I'm Rob Marshall, a consultant who specialises in the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager product. I like to share, i do so by blogging and helping out when I can in the MS SMS newsgroups and participating in the ConfigMgr MVP program.
I was awarded and joined the program in 2009. It'd be an understatement to say it has to be one of the best experiences an IT engineer can have, if they really enjoy specialising in a product.
My biggest weapon for troubleshooting is, my formidable knowledge, no, only joking, you, the community. I find if I cannot answer a question, then I can usually find the answer from using Bing\Google, pouring over the documentation, and if that doesn't work, tinkering in mine or someone elses virtual lab.
The blogs pretty much about ConfigMgr, but it is also a platform for me to express my random urges to display something I've stumbled across, and that I imagine would entertain you or what not as equally as it did me.
Just have to repost from Slashdot as they sum this up perfectly.
"First the tech illiterates in the UK government want to extend broadband internet connections to every home, whether it makes sense or not, then at the same time they propose a £20 per year (approx $29US) broadband tax which they claim will pay the record and film industries for their failed business models. Coincidence the two proposals are linked? And why should people be forced to pay for the failed film and music industries?"
I read about this on the train this morning, and am shocked that i'll end up paying to support the Music and Video industry, without any option of dropping out. It'll be a cold day in hell before I EVER pay these parasites any of my money outside of the Cinema, Rentals and occassional DVD\Music purchases I make. I'll be writing to my MP to add my voice to the MAJORITY of brits that don't want this happening. Suggest you do the same if you are resident in the UK.
How can they justify a national tax when it's only a minority of people pirating?
Over here, we have a statement from the government that they are not going to disconnect pirates from their ISP's, and now this national tax. No wonder they did this, as they knew they would be implementing a TAX!!!
WTF? Man do we not pay enough taxes in this country already? I think we must be one of the most taxed countries in the World.
Any country "out there" wanting to adopt me let me know.