Top 11 Lame Excuses for holding a LAN gaming party in your office
11) Keeps the CAT 5 cables from getting brittle
10) Cheaper than buying expensive traffic- generation software
9) Excellent for team-building exercises
8) Do you really think we bought video cards with 128 MB of VRAM for word processing?
7) Solitaire and Free Cell just don't provide the proper multimedia experience
6) "Pod Racers" able to push more packets through the system
5) At last, ROI on all those pesky switches
4) "Sir, the only way we are going to resolve this network congestion is to seriously frag!"
3) Settling that Token Ring versus Ethernet latency issue once and for all
2) Mom and Dad complained the last time there were that many people in the basement
1) Makes the Switch Activity LEDs twinkle like Christmas lights
Thanks to J.W. Breeden, Steve Harvey, Bill Hellar, Dennis Hogan, Mark Jass, Lance Johnson, Dave Kretzmer, Travis Marsh, David Perdue, Johnnie Ray and Matt Winegarden for their submissions. Take a break from alien fragging and check out our extended Top 11 reader submissions.
AdSenseless
Google's AdSense is all the rage. It lets Web site owners sell advertising without actually selling anything. But knowing which ads Google will position on a given site has been a crapshoot. Thanks to Ken Schafer and his AdSense Sensor, however, you can determine which ads would appear on your site, proving once again that if you want something done right, you'd better do it yourself. Here are some ads the Sensor predicted would appear on these sites:
www.microsoft.com
- Service Dispatch Software
- Field Service Software
- Service Industry Software
(Obviously, fixing Windows is as big as, well, Windows.)
www.cnet.com
- Refurbished Laptops
- Laptops Under $400
- TravelMate 660 Series
(In the end, all anyone really wants is a good laptop.)
www.riaa.com
- Stop P2P, KaZaA and others
- Prevent Liability
- P2P Tracker
(It's all about the art ...)
www.sco.com
- SCO versus IBM
- Windows Server Support
- Windows Server 2003
(What, no Linux?)
www.nwc.com/departments/lastmile.html
- TV Advertising--No Risk
- M-Blog Business Weblogs
- NewsMonster, Weblog/RSS Aggregator with Reputation!
(Who says we're not trendy?)
Try it yourself at www.schafer.com/google/.
'What's Up, Doc?'
Marx Toys has discovered IT's sweet tooth for gizmos. It has released the IM Buddies toy line, beginning with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes fame. They are billed (forgive the pun) as toys that sit on top of your computer and speak the contents of your instant messages aloud in the character's voice using text-to-speech synthesis (TTS).
Call us crazy, but having your IMs recited in a duck voice could be even more annoying than IM itself, especially when you consider the limitations of TTS. "You're despicable!"
Find more Last Mile items and submit your entries for upcoming issues at www.nwc.com/go/lmile.html.
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