At a theoretical level, an ISP could set up a slush fund to retain a computer maintenance company not unlike Geek Squad, basically a local company or geek who could...

Steve Jones - Editor (12/5/2007)

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The problem we had in the US is that a lot of ISPs put up a modem, but not a router. They were trying to charge...

Interesting. We're just getting into super servers and virtualization to improve utilization in our server room: we're out of rack space and very low on available power. Our...

I had an object lesson in this, fortunately with a friend's computer, not a SQL Server. He was running Win2K Pro and something really hosed his permissions and it...

There was a law suit in California that, if won, would classify IT workers as eligible for overtime. If I remember correctly, it had to do with creative aspects...

My fix of changing the schedule from 0000 to 2200 seems to be working fine. I have a feeling that it's probably the fact that the box is at...

Very good series! My entire shop, with the exception of a one-shot project, is SQL 2000, I'm hoping to move it to 2k5 in the next six months as...

A few more things to look for:

Auto-close.

Auto-shrink.

Recovery Model.

Auto-Grow settings, very important if somehow databases got on to the C: partition.

System databases are getting backed up.

DBCCs and index maintenance. I...

Gamers are everywhere! One of my first computer jobs was with a...

Dave (11/19/2007)

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...how many of you, if given a choice between two jobs where the only difference (salary, location, etc.) was one paid for health insurance and one didn't, would take...

There was recently a story about a company that was going to charge additional money for health coverage if your Body Mass Indicator was over a certain level. Amongst...

I don't see a problem with this, I would...

K. Brian Kelley (11/16/2007)

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...We did that recently with our admins. We have a screen saver policy that forces screen saver lock after X minutes and some of them had become...

Now days the linux peoples are more likely to refer to...

Uhh... oxymoron, nonsequitur, Sufi proverb... is there such a thing? I've yet to encounter such a beast and I've been malingering in...