While I'm partial to the intricacies of a fully exposed mechanical skeleton watch, my favorite daily-wear is a meteorite face Invicta (0472). Subdued, yet has some nice geek-flare.
You can read about stuff all you want but until you actually go out and DO it, its just all going to be theory. Use the books to teach them how the stuff works, then set them down in front of a pile of broken computers and have them APPLY WHAT THEY WERE TAUGHT.
Get some computers up and running, then form a shoestring network and advance to the next level of managing that network. Introduce more variables into the mix, routers, printers, Macs, etc and see what it takes to get them talking effectively.
Then when [whatever it is] is working, you break it in some way that requires troubleshooting and set them loose on that. Yes they will break stuff along the way, but that's part of the learning process.
(former Novell/M$ shop converted to pure M$ ~1 year ago)
We are currently using a combination of Postini, and Xwall. We're about ready to drop Postini as its really not doing much for us. Instead the Forefront stuff is looking interesting.
But Xwall has been a gem running as our edge roll server for the past 6 years.We have been very impressed with its light weight, power and extensive feature set. Its currently filtering against spamhaus and spamcop, but it also catches a LOT of virus emails that get through Postini. Since setting it to discard all emails to addresses outside our valid ones (aka- email addresses for employees that have left), the processing time has decreased significantly. Worth a look IMHO.
The European version was first featured on either "Future Tek" or "Next Step" (Discovery Channel technology review shows from the early/mid 90's), so the concept is nothing new. It is surprising to hear that Top Gear reported on it [semi-]recently, as I would have figured the idea got scrapped within a few years of conception due to safety or aesthetic reasons.
"And of course, everybody has to be plugged into the system in order for it to be worth a damn. At the end of an exhausting night's worth of house-to-house searches, Lieutenant Michael Bennett loses track of half of his platoon. They aren't very far away -- just a few blocks. But because no one is up on Land Warrior, it takes an hour of bleary-eyed scrambling for the platoon to be reunited." -Noah Shachtman-
If the "digital chem light" feature is so popular, it should be simplified and integrated with a basic grunt locator system. Grunts in the field should have a cell phone sized [think moto razr] device that integrates into the LW system to transmit their position and basic messages back to their team leader. Think of those ipod controls you see integrated into clothing like ski/snowboard parkas. Keep it simple, light weight and easy to understand. A system like this could easily be used to relay messages such as "building clear", "hostiles sighted", "taking fire", "reinforcements required", "medic", etc. back to their team leader.
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While I'm partial to the intricacies of a fully exposed mechanical skeleton watch, my favorite daily-wear is a meteorite face Invicta (0472). Subdued, yet has some nice geek-flare.
No, I cant spell. :p
Get some computers up and running, then form a shoestring network and advance to the next level of managing that network.
Introduce more variables into the mix, routers, printers, Macs, etc and see what it takes to get them talking effectively.
Then when [whatever it is] is working, you break it in some way that requires troubleshooting and set them loose on that. Yes they will break stuff along the way, but that's part of the learning process.
We are currently using a combination of Postini, and Xwall. We're about ready to drop Postini as its really not doing much for us. Instead the Forefront stuff is looking interesting.
But Xwall has been a gem running as our edge roll server for the past 6 years.We have been very impressed with its light weight, power and extensive feature set. Its currently filtering against spamhaus and spamcop, but it also catches a LOT of virus emails that get through Postini. Since setting it to discard all emails to addresses outside our valid ones (aka- email addresses for employees that have left), the processing time has decreased significantly. Worth a look IMHO.
The European version was first featured on either "Future Tek" or "Next Step" (Discovery Channel technology review shows from the early/mid 90's), so the concept is nothing new. It is surprising to hear that Top Gear reported on it [semi-]recently, as I would have figured the idea got scrapped within a few years of conception due to safety or aesthetic reasons.
"And of course, everybody has to be plugged into the system in order for it to be worth a damn. At the end of an exhausting night's worth of house-to-house searches, Lieutenant Michael Bennett loses track of half of his platoon. They aren't very far away -- just a few blocks. But because no one is up on Land Warrior, it takes an hour of bleary-eyed scrambling for the platoon to be reunited." -Noah Shachtman-
If the "digital chem light" feature is so popular, it should be simplified and integrated with a basic grunt locator system. Grunts in the field should have a cell phone sized [think moto razr] device that integrates into the LW system to transmit their position and basic messages back to their team leader. Think of those ipod controls you see integrated into clothing like ski/snowboard parkas. Keep it simple, light weight and easy to understand. A system like this could easily be used to relay messages such as "building clear", "hostiles sighted", "taking fire", "reinforcements required", "medic", etc. back to their team leader.