Sharepoint
internal stuff and the occasional website using other technology.   They
moved us to Windows Cloud and have had trouble with authentication,
certificates, and uptime ever since.  Office 365 is the ugliest piece of
software I've seen in ages: flat as a pancake and unusable in all sort
of ways.  O365 also integrated poorly with Blackberry for reasons I'll
never understand, so that's gotten wonky too.

Meanwhile, it's smooth sailing back home, with a mix of Macs, Linux, and
a FreeBSD server, a couple of centralized databases, scripted workflows,
on-site and offsite backup, a NAS at the center of it soaking up
people's stuff and serving up movies for ipads, Nexii, and the Roku in
the living room.  It's all been so easy and so interesting.

Back at the office, if you want to fill in your timesheet you need to
use an app that requires a specific IP address (OK, I can understand
that) so I need to Citrix in over a crappy bandwidth connection, only to
find the Citrix image hasn't been updated to O365 etc etc etc etc.  It's
a nightmare of incompatibility.

The author of this article writes: vendors hide behind a web of
complexity.  I believe that fully.  When my office doubled down on
Sharepoint it made most of our intranet useless from the user's point of
view.  Other, easier solutions exist (a wiki would've been nice).  And
to get sharepoint talking to exchange or whatever requires you to
essentially buy in, whole hog, to the Windows ecosystem because they
can't sell you just part of it (they do'nt want to, obviously, but they
also can't: it just doesn't work unless you by the entire flotilla of
crap software).

If I open a business I'm going for a good IMAP/groupware provider,
Alfresco and a wiki on the intranet, and a bog-standard Apache server
using a couple of custom templates.  I'll be able to replicate all that
complicated stuff my office put in place, for a fraction of the price.

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#1697

On 2014-03-14 10:55:11 +0000, RS Wood said:

> From the «conference call in my skivvies» department:
> Title: My work-from-home setup's better than the office. It's GLORIOUS
> Author: StorageBod
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:56:07 -0400
> Link: 
> http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/11/its_choking_the_life_out_of_me/ 
> 
> 
> And I pay less for top-notch gear than my employers. Good, innit?
> 
> Storagebod  I’ve been fairly used to the idea that my PC at home is
> substantially better than my work one; this has certainly been the case for
> me for more than a decade. I’m a geek and I spend more than most on my
> personal technology environment.…

Well think of it this way:  You have the exact PC that you want, you 
are in your own custom-tailored space, your favorite coffees, teas, and 
foods are readily accessible, your commute is probably about 15 seconds 
long, and your internet connection is probably faster too.  What you 
lack is what many employers thrive on:  obtrusive supervision.

Over a decade ago I had a buddy who worked remotely, when this was 
pretty uncommon.  One day his employer sent him an email asking him to 
come in the next day for a meeting, and my friend had to decline, as he 
was on a ferry halfway up the Amazon!  He was using a satellite phone 
to work remotely using his Unix command line.

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