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We've had a number of customers recently move to SCEP 2012 from other solutions, particularly mcafee, but also some symantec, sophos etc. These have generally been customers on an EA, with core cal already purchased and additionally , SCCM 2007 or 2012 already in place for deployment.... so for these enviornments, there is a cost…
Continue readingSPAM is an unfortunate fact of life... whether or not it be random religious whack jobs, penis enlargements or nigerian bank managers who have found an error which will end up in me getting $50 million, all they need is a little good faith money - its all as annoying as each other. Fortunately when…
Continue readingIve had dealing s with a customer lately who has come out with the following gems: Comment : "We're a very risk adverse organisation" Real meaning: "We're scared of everything and live in conatsnt fear of anything and everything - so dont do anything, ever! I still get paid right.. ?" Comment: "there are 1000…
Continue readingThe west - particularly the yanks, are always banging on about free speech. Why is it that free speech only applies when "freely" discussing certain things? http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/20/3248665.htm Why when extremists (and they are extremists) decide that something offends them, can it not be discussed? Isn't that most sane people's issue with religion ? That discussion…
Continue readingAhhh the world we live in.... if you have no useful skills in any area of life, you have the option of becoming a politician, going to work for HP or ringing people, telling them your from Microsoft and that you have detected a virus on their machine and that for a $300+ charge you…
Continue readingAnother major-ish news story going around at the moment (apart from the Australian federal governments terrible budget - but thats localised) is the jewish newspaper that photoshopped out the two women in the situation room during the "obama gets osama" mission. Huh? What? Why? There's been apologies/statements/rubbish released about respect of women and blah blah…
Continue readinghttp://www.blaghag.com/2011/03/thanks-us-military-rock-beyond-belief.html no great surprise here..... coming from the country that values oil more than it own citizens lives and the evil dogma of child-molesting religious zealots more than reason.
Continue readinghttp://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/26/3149628.htm No great surprise here - i think my views on the topic have been expressed clearly before - but just to get it off my chest.... Freedom of choice is one of the most basic, core human rights that any person has a right to feel pissed off about losing. It is completely irrelevant…
Continue readingAustralia is a free nation, free to think what we want, say what want, do what we want... as long as we dont choose to use that freedom to think or say things deemed as "bad" by someone, somewhere... http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/10/3008863.htm Just as well we have freedom... our federal politicans are a bunch of spineless evil…
Continue readingThe bane of many people in Aus has been tring to get reasonable internet access for many years. I recently swapped over to a naked DSL connection - to rid myself of the telstra menace - and performance has been average to say the least. (My previous service was non-naked on a different line into…
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