no more than another VM for me :)

hehe :) thanks

people do shift to 2008, for quite a few reasons, but 2008 is too raw and MS has disredited itself too much with vista, for the OS to kick in easily. after all, it is intended to be used on servers -...

DBAs are not paid more than Linux developers around here. a DBA is a guy who finished an Oracle course, and has some experience maybe, a developer is someone with at least 4 years of BSc studies, and...

back in Israel, after a year in Ireland on relocation

I have worked with quite a few very large companies who simply refused to be talking to anyone from India for example. That's why there are major support and RnD centers located in eastern Europe and...

well, he can try. that might make global companies take EVERYTHING out of the country though

webex or logmein.

but if you have the branches connected via p2p vpn, you can simply use RDP or VNC

it's not about certs, what you need is experience. find a job, and learn as you go

you need a server, or appliance that is capable of network load balancing, whether it's a basic DNS round robin, or something more advanced.
you cannot team GPRS connections, teaming is for server...

2000? it's basically OOL nowadays. get into 2008, or at least 2003

fake cisco switches :) how cute

that is true, if the employee wants to grow professionally, but if the employee is telling you that he wants the job as a foot in the door, in order to try to jump over to a different position, you...

no, that is the right response if you want the job. truth has nothing to do with the HR side of job interviews, those are about you, showing the company that you want to do the job you are applying...

the right answer to that kind of question:

in 5 years I see myself in same type of position, but with greater responsibility and much more knowledge.

master browser issues.

http://www.google.com/search?q=troubleshoot+master+browser+workgroup

that's what ssh is for

if you have ssh externally available, you can tunnel anything through it

in that case you might want to consider an internal IM server - free jabber, or MScommunicator server

winventory
ocs-ng

or some of the proprietary stuff like ITA, Altiris, MOM/SMS...

net send * is currently disabled by default as an option, because users are abusing it

so instead of doing this, just install a mail service (Exchange?) and send emails to distribution lists

howtoforge.com

to properly start in IT you need to learn how to look for things in google

CS degree will get you into the higher end systems or programming field. provided you will be able to get experience of course.

something like the CompTIA A+ will give you a started tech knowledge...

find someone who will show you.

are the PCs in a domain? makes things much easier

I used two free sw packages: winventory and ocs ng.
google them up - it's much easier than barcodes or any tangible physical work at all.

sea legends

why? because it shouldn't.

http://www.google.ie/search?q=bash+array+variable

I didn't know google started banning people...

http://rcsg-gsir.imsb-dsgi.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/documents/internet/node31.html

look into setting up samba
if you want a GUI - install SWAT or WEBMIN

ping it

the easiest way to find out is to put an invalid PC name in the list and try

set up a router and set it as the default gateway on all the PCs

or ping -t >logfile.log

mrtg

both xcopy and robocopy, as well as ntbackup, have the possibility ob backing up only the files that changed since last backup

but if you want to use an image, I won't be the one to stop you

list of laptop names in a text file
use the FOR command in a batch script to ping the PCs and output the results to another text file
for all those that answered run a robocopy script to backup the...

yes, run a script that would test the particular PC for connectivity, say once every hour. once you get a ping reply, or snmp trap trigger, run another script to connect and backup

a server