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    what did you learn today?

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by scorp508:<BR>Nothing new but just a reenforcement that no matter how much management says "Processes must be followed", they themselves will never...
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    What LMS/e-learning/corporate training software do you like (or hate)?

    I should have mentioned that we use a system called Questionmark Perception for online test taking. I think it is fairly easy to use, but I have a love/hate relationship with installing and configuring it.
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    What LMS/e-learning/corporate training software do you like (or hate)?

    I help support PeopleSoft ELM where I work. I don't think our business users are all that pleased with it (as they are doing some upgrade or replace research right now), but from what I've been told they don't use it the way it was meant to be used.<BR><BR>As an end user, I had the displeasure...
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    Speaker recommendation help?

    And I managed to create this thread in the wrong forum. Can a mod move this to the Audio/Visual Club please?
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    Speaker recommendation help?

    I’m about to revamp the living room and I need some speaker recommendations, or at least a reliable source for un-retarded reviews. I’d like to get a center and either two floor standing or bookshelf speakers with stands for less than $1000. Here's a photo for reference. The 27” TV will be...
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    ok, way late to the party. Why DD-WRT?

    I was having issues with my WRT54GL for quite a while. The wireless would stop working about every thirty days and would have to be plugged/un-plugged. I installed Tomato and added an automatic bounce every seven days. Problem solved.
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    If You're Going to Spend Today Playing One Game All Day, What is It?

    Hearts of Iron 2. I can play for eight hours without blinking.
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    Professional database environment

    I work for one of the big shops that technophile mentioned. Our process involves Data Modelers working with the Developers to produce an ERD that is given to the DBAs to create in the development database. The ERD has to get approval from the Data Review Board before moving to the production...
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    ITSM Best Practice for Incident Management

    At my organization: Tier 1 consists of people (who I suspect have no technical background) answering the phone and getting almost no useful details. Tier 2 consists of people who once were in Tier 3. Through our organizational mandates, they can throw all of their former knowledge out the...
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    Any love for Marantz receivers around here?

    Thanks for all the input. Speakers were my next question. I'll lurk for awhile and see what brands get recommended.
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    What do you like about the Finder?

    I'll say "Hell yes!" to both, even though I've never heard of Greg's Browser and System 6 was before my time.
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    Any love for Marantz receivers around here?

    I’m looking to upgrade my whole living room setup in one fell swoop, which will include the Marantz 4220. My dad bought the receiver before I was born, and besides some white noise (that I think is due to the cable box) and the light bulbs finally dying, it’s still going strong. I see lots of...
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    What do you like about the Finder?

    Control Strip, Launcher, WindowShade, Apple HD SC Setup, Graphing Calculator, AppleTalk
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    moto E815 oldy but goodie?

    AT&T is threatening to do something similar to me. (Upping my text messaging plan from 200/$5 to unlimited/$20.) After talking to the sales rep, the mandatory upgrade of the text plan only happens if I get a new phone with the rebates. Perhaps you can avoid this by buying the phone without...
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    what did you learn today?

    That when management sets the priorities... everything's a priority!
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    Programming Goals for 2010

    I want to write a polling process to 1) monitor our nightly batch cycle and store the results, 2) notify us if the speed drops below a calculated or user-determined threshold and 3) provide enough detail to allow for some statistical analysis of the historical results. I already wrote the...
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    What's the silliest things you've ever done in multiplayer (esp. MMO) games?

    Back when BF1942 was just Wake Island, I teamed up with another player in a jeep and we roamed the island capturing flags. I would lay on the hood of the jeep and fire my BAR as he drove. We were constantly moving from one tip of the island to the other, outnumbered, since most of our team was...
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    Digital Photo Frames (Wi-Fi enabled) - recommendations?

    All of the frames I looked at with wifi wouldn't work with the wireless security settings I desired. Make sure you consider that before purchasing.
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    what did you learn today?

    That our IT security folks can create duplicate DNS entries using the IP address we use for our production database, take down our application during the middle of the batch window (causing us to miss the SLO by 1.5 hours), and suffer absolutely no consequences.
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    Best free VBScript editor that is not notepad?

    I love SlickEdit as a Notepad replacement for its 1) macro features and 2) awesome find and replace. It's hella' expensive though.