Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Patching With Wake-on-lan

Cemetery IT director, Auburn Cemetery

Energy Starr site has many tips

Kbox can do this

Carmella Anderson
Myths about PM, does it waste energy and damage PC's? No.

Power Management
Auditing with Reporting Module
EPA recommends 30-60 min

Configure all points: Bios, Switches and NIC, port 9 is common
PSShutdown.exe is 3rd party tool for shutting down.

we need to Label Desktops and Laptops


Kace user Konference -2

Help Desk Best Practices


Parent/Child Tickets, closure rules need to be discussed
Auto Rules: Waiting on Response
we need to look at changing the phone message: "please visit helpdesk.gmcs.k12.nm.us"

Approval: cannot close unless they select approved status, i.e. equipment request, or HR report



upcoming feature: process ticket, ie, new hire ticket creates multiple tickets

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Kace user Konference

Application Virtualization.

How things are today? is it a .msi, a .exe, windows7. 
Repackaging is an issue, usually manual process

Application Virtualization.
seperate dll's from system while allowing read access to read sysem
containers foe each app, or multiple apps per container, we have the bandwidth to support this.


Sunday, November 1, 2009

idea for a show

Trauma: Afterlife

Premise: Death is mostly a traumatic experience, causing mental strain on those it happens to. Afterlife "EMTs" would be on hand as erratic and confused ghosts cross over. The mind is so powerful as to keep perceived wounds "bleeding" or dismembered body parts "detached."

Setting: Afterlife looks a lot like earth, in fact it exists parallel to earth, allowing for "visitations." Afterlife is really a holding place before you "crossover" depending on certain conditions? Being there is like watching TV, you can see the beach in crystal clear definition, but not really feel it. There is no real physical contact with other afterlifers, But all have the same addictions, feelings and needs they did when they had bodies. No one knows the duration one must stay in the afterlife.

Protagonist: Main character would be "new arrival" who gets thrust into EMT job, but knows it wasn't his time. was always adept at helping others, but not very good at helping himself or his relationships.

Antagonist? long time resident of the afterlife(amongst other many famous people) jaded afterlifer, hates being there, hasn't "crossed over"
Visitors: afterlifers who enjoy haunting

Comic relief: Convincing those that died in their sleep that they haven't been kidnapped or abducted by aliens

When checking in with the records keeper ask "So can I meet Elvis Prestly?" and he says "Who?"