[Kde-java] The Bitter Network Administrator

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    align="center"><strong><font color="#000080"><big><big><big>The
      Network Administrator</big></big></big></font></strong></td>
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      A Website Dedicated to Computer Professionals</strong></font></td>
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      <p align="right"><font color="#000080"><b>&nbsp;and those not so
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header--><u><strong>Feature
    Articles:<br>
            </strong></u><font color="#0000FF" size="4">The differences 
between
      End-users and African Mountain Gorillas.<br>
      </font><font color="#000000" size="3"><b>By Doug Chick</b><br>
      </font><img border="0" 
src="file:///D:/inetpub/wwwroot/thenetworker/pics/gorilla_cleaning_one_anot
her_md_clr.gif" align="left" width="100" height="130">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.<span 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;
      </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes">&nbsp; </span>My article begins....<br>
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            <p><font color="#0000ff" size="5">The Wizard of IZ<br>
            </font><img align="left" border="0" 
src="http://www.thenetworkadministrator.com/pics/wizard_orb_mw.gif" 
width="70" height="110">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<span 
class="regtext"><font 
color="#0000ff">...<br>
            </font><b>&nbsp;</b></span><font face="Times New Roman" 
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            <p><font color="#0000ff" size="4">How many certifications
            before you are a MCTT? (Microsoft Certified Test Taker)</font>
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            <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><img 
align="left" border="0" 
src="http://www.thenetworkadministrator.com/monkeypics/professional_mw.gif
" width="80" height="120">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.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
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            <p><span class="regtextthin1"><font color="#0000FF" size="4">
      <font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Are you 
choosing
      software for your company by what will look best on your 
resume?&nbsp;<br>
      &nbsp;<img align="left" border="0" height="84" 
src="http://209.26.235.107/monkeypics/boy_coloring_sm_wht.gif" 
width="84"><br>
      </font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman" 
size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font 
face="Times New Roman" size="3" 
color="#000000">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?&nbsp;Well, maybe not all...<br>
            <b>By Doug Chick</b><br>
            </font></span></span><font color="#0000FF"><a 
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    <p align="left"><span class="regtextthin1"><font color="#0000FF" 
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      Why
wouldn’t Microsoft package it’s own computer like 
Apple?</font></span><span 
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" class="regtextthin1"><br>
      </span><img border="0" src="http://209.26.235.107/pics/mbox.gif" 
align="left" width="122" 
height="113"></font>I Read an article by <span 
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:&quot;Times New 
Roman&quot;;mso-hansi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New 
Roman&quot;" class="regtextthin1">Phillip
Smith</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" 
class="regtextthin1">
 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.&nbsp; 
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            <p align="left"><font color="#0000FF" size="4"><b>Has 
Monitoring your Network
      Given you a God Complex?&nbsp;<br>
      </b></font><img border="0" src="http://209.26.235.107/god.jpg" 
align="left" width="86" height="108">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, &quot;Unless someone is in danger of being
      hurt--Stay out of it!&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
      <b>By Doug Chick</b><br>
 
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            <p align="left"><font color="#0000FF"><font face="Times New 
Roman" color="#0000FF" size="4">How
    many computer catalogs do companies think you need?&nbsp;</font><span 
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font 
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><br>
    <img border="0" 
src="http://209.26.235.107/pics/jerboa_stomp_sm_wht.gif" align="left" 
width="65" 
height="60"></font></span></font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font 
face="Times New Roman" size="3" 
color="#000000">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<span 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
    </span>= 25 X 4 weeks = 100 X 12 months = 1200 magazines = a stack 10 
feet
    high.<br>
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            <p align="left"><font size="4">Who wants to be a Network
    Administrator?<br>
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    <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New 
Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New 
Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><img border="0" 
src="http://209.26.235.107/pics/analyzing_t_v_head_mw.gif" 
align="left" width="66" height="99">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.<br>
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            <p align="left"><font color="#0000FF" size="4">Is your career 
dependant on
      the operating system that you support?<br>
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align="left" width="120" 
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<!--page-->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.<span class="regtext"><font 
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