Unofficial Spiceworks

The weirdest things happen on the Spiceworks community, recently i was tickled by Kimberlin

Tickles andy to make him laugh and get in his blog

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From tickling to riddles from Beattyc5

Here is a riddle though – let’s see how smart you are:

Your mom and dad came to you and said “hey Andy, we had a baby!” It’s not your brother, it’s not your sister – who is it?

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All the way over to dirty feet from PaPa-Smurf

it will be like peppered hobbits feet

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Even to Chris9132’s  bad jokes

What’s Mary short for?

• She’s got no legs

whhhhttttttt taxi!!

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The communities water cooler is full of randomness.

What’s the weirdest thing you have seen on the Spiceworks community?

This caught my eye on the community and thought it was worth sharing with the people who don’t keep up…

So, I installed Spiceworks this morning and am dead impressed. What part is it that I’m most keen on at the moment…

Is it the network audit? The fact it can do Linux machines too? Maybe the helpdesk? Of course not, it’s the Spicemeter, which I am now attempted to fill up.

God damn you Xbox 360 with your achievements, what have you made me become?

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Ohh and as Martin9700 said “And once you have the Spicemeter up to 100% it’ll be time to start working on your Spice Level!! http://community.spiceworks.com/points”

Want to know what the SpiceMeter is? Checkout the help and support page on the Spiceworks community “What Is The SpiceMeter?”

On another note… this is Spiceworks-New’s 200th Post and I would like to thank all the readers who keep me doing this.

.. so there I was with a telecoms engineer organising the move of the artwork department from our HQ office to our main print factory. The engineer popped up a ladder, stuck his head through the suspended ceiling and said something I cannot repeat here!
No wonder there have been data issues at this site!

I’ve only been with the company 4 months, and had heard rumours that the cabling at the factory premises were not… “tippety top”. I just didn’t expect it to be like this!

And yes, that is string in the background holding the CAT5 away from the electrical mains (apparently the ceiling collapsed a couple of years back with the weight!).

This made me laugh when I read it on Spiceworks Facebook

Curtis Newman: I quit using Viagra, my hardware stays up with Spiceworks…..

Spiceworks has helped Curtis keep it up and get a good nights sleep, maybe it could help you?

Spiceworks Lets You…

• • Inventory Your Network & PCs
  • Monitor & Manage Your Network
  • Manage Your IT Assets
  • Manage Changes & Configurations
  • Map Your Network
  • Audit Your Software
  • Troubleshoot Your Network
  • Run an IT Help Desk
  • Be an MSP
  • Talk to IT Pros Like You
  • And much more

Read more and download it now, its FREE! 750,000 IT Pros you could be one of them.

Checkout Spiceworks Facebook profile here

Church Tech Matters have done a great article on how to user Spiceworks in a church.

So, now that I have your attention, what is this Spicy thing?

As a church IT volunteer,  our time is limited and we need tools that can help us be more efficient with the time we do have. When I took over as the tech team leader, I knew that the biggest challenge was going to be maintaining the network. I needed a tool that could be my eyes and ears in the environment and let me know when things are not right. For example, some of the canned alerts will tell me when someone has installed new software on their system or if they added the infamous weather-bug.. without having to install expensive 3rd party applications on every workstation in the network.  That is where SpiceWorks comes in.

Read more http://churchtechmatters.com/2009/08/11/getting-it-spicy-at-your-church/

The Spiceworks Community water cooler to have a chat feature???

Could it be Spiceworks listened to us?

From recent talks with Spiceworks it appears in one of the up coming community releases (no information timescale or which release will contain it yet) they are planning a chat system! To start with there will be select people who can use it to test it out and make sure it works right with the plan of rolling it out for all users above X pepper level so that it doesn’t get flooded with noobies, lets hope they dont let Glen8990 in (joking)

It will be interesting to see what they come up with.

From what we know so far it will be like Facebook chat so that you can carry it on in as you surf around the community. They are not sure yet but it may start with just one on one chats before developing into muti user chat rooms but we will see what happens.

Told you this one would be exciting…

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.

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

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Random Discussions around the Water Cooler

Bored and want something to do?

Pop along to the Spiceworks water cooler, the water cooler is the place of all things none IT from What type of Car do you drive? to First IT Job Horror Stories you can have a laugh with other IT pros and chat about how you became a SysOp

If your not already part of the Spiceworks community join in now. You’ll find everyone friendly and willing to help you with IT and Spiceworks problems

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