>> While it is true that investing money now can save you huge amounts of 
>> money later, I very much doubt that buying a truckload of shiny 
>> equipment from the most over-priced supplier in the marketplace is 
>> actually going to help your costs. ;-)
> 
> Well sure, you need to check out if it will save you money or not 
> (sometimes this can be a very quick calculation and then it's obvious 
> one way or the other).  But too many people just say "no" because they 
> only consider the money spent and not the money saved.

Indeed. But given a catelog full of pictures of shiny stuff and no 
prices... kinda hard to compute anything. ;-)

> I think it's because they don't know how to link them.  I suggested to 
> my boss we simply pay a contractor to come and sort it out, but, sigh, 
> everything like that has to go through IT.  This isn't the first time 
> their incompetentness has come to the surface, only a few weeks ago they 
> ran out of space on the server and randomly moved half of everyone's 
> stuff.  I mean surely they should be looking at the graph of free space 
> over time and do something appropriate long before the space *actually* 
> runs out.  Also, rather amusingly, we can't access the public website of 
> our own company from the office because there is some DNS issue :-)  
> They suggested going through a proxy server in Japan (which requires an 
> account and you to log in) to get to the site!!!

...suddenly the company I work for seems radically more professional. 
Thanks Scotty. :-D

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