Shark Tank: Details, details
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03/19/2005 03:15 AMIt's time to bring up a new server, and because it's replacing one
that crashed, the big boss suggests naming it after a mythical bird
that lives for 500 years and then rises from the ashes.
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04/23/2004 11:13 PMwww.nytimes.com via Drudge Report Apr 24 2004 2:20AM GMT
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Quicker -- for a while
Shark Tank: Quicker -- for a while
04/21/2004 11:45 PMIt's the 1970s, and this university's big computer system has 15
washing-machine-size disk drives holding 3GB of files. And when they
fill up, management gets an idea for saving space.
Shark Tank: Just one kludge after
another
Shark Tank: Just one kludge after
another
12/24/2004 12:47 PMThis company has some really kludgy processes for generating some
operationally vital reports, but they work -- until the reports get
just a little too big.
Shark Tank: Spoilsport
Shark Tank: Spoilsport
12/11/2003 12:30 AMIt's annual performance review time for this support pilot fish who
works in a remote office. So the support manager calls to give him the
news: His work is exceptional, but...
Shark Tank: The Army way
Shark Tank: The Army way
12/12/2003 01:58 PMFlashback to the 1980s, and an Army base where computer password
security policies are very, very tight -- or at least they're supposed
to be.
Shark Tank: Wanna bet?
Shark Tank: Wanna bet?
12/19/2004 03:19 PMThis printing company's network has to keep running, and everything in
the system is doubled up, so having both nodes down at the same time
is pretty much impossible -- in theory.
Shark Tank: Not What I Had in Mind
Shark Tank: Not What I Had in Mind
12/19/2004 03:19 PMA bank's IT staff replaces some server disk drives, and just for fun,
this IT manager pilot fish hands a tech a sledgehammer to make sure
the data is destroyed. ...
Shark Tank: How the dinosaurs didn't die
out after all
Shark Tank: How the dinosaurs didn't die
out after all
12/19/2004 03:19 PMThis insurance company has been working for five years to rewrite its
core systems, and now it's almost ready to be rolled out -- just as
soon as it's tested.
Shark Tank: Probably just looking for
the bug in that loop
Shark Tank: Probably just looking for
the bug in that loop
04/12/2005 01:16 PMIt's 1976, and this pilot fish's program has a bug that bombs and
generates a six-inch-thick stack of paper. But when he examines the
core dump, fish notices a pattern.
Shark Tank: What a Concept!
Shark Tank: What a Concept!
09/21/2004 12:38 AMThis user's network drive is staggering the file server with hundreds
of megabytes of games -- and that's completely against company policy.
Fortunately, the user has an explanation. ...
Shark Tank: Now that you mention it
Shark Tank: Now that you mention it
04/08/2005 08:27 PMComputerworld Apr 9 2005 12:44AM GMT
Shark Tank: Perfect 10
Shark Tank: Perfect 10
09/17/2004 12:44 AMThis pilot fish gets his first full-time job in IT as assistant
network administrator for a college. It's not exactly the perfect job
-- it's second shift, and there's a 70-mile commute. And, it seems,
there's one other problem.
Shark Tank: Now that you mention it...
Shark Tank: Now that you mention it...
04/08/2005 12:08 PMPilot fish works for a county water utility, and he's on duty on a
drizzly day when a call comes in that at one of the sites, a UPS has
died.
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