All Your Applications Are Belong To Us ..

Spent this week in class digging into the depths of Microsoft's utterly invasive resource hog of a systems management tool. Hell, they've even branched out to infecting Mac OSX and HP-UX boxes - my *NIX admin friends will love it when I tell 'em they get to deploy an agent to monitor their systems. If your company has the cash and you've got the time, this is a pretty damn nice set of tools for managing you Microshaft network. I find new things to do with it just about every day, and there's nothing better than perusing the canned report on programs listed in the Add/Remove applet. Gimme some more of that "Biker Babes in Bermuda Screen Saver", oh mighty executives ...