Inspiratioin:
A burst of creativity…
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Hi All!
It has definitely been a while! I’ve been busy and what-not trying to get things ready around the house for my wife and I to have our first kid!
(insert celebration sounds and noises here).
That being said, I’m looking for some help from folks are actively making money online doing whatever… I’m not looking to become the next internet millionaire or what-not. I just want something where I can make a few extra bucks a month.
Anybody have any suggestions?
See Yas!
~Brant
Hi All!
Glad you decided to come back! Real life has been a killer lately what, with work and tons going on in my personal life! Not really drama or anything juicy, just being busy that’s kept me away from my writing!
So… Here’s my attempt to make up for the lack of attention!
For anybody who reads my blog that is an IT Professional, I highly recommend that you take a look at Spiceworks (http:/www.spiceworks.com).
As a member of a small IT Shop (4 full timers) for a college campus of roughly 1100 people during a semester, keeping an accurate inventory of our (college-owned) PCs/Macs/Linux machines and networking switches can be rather difficult.
The Spiceworks product will help you to accurately inventory the network by scanning any ip ranges that you specify and connecting via WMI (for windows),SSH (Linux/Mac), and SNMP (Network switches –also SSH/Telnet) to gather useful information (software installed, system specs, etc). Once it discoveres your sytem, it will monitor the Windows Event Log and keep you up-to-date on the event log entries on your network.
One of the nice things about Spiceworks is that it allows you to record other information about the system, such as cost, or who it belongs to, where it’s located, etc. Another one of the nice things about Spiceworks it that is has a Helpdesk system as well. The helpdesk system allows you to keep track of who (which user and computer) a helpdesk ticket blongs to so you can keep track of problematic machines, etc.
Spiceworks is free to use in your organization. They do offer a paid option that removes the (very relevant) ads from the web-based console, and it is extremely reasonable!
The *BEST* thing about Spiceworks is the community-driven forums. It doesn’t matter what branch of IT you are in (or are getting into), there is a place for you!
If you are in the market for a system that can help you monitor what’s on your network, or inventory your systems, give it a whirl.
Hope this finds you all well!
~Brant~
I tell a lot of my friends and family that I spend half my life waiting on computers to do something, and the other half of my life trying to figure out why they didn’t do what I told them to do in the first place… This feels true for me.
With the advent of the computer revolution of the mid-to-late nineties and now the sudden what-can-I-cram-into-the-palm-of-my-hand rave, computers and technology are setting up for yet another computer revolution.
Imagine yourself in the future say…..oh….five or ten years from now. There likely will be laptops and such in existence still, but rather than them being a machine that we use for portability, they will be machines that we use for most of our primary needs. I need to check my email — oh yeah, let me pull out my super duper handy flexible screen and do that. It likely will pickup a near by internet connection from some device or another and bam, you have your email…or your office’s super secret documents right there underneath your morning coffee.
It may take us a lifetime to understand how computers work or we may not care — just as long as they work. But for someone like me, the ever shrinking world of electronics will take a lifetime to compute!
See ya later!
~Brant
