Shark Tank: Welcome to hurricane season
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New Hurricane Season 's New Fears
New Hurricane Season 's New Fears
05/15/2004 12:57 PMCBS News May 15 2004 4:10PM GMT
Stubborn Storm Hangs On in Busy
Hurricane Season
Stubborn Storm Hangs On in Busy
Hurricane Season
09/24/2004 03:22 AMTwo storms have revived, with Hurricane Ivan lashing Louisiana again
and Hurricane Jeanne appearing to head for, yes, Florida.
Shark Tank: Don't DO That!
Shark Tank: Don't DO That!
08/06/2004 11:59 PMIt's years ago at this busy circuit-board manufacturing facility, and
the new component-insertion machine suddenly starts sticking
capacitors and resistors everywhere but where they belong.
Shark Tank: Just doing our bit
Shark Tank: Just doing our bit
04/20/2004 11:29 PMIt's the 1970s, and this pilot fish is working at a site in the Far
East for a U.S. organization when communications problems set in.
Shark Tank: Ya think?
Shark Tank: Ya think?
03/17/2005 02:55 AMPilot fish is on the team deploying a management system for a medical
practice. And because some of the users are computerphobic, the team
tries to make things as mistakeproof as possible.
Shark Tank: Aw, would we do that to you?
Shark Tank: Aw, would we do that to you?
03/14/2005 05:10 PMIt's the late 1980s, and new-on-the-job IT pilot fish gets his first
important project: Expand the Ethernet backbone into a new office area
at this manufacturing company.
Shark Tank: Two-fer
Shark Tank: Two-fer
03/17/2005 02:55 AMPlant foreman comes to this pilot fish with a challenge: He wants a
way to display important operational statistics so machine operators
can see them at a glance.
Shark Tank: Can't be!
Shark Tank: Can't be!
12/19/2004 03:19 PMIt's the late 1980s, and this pilot fish working at a big insurance
company is facing the kind of miserable weekend project that only a
penny-pinching mainframe shop can provide.
Shark Tank: Get it?
Shark Tank: Get it?
08/20/2004 11:15 PMThis university's server center is in a space never intended for that
purpose -- dark, moldy, carpeted, with wonky air conditioning. Then
management finally agrees to move it to a more appropriate space.
Shark Tank: Thanks for All Your Help
Shark Tank: Thanks for All Your Help
07/31/2004 12:20 AMRemote server goes down hard, and it appears to be due to overheating.
So a tech is dispatched to the remote site to replace the server's fan
-- but that's not the problem.
Shark Tank: Just our way of saying
thanks
Shark Tank: Just our way of saying
thanks
03/06/2004 01:53 AMThis software-based simulator is huge, it's more than a decade old,
it's the division's cash cow -- and the project to deliver a new
version is on track to miss its February delivery date by about four
months.
Shark Tank: It's all in how you ask
Shark Tank: It's all in how you ask
06/05/2005 10:55 PMSysadmin pilot fish works in a hospital, and he works hard to keep the
staff happy -- especially the pharmacists. So when a networked machine
that dispenses medications goes off-line, fish knows what to do.
Shark Tank: Who needs it?
Shark Tank: Who needs it?
03/06/2004 01:53 AMIt's the mid-1990s, and this site has two networks. One is an
under-construction Ethernet network running Novell NetWare to
Windows-based PCs. The other one -- the mainframe network -- is, well,
interesting.
Shark Tank: Who is he, again?
Shark Tank: Who is he, again?
11/05/2003 12:43 AMWhen it's time for this consultant pilot fish to install the mortgage
application he's written for a local bank, he walks into the bank and
informs a teller, "I'm the computer guy..."
Shark Tank: Possible
Shark Tank: Possible
01/17/2004 10:38 PMIt's back in the days of punch cards and paper tape, and the school
district where this student pilot fish lives has a minicomputer just
for student use.
Shark Tank: You're very welcome
Shark Tank: You're very welcome
01/22/2004 02:11 AMThis IT pilot fish, the technical guru at a small company, needs
copies: 50 pages, double-sided, collated and stapled. So he loads his
originals into the copier and, unfortunately, gets help.
Shark Tank: Just because
Shark Tank: Just because
01/05/2005 01:35 AMIt's the mid-1990s, and this IT pilot fish works in a small support
department at a big company where some processes are handled the
old-fashioned way: through paperwork and sneakernet.
Shark Tank: Sometimes they just don't
want to know
Shark Tank: Sometimes they just don't
want to know
12/03/2003 12:36 AMIt's the early 1980s, and at a big Midwestern bank, this mainframe
programmer pilot fish is part of a project that will revolutionize
general ledger -- except for a billion-dollar problem.
Shark Tank: Yep, that would do it
Shark Tank: Yep, that would do it
12/19/2004 03:19 PMThis big construction-equipment dealership has locations in several
states -- and one IT pilot fish who's responsible for all of them.
Shark Tank: It's all the PC he needs
Shark Tank: It's all the PC he needs
09/22/2004 12:32 AMThe company's executive offices are being recarpeted over the weekend,
so this IT manager moves all the bigwigs' PCs on Friday, then heads
out for a conference. But on Monday, the president isn't happy.
