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Social Networking - What Can It Do For Your Business?

Optimizing Old Hardware

Every now and then you find a system setting based on either an old technology constraint or decision made years ago and no one remembers just why it was done that way.  Perhaps you inherited a system with no documentation on the "why."

Our little AS/400 model 170 was set at half duplex with a line speed of 10MB, however it was plugged into a 100MB switch.  Since the 2838 ethernet card supports 100MB full duplex communication, this morning I varied off the line, changed the speed and duplex to both *AUTO and started the line again. 

Lo and behold she came back at 100MB and full duplex.  That should make things a little more efficient.

Social Networking - What Can It Do For Your Business?

Locking down your firewalls to keep the poor, defenseless users away from certain websites are we?  Probably because the decision makers at your company are fearful, distrusting and naive to the benefits of social networking? 

That, my friend, is online bigotry at its finest.

Updates

A lack of posts this month as I've been a little preoccupied (to say the least) with our newborn twin daughters born on August 9th. 

I've got a few new articles coming out in the next week or so on more IBM i system values and another on how social networking can help your business.  As well, I'm all over the board with tips on project management, the new 700 series Power Systems announcement and a few things on Domino 8.5.2 which has just been released.