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PC Cloning Solution?

Posted by Cliff on from the "me-me-me-me-me-...-me-too" dept.

pbaumgar asks: "Like many here on Slashdot, I'm a Systems Administrator. I have become responsible for maintaining about 300 laptops that I need to rebuild on a regular basis. I am looking for a solution to image them. I've been looking at Symantec's Ghost Solution Suite and am not too gung-ho on spending all that money for licensing. Can anyone recommend an better solution that would be cheaper?"

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  1. help me do my job by yagu · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    (Disclaimer: laid off after 21 years of knowing how to do my job. Now, apparently too expensive.)

    A disturbing trend (or maybe it's always been and I haven't noticed) on slashdot seems to be people who ostensibly have jobs for which they're competent coming to the anointed techies of slashdot for answers. I suppose it would be considered "tapping all resources", but as an employer, I'd kind of expect my employees to know their job.

    That aside, it would appear to be the luck of the draw who gets advice. My experience has been it is of little relation to whether one is deserving, and more related to how "wired in" one is to slashdot's anointed editors, or a little luck.

    So, can everyone expect to "hire" slashdot for their problems at work?