Racism is defined as a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others. Any policy based completely on race. Want to change it? Here is a good start:
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We are using an idea like this at my shop. We are about 10 people and I run the tech, if we were bigger it probably would not work. I don't lock boxes down. We let people who want to pick out what they work with, you want a desktop with 3 monitors? Sure. A 17" laptop? Sure. A great travel 15" laptop, fine. Mac Pro? No problem. And when asked, "Can I install X, Y, Z on it?" Sure, it's yours basically, do whatever you'd like with it. And when you have problems we'll try and help you fix YOUR machine, while we are blowing it away and resetting it up YOU can use this old machine for 2 days. It's a tool to do your job, do what you want with it.
Basically I've found that if you have them think of that machine as theirs, they treat it better. So instead of their mindset being, "Well, I'll just download this, my antivirus will stop me if it's bad and IT can deal with it" They have been thinking, "It's probably not worth messing with, I don't want to screw up MY computer."
Like I said, we are willing to help them, but I tell them straight up that it is their laptop/desktop to use. When some people leave we've just let them take their old laptop with them. I mean, they picked it out, it's got the stuff they want on it, and it's 2 years old, take it. The new guy will want to pick his own stuff out.
If we grew much bigger though we'd need more in the line of policy.
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It give both of us a free 250 MB bonus. Can't hurt to ask right? I've been using dropbox for a while and absolutely love it.
I've looked around, I haven't seen any information about a new AirRave this year. Do you have more information on it? Or could you point me in that direction good sir? What I really want is to just be able to buy a box, plug it in, and boom, instant bars. The Network Extender I have for my Verizon phone is like that, it's wonderful!
I've gotta give the nod to Picasa. Free and easy to use. The ONLY drawback I've had with it is reading mp4 video files (which my Sony camera takes). I had to install a codec pack to force windows to make thumbnails and then Picasa would recognize them. Aside from that it has all the fun home features you need, auto face recognition and nice easy ways to do things in bulk.
I use dropbox for sort of the same reason. I've also found that it's replaced my thumb drive and ftp server to some degree. If I have mp3s at home and I want to bring them to work, or vice versa, I just drop box 'em. It really is a lot easier then actually having to manage your data. It's also been handy if I have a friend I want to share a doc with that I update a lot, ala RockBand "These are the songs I have".xls Being that drop box allows you to give an http readonly link to your file on the cloud. And up to 2 gigs free! It's sweet.
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