Auditors advise a bank's CIO to add an "authorization warning" that will show up on all PCs before log-on, and this pilot fish is tasked to wh...

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IT-challenged users at this engineering firm sometimes bring their more vexing problems to this software manager pilot fish instead of the he...

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Help desk pilot fish gets a trouble ticket: A support tech is having a problem with asset management software that isn't reporting properly on...

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Yes, No, No ... Pilot fish gets an opportunity for a week of training, room and board paid for by the training company. All he needs is money...

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One of the many niggling little issues that militated against the iPhone's use as a full-on business-oriented tool had been the outrageo...

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Who Needs It? User buys his own laptop and brings it to this IT pilot fish to load VPN software on it. But the machine comes with Windows Vist...

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THIS is your idea of comfort food? (Richi, I don't think this is working as well as it does for some people...) ...

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Well, not really, I just wanted to see if I could get six^W seven^W eight^W nine pages of comments on a post. Not to mention the odd death th...

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My boss just said we're moving to Macs. I don't know if he was serious, but it might really happen -- he's a bona-fide, born-again Mac zealot, after decades of using real computers (he even had his own, successful Windows-centric ...

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Ssssh! Be vewwy vewwry qwwiet. It's Friday's IT Blogwatch: in which Skype suffers a huge outage. Not to mention the weirdest converter ever... Gregg...

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