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I recently ran into a whole new problem with blacklisting. I have been working with computers and network systems for over 20 years. The spam problem is definitely an issue that is not going away any time soon. The blacklisting of spammers was a great idea until the new militant attitude some of these blacklisting companies are taking.

Received my November 16 copy of Computerworld this morning and of course had to turn to the SharkTank page during my first spare moments.

User works in South America, corporate offices are in the USA. User visits head office once or twice a year, and "major" Windows maintenance is performed then, if IT can get their hands on his laptop. Last year, he had Gizmo Project (the VOIP app that Google just bought) installed, but stopped using it and asked IT to remove it.

Computerworld's annual salary survey came out today, which makes us wonder: how are Shark Bait's denizens faring in this economy? Are you getting paid what you deserve? Have you taken a pay cut and are happy just to be employed, or has your moral taken a beating along with your salary?

My question is this there is a lot of software that is free all over the internet, In your own opinion what things should people purchase or just have for free such as anti-virus software, etc?

The television show 24 stars Jack Bauer as a modern-day MacGyver, using whatever means at his disposal to keep the country safe from terrorists. But what if Bauer and his team had existed 15 years ago — would they be nearly as effective with the technology of 1994?

I purchase McAfee Security on 10-31-2009 with a 35.00 rebate offer. Now they want me to prove I purchased it from them even though they put it on my mastercard.
I think they make the rebate so hard to collect that most people just ignore it due to the cost to them to collect it. Whatever happened to Customer Support?????

On November 4th -- this is 2009 -- an email appeared in my inbox with the subject line reading: Chinese New Year is 2/14/09, Get your orders in NOW!

Huh?

Time travel?

Is there a DeLorian involved?

Or just a typo?

We installed an new office copier/printer last week. Today User comes to me saying it isn't working right - its cutting off the tops of page.

I ask if it was a print job or copy job and User gets furious - of course its a print job I'm told or they wouldn't have asked me.

A teacher approached me today with "a problem that is driving me mad".
At home and elsewhere in the School, the teacher is able to login to our domain and e-mail.
However, in that teacher's homeroom it was different. Reboot, check connections, etc - the teacher could not login, but only in that classroom.