Check out http://www.continuum.net/. I've been using their services for over 5 years, and they've been steadily improving it since they split from Zenith Infotech. No, it's not free, but it's quite cheap per unit and you get a lot of bang for your buck. Remote monitoring and alerts on any service, remote access, at-a-glance dashboard, etc. With 500 clients, I'm guessing you'd rather spend your time monitoring the situation than putting together a custom solution.
Running isn't really good for your body; it's really hard on your joints, especially if you run on concrete or asphalt (which just about everything in a metro area is covered with these days).
The big problem with running is the lousy shoes that all but force you to use a heel strike. It's the heel strike that trashes your knees and hips, and leads to fatigue very quickly. Take the shoes off and run barefoot, landing flat-footed or on the balls of your feet. At first you'll discover muscles you haven't been using, then you'll find yourself wondering why you wasted all that money on expensive running shoes.
Correct, I never trusted his motives. Take a few minutes to look at the guy's history and you'll see why.
Making money is far from evil. Lying, cheating and/or stealing to make money is evil. There's a big difference. If he would have said, "I also plan to build a pipeline along this corridor to move water from one location to another" while he was crowing about his wonderful plan to build this wind farm, his reception would have been entirely different. It was a lie of omission, and he planned to use the land -- taken from its owners using eminent domain -- for huge personal gain. So you have lying AND stealing. Hence this scheme was evil.
I think the "technical problems" may be that he couldn't get the okay to build his pipeline along the same corridor. I never trusted his motives, and I remember reading a pretty detailed article on this shortly after he announced his grandiose plan.
So instead of voting to take a way a tool in our war on terror, he voted for the bill as a whole.
This statement infuriates me every time I see or hear it. The original FISA is still there, and it still works in exactly the same way it has since it was originally signed into law. This new bill turns FISA into a farce.
I would love to see that in place everywhere. It would force people to actually think about who they're voting for instead of blindly voting down party lines.
It sounds more like your company benefited by following common sense procedure and industry standards, not comparing yourselves directly to other IT departments. Remember, the article submitter is talking about direct comparisons to other departments, not standard procedures or best practices.
No two companies are even remotely close to identical. Every company has different goals, different organizational structure, different programs they're using, different needs in general. The moment you start comparing your own department against other companies' IT departments, you lose the ability to adapt to your situation. Your decisions will be second guessed every step of the way by people that have no clue as to what you do or why you do it, and have no intention of even trying to understand. "XYZ Company doesn't do this, why do you want to?" "Why is this solution so expensive? XYZ Company did it for $XXX."
Never underestimate the power of a stupid idea in the head of an executive. Should some fool in the upper rungs decide to replace someone for any reason, nothing -- NOTHING -- will prevent that from happening. If they're worth their salt, they'll find another position elsewhere. If not, maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place.
And yet, if you search on the site hosting the actual brand name of the phone, you'll discover that -- *shock* -- there's actually a bit of information about the device. I saw this a few weeks ago while looking for a wireless IP phone for home.
Occam's razor. They were working out a last minute deal and someone forgot to sign and fax the final agreement. Cisco has to sue at this point, otherwise they're not defending their trademark. I bet this will all be resolved by end of business day tomorrow.
Our workstations are locked down tight, and guess what? Everyone can run all the programs that have been installed without any problems whatsoever. They don't have write access to anywhere but their own profile and designated data directories on the network. It takes some work up front to get things working properly, but it's well worth it. A good chunk of our time used to be spent in reactionary problem solving. Now we get to spend most of our time planning the next major rollout, writing custom utilities or looking for random new technology.
As far as extra apps are concerned, if they serve a business need, there's an image that can be pushed to their machine. These are company owned machines, they're not there for gaming pleasure. That's the real world. I think the hell you describe is not.
The phrase, "I'll be happy to address this as soon as I get it in writing," stated in a pleasant manner leaves no room for doubt that you absolutely have to have it in writing before you'll even consider it without being confrontational. This type of thing is not where you can allow yourself to be spineless.
Get them to give you those orders in writing . Then explain to them why you won't do it in writing . Take both documents to their corporate lawyers and keep a copy at home for safe keeping. Now you not only have a paper trail of the situation to protect yourself should the company get audited, you have ammo against them should they try to fire you for not following orders.
What they're asking you to do is violate copyright, and it's just plain wrong. Should you comply, you're opening yourself up to a world of hurt. If the company gets nailed you will be hung out to dry. You would be the one doing the copying and unauthorized installs, not management. The managers can claim they didn't know you were doing it and are shocked -- shocked! that you would to such a thing.
