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Desktop search company X1 has just released their popular premium desktop search software for free.
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TECH: LIFEHACKER provides a good “heads up” about free desktop search tool!
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TECH: Enterprises need a centralized IT so there will be someone else to blame!
Monday, June 26, 2006Are the Users taking over from the IT Department?
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I heard a new term this week from an experienced CIO running a good operation, well matched to the enterprises business aims, etc. He reckoned that ‘Shadow IT’ is fast becoming the order of the day as the Users, individually or in groups, enact something locally. His problem was he didn’t know if this was a good thing or a bad thing from the perspective of the business, though he certainly wasn’t too comfortable about it from a personal or professional CIO view.
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Bad thing! If you care about results.
Shadow IT, User computing, or the skunk works is all well and good. But, the chickens come home to roost, and the IT folks get blamed, when security, recovery, and blunders put a "below the waterline" hole in the enterprise ship.
Don't come running to me when your competitor buys a laptop with every customers' ssn on it.
Don't come running to me when the power surge corrupts your pc database that does the enterprise p&l in excel.
Don't come running to me when the alpha, beta, gamma, or bootleg software that you are running the mission critical app on goes "postal", "up in smoke", or develops the pc equivalent of an "OC7 or OC4" and you can't even find vendor, let alone get some support.
Just call India where you sent all the expertise.
Arghh. OK, beloved user, let's start putting the pieces back together. Now what is the business objective you are trying to accomplish?
There is a reason why the centralized IT is expensive. We had to pay tuition for all those lessons that you're now learning.
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MUNY: You can NOT regard the US$ (FRBie) as a store of value!
Monday, June 26, 2006http://www.mises.org/story/2221
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Over the past ninety-three years, since the founding of the Federal Reserve, the dollar has depreciated by over 95%. With money no longer being a stable repository of value – thanks to inflation – a predictable shift in the American character has occurred. Gone are the low-time-preference days where hard work and savings paved the road to a better life for parents and children.
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This means that you MUST seek to put your "money" into things that appreciate in value. Or, at least, don't depreciate. Or, depreciate too quickly. Real estate (i.e., they ain't printing no more land!). Gold (i.e., mining is hard work and it has a long track record!) Stocks (i.e., they float, but buy low sell hi, and put the dif in gold). Tools that allow you to earn and save more.
Become wise in the ways of beating inflation. Spend wisely and quickly. Take value "off the gambling table" buy buying things that will retain their value. Bullion coins are my personal favorite right now!
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TECH: “MSFTWORD” … you can’t make it point to a specific html file?
Monday, June 26, 2006Entertaining little "feature".
I have an html file. Actual lots of them. Representing alumni pages. I wanted to create a word doc html that would display their name and be clickable to their underlying page on my hd.
No problem.
Take the properties of the file, c:\yadayady\alum1.htm, and paste it to the html doc, hit the space bar, and WORD makes it a link.
Hole CNTL and tap the link.
(Should be "no prob" right? Buzz Wrong. Not in Microsoft land where all rules of common sense do NOT apply!)
You can't, or at least I couldn't make a link to anything but "C:\".
Now that's really useful! Sigh!
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