A Few Thoughts on Spiceworks

A Few Thoughts on Spiceworks written by pd

The data is password protected and stored locally.  My machine is a windows xp, Core 2 Duo, Dell SC440, with 1GB of RAM. It is slow on the onset and that makes sense since it is scanning the entire network. Once it is running, it is an amazing app that I am not willing to live without.

Rock on Spiceworks another happy customer.

Help Translate the Help!

help and support thumb Help Translate the Help!

Spiceworks wants translators, do you know more than one language? Then this is where you come in, you may not be good at supporting people on the community or writing plugins but you could help other Spiceworks users.

Spiceworks documentation and help nearly all in a WIKI meaning you the user can update them.

You could help out with Languages like:

All you have to do is:

  1. Navigate to the appropriate language wiki: French, Italian, Portugues or Spanish
  2. Find to a page that you would like to edit translate
  3. Click the “Edit Article” button on the top toolbar.
  4. Once you’ve finished your edits, click save.
  5. Send Myshell a private message including the page you’ve updated.

Their are more languages being added over time if you can’t find your language PM Doug I think hell be happy to help.

When you have helped translate some pages you will even earn yourself a nice “Translator” badge to go with your Spiceworks Community Profile.

Get more information in the Spiceworks community

MJBDiver Impressed with the community feel off Spiceworks…

Back in november 2008 MJBDiver posted Worst network monitoring software ever he wasn’t happy with how Spiceworks worked,

After the setup program finished, I eagerly launched Spiceworks only to watch its splash screen and a progress bar trickle slower than molasses. I waited a few minutes but did not get any farther than the splash screen. That’s when I stopped the program, uninstalled it and tried re-installing it again, this time with the anti-virus software disabled. Again, nothing happened when I launched it. Having failed twice to install and run it, I uninstalled it for the final time.

Here’s the fun part. The uninstall program launches your web browser and takes you to the Spiceworks web site where you get to tell why you decided to remove the software. For your convenience there is a comment box where you get to type demeaning insults to the software’s developers.

What a waste of 12 megabytes.

But 4 days later he posts A response from Spiceworks.

I started eating my words from my earlier post about their software being the worst. It’s not too often that I actually get a response to a blog post from the very company I write about. I think it was actually a nice move on Spiceworks’ part.
Unfortunately, this response didn’t change my mind. I just won’t bother with Spiceworks again, not as long we have Symantec AntiVirus running on our network.

This all due to the great work of Myshell the Spiceworks community manager when she posted a comment on the original stating Spiceworks would always help.

Long live Spiceworks and the friendly community feeling.

Weirdest Thing You’ve Found in a Computer??

The Spiceworks community allows you to start topics about anything you want to, this is one of the best this month, some off the answers are just great.

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All Spiceworks community members can start topics about anything you like.

Check it out now

Scott Abel’s Past Life at NeXT

themanbehindadsupportedsoftwareinnov Scott Abel’s Past Life at NeXT300pxnext logosvg Scott Abel’s Past Life at NeXT No not the clothes shop… but a American computer company purchased by apple in 1996 (more info on NeXT)

Scott Abel – CEO & Co-Founder of Spiceworks – Started working at NeXT as with the Sales team, Five years in Scott started the NeXT consulting group from scratch, it grew from zero to $15M in revenue in 3 years. Before leaving to pursue a new venture called “Motive Software” Scott held the title off VP of Professional Services.

Justin Dorfman managed to find some video of Scott when he was slightly younger…

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See if you can Spot him and check out the rest of the video.

You can also checkout Justin Dorfman other work at http://fr.ugal.it/ – Information Technology on the Cheap!

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Just for fun – Downloading the internet

In a Spiceworks forum it was asked how to download the internet, “http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/38603” so click below to start downloading the internet.

Or you could just download Spiceworks to Speed up your IT management?

Spiceworks gives IT pro’s the tools they need for IT managment. From a inventory to a full helpdesk and coming soon a network map.

If your not already using it download it now!!

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