Sabre 2/3rd Tiger v3

I have a need for a software to help the guys/gals to inventorize all our PCs (now getting to 500+) including their specs and serial number. A quick google search found me an open source candidate, OCS Inventory 3.00 Final released on 29 March 2005. Its main site gives the following introduction …
Open Computers […]

Scott’s nice write-up on 11 April 2005 about Linux SCM provides a nice perspective on tridge’s possible viewpoint …
… I suspect that someone who didn’t know the people involved would assume that the whole mess was Tridge’s fault—he’s the one that was working on cloning BitKeeper, even though any sane person would know that it […]

Directories of web sites are more common than wikis. So I next thought of searching for those directories with Malaysia specific contents. What I found, are sorted below, according to total number of sites listed:

Malaysia CARI - maintained by CARI Internet Sdn Bhd, has about 36,000 sites in 14 main categories.
Malaysia Central - maintained by […]

Seems the guys have decided that now is a good time to get a new enterprise wide anti virus system. I think they’re proposing Trend Micro Enterprise Solutions. Lets see …

Products:

Corporate Antivirus Software - PCMag, 22 Apr 2003. McAfee Active Virus Defense, Sophos Anti-Virus, Symantec AntiVirus Enterprise Edition 8.0, Trend Micro Enterprise Protection […]

Should we change from typical write-off period of 5 years to replacement cycles of 4 years?

PC Lifespan and Replacement - Mike Barger’s guidelines under Creative Commons copyright recommending, “Increase the replacement life cycle for newly purchased … PCs to 4 years … offers the best mix of lower initial purchase cost with extended time […]

… or when to completely write 0ff the net book values of those darn computers.

InvestorWords: net book value - “The net value of an asset. Equal to its original cost (its book value) minus depreciation and amortization. also called net book value and depreciated cost.”
Investopedia: Book Value - “1. The value at which an […]

Amongst other things our Raid 5 fileserver failed to reboot today, 2 of our 5 disks in the array failed. And our tape backup over last weekend didn’t complete, so had to fall back on 1 week old backup. And big boss wanted a report that was stored on that fileserver. And the particular user […]

Langalist is one of my oldest PC related mailing list subscription. I haven’t been reading every issue that comes out every 3 or 4 days. However, lately while doing so, found that the issues are as relevant as I used to remembered it.

More info on Langalist Home Page.

The following are the top ten things for a prospective successful IT manager to remember, according to Bill Vass, the CIO of Sun Microsystems.

Rule 1: Open Systems Succeed
Rule 2: Proprietary Systems Fail
Rule 3: Separation of Logical Layers
Rule 4: Standards Matter
Rule 5: What’s Old is New
Rule 6: Technology is not “The” […]