Feature
Articles:
The differences
between
End-users and African Mountain Gorillas.
By Doug Chick
 Before
I make a comparison between end-users and Gorillas, I would first
like to
apologize to the African Mountain Gorilla. My first choice was to
compare
end-users to the retarded goat herders of the Himalayas, but since I
know
less about the retarded goat herders of the Himalayas than Mountain
Gorillas, and because I do have an animated gif of two gorillas
picking
fleas off each other the choice was an obvious one.
Although I’m sure that many of my end-users have at times
been
with a goat. Nevertheless, this article is the comparative
differences
between an African Mountain Gorilla and the common computer
end-user. That
may or may not have been with a goat. My article begins....
The Wizard of IZ
 One
of the women where I work brought her 7 year old daughter in
last
week and walked her around introducing her to everyone. I
happened
to be in front of my door when she introduced me and she asked
what
I do. I pointed to the name and title on my door and said, I'm
the
Director of IS. (IZ) Both the little girl and her mother
smiled, and
of course there was that awkward silence that seems to follow
me
like alley cats would the village idiot. Seeing that it was
too
early in the day to reach my quota of being peculiar...
How many certifications
before you are a MCTT? (Microsoft Certified Test Taker)
 Where
is the line between having too many certifications and just
enough?
Does your resume give the impression that you have more
experience
in test taking than actual work experience? If this sounds
like you
then here's a quick test to see how you rank. Relax
Poindexter...there's no test here. I was just
kidding.
Are you
choosing
software for your company by what will look best on your
resume?
First
thing I do when looking for software for my company is research all
available software similar to our needs. Then I do a detailed
comparative
analysis, followed by a call to a list of satisfied customers
supplied by
the software company. After all, isn’t that what all Network
Administrators do? Well, maybe not all...
By Doug Chick
Why
wouldn’t Microsoft package it’s own computer like
Apple?
 I Read an article by Phillip
Smith
that raised an interesting question; Why wouldn’t Microsoft package it’s
own
computer like Apple or Sun, and stop selling it’s software to computer
makers
altogether? Microsoft could agree that they created a market that made
them a
monopoly and to add balance to the industry they would stop selling their
product
to computer makers and only use it in their own systems.
Has
Monitoring your Network
Given you a God Complex?
 From
your desk you
can see who and when someone logs in, who and what e-mail they send
and
what websites that they frequently attend. Knowing this information
can
sometimes place you in difficult situations. You often ask yourself
if you
should interfere to help someone that you like, or don't like. See
an
e-mail that you know is damaging and wonder if you should stop or
remove
it completely. It's a very difficult position to be in and almost no
one,
short of other computer people know about it. So what do you do? I
am now
of the philosophy that, "Unless someone is in danger of being
hurt--Stay out of it!"
By Doug Chick
How
many computer catalogs do companies think you need?
 On
an average, I receive 5 computer accessories catalogs by mail,
everyday.
That’s 25 a week, 100 a month and 1200 an year. Now stacking 10
magazines
on top of each other will give you an inch, and 1200 magazines will
produce
a stack 10 feet high. Let’s review: 5 magazines X 5 days
= 25 X 4 weeks = 100 X 12 months = 1200 magazines = a stack 10
feet
high.
Who wants to be a Network
Administrator?
 Why
are there so many people out there that are studying so hard to take
your
job away from you? Money. I was sitting in the movie theater with my
wife
last night and one of the ads on the screen before the movie started
read:
Be a Network Administrator and earn 87K a year. Well, two thumbs up
again
for those lying salary surveys. I don’t really think that those salary
surveys are lying as much as I believe that there’s one network
administrator out there that makes 47 millions dollars a year and is
totally warping the salary curve.
Is your career
dependant on
the operating system that you support?
If suddenly one day, the president of your company announced
that he
just struck a deal to change all the servers operating systems in
your
company to “Serversoft” (trademark pending) what would you do
exactly?
Furthermore, what if your company started hiring people that were
Serversoft certified, (trademark pending) that had no real life
computer
experience and were paid more than you? How likely is that to
happen? Ask
a Novell Administrator.
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