Shark Tank: If I can get around it, it
must be OK
Shark Tank: If I can get around it, it
must be OK
04/06/2005 02:42 PMThis company's sales system has been modified to block orders from
customers with credit problems. But according to a branch sales
manager, the credit check doesn't work.
Shark Tank: What's in a Name?
Shark Tank: What's in a Name?
03/28/2005 01:18 PMState agency's data warehouse project is renamed: It's now officially
an "administrative systems reporting database." But why not just call
it a data warehouse?
Shark Tank: Because it's there
Shark Tank: Because it's there
07/09/2004 12:05 AMThis software company is eager to show its investors that it's
spending money wisely. So when someone suggests using offshore
development, the CTO begins courting offshore vendors.
Shark Tank: Well, that's one way to do
it
Shark Tank: Well, that's one way to do
it
12/19/2004 03:19 PMIt's the spring of 1999, and this pilot fish has just set up a
computer as a time server for the steel mill where he works -- which
should make the switch to daylight-saving time a breeze.
Shark Tank: Sure, we can do that
Shark Tank: Sure, we can do that
03/13/2003 10:22 AMThis assignment is technically pretty straightforward: Write an
application to track how long it takes to process each document at the
company. But the politics of putting it in place are a little more
complicated.
Shark Tank: And we certainly can't have
that, can we?
Shark Tank: And we certainly can't have
that, can we?
03/13/2003 10:22 AMThere's a vote coming up at this international association of
educators, so the executive director gives the IT manager pilot fish
the job of estimating how much it'll cost using paper ballots and
scanning equipment.
Shark Tank: Just like it says in the ad
Shark Tank: Just like it says in the ad
12/19/2003 11:34 AMIt's the late 1980s, and this pilot fish is working for a government
contractor when an order comes in from an Air Force legal office for
three cutting-edge, top-of-the-line handheld scanners.
Shark Tank: Now you know why there was a
job opening
Shark Tank: Now you know why there was a
job opening
06/29/2004 11:54 PMThis mainframe support pilot fish transfers to the corporate data
security group. But there doesn't seem to be any past security data
about the servers he's supposed to be responsible for.
Shark Tank: It's not a bug, it's a
feature -- really!
Shark Tank: It's not a bug, it's a
feature -- really!
08/12/2004 11:38 PMFlash back to the early 1980s and a major upgrade for this wholesaler:
At all 11 remote locations, the minicomputers are being swapped out
for the latest models and new software.
Shark Tank: Enough With Winter Already!
Shark Tank: Enough With Winter Already!
03/22/2005 03:47 PMEnvironmental sensor goes off on Monday at 8:25 a.m.: water in the
computer room. But when help arrives, no water is to be seen.
Wednesday, it happens again -- and again, no water. Maybe it's a bad
sensor?
Shark Tank: Not fast enough
Shark Tank: Not fast enough
03/30/2005 05:01 PMComputer room operator calls hospital IT pilot fish at 2 a.m. "All my
terminal sessions vanished," operator says. "I think the system is
down."
Shark Tank: Who wants to sit by the
window?
Shark Tank: Who wants to sit by the
window?
01/23/2004 12:14 AMFlashback to the early 1980s, when this European contractor pilot fish
is working on a command-and-control information system for his
country's navy -- and the USSR trade delegation is located 300 meters
away.
Shark Tank: Must have been some party
Shark Tank: Must have been some party
08/20/2004 12:17 AMIt's the morning after the company Christmas party, and this support
pilot fish gets a call from a user who claims her system has "just
frozen."
Shark Tank: Timing Is Everything
Shark Tank: Timing Is Everything
02/01/2005 09:06 PMThis site has hundreds of ancient reels of backup tape listed in its
inventory, and the drives to read them are long gone. But getting a
manager to sign off for their destruction still isn't easy. ...
Shark Tank: Do the math
Shark Tank: Do the math
03/29/2005 03:03 PMIt's the mid-1990s, and this database admin pilot fish is called into
a design meeting for a new application. The project? Moving some data
that's currently on tape to an online database in order to save money.
Shark Tank: Priorities
Shark Tank: Priorities
01/16/2004 11:01 AMThis desktop support pilot fish returns from a Saturday day trip with
his wife to find his answering machine overflowing with increasingly
desperate calls -- all from one user.
Shark Tank: It just doesn't work that
way
Shark Tank: It just doesn't work that
way
07/02/2004 03:34 AMFlash back to the late 1980s, when this IT pilot fish and a co-worker
want to access their office PCs from home. And their boss agrees -- as
long as they can do it very cheaply.
Shark Tank: For everything else, there's
an upgrade
Shark Tank: For everything else, there's
an upgrade
12/31/2003 12:25 AMThis direct-marketing company's sales VP for the New York region
complains that the computers in his office are so slow staff can't get
their work done -- and something must be done now!
Shark Tank: Otherwise, what's it good
for?
Shark Tank: Otherwise, what's it good
for?
08/13/2004 11:14 PMThis pilot fish works at a big PC company, handling support for
point-of-sale systems, when a call comes in from a user who says her
store's computerized cash registers aren't working properly.
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