Unofficial Spiceworks

Spiceworks-News has its first guest writer, Justin Dorfman (Jdorfman on the community)

You may have already seen him around he has provided me with information in the past as well as leaving a couple of comments.

He will shortly be writing a post about “How to Host a SpiceCorps Event”

I would personally like to welcome him along and thank him for providing Spiceworks-News with a great article.

Wanna’ get some of the limelight you deserve on SysAdmin Day? Send some of these free cheeky eCards & remind your boss & users that they’d miss you (and your clever sense of humor!) if you weren’t around!

…plus check out all the upcoming Spiceworks events below – all of which will help you get even more out of Spiceworks!

Jen just posted about the SpiceCorps Houston meeting.

Wow guys we had a fantastic turn out! 20 people made it to our first SpiceCorps meeting. I was not so sure the SAM question would be answered as we all were given Scott Alan Miller name-tags upon arrival, but the man himself soon arrived. By the way, SAM and Talon63 are definitely two different people!

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The official Spiceworks blog ( http://blog.spiceworks.com/ ) maybe still alive?

Tragedy Of The Commons and Online Communities was posted July 20, 2009 – 11:53 am

In 1968 Garrett Hardin proposed the concept of the Tragedy of the Commons in an article in the journal Science. The basic concept is as follows. Let’s imagine back to the early days of man where a group of cattle-herders lived in a village. They shared a common pasture to graze their cattle. However a conflict quickly emerged. Each individual herder is motivated to profit from the common area for the benefit of his own herd. He has little incentive to ensure there is pasture left for his neighbor’s herd. When every herder behaves in this way the pasture fails for every herder. However, if the herders worked together a healthy pasture could benefit all of them greatly.

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Tabrez and the Spiceworks team recently did a great write up on how what browser you use affects how fast Spiceworks runs. Basically they confirmed what everyone knew, Chrome is super fast and FF just rocks but IE lags WAY behind.

Spiceworks makes extensive use of Javascript to build a rich user interface within your browser. This means that the performance of the browser has quite a lot to do with the speed of the system. We decided to run a few tests and share the results of what we’ve seen with the various browsers.

So what does this mean for you?

If you have a look at the graph below it shows that if you are using Internet Explorer (IE) Spiceworks is around 2 times slower than using FF or Chrome.

The full timings:

Give it a try yourself

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MyShell just posted:

SpiceCorps groups are spreading like wild fire and we want you to know what’s going on in your own backyard so you don’t miss out on an awesome opportunity to meet fellow IT Pros, talk shop, learn about Spiceworks & have fun! So every month we’ll be creating the SpiceCorps Monthly Round-Up telling you which groups have met, which groups have up coming meetings and which groups are trying to form! Don’t forget to keep an eye on the Official List Of SpiceCorps groups

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Plugins are a great way to change the functionality of Spiceworks to meet your needs. You can even integrate other tools and services right into your dashboard. Some of the recent plugins have added basic License Management, and integration with third-party Exchange archiving solutions.

Well we need more ideas! Have you had an idea for a plugin for Spiceworks? Share it on the list below and maybe someone looking for an idea to code up could make it real.

Note: This list is for plugins only – so if you’re thinking about a large feature (like software distribution, etc) please post that in Feature Requests. The line between plugins and features can blur so if you’re in doubt, just add it to the list and we’ll take care of it.

http://community.spiceworks.com/spice_list/show/125

As a lot of you know last night Justin posted that Spiceworks had a magically Easter egg hidden somewhere ( read more )

Did you manage to find it?

Curtis3363 gave a hint of

Hint UUDDLRLRAB Nice unicorn

Ooops sorry Flying Horse

Then 1394 mentioned about

But funny how much influence Kazuhisa Hashimoto has on the computing world.

and

Yeah, there are a lot of different portals like Digg you can check for his code.

Put it all together and…

1. Goto the portal
2. Press UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A

You should now see a horse?