Disclosure: I work for a small company that provides Systems Administration for other small companies.
There are products like Labtech that allow you to install a management program on every computer, and then the management program reports back to the server with each system's details: Serial number, make, model, software installed, hardware installed, and much more. When we get to a new site, we install the management tool on a server, push it out to each device with a logon script, and pretty quickly have a very detailed overview of the local network. Each geographic location can be scanned in a similar manner, and report back to the central management server.
These types of products are probably cost-prohibitive for the size network that you described, but you may be able to find a local company to work with you to get your stuff documented. If not, there are probably similar tools that are available for a setup of your size.
The advantage of these types of tools is that they track your devices for you, and allow you to query them quickly for almost any information that you would like. You can set up alerts to tell you when a system is three years old, for example, and potentially up for replacement.
These types of tools free you up to do what is probably more important in your case: Dealing with what will make your users more productive.
Why is a Division Head fooling with computer hardware like this? Isn't that what IT is there for? That's why you are paid several times more than them...
Maybe Nielsen is positioning themselves to be the "computer top box" that measures page views, since the demise of broadcast TV will eliminate the need for set top boxes...
You gotta admit, a deathbed confession deisgned to perpeutate a myth would be pretty funny. I'd be laughing all the way to the mortuary, if it were me...
I'm willing to believe that they may be collecting more than they spend.
But I'd like a cite, I think.
But the record companies _want_ more piracy...
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I suspect that the record companies want more poiracy. Then they can get a blank CD/DVD/hard drive tax similar to the one in place on blank audio cassettes.
So, let me see: Gold standard folks measure the value of their gold in dollars per ounce, and then claim that the dollars don't mean anything... So, what does that mean about the value of the gold?
Well, I'm pretty quick to take the mickey of the odd religion or two, especially the more cult-like sects, but I thought that the use of a lower-case "c" might have meant something that I had not come across before.
That said, I'm also pretty quick to defend anyone's right to whatever religion they choose. Sometimes my head spins around.
Just having a person type some "distorted" text verbatim is a bit christian...
Maybe it's just too early in the morning for me, but what does that mean? That typing distorted text is easy? That it's smart/dumb? That it makes you love your neighbor as you would have them love you?
I want Joe Pesci to play Thompson in the upcoming movie, "Game Wars".
Can you imagine Pesci saying, "You want to play hardball...? You want to try to throw me in jail? You have no idea what you are unleashing in doing this. You're at the brink..."
If I remember correctly, in order to do this at Virginia Tech and stay within the bounds of the Honor Code, you had to cite your previous work. Uncited work was/is considered plagiarism, or something like that.
I know this: I shopped at Martins in West by God Virginia (USA), and shopped there regularly before they introduced their "Shopper Card". I didn't get one, at first, thinking, "why do I need this?"
Then I noticed that my normal shopping bill went up by a few dollars, in the space of a week. I started looking around, and sure enough, items that I regularly bought for $4.99, or whatever, now had "$4.99" in some bold color, and underneath in very small print, said, "$5.99 without shopper card".
So I got a card, and then had to replace it a year later when it wouldn't read anymore. "Just put your phone number in the number pad..."
"Ummm, I had a different number then, and don't remember what it was."
Now I just use my work number, and have discovered that most of my co-workers do, too, so we don't even have to lie on the stupid forms anymore: Someone from work has already signed up at every store in the area.
And what will they do when I move and someone else gets the phone number, if that is the "unique identifier" that they are using?
Or Repellex - Used to keep deer from eating ornamental plants. A mixture of rotten ox blood and rotten egg whites. Ridiculously foul smelling, and it really does keep the deer off the lawn. And makes you hurl if you accidentally spray it in a breeze.
Exactly! Though I was thinking something more along the lines of the stuff that was in the stink bombs we used to set off in school back in Knaresborough. Assuming the statute of limitations is up. If not, then it wasn't Knaresborough, it was Edinburgh. And it wasn't us, it was those other adolescents.
Now, while you may be carrying "brightly-coloured super-soakers", I'll bet I could come up with some liquids to put in them that would make them, if not deadly, at least very, very annoying.
