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        <title><![CDATA[Personal Computing vs Core Computing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This article is accurate for personal computing needs, and pre-packaged software like word processors and spreadhsheets has been around for ever. I don't think the same applies to the core developed software that runs the business and makes it unique. Thos purpose built core packages will be under development for the forseeable future at least in the banking arena where I work. tur most of it is now done of shore and that will have its own repurcussions as Western worlds dumb down.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[binnbl]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:02:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[As long as we have users who are unwilling to learn, we will have IT]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here's a classic example of why the IT support era is not ending anytime soon.This just happened today.A guy at our company wanted to try out a cloud service before he talked to anyone in IT about it. I run the IT Department.He made all the arrangements himself with a sales rep.. He picked the cheapest plan (Basic Edition) he could for a 14 day trial run. After using it for a week, he had some questions about functionality. After he tried unsuccessfully to contact his sales rep three times (a cloud service problem), his boss called me to complain about the lack of service as if I had anything to do with it. I offered to help them. I found out what features he needed, showed him which edition would meet those needs, gave him a link to the video demonstrating how to do what he wanted to do, set him up with a new sales rep whose area of expertise is in our line of work, extended the trial, and saved the company a boatload of money by negotiating with the new sales rep..If he had contacted me in the beginning instead of trying to impress his boss and do it himself, the company would not have lost days of his productivity monkeying around with the wrong edition.My next task will be convincing him that he should not be the systems administrator because I am certain that my staff will be called in to make it work when he cannot.That's why the end of the IT era is not near.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JJFitz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 11:33:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Subscribing to Mikey's feed]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-391816-3670152]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[http://mikeyforpresident.wordpress.com/?feed=rssAnd to all members of the forum: I understand this is off-topic (sort of), so I appreciate your indulgence.Mikey sends his Meow and Purrfect Friendship!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[premiertechnologist]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 06:40:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bingo!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[And this is the 'transition' most of our traditional support techies and server admins will need to make to survive. You're skills are still required people, just not in the usual arenas.This was part of what Jason was getting at in his article.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dl_wraith]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 01:38:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I knew T'interweb would supply]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Check out the venn diagram here at:http://www.greatwhitesnark.com/2010/03/25/difference-between-nerd-dork-and-geek-explained-in-a-venn-diagram/best overview of geek/nerd/whatever I could find with 5 mins and Google.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dl_wraith]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 01:35:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[PT's cat is made of win]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That is all.can I subscribe to his feed? ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dl_wraith]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 01:24:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My cat has a comment, if that's OK:]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[http://mikeyforpresident.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/comment-on-the-very-short-attention-span-of-generation-whine/]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[premiertechnologist]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 15:49:42 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[or...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[work for the company that hosts the email in the cloud.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JJFitz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 07:59:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I like your casual attitude about &quot;a big security breach&quot;]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[and I am hoping that my personal information is not stored at your company.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JJFitz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 07:30:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[GEEK]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm a geek, and proud of it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tjsobieski@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 06:52:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jason's right]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As I see the future: A decent graphics card, audio card and high speed internet connection will be all that is needed. Processor? Hard drive? No worries there. It all runs in a virtual desktop on the cloud. As a network admin, the recent migration to Exchange 2010 may be redundant if the organization I'm at goes cloud. Looks like I need to sign up for some development courses!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JVillet]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 03:20:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yes, but the reasons are different]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here is why this is happening:The amount of bright people, the true 'geeks' in this world is an very small and more or less constant number over time. The number of bright people does not grow with education or any human efforts..The huge number of people who work in IT today, are of the &quot;Me Too&quot; type. Those people have little more qualification than the average user and their only advantage is that they are hired to perform IT tasks. Most of the time they do low-level technical tasks, no matter what their job description is.On the cloud.. The Cloud is a new name for the Internet. The Internet was designed to handle the things that some today claim are for the Cloud. It is just that only now, many people and companies wake up to comprehend what Internet is all about.So don't worry. If you are one of the few blessed geeks, you will become more and more valuable to all your peers with time, because computer technology and technology in general becomes more and more complex, often beyond comprehension by most human beings.Companies, like Apple, Google, whoever - they just make money out of the work done by those very few bright people, who chose to pass their time on Earth playing with IT.