We have a new employee starting tomorrow. We listed her in our website’s staff directory on Friday. I went to setup a PC to log in to her email this afternoon, and there was already spam in the account! The spam directed at her got here before she did. If that doesn’t smack of an almost useless technology, I don’t know what does.
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After a full, busy, weekend of a going-away party for a coworker on Friday night, into the OSU Spring Game Saturday with Andy and Kristen, into taking in The Interpretor with my wife and then a birthday party for my sister-in-law on Sunday, I’ve been greeted with just as crazy a Monday. (The difference, of…
OK, so I’m not actually doing TPS reports, because this isn’t Office Space, but I am doing database reports and month-end maintenance today, yay for me! They are about as interesting, although I suspect these reports are more useful, at least to our accounting people. Plus, I have a fast enough machine that I can…
Cory points out the fallacy of broadband becoming more popular when the “content” is available. He’s right, it’s completely wrong. This is the same theory that Hollings’ bill is based on, that once we have secure content, Hollywood and the RIAA will make it available online, and then people will sign up for broadband in…
Speaking of IT folks solving their own problems, Jason has an interesting problem he’s trying to solve with the public wifi hotspots where he works. I don’t have a solution, but I tend to think that if you’re creating public hotpots you don’t worry about neighbors getting access. Of course, maybe that’s just me. Follow…
Last night’s projects, while staying up to watch the Islanders shutout the Sharks 3-0, (whoo hoo!) included downloading a copy of Newsmonster and upgrading the Red Hat 7.1 Workstation to 8.0. On the Red Hat front, I still haven’t found a solution to the network card problem on the server edition of Red Hat, but…