Actuary has already been mentioned. But Economics is wide open to skilled mathematicians, and there are a lot of places you can use that bizarre theory stuff. Places like the National Security Agency hire math heads to do hard core analysis, and I've heard it's a very interesting place to work.
I did the opposite: I have a degree in Math, with a Masters in Economics, and I am a partner in a IT support firm, doing support for small businesses. But if you can wrap your head around math, you can pretty much go any direction that you want.
But I find it hard to believe that this guy would pay thousands of dollars, repeatedly, for boxes of garbage.
Does anyone have any evidence that the Nigerian scammer is actually paying the shipping charges? My guess is that this is all happening at DHL's expense, or that the shipping accounts are stolen, too.
I'm continuing to read it to see if anyone says anything about that, but haven't seen anything yet.
The sad thing is, after two repairs, you've lost the entire cost of the system.
Yeah, I go back and forth on this.
Sure, a computer only costs XX monetary units, but: my computer is set up the way I like it. It pisses me off every time I have to change the folder views, add software, update software, update windows, restore my files, forget one, restore the ones I forgot, and so on.
I keep that in mind whenever I'm cleaning spyware off a personal client's PC, or when at a corporate client, remember that if I can get their computer back up and running in an hour or two of non-business time, then that means the employee can be back at work again at 9 AM, without having to go through all of that pain.
It pays the bills, I suppose.
But I hear you: I couldn't bring myself to pay someone that much.
Just out of curiosity, how do you know so much about child pornography posted on whatever board you are talking about? From your comment, it sounds as though you would want to stay away from that message board, and so your recent knowledge of it would thus be rather limited.
That said, it would seem reasonable to me that rather than choosing to (a) stop using the Board, or (b) have the board shut down, a better response would be (c) use the laws of the country in which $BOARD is hosted to gather as much information as possible about the posters of the child pronography, and have them prosecuted. (Or, if you are of the mind that they are sick rather than evil, have them brought in for rehabilitation.)
We have zero tolerance laws so strict they ruin people's lives for a banner ad containing a legal model that simply wasn't documented properly.
Hey - I missed that one. Do you have a link, by any chance? I realize it sounds lazy to ask for a link, but in these days of pedophilic witch hunts, I'm afraid to Google for "False child porn banner ad"...
Thanks!
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Disclosure: I work for a small company that provides Systems Administration for other small companies.
There are products like Labtech that allow you to install a management program on every computer, and then the management program reports back to the server with each system's details: Serial number, make, model, software installed, hardware installed, and much more. When we get to a new site, we install the management tool on a server, push it out to each device with a logon script, and pretty quickly have a very detailed overview of the local network. Each geographic location can be scanned in a similar manner, and report back to the central management server.
These types of products are probably cost-prohibitive for the size network that you described, but you may be able to find a local company to work with you to get your stuff documented. If not, there are probably similar tools that are available for a setup of your size.
The advantage of these types of tools is that they track your devices for you, and allow you to query them quickly for almost any information that you would like. You can set up alerts to tell you when a system is three years old, for example, and potentially up for replacement.
These types of tools free you up to do what is probably more important in your case: Dealing with what will make your users more productive.
Good luck! It sounds very exciting.
Why is a Division Head fooling with computer hardware like this? Isn't that what IT is there for? That's why you are paid several times more than them...
Maybe Nielsen is positioning themselves to be the "computer top box" that measures page views, since the demise of broadcast TV will eliminate the need for set top boxes...
You gotta admit, a deathbed confession deisgned to perpeutate a myth would be pretty funny. I'd be laughing all the way to the mortuary, if it were me...
But I'd like a cite, I think.
I suspect that the record companies want more poiracy. Then they can get a blank CD/DVD/hard drive tax similar to the one in place on blank audio cassettes.
That's where the steady income lies, for them.
So, let me see: Gold standard folks measure the value of their gold in dollars per ounce, and then claim that the dollars don't mean anything... So, what does that mean about the value of the gold?
That said, I'm also pretty quick to defend anyone's right to whatever religion they choose. Sometimes my head spins around.