Please give me a reason why this is NOT valid reason. I personally hate sys admins who like to abuse power and make other people's jobs harder. In fact, everyone should have local administrative access - there is no reason for them not to. Just give it with the caveat that if they muck up, they're on their own.
Try telling that to the company president after they've installed enough spyware/adware to effectively cripple their machines. Any admin worth their pay is going to have automated tools to take care of just about anything that comes up for installs and system changes. If someone needs something, all I have to do is push out the package and it's installed in the background while they're still working. When the little blinky thing disappears from their system tray, they know they can use it.
Giving the average user admin privileges on their machine is a foolish act, and is asking for all sorts of extra hours cleaning up preventable problems. Hell, my own account doesn't even have admin, I have to log in with a separate one for that.
I was thinking the same thing. With the Evolution Connector being open sourced, I would like to think that a connector for Sunbird won't be far behind. That would be nothing but a good thing.
Then how are you going to install the other-half of the Service Pack? Joking aside, the number of patches and tools that you can put on a USB Drive(256 MB, last I heard) is always being dwarfed by bigger and bigger installs of software.
Try up to 4 GB. I just bought a 1 GB model, and I still have room after putting both SP4 for 2K and SP1a for XP, including all subsequent patches, a couple spyware removal tools, and a bunch of drivers.
You want to be debt free, plain and simple. You have no interest payments. Why the hell would you want to pay interest payments for no reason at all? If you've got the cash, pay it off. It only gets better from there.
The only thing that will change them, is if the call of money becomes too strong for the people who brought the company this far.
Do you honestly think they're going to stop selling stock once they see the feeding frenzy that will be their IPO? As soon as they see that they can become instant billionaires, it's all over.
The second they go public, they start their downward spiral into mediocrity. They will be subject to the rule of money for the investors, and to hell with what's right or good or innovative. They won't even be able to take a dump without permission. Stupid, stupid move.
Slashdot Mirror
Check out http://www.continuum.net/. I've been using their services for over 5 years, and they've been steadily improving it since they split from Zenith Infotech. No, it's not free, but it's quite cheap per unit and you get a lot of bang for your buck. Remote monitoring and alerts on any service, remote access, at-a-glance dashboard, etc. With 500 clients, I'm guessing you'd rather spend your time monitoring the situation than putting together a custom solution.
Running isn't really good for your body; it's really hard on your joints, especially if you run on concrete or asphalt (which just about everything in a metro area is covered with these days).
The big problem with running is the lousy shoes that all but force you to use a heel strike. It's the heel strike that trashes your knees and hips, and leads to fatigue very quickly. Take the shoes off and run barefoot, landing flat-footed or on the balls of your feet. At first you'll discover muscles you haven't been using, then you'll find yourself wondering why you wasted all that money on expensive running shoes.
Correct, I never trusted his motives. Take a few minutes to look at the guy's history and you'll see why.
Making money is far from evil. Lying, cheating and/or stealing to make money is evil. There's a big difference. If he would have said, "I also plan to build a pipeline along this corridor to move water from one location to another" while he was crowing about his wonderful plan to build this wind farm, his reception would have been entirely different. It was a lie of omission, and he planned to use the land -- taken from its owners using eminent domain -- for huge personal gain. So you have lying AND stealing. Hence this scheme was evil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickens_Plan#Pickens.27_motives
I think the "technical problems" may be that he couldn't get the okay to build his pipeline along the same corridor. I never trusted his motives, and I remember reading a pretty detailed article on this shortly after he announced his grandiose plan.
The DNS error hijacking, that is. I was going to consider switching to Charter, but I see someone has posted that they've started doing this as well.
Are there any free DNS services out there that happily return valid results instead of redirecting you?
He's probably running NoScript. You have to allow scripts from space.com for it to show up properly.
So instead of voting to take a way a tool in our war on terror, he voted for the bill as a whole.
This statement infuriates me every time I see or hear it. The original FISA is still there, and it still works in exactly the same way it has since it was originally signed into law. This new bill turns FISA into a farce.
I would love to see that in place everywhere. It would force people to actually think about who they're voting for instead of blindly voting down party lines.
Go to somebody like the CW...
You mean the network that absolutely destroyed Veronica Mars for no good reason?
It sounds more like your company benefited by following common sense procedure and industry standards, not comparing yourselves directly to other IT departments. Remember, the article submitter is talking about direct comparisons to other departments, not standard procedures or best practices.
No two companies are even remotely close to identical. Every company has different goals, different organizational structure, different programs they're using, different needs in general. The moment you start comparing your own department against other companies' IT departments, you lose the ability to adapt to your situation. Your decisions will be second guessed every step of the way by people that have no clue as to what you do or why you do it, and have no intention of even trying to understand. "XYZ Company doesn't do this, why do you want to?" "Why is this solution so expensive? XYZ Company did it for $XXX."