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[danbi]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:03:14 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No sane company would use Google services, ever]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Those who subscribe to Google Apps and the like are the &quot;Me Too&quot; types. These definitely deserve what they get!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[danbi]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 14:44:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Governance]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IT should be at least as good at finding and using these more accessible efficient tools as end users, and by retaining a role for that team in selecting solutions and directing users to them, we achieve more order.  I love non-technical people discovering new tools, but I also need to be able to figure out where we're all creating and storing intellectual property, what we name new servers and systems, and so forth.  There's bound to be more self-service IT in coming years, but I think IT can only decentralize so much before tech life becomes dis-functional.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lsamaha]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:36:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You talk with real people...everyday???]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[And you call yourself an IT person...you have just been EXPOSED!!!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[aflynnhpg]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:44:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Funny....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I just built my own PBX using Asterisk and PBX In A Flash.  Tied a GV Trunk and a Nortel 1535 VOIP phone.  Spent $70 bucks on the project, now I'm making and receiving calls for free.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[aflynnhpg]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:32:46 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mark my words]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Good article, generated a lot of comments.Bottom Line: Software-As-A-Service + Consolidation = Death of IT!Snap out if it, it's already happening.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Contradiction]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:23:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Science Fiction of the 1930s]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Tucked away in the basement level of Eastern Washington University is one of the largest science fiction archives in the world with science fiction books of the 1930s. It was an exciting time back then and the Great Vision, if we were to call it that, is that the World was going to hell in a handbasket and the Engineer / Scientist heroes of the story came up with rational solutions to society problems and saved the day.Fast forward to today's science fiction: Even the &quot;hard&quot; science fiction is based on characters struggling -- usually amidst a developing romance of one kind or another -- struggling with socialogical problems, the implications of which they just didn't see coming.And I think... just how like the development from Data Processing to IT parallels the science fiction world.We've gone from the bread and butter, meat and potatoes business of Payroll / Personnel and Buget / Finance engineering processing problems requiring technologists with impressive skills, none of which are social, to the management &quot;we want them to be like us, but do jobs which require entirely different skills&quot; smarmy insistance that everyone in IT be 95% social and 2% technical with who knows what makes up the last few percentage points.IT must now do the job of sales, PR and management to be accounted to be worth anything, rather than do the head's down non socialized work of really doing the work because management doesn't not only know what it's doing, but it can't begin to understand what technologists should do. They want the auto mechanic to also be chauffeur, chef, social planner and party facilitator on the salary of the janitor, because that's what they understand (if only dimly, if they understand anything at all). The real question is, how can this technical non person contribute to my bottom line, my career and my golden parachute when the bottom falls out. Also, it's important to have someone to blame for the errors that ended the company through incompetent management.There are many good books on this sort of topic. I highly recommend &quot;Snakes in Suits&quot; by Dr. Paul Babiak and Dr. Robert Hare. IT Professionals are up against narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths, incompetents and nut jobs in positions of authority.And that is the main reason that IT is more like science fiction every day that goes by.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[premiertechnologist]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:18:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't know who you are dealing with but...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[people where I work are actually becoming...well...dumber as far as tech.   They can't tell when the computer is in sleep mode or when it's off.  There's only two possibilities for the orientation of a flash drive and yet they can't manage to get either to work.  And now all of a sudden they can't remember how to spell the names of people they've worked with for years and we have misdirected e-mail all over the place.  90% of my calls lately are over things that I just have to say to myself &quot;Really?&quot;  The over-abundance of technology is actually causing a backslide in common user knowledge as far as what I've been seeing.  It's hard to teach users about advanced features and capabilities if you are constantly having to go over the basics.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bd@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:11:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't like the term &quot;Geek&quot; either.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Geek is a term used by folks to put IT folks down. It is insulting.Imagine if we casually called all doctors &quot;Quacks&quot;.I understand why sites like TechRepublic use it. It generates more clicks than &quot;IT support&quot; would.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JJFitz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:04:00 -0700</pubDate>
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