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Ian Johnson

@yourfriendian.bsky.social

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Wi-Fi and network engineer in the education space. Travels the country installing networks and occasionally taking pictures. Also knows some PowerShell

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Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · 16d

I think just the stars and river look nice. Out of interest what sort of paper are you printing on?

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Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · 18d

Anyone ever come across Microsoft 365 apps appearing to uninstall themselves and then reinstall when syncing on shared devices with the shared activation set? #intune

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Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · 20d

I miss those days. There was a great PowerShell, great networking and a great WiFi community there. Everyone was supportive and helped each other.
Mostly gone now and fragmented all over the place :(

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Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Aug 17

You clap at the end of the blow pipe and hope that by some miracle of physics enough pressure and air gets there to turn the glass in to a lovely vase before it solidifies

Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Aug 11

I forget what I watched but I heard someone describe train driving as something that requires a lot of concentration on something that is incredibly uninteresting 99% of the time. There was even a term for it that I can’t remember

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Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Aug 1

For a minute there I thought this was how to apply flea treatment to a cat

Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Jul 30

Did think there was a big queue at Heathrow when I looked out the hotel window

Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Jul 22

Your art is gorgeous. Even the mini paintings not only look great they’re a perfect size to display. Keep it up!

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Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Jul 2

Passed my CWISA exam today. There’s nothing for it, can’t keep putting off CWAP any longer!

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Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Jun 17

That is a bit odd. I would expect the company to be footing the bill for it and not you

Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Jun 17

I think if they’re similar enough and you’re clear enough in the description that you’ll be getting of them at random it’ll be fine. Mostly as long as you’re clear and up front about I can’t see it being a problem

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Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Jun 16

Depends how similar they are i think for me

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Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Jun 10

What camera are you getting?

Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Jun 10

It’s been bugging me all day what’s wrong with it and that’s it!

Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · May 30

Sounds a bit like systems analysis

Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · May 30

Don’t tell me, you were hopping mad! Sorry, couldn’t resist

Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · May 25

You’re a perfectionist!

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Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · May 24

Yep. An old friend of mine developed specifications for some parts of transaction processing that are still in use today. He even got paid a lot of money to look at why it was broke a few years ago as well. COBOL never dies!

Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · May 24

Banking and finance mostly. Systems written in the 90s are still processing billions of transactions every night to move money to where it should be because it’s just so reliable

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Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · May 20

Not sure if that’s a dream or a nightmare

Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · May 9

I mean I assume your car came with brakes and you haven’t been driving round all this time going well I hope this thing stops in time! Hope your foot is better soon

Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Apr 29

Gas is gone! Meter was removed today by Octopus Energy and we’re now an all electric house! Just need to work on the cars next…

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Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Apr 20

When we had cats that would have accidents we’d clean the area with disinfectant but the trick we found to get rid of odours was slice an onion in half and leave it in the room for a few days and it will pull the smell out and absorb it

Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Apr 14

I am now wondering how one obtains that amount of m&ms. For research purposes obviously

Ian Johnson @yourfriendian.bsky.social · Mar 30

Having known a bank programmer who got called in to look at code he wrote 30 years ago because it stopped working one night yeah, I don’t think they understand nor will they succeed

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