Maybe it's just too early in the morning for me, but what does that mean? That typing distorted text is easy? That it's smart/dumb? That it makes you love your neighbor as you would have them love you?
I want Joe Pesci to play Thompson in the upcoming movie, "Game Wars".
Can you imagine Pesci saying, "You want to play hardball...? You want to try to throw me in jail? You have no idea what you are unleashing in doing this. You're at the brink..."
If I remember correctly, in order to do this at Virginia Tech and stay within the bounds of the Honor Code, you had to cite your previous work. Uncited work was/is considered plagiarism, or something like that.
Clarification please: Who are we? And who is the opposition
Just wondering...
I hope they do analyze them once in awhile...
(And why was your response modded "Flamebait"?)
Then I noticed that my normal shopping bill went up by a few dollars, in the space of a week. I started looking around, and sure enough, items that I regularly bought for $4.99, or whatever, now had "$4.99" in some bold color, and underneath in very small print, said, "$5.99 without shopper card".
So I got a card, and then had to replace it a year later when it wouldn't read anymore. "Just put your phone number in the number pad..."
"Ummm, I had a different number then, and don't remember what it was."
Now I just use my work number, and have discovered that most of my co-workers do, too, so we don't even have to lie on the stupid forms anymore: Someone from work has already signed up at every store in the area.
And what will they do when I move and someone else gets the phone number, if that is the "unique identifier" that they are using?
Or Repellex - Used to keep deer from eating ornamental plants. A mixture of rotten ox blood and rotten egg whites. Ridiculously foul smelling, and it really does keep the deer off the lawn. And makes you hurl if you accidentally spray it in a breeze.
Exactly! Though I was thinking something more along the lines of the stuff that was in the stink bombs we used to set off in school back in Knaresborough. Assuming the statute of limitations is up. If not, then it wasn't Knaresborough, it was Edinburgh. And it wasn't us, it was those other adolescents.
Now, while you may be carrying "brightly-coloured super-soakers", I'll bet I could come up with some liquids to put in them that would make them, if not deadly, at least very, very annoying.
CS Majors don't have nipples!??!?!
I did the opposite: I have a degree in Math, with a Masters in Economics, and I am a partner in a IT support firm, doing support for small businesses. But if you can wrap your head around math, you can pretty much go any direction that you want.
But I find it hard to believe that this guy would pay thousands of dollars, repeatedly, for boxes of garbage.
Does anyone have any evidence that the Nigerian scammer is actually paying the shipping charges? My guess is that this is all happening at DHL's expense, or that the shipping accounts are stolen, too.
I'm continuing to read it to see if anyone says anything about that, but haven't seen anything yet.
Yeah, I go back and forth on this.
Sure, a computer only costs XX monetary units, but: my computer is set up the way I like it. It pisses me off every time I have to change the folder views, add software, update software, update windows, restore my files, forget one, restore the ones I forgot, and so on.
I keep that in mind whenever I'm cleaning spyware off a personal client's PC, or when at a corporate client, remember that if I can get their computer back up and running in an hour or two of non-business time, then that means the employee can be back at work again at 9 AM, without having to go through all of that pain.
It pays the bills, I suppose.
But I hear you: I couldn't bring myself to pay someone that much.
That said, it would seem reasonable to me that rather than choosing to (a) stop using the Board, or (b) have the board shut down, a better response would be (c) use the laws of the country in which $BOARD is hosted to gather as much information as possible about the posters of the child pronography, and have them prosecuted. (Or, if you are of the mind that they are sick rather than evil, have them brought in for rehabilitation.)
Hey - I missed that one. Do you have a link, by any chance? I realize it sounds lazy to ask for a link, but in these days of pedophilic witch hunts, I'm afraid to Google for "False child porn banner ad"... Thanks!
Actually, I like having all of my stuff in one place...
A lot of it is being in the right place at the right time, and trying to arrange things so that you are more often in the right place at that time
That, and people like to work with people that they like. Make yourself likeable, and strangely, people will like you. And you will get promoted.
It always works that way for me, anyway, but then, I'm the deviant geek that actually likes people, and genuinely wants to help them.