Ah yes, full disclosure on the Honour System. Like Union Carbide, and Exxon, and BP, and...you get the idea.

Au contraire, there aren't ENOUGH rules regarding privacy and security - nor...

OK, this is going to come across really crude but....surely some of the best "thinking time" has to be sitting on the toilet. When else do you get 20 minutes...

stephen k. gartrell (7/21/2010)

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James Stover (7/21/2010)We are all temps. The past few years has really brought that into sharp focus. This is the present and future of work. Get used...

stephen k. gartrell (7/21/2010)

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James Stover (7/21/2010) But I take your point and it convinces me even further that a business should operate with as few employees as possible. You...

stephen k. gartrell (7/20/2010)

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Why, to listen to you, you'd think that...

Why would you bother having a team of SAN admins on staff? Maybe a storage architect, but not disk jockeys. Bring in an outside consultancy or a contractor for the...

Congratulations on the promotion. There are plenty of resources "out there" that will tell you what to do. Unfortunately, there aren't as many resources that tell you what NOT to...

Are we talking about the Cloud or virtualization? In a virtual environment I still work with discreet "machines". In the Cloud, my understanding it's a mystical service you plug into....

There's a great line spoken by John Milton (played by Al Pacino) in the movie "The Devil's Advocate":

"Pressure. Changes everything. Some people, you squeeze them, they focus. Some people fold."

The...

I'm sure TDE will make it's way into lower versions - possibly even Express. Once Microsoft gets a whiff of 3rd parties (including their partners) muscling in on its turf...

Dan.Humphries (7/2/2010)

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If you where a box of crayons what color would you be and why?

I love when these types of questions get asked!

Can someone tell me how this tells...

I'm a believer in contract-to-hire. It gives everyone a chance to "kick the tires" and if it doesn't work out, you cut your losses. Oh sure, the contractor can walk...

david_wendelken (6/30/2010)

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Don't forget, the low-paid flunky at the cloud vendor doesn't own stock in YOUR company.

He has no loyalty to anyone working at your company.

But he might want to make...

john.fuex (6/29/2010)

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This is straight out of an Organizational Behavior 101 textbook.

Essentially any extrinsic motivation like pay raises, breakfast at the office, etc. is at best going to give you a...

Being an aging cynic, these two idioms come to mind:

1) No good deed goes unpunished

2) You can't please all of the people, all of the time

So, in summary: Eat the...