Are you busy? Just because you've posted the question doesn't necessarily mean that you are. Bodies usually are warranted on a need basis not based on how many of X that you have. In a small shop you're probably going to have a mixture, like I do. We have 110 Employee's, 12 Windows servers(2 DC's, 1 SQL, 1 X-CHNG), 6 linux servers(2 are XenServer Hosts, 1 Firewall). We both handle everything, neither of us are assigned to just do Servers and the other to answer the phone. Honestly we hardly get phone calls, and when we do the Tech Support dice could answer the question(no joke). Usually simple stuff. I've been more busy with server maintenance than anything.

Anyways, the point is how busy are you? Is some of the slack not being picked up by other tech's? If I was also judge this based on machine count it would be around 50 to 60 machines per Tech. Probably around 500 Machines warrants the segregation of Tech's(phone and email support) and Sys/Network Admin.

We've seen all the major carries do something to this same effect dozens of times and even more frequent with these smart phones becoming more efficient tools. They know it'll piss customers off, but they know you want the phone you have. They also know a lot of people aren't willing to cut their contract and pay the fee. There are a few out there that probably would do this, but it's not enough to make a difference.

All Your Base Are Belong To Us.

If they truly feared people leaving them for doing something like this, they wouldn't do it. It's unfortunate that most of their pissed off customers can't leave either, no one wants to take a 300 dollar hit to make a "point".

Ohh, I just thought of something though. If you could make a site... lets call it, "letsleaveverizon.com". On that site you see a couple things. One being a counter of how many people would agree to leaving if the amount was above 10000(just throwing out numbers). You'd also see a link to click on that would allow you to "join". This join would only send you an email once the counter reached the specified goal. You'd obviously want a Captya to prevent unnecessary joins. Lastly a paragraph explaining the simple guide lines, like.. Don't join if you are not 100% on board with leaving once the goal is reached. Also the leave can be canceled if Verizon meets the criteria... IE: Adding back my option to choose, because after all that is why you bought the phone in the first place.

Thoughts?

There fixed that for you.

So this is why the Empire wanted to kill the Rebels.... Shit, I've been rooting for the wrong side the whole damn time!

I work in a clinic that is inside of a Hospital. Our Docs have Hospital duty, basically on call during the day/nights and weekends. So what i see in the clinic could be different than a Hospital but i bet you it boils down to the same old thing. Money.

I was very lucky this year and finally received the 'OK' to upgrade my servers from Server 2000, to Server 2008. It took me several years to buy the two servers necessary to host the new 2008 servers(will be virtual servers). With Medicare cut's, echo, cath, nuc, we'll even have more of a hard time with that. Anything labeled "Medical" is 30x more expensive. And Doctors tend to work as much as they want. This is a huge problem since if they are okay with earning 50k, 100k less than the company as a whole suffers. There are multiple docs like this. You can't tell them what to do because it's their company.

Our EMR software is more guided to our line of work as well. However it still has major flaws and could preform better. The problem with it is that it was designed by doctors. At first it sounds good until you see the SQL end. Doctors designed that too. So the whole program, designed by these docs(not mine some can barely can turn on a PC), really is a mess that no one can fix but they just keep piling on to it. It's bloated to all hell.

I think the key to success is to break the EMR system down to individual sectional needs. Like a TV. a TV isn't built (or a good one at least) with a DVD/blu-ray player, xbox306, ps3, wii, cable tuner, etc. etc., inside of it. No it has ports to link it all to the TV. EMR software should be similar in the fact that there should be a standard "Link" so that when you have your Cardio EMR and you need to link it to your Lab EMR, you can. The billing side of all of this is probably the worst joke as i would say it's the hardest of all of this.

Well except that it's usually more of an Honor to have served than to have gone to college. A degree says I was able to deal with a lot of stupid things that i really didn't need to do for 4 years and I did it how i was told.

I hate people who think that because they have a degree in English and/or History, IE like the post above(i just didn't want to directly reply to him), that they are more than the other person that has just as much experience but not the degree. I would never higher someone based off a degree, experience wins always. I'm sure most everyone would agree with me on that. With either of those two degree's anyways, why would you expect to be looked at on a pedestal when you work in IT? They have nothing, absolutely nothing to do with your line of work.

I can understand having different titles with in the IT department so that if and when you do need to higher you can attract the correct crowd. But in the end, does it really freaking matter? No.

