IT Seminar Project Discussion

Our team decided a few weeks back that we were going to investigate wikis for our research papers. We have been discussing this assignment offline but we decided we wanted to actually catalog some of our discussions so that we would have them for references. The first item to discuss is to decide exactly how we are going to partition the work (ie. how are we going to break the topic of wikis into three distinct topics). I think one potential idea is to investigate the use of wikis in the workplace. What do you guys think? Post comments!

Currently... Tech Support

Has anyone ever noticed that as soon as someone realizes you are an engineer or an IT person you immediately become their Tech Support POC? I am finally coming to grips w/ the fact that every member of my family uses me as their computer guru for just about every problem. Granted, I guess I bring some of this on myself by acknowledging the fact that I know a little something about computers and networking but I sure don't know everything. With that said if anyone knows anything about getting a Broadcom 440X 10/100 ethernet card working on a dell laptop give me a shout. The drivers all seem to be installed correctly but DHCP doesn't seem to initialize correctly and thus I can't get an IP address and ping out... Doh!!

C and C++ Here we go again...

I've just accepted a new rotation working as a SW eng and I'm going to be doing C and C++ coding. This is good because I'm ready to get back to doing technical work again but I definitely need a refresher. Gotta go back and review inheritance and all that good stuff in C. Oh yeah and pointers... I freakin hate pointers. And what the hell is a char* anyway. Time for review...

Virtual vs In-Person Discussion

Well yesterday we had an interesting debate in class about which method was superior for working and having meetings, either in-person or virtually. Of course this topic can be fairly charged and for a portion of the class it was. My group had to defend the notion that working virtually was superior to working face to face. I think we made some decent points about potential cost savings and increasing the potential labor pool. I found the discussion to be quite interesting. In the end everyone agrees that a combination of both methodologies is the best approach but that the real path toward expansion in the global economy is with virtual technologies... Oh yeah and be prepared for Generation Y or the Digital Generation or whatever they are called. They are going to screw up the way we do meetings like crazy!!

Topics for Project

Team we need to decide what our topic should be for our IT Seminar Class. Lets start that dialog here. We should try to pick something that is interesting to all of us and potentially applicable to what we do at work. More experience on items related to work are always a good idea. I was thinking that video teleconferencing technologies might be an interesting potential topic. Post some comments on what you think.

FYI HTML hyperlink

In case anyone doesn't know how to post a hyperlink to a blog here is a great site explaining:

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Second Life --- AHHHHH

Second Life more like Taking My Life... Yes, I'm frustrated w/ second life. It won't run on my laptop at all and that bugs me enough as it is. It runs alright on my desktop but once I'm in there I don't have any idea what to do. I fly around sometimes and I guess that's cool but then what do I do? Post a comment! Give some advice!

Second Life Website

Facebook vs. Myspace

After an interesting discussion in class last night I came to the conclusion that I far prefer Facebook as the social networking tool of choice. It has the features, simplicity, and psuedo-security that I'm looking for. Maybe it doesn't have the flexibility of myspace but that is a trade off I'm willing to make. What do you think? See the poll!

Picture Post

For those of you who don't know me. Here is a picture.

First Time Blogger

Well here is my first attempt to create a blog. I'm know its pretty sparse right now but hopefully in the near future it's going to look better. If anyone out there has any suggestions to make this blog look great let me know! Hope everyone enjoys what is to become of this blog.