That's pretty funny, no I do not. I have taken the position of ignoring social media in general over the years. My business associates and well meaning friends are the ones constantly telling me this. I set mine up a few years ago and have not done much with it. Now I am looking for new opportunities hence the comments about LinkedIn.

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I appreciate your comments and all of the others as well. Thank you for adding your thoughts. I too am a veteran, what is this veterans group you are referring to?

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I too get similar responses. What do you do to find work?

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So do you use social media or anything else for your professional life?

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I am constantly told that I need to maintain a very active LinkedIn Profile. What are your thoughts?

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I have been trying to find the Job section here. Can't find it. Is it gone or am i just blind?

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I have both been a part of development teams and been responsible for them. I agree that the troublemaker will remain a trouble maker no matter what. I have taken the approach to ask the passive agressive individual to take the lead on a particularly difficult aspect of the job at hand. 9 times out of 10 they eventually turn around or leave on their own.

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Richard Andrew x64 wrote:

Year 10 is the TENTH year of the decade, meaning that the new decade doesn't begin until Year 11.

Richard, I understand the confusion that is represented by this thinking, however, I have a simple series of questions. 1. What is the purpose of the columns while writing numbers? (i.e. ones, tens, hundreds) 2. How exactly would you write '10' in the ones column? 3. How exactly would you write '2' in a binary ones column? 4. How exactly would you write '16' in a hex ones column? The point of my questions is to demonstrate a mathematical principle on enclosure. The idea of the base that is used to represent numbers dictates the ability to represent the same values within that numbering system. Thus, since all of our years are base 10 we use the mathematical representation of ones, tens, hundreds and so on. Therefore, since it is not possible to contain a 'ten' within the ones column we are required to increment the tens column and the decade is truly from '0' to '9'. Hope this helps.

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Christopher Duncan wrote:

Sounds like far too much fun for any one mortal to have.

:((

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Christopher Duncan wrote:

It's actually quite scandalous how simple and straightforward it is.

I agree it would be simple if all I needed to backup was data, but I need the Active Directory, Exchange and SQL. Each of these introduce different problems and simply zipping would not handle them.

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Christopher Duncan wrote:

Is the storage for your backup a hard drive or some other device, such as a tape or DVD?

The storage for the backup is rather distributed. I have hard drive disk arrays/ enclosures used for first line backup. I also use an autoloader for backing up these disk images.

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How unfortunate for him. This is exactly the kind of situation I am trying to avoid. Thanks for the post.

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John M. Drescher wrote:

Is the product still developed? To me it seems that every single product symantec buys out it only half heartily continues development but spends more effort/money on marketing the product.

I agree. It seems like every product that they buy they destroy. Thanks for the vote on Bacula. I did look at this but not that closely.

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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

I use Acronis TrueImage Home, and I know they have a server version, but I don't know how much it is.

I have just checked the pricing and it is the same as Symantec. Thanks for your thoughts.

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I have been a fan of Veritas Backup Exec for years. However, I have not been very pleased with the product since Symantec bought them a few years back. Now Symantec has jacked up their prices so high that it has become difficult to recommend to anyone. The final icing on the cake came in the form of a separate agent for Windows Server 2008 Active Directory. They are actually charging extra just to take care of a function that has been a part of the basic product since AD was introduced. With Microsoft changing their backup engine starting in Server 2008 the only option I have seen so far is the image based backup. Does anyone have any information on Backup Options other than what I have mentioned? I am considering creating a solution and my researching has not really produced much information. The choices I have found are either built around the Windows Server Backup or are Open source to include other OS's but not specifically Server 2008.

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I agree that deleting it off of the drive it useless. The question comes down to a simple one. How can you prevent U3 from executing within the enterprise other than buying Endpoint security programs?

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Your welcome.

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No apology needed, but thank you anyways. All drives attached share their respective buses for sustainable throughput. As a result, the more drives on your bus the more your sustainable throughput is shared. SATA in general still has the IDE technology internally within the drive and the old IDE standard internally had a sustainable throughput of only 33MB. Thus any gains in performance due to configurations are offset by the bottle neck of the architecture. In a Terminal server application environment this is real obvious if the server uses SATA. SAS or SCSI are very different because not only does the bus actually put the data through at the rates described, but the controller also does some premtive optimization. Yes I understand that the bus is still shared, however, the defined speeds of 320MB or 1.5GB or 3GB is actually a little more real. A SAS drive will transfer at 800MB where SATA still will be limited. There is more but suffice it to say that any drive at a higher spindle rate will out perform similar drives at lower speeds. Raid 1 is my preferred environment where the volume can be contained on a single drive because the read/write operations can be handled preemptively in a more efficient manner by the controller than a RAID 0. In the end it all depends on what you are trying to do, hence my simple answer of the 10K single drive or 10K RAID 1. Hope this helps.

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You asked for help. I offered it in a direct manner. I chose not to throw a bunch of information at you just a summary. Why the hostility?

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My reply also came from extensive experience. I just didn't want to bore you with the details.

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