My helpdesk decided on their own to wear flourescent vents that highway workers wear. They wanted to as part of a rollout of a new knowledge base system for the employees and as a way to let people know who they are. Results seem to be pretty good so far as when they go somewhere we get more of the hallway conversations that are really useful rather than just being some random unknown person in the building.
I work for a school district in the US and the bang for your money is Active Whiteboards and software such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activstudio. It was incredible how this technology really enabled better teaching and interactions with the kids.
The next thing is mobile labs of laptops. However, these do require a good wireless support network.
ski
I provide consulting services to Divinsa. They use BackupPC to provide online backups for unix machines such as Linux, Mac, and FreeBSD. Dual datacenters with the data replicated between them. Check them out at http://www.divinsa.com./
I do not think we need a union. We need a professional organization such as LOPSA http://www.lopsa.org/ to, as they say it,
"Our mission is to advance the practice of system administration; to support, recognize, educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to serve the public through education and outreach on system administration issues."
I have seen what the AMA does for doctors, IT folks need the same kind of support.
I have hd good luck using material exchanges run by the local goverments that match up buyers with people who have materials they no longer need. I picked up over $2000 worth of building materials for less than $1000.
In regards to spam filtering, take a look at CanIT. It runs $6/user for the first year and $3/user/year after that. It is very quick and easy to set up and provides incredible control over how the spam is filtered (a happy user of it).
Until I did the redhat 8 - 9 upgrade I was in complete agreement with you. That upgrade worked perfectly even in a very complex situation (amd, lots of custom startup stuff). I was hoping that Mandrake would work as well, but it doesn't. I have everything working but tuxracer (something wrong with the video) and sound.
I just finished upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2 on a Dell 5100 laptop. Overall I like it better (fonts and speed are definitely better). It found the Dell truemobile 1150 card, but mucked up my lan settings. On the downside:
- it lost kmail and korganizer (I had to install these after the upgrade)
- the acpi seems to be partially installed (althought the modules are there I cannot get them to work)
- the run menu has disappeared
- I run oooqs and it interacted with OpenOffice 1.0 so I had to turn it off the first time I ran OO-1.1. After that I could turn it back on.
- Some other icons I had on my tool bar disappeared and I had to re-install them.
Overall, not as smooth as a Redhat 8 - 9 upgrade, but other than the ACPI, nothing too major to fix. Still not ready for the non-tech masses though.
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My helpdesk decided on their own to wear flourescent vents that highway workers wear. They wanted to as part of a rollout of a new knowledge base system for the employees and as a way to let people know who they are. Results seem to be pretty good so far as when they go somewhere we get more of the hallway conversations that are really useful rather than just being some random unknown person in the building.
I work for a school district in the US and the bang for your money is Active Whiteboards and software such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activstudio. It was incredible how this technology really enabled better teaching and interactions with the kids. The next thing is mobile labs of laptops. However, these do require a good wireless support network. ski
I provide consulting services to Divinsa. They use BackupPC to provide online backups for unix machines such as Linux, Mac, and FreeBSD. Dual datacenters with the data replicated between them. Check them out at http://www.divinsa.com./
I do not think we need a union. We need a professional organization such as LOPSA http://www.lopsa.org/ to, as they say it,
"Our mission is to advance the practice of system administration; to support, recognize, educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to serve the public through education and outreach on system administration issues."
I have seen what the AMA does for doctors, IT folks need the same kind of support.
On windows clients I would use SMS to push out changes. On unix clients I have set up cfengine to to the same.
I have hd good luck using material exchanges run by the local goverments that match up buyers with people who have materials they no longer need. I picked up over $2000 worth of building materials for less than $1000.
In regards to spam filtering, take a look at CanIT. It runs $6/user for the first year and $3/user/year after that. It is very quick and easy to set up and provides incredible control over how the spam is filtered (a happy user of it).
cheers,
chris
Until I did the redhat 8 - 9 upgrade I was in complete agreement with you. That upgrade worked perfectly even in a very complex situation (amd, lots of custom startup stuff). I was hoping that Mandrake would work as well, but it doesn't. I have everything working but tuxracer (something wrong with the video) and sound.
I just finished upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2 on a Dell 5100 laptop. Overall I like it better (fonts and speed are definitely better). It found the Dell truemobile 1150 card, but mucked up my lan settings. On the downside:
- it lost kmail and korganizer (I had to install these after the upgrade)
- the acpi seems to be partially installed (althought the modules are there I cannot get them to work)
- the run menu has disappeared
- I run oooqs and it interacted with OpenOffice 1.0 so I had to turn it off the first time I ran OO-1.1. After that I could turn it back on.
- Some other icons I had on my tool bar disappeared and I had to re-install them.
Overall, not as smooth as a Redhat 8 - 9 upgrade, but other than the ACPI, nothing too major to fix. Still not ready for the non-tech masses though.
cheers,
ccktech