Re: 4/12/05 vs. Tax Professionals Deadline of 4/15/05. WHAAAAAT!!
- From: A Numbers-Type of Guy in San Francisco! <ANumbersTypeofGuyinSanFrancisco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 07:13:03 -0700
Well, my dear OzieBill, the answer to your question is a very simple one.
Ever since opening up my own office over ten years ago, I’ve always thought I
knew enough about computer matters to take care of those things myself. After
all, I knew my experience with computers dated back to 1967 back east in
college when I’d received a 4.0 score for writing an entire depreciation
program starting with an accelerated method and switching to straight-line
using the Fortran language, about 300 punch cards (I had punched myself), and
submitting same to the special group on campus who had the necessary
knowledge about running the modern IBM 1132 computer system!
If that background experience was not enough, I certainly thought that
having bought a used computer without a hard drive but with two 5-1/2” floppy
drives from the Used Computer Store in Berkeley in 1985 or so was a big notch
up in my knowledge-base about computers. Well, that acquisition, along with
buying a thick Microsoft book covering all the details of DOS, which I read
cover-to-cover!
I have, believe it or not, pretty much succeeded in serving as my own IT
support since opening my office in 1994. It was only late this past December
that I realized I was spending far too much time on various computer issues
and not nearly enough time on client accounting and tax matters. Yes, last
September or October I has requested and received from Bill a CD of SP2, but
it had just hung around collecting dust while I viewed its installation as a
low-priority item.
It wasn’t until the very end of December that I finally decided to
“outsource” my IT needs. Surprisingly, I was lucky enough not to have to look
overseas for this support, but knew of an excellent local IT firm who came
highly recommended by one of my existing clients; and located only about six
blocks away from my office in Union Square! After several meetings which
covered my needs and wants and their ideas on how they could help me, I
decided upon moving to a server environment using a Dell server, Microsoft’s
SBS 2003 basic edition, Symantec’s AntiVirus 9.0 Groupware software and
Veritas backup software including two peripheral s/w items. Unfortunately,
there was a delay in delivery of the server which had become “lost” in
transit (which, luckily for me, one of Dell’s sales support team in India was
able to locate within a few days), and then further delay in receipt of the
Veritas s/w. So, by the time this wonderful new system was pretty much in
place, I was in the middle of my “high-season” and not at all interested in
dealing with installing SP2 until after April 15th. That was solely my
decision.
As a final comment, the main point I wished to raise in my post was the
timing issue which was included in the Subject Header of my original post.
Based upon some rather quick and snappy replies, it’s now obvious to me that
certain words I included in the body of the post, specifically “the forced
deployment of SP2 upon the masses…”, created far more irritation to some
readers than I had ever imagined. I apologize to all who were offended over
my selection of words.
And, finally, to Jupiter Jones, I did follow the link you provided and read
the information found in that link. Thank you for that information. I must
say, however, that all I had indicated was that my consultant assured me no
automatic download of SP2 would occur to my desktop unit until after 4/15. I
feel you were far too sensitive and definitely overreacted when you wrote
back “If the people you hired convinced you extreme measures are necessary to
prevent SP-2, you should hire someone with integrity willing to tell you the
simple truth instead of a complex lie.” Huh??
"OzieBill" wrote:
>
>
>
> "A Numbers-Type of Guy in San Francisco!"
> <ANumbersTypeofGuyinSanFrancisco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:8DF2374B-FFAD-4AA4-9D76-E4FEA8B05B1D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I'm a sole proprietor CPA with p-t tax season staff in San Francisco with
> > a
> > lot of work staring me in the face and due before April 15th. When a
> > friend
> > of mine first heard about the forced deployment of SP2 onto the masses
> > back
> > on March 1st, due to occur on April 12th by good ole Bill, he quickly
> > forwarded me the Tech Republic article with Subject Header: "Ready or not,
> > Windows XP update is coming". Luckily, last December I had decided to hire
> > a
> > local IT support group, Proactive Network Consulting, who have
> > successfully
> > installed a Dell server with SBS software, Veritas b/u s/w and Symantic
> > AntiVirus Groupware s/w. It's been a big relief to have them just a phone
> > call away for help when it's needed. Lawrence (the Big Cheese at
> > Proactive)
> > has assured me he will see that no such automatic download and
> > installation
> > of SP2 will occur into my main machine at any time before 4/16/05. I just
> > wonder ... didn't ANYONE working on the SP2 forced distribution consider
> > us
> > poor number-crunching tax preparers when they decided upon April 12th as
> > their chosen date???
> > --
> > One of many 100's of members of "Mama's" Extended Family!
> >
>
> May I ask a simple question?
>
> SP-2 was released August 25 last year - why wasn't it installed months ago?
> Maybe you should have a serious talk to your Big Cheese buddy.
>
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>
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