I’ve been reading this paper The Information Management Body of Knowledge It got me thinking about the different terms that are used to describe areas within an IT organization. Of course lots of confusion happens when people refer to different things using different terms. IT is definitely one such term. In some organizations the scope [...]
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Everybody has them, some strange white box hidden under their desk, maybe it’s for development or maybe its even running production software, but none-the-less, it’s a crapplication. You need the application but its not worth buying a ‘real’ server to host it, so what do you do? This is where the free version of VMware [...]
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Imagine that Avian flu comes a chirping, killer bees come a stinging, and some crucial bridges fall over so that none of your workers can get in to the office. What’s your backup plan? Where’s your disaster recovery. This is a case for duh dah dah da (can you hear the trumpets) Captain Open Source [...]
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Hand in hand with going paperless see Going Paperless All Wrong Everyone wants to go ‘green’. Printing to PDF is actually not a bad way to accomplish this. For example if you have a receipt for an online purchase, instead of printing it out like it recommends go ahead and print it to PDF. (I’ve [...]
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Lets say you had some sort of report written in crystal and your users accessed this report through terminal services. So first things first, you want to allow your users to print this report out as a PDF. (It’s possible that print to PDF is a feature of a new version of crystal, but this [...]
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Find this post interesting? Do you like interesting things? Maybe you would like my invention, a connectible candle called a WickBrick! Get one here http://wickbrick.etsy.com/ Hold down 7 and 8 unplug and the replug the ‘ip phone’ this will bring you into self-programming mode. Here is one location of the manual. www.fccsinc.com/documents/AxxessIPdevicesInstallManual.pdf And here is [...]
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Find this post interesting? Do you like interesting things? Maybe you would like my invention, a connectible candle called a WickBrick! Get one here http://wickbrick.etsy.com/ There is this huge fad out there to have a paperless office. Some people are blindsided by the obvious benefits of going paperless (hey I have this entire room-full of [...]
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I have a masters in ‘Information Management’ from the University of Washington and yet I still find myself continually wondering, what the heck is information management. When I try to explain the information management program at the UW I usually explain that you can think of it like the TMBA (Technology Management MBA) but the [...]
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Find this post interesting? Do you like interesting things? Maybe you would like my invention, a connectible candle called a WickBrick! Get one here http://wickbrick.etsy.com/ I had a tough time locating online manuals for a Vanguard 340 router. So here they are http://www.vanguardnetworks.com/support/documentation/basic_guides/ Vanguard Router Basics X.25 Configuration Basics Bandwidth Management Basics Ethernet Basics Configuration PAD/ATPAD Ports Token Ring Basics [...]
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Find this post interesting? Do you like interesting things? Maybe you would like my invention, a connectible candle called a WickBrick! Get one here http://wickbrick.etsy.com/ The file hpc20155.xml is needed. I guess its not completely HP’s fault they blame windows update having a wrong version of the driver…. all I know is I’ve wasted about [...]
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