Archive for January, 2007

IT & condescendence

14 January 2007

The Information Technology field is filled with people who have the attitude that, because they know a whole lot about technology, they are better than or smarter than the average user.  What it really boils down to is this: We all have different skill sets.  I work in a college.  I doubt that the Dean [...]

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Cisco vs. HP Procurve

8 January 2007

“I woke up this morning, saw the news and laughed in your face.”  In 2000, these exact words were spoken to me by a Cisco representative.  Not a reseller, mind you, but an actual Cisco employee.  In 1999, while working as an Associate Director of Information Technology at a college in upstate New York, where [...]

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Ok… so Exchange 2007 isn’t *all* good.

1 January 2007

First off, I should preface this by saying that, while I really, really like Exchange 2007, I never thought that everything about Exchange 2007 was 100% positive.  There will be some deployment challenges, to be sure.  But, Microsoft cut some pretty important corners that just make no sense.  I read somewhere that the Exchange team [...]

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