October 7, 2008 - 9:17 A.M.
This IT pilot fish is working on top of a raised platform running network cable when his employer-supplied cell phone rings. He recognizes the caller's number -- in fact, fish can even see him.
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October 6, 2008 - 7:10 A.M.
This developer pilot fish and his team talk with his company's telecom group about building a defense against network attacks -- a very active defense.
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October 3, 2008 - 8:20 A.M.
Freshly hired pilot fish gets his first assignment, and it takes only a day or two to write some quick-and-dirty code. But this is for a high-availability cluster controller, so it will take a little something more.
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October 2, 2008 - 6:35 A.M.
HR staffer complains to support pilot fish that her voice mail isn’t working properly, so he listens to her messages -- and there's certainly something wrong.
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October 1, 2008 - 8:10 A.M.
This pilot fish sets up an efficient, effective system for backing up and verifying data, complete with redundancy for vital systems and periodic testing. His reward? He gets the boot.
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September 30, 2008 - 9:00 A.M.
Pilot fish has the on-call pager for the weekend, but he wants to spend some time with a friend having some problems, so he arranges for a co-worker to cover for him -- with less-than-perfect results.
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September 29, 2008 - 7:15 A.M.
Hurricane Ike's storm surge hits this Gulf Coast chemical plant and inundates it. The aftermath: lots of cleaning up -- and counting up.
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September 26, 2008 - 7:44 A.M.
This developer pilot fish supports his company's ERP system, which includes sales and financial processing. So when a customer's discount disappears, he starts getting worried.
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September 25, 2008 - 8:17 A.M.
This IT pilot fish and his co-worker want to try out the 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows Vista. But there's no test-bed machine available, so they decide to use the co-worker's PC.
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September 24, 2008 - 8:25 A.M.
Public library system installs a new trouