Solitaire is always a two person game. If you're ever heading out into the woods, make sure you put a deck of cards in your survival kit. Then, if you get lost or hurt, just start playing solitaire and someone will pop up behind you to tell you where to put the next card.
Your situation sounds almost identical to mine in terms of size, environment, and needs. We are retiring our SBS 2k3 box in favor of a Western Digital Sentinel DX4000 and Public Folders software by CodeTwo to provide the shared calendar/contacts that Exchange used to handle. We also use gotomypc so that the attorneys can access their systems remotely, and in turn access the Sentinel.
I'm not an attorney, just the guy who became the resident tech based on serendipitous skills. Sooooo, I won't vouch for our system satisfying all legal requirements for accountability, but I will vouch for the cost effectiveness, simplicity, and general good results we've had for the last few months. We use JST's CollectMax software to track the collections portion of our business, which runs on the above mentioned server, but will be moving to a different box when I shut that down. Since CollectMax has an imaging module, I had tried to turn us into a less-paper office (paperless is just too unrealistic) and we have had some success there, though a couple hundred physical files still circulate daily as has always been the case.
I'll note too that we use Carbonite to backup individual systems throughout the day because I can't get everyone to save purely on the network, nor is that necessarily desirable since deletions are permanent. Also, we have another NAS as well as a large HD on one of the partner's machines that both field nightly backups of documents and images.
What if the job your doing is a hodgepodge collection of tasks? I work in a law firm that specializes in bankruptcy and collections. I do some accounting, some IT work, some bitch work i.e. running docs. to court etc. So how can I find out what I should be making? ($14/hr right now after a little over 2 years)
I'll tell ya what I'm not getting. Benefits. They keep my hours below whatever yearly minimum would require them to provide benefits. The perks make it too scary to want to leave though. I set my own hours and can work on my own projects. Where else would I find an employer that would satisfy my constant restlessness?
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Sure, and all the Ford Rangers can easily replace the F150/250/350s that people have.
Solitaire is always a two person game. If you're ever heading out into the woods, make sure you put a deck of cards in your survival kit. Then, if you get lost or hurt, just start playing solitaire and someone will pop up behind you to tell you where to put the next card.
An inside source told me that they'll be adding a cool air intake and a bigger exhaust in order to attain the extra power they're after.
I'm not an attorney, just the guy who became the resident tech based on serendipitous skills. Sooooo, I won't vouch for our system satisfying all legal requirements for accountability, but I will vouch for the cost effectiveness, simplicity, and general good results we've had for the last few months. We use JST's CollectMax software to track the collections portion of our business, which runs on the above mentioned server, but will be moving to a different box when I shut that down. Since CollectMax has an imaging module, I had tried to turn us into a less-paper office (paperless is just too unrealistic) and we have had some success there, though a couple hundred physical files still circulate daily as has always been the case.
I'll note too that we use Carbonite to backup individual systems throughout the day because I can't get everyone to save purely on the network, nor is that necessarily desirable since deletions are permanent. Also, we have another NAS as well as a large HD on one of the partner's machines that both field nightly backups of documents and images.
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I'll tell ya what I'm not getting. Benefits. They keep my hours below whatever yearly minimum would require them to provide benefits. The perks make it too scary to want to leave though. I set my own hours and can work on my own projects. Where else would I find an employer that would satisfy my constant restlessness?