The SpectraLogic T50 that I mentioned a while ago will ship tomorrow.  We will probably spend the next month configuring and testing our backup solution before I will say we are in production.  Many times companies put backups on the back burner, Don’t!!  Even big companies lose data by accident, check out Google latest blunder.
google, spectralogic, backup

We will be internally developing a new ticketing system later this year.  I have been doing to preliminary research in regards to other ticketing systems.  Basically I am looking for ideas that others have put together so I can add those ideas to my brainstorming sessions and hopefully develop into requirements.  So far PerlDesk has been on the top of my short list. 

An exploit for a new zero-day bug in Internet Explorer appeared Thursday, causing security companies to ring alarms and Microsoft to issue a security advisory that promised it would patch the problem.
Just a day after anti-virus vendors warned of a new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer – the second such alert since Friday — companies including Symantec and Secunia boosted security levels as news of a public exploit spread.
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I never knew Google had an SMS service, but recently was shown the site by my CFO.  We spend a great deal of money on 411 calls from our cell phones.  He offered the solution that we can SMS Google for 411 listings, weather, stocks, and driving directions.  It’s not a perfect service, but I was highly impressed with the features.  Go check it out.
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Are you looking for a fairly simple way to inventory your LAN machines.  I have been testing an open source package for about 2 months now and it works wonderful for my needs.  Check out OCS Inventory.  Leave comments if you need help but the setup and use is pretty straight forward.

Our company is looking to move cell phone providers.  Currently we are using T-Mobile and we are looking at either Cingular or Verizon.  While cost is our CFOs first priority, my top priority can not be price.  I need functionality and quality of service.  I manager people in operations and if I need to contact someone, I need their phone to work.
As far as functionality goes that primarily depends on the phone.  Currently we are using a mix of basic cell phones and The Treo (both 600 and 650).  I …

I have upgraded the Wordpress load for this site to version 2.0.2.  By the way I am posting this from my test laptop loaded with Windows Vista Beta.  I will update you on my thoughts after I have a chance to play with it for a while.
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For over five hours, McAfee’s anti-virus software erroneously flagged hundreds of legitimate executables as a malicious virus, leading some customers to quarantine or delete the offending files and render applications such as Microsoft Excel inoperative.
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Microsoft Vista will be out later this year.  As an IT manager, CIO, or other persons making technology decisions you probably want to start reviewing Windows Vista along with Office 12 (possible renamed Office vista).  I am generally not a fan of a new OS until after the first service pack, but Vista does have some inviting features.  Vista will be divided into multiple versions, I have listed them below for you to get started with, more will follow after I research and test Vista.
The versions that follow are divided …

I thought I would share a site I use to find deals on Dell workstations and laptops.  The deal are usually pretty good but are short in duration.  The site is called Got Apex.
 
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