Never underestimate the power of a stupid idea in the head of an executive. Should some fool in the upper rungs decide to replace someone for any reason, nothing -- NOTHING -- will prevent that from happening. If they're worth their salt, they'll find another position elsewhere. If not, maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Parent beat me to the punch. It's very close what I was going to say, only said better. Excellent post.
Don't ever let them railroad you into that benchmark bullshit. It only creates trouble.
And yet, if you search on the site hosting the actual brand name of the phone, you'll discover that -- *shock* -- there's actually a bit of information about the device. I saw this a few weeks ago while looking for a wireless IP phone for home.
o tion_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=116563331675 8&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Prom
Occam's razor. They were working out a last minute deal and someone forgot to sign and fax the final agreement. Cisco has to sue at this point, otherwise they're not defending their trademark. I bet this will all be resolved by end of business day tomorrow.
Our workstations are locked down tight, and guess what? Everyone can run all the programs that have been installed without any problems whatsoever. They don't have write access to anywhere but their own profile and designated data directories on the network. It takes some work up front to get things working properly, but it's well worth it. A good chunk of our time used to be spent in reactionary problem solving. Now we get to spend most of our time planning the next major rollout, writing custom utilities or looking for random new technology.
As far as extra apps are concerned, if they serve a business need, there's an image that can be pushed to their machine. These are company owned machines, they're not there for gaming pleasure. That's the real world. I think the hell you describe is not.
Mod parent up! Yeah it's offtopic, but things like this need to be heard everywhere.
The phrase, "I'll be happy to address this as soon as I get it in writing," stated in a pleasant manner leaves no room for doubt that you absolutely have to have it in writing before you'll even consider it without being confrontational. This type of thing is not where you can allow yourself to be spineless.
Get them to give you those orders in writing . Then explain to them why you won't do it in writing . Take both documents to their corporate lawyers and keep a copy at home for safe keeping. Now you not only have a paper trail of the situation to protect yourself should the company get audited, you have ammo against them should they try to fire you for not following orders.
What they're asking you to do is violate copyright, and it's just plain wrong. Should you comply, you're opening yourself up to a world of hurt. If the company gets nailed you will be hung out to dry. You would be the one doing the copying and unauthorized installs, not management. The managers can claim they didn't know you were doing it and are shocked -- shocked! that you would to such a thing.
Please give me a reason why this is NOT valid reason. I personally hate sys admins who like to abuse power and make other people's jobs harder. In fact, everyone should have local administrative access - there is no reason for them not to. Just give it with the caveat that if they muck up, they're on their own.
Try telling that to the company president after they've installed enough spyware/adware to effectively cripple their machines. Any admin worth their pay is going to have automated tools to take care of just about anything that comes up for installs and system changes. If someone needs something, all I have to do is push out the package and it's installed in the background while they're still working. When the little blinky thing disappears from their system tray, they know they can use it.
Giving the average user admin privileges on their machine is a foolish act, and is asking for all sorts of extra hours cleaning up preventable problems. Hell, my own account doesn't even have admin, I have to log in with a separate one for that.
I've gotten calls from Canada from AT&T, insurance companies and credit card offers. I'm surprised it took this long for them to find that loophole.
I was thinking the same thing. With the Evolution Connector being open sourced, I would like to think that a connector for Sunbird won't be far behind. That would be nothing but a good thing.
Then how are you going to install the other-half of the Service Pack? Joking aside, the number of patches and tools that you can put on a USB Drive(256 MB, last I heard) is always being dwarfed by bigger and bigger installs of software.
Try up to 4 GB. I just bought a 1 GB model, and I still have room after putting both SP4 for 2K and SP1a for XP, including all subsequent patches, a couple spyware removal tools, and a bunch of drivers.
You want to be debt free, plain and simple. You have no interest payments. Why the hell would you want to pay interest payments for no reason at all? If you've got the cash, pay it off. It only gets better from there.
If this is true, congratulations Apple!
An AC/DC power adapter is a must have. The company I buy them from has an AC/DC/airplane adapter. It's a beautiful thing.
The only thing that will change them, is if the call of money becomes too strong for the people who brought the company this far.
Do you honestly think they're going to stop selling stock once they see the feeding frenzy that will be their IPO? As soon as they see that they can become instant billionaires, it's all over.
The second they go public, they start their downward spiral into mediocrity. They will be subject to the rule of money for the investors, and to hell with what's right or good or innovative. They won't even be able to take a dump without permission. Stupid, stupid move.
They want something that works on a Mac. Teamspeak isn't available on Mac yet, but they're working on it. They aren't promising any timeframe.