So you degree mongering jackasses should just stop thinking you're better than someone who has more experience than you but only a HS diploma. You're going to learn the real world now, and it's nothing like the text book.

<quote>Prosecutors will decide next week if there is enough evidence for the charges facing Sun to stick. If they do, he could face serious fines and jail time.</quote>
So this poor kid has to stay in jail until they...find a convenient time to accuse him of "terrorism"? They had no trouble rushing to the point of accusing him that it was a "weapon of mass destruction"... and why is anyone calling this box that in the first place? Wouldn't IED be more fitting? This whole story is full of fail. I hope this kid gets some good lawyers and sues the shit out of anyone accusing him of terrorism.

You're not my Co-Worker are you?

When I enter my company every server was running Windows 2000 and corresponding windows 2000 products IE: Exchange and SQL. The FW was nothing special, it only could block ports and do VPN tunneling. We paid MS to block spam. Most of the server hardware is from 2003. PIII servers, some with multiple cpu's.

I've been able to slowly take out some of the un-needed redundancy with software that combines some of those items into one bundle and also using virtual servers to remove older hardware.

I removed the old FW and spam service. I took the old server running the FW and installed Untangle on it. I also pay for the Professional package for AD integration. They before were paying service for FW support and another payment for Spam. Now it's all in one, lower payment.

Now until recently i hadn't been afforded the $$$ to upgrade from Server 2000 to 2003/2008(now). However during that time i have experimented with VMware Server(1.4) and XenServer(5.0). I am a huge fan of the XenServer package. I know that VMware came out with ESXi but with some up coming time constraints i don't have time to test it out and my XenServer has worked wonderfully since i implemented it. The VMware server has worked well too, but i don't have as much flexibility with it as the XenServer. Yes, they are two different types of products but it's the only thing I have to compare to.

Each office use to have their own DC. I've removed them and used that hardware to install Untangle on them, mostly for routing purposes only. This takes care of DHCP, and DNS for me out there as well. I just use the free version for this and do this at 3 remote offices.

I don't load balance the Internet because it's not necessary for us. XenServer will be a failover once we have it complete configured that way so that if one goes down another will pick up the slack and start the servers from the downed XenServer.

Hopefully this gives you some more direction on where to look. Good luck.

I saw this free game play ad on the right of the article, "Neverland"
Oh it's so perfect. "Neverland" the place where Chinese never play games.

<quote><blockquote><div><p>Watch all these assholes cry because there is now NOTHING on the internet... figuratively speaking of course.</p></div>
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Anyone opposed to torrenting would likely appreciate the extra bandwidth.</p></quote>

Well it depends on the type of network that your ISP(s) are offering you with in your area. If your bandwidth is sufferring due to what you believe is someone torrenting within your networked area then your ISP is to blame and not the torrenter. That person was offered X down/up speeds and is merely using what he bought. Why are they to blame? The ISP's shouldn't be limiting the user because they don't want to provide more than enough bandwidth for everyone. They provide only what is used on average, which means you technically might not receive what you've been offered.

Torrents, torrents, torrents.. I don't know what kind of user you are but if you take advantage of any free, gnu, gpl'd type software, chances are they offer it via a torrent. It saves that group money so they don't have to purchase a high amount of monthly bandwidth usage and the user gets their download typically faster because of the torrent(depending on the active seeds).

So anyone that is opposed to torrenting probably doesn't realize that their free program that they downloaded actually relies on users torrenting it more than they do a direct download.

"The court did not agree with Mininova&rsquo;s defense that it is impossible to moderate all torrents that are uploaded to the site. It further said that Mininova is encouraging its users to download copyrighted material, helped by the several moderators that the site has in place." - http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-ordered-to-remove-all-infringing-torrents-090826/

What....Seriously? So what if i don't agree with the fact that Cops can't remove all criminals from the streets? Can i sue the city? No, because it's impossible to police everyone and everything. They are doing their best, and they expect something that they can't even provide with services they offer the community.

You know, maybe all the torrent sites should get together and shutdown for a whole month. Watch all these assholes cry because there is now NOTHING on the internet... figuratively speaking of course.

They hired you so they didn't have to know any of that. It took me a while to realize this, but the fact is; The just don't give a shit.

You can try and teach them how to cut and paste all day long, but in the end you'll still have to walk over to their computer to see what the fuckery they screwed up.