my old boss part two
Further to my ealier post:
Out the back of the office was a corridor with only half a floor, and off there was the server cupboard. It was maybe 8ft square and was what could only be described as a shithole.

It housed three ancient desktop-cased computers with decrepit 14" goldfish-bowl CRT monitors.

One was the live server (they hosted their clients' sites internally), the work-in-progree server and file storage, and the email server which also doubled as where the backups were copied to.

Also stored on the servers was all the software. Dreamweaver, photoshop and other such stuff. All with the relevant cracks too. None of it was legit.
Windows XP and Office 2003 were genuine. This was because he subscribed to the Microsoft Action Pack for something like £200+VAT per year. So consequently he had Windows Server 2003, 10 licences of WinXP and 10 licences of Office 2003.
He didn't use Server 2k3 on the servers because that would mean having to upgrade all the hardware. So instead, he used NT4. Bear in mind that this was only 4yrs ago. NT4 with no firewall and AVG Free for anti-virus.

All this tightwadness in business did allow him the luxury of a brand new Audi TT Quattro every year.

Twat
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 18:01, 3 replies)

Action Pack doesn't permit commercial use
If you're feeling vindictive towards your ex-boss, you could always dob him in to Microsoft. The licence for the Action Pack subscription doesn't permit commercial use. It's for testing/development/training only. I know, as I used to have a subscription to it while I was busy chasing the Microsoft certification bandwagon (until I realised what a crock the whole thing was).
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 19:06, closed)

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Not to mention that, if he is hosting clients' websites on a poorly-secured computer, the clients might be rather interested...
(Not him., Mon 27 Oct 2008, 20:31, closed)

Yeah
Grass him up for being a twat not just with his workers but his clients too.
( Fathter Puddytat Kill Kill dat widdle boid is mine on, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 16:29, closed)