Low-Budget Network-Based Time Tracking Software?

0verkill asks: "I have been charged with the task of finding time tracking software to replace our current manual punch card method of tracking our employees time spent on the job. I would appreciate any feeedback/suggestions from anyone who has experience implementing and/or maintaing this software. Here are the criteria that I'm working with currently: I have a spending range of up to $400-$500; the software should support clocking in/out from more than one network attached workstation; basic report generation -- nothing too fancy but something that covers all the basics; and finally something that is resistant to time tampering (maybe software that could obtain an official time from our servers)."

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If only...

[n8willis]

If only people actually used the comments system on Freshmeat, probably half of the Ask Slashdot's wouldn't be necessary....

You can almost get by with the vitality ratings and such, but even those can be misleading.

So many of the SourceForge projects are stillborn or abandonware that a single "is this project still alive" post to the forums will push the vitality up to 38%.

I don't know why the comments system on Freshmeat is so inactive... perhaps it's the site membership requirement? Perhaps it's the lack of a "# Comments" notice on the main page? At least you know when you see a FM announcement that something is happening with a project, but the user-real-life-experience stories are invaluable; that's why this kind of Ask Slashdot question is so popular.

Sorry for being more than a little off topic, but I really do think the community's missing out in this area.... There's an FM/AskSD disconnect here, and I just wanted to brainstorm on it for a second.