Conflict Management

When using Deployment Solution to roll out new IBM x3850 servers, the Linux PE environment received an interesting error when attempting to boot:

'badness in do_exit at kernel/exit.c'

Many enterprise users have computer naming requirements that are strict, specifically deriving the name of the managed computer with a variety of constraints. Examples of some of these constraints are computer type, geographic location, building number, floor, and cubicle location.

Hudson & Company is a Calgary-based accounting firm with many of the same technology issues the rest of us face.

With 40 or so laptop-toting accountants, updating applications becomes an exercise in advanced scheduling. To complicate matters, the tax software they use is a bit "unique", which means sometimes multiple versions must be supported on the same machine. And, oh yeah, the IT department is a staff of one.