You have a medium-sized network, say 350 machines spread over 3 locations. You’ve suddenly, in the last week or so, noticed that your Internet connection has gotten a whole lot slower! Where would you start to look for what’s causing the bottleneck? In the last week we’ve found one machine with a trojan, gotten it…
While still trying to keep a bit of mystery about where I currently work, and where I’m going to be working, there are a few things that I find very interesting about my upcoming job-switch that I want to share and discuss. Mostly, I’m interested in how much of my experience can be extrapolated out…
Per MarcV’s request in the comments for that last post. Here’s a brief description of what I’m using OneNote for. I’ll break it down into two sections, because I use my official work copy on my desktop at work, and my free “thanks for beta testing and attending the rollout event” copy on my personal…
Over at the other blog, some tips picked up from a workshop last night on social networking. I think given the large number of self-proclaimed “social retards” among the IT folks out there, it might be relevant to readers here as well.
Read. Discuss… My thoughts? It’s an obvious case. There are simply too many different technologies at play to have an expert on staff for each of them. For example, where I work, I consider myself an “expert” when it comes to desktops, our memberships database, Access, end-user support and training, SOHO networking, etc. I’m not…
More reading on using networking as part of your job search. I’ve been reading a book about networking and going through all the self-awareness practices myself lately, so this is timely stuff. (BTW, another great use for OneNote, keeping all my notes and exercises on networking and self-awareness together in one section of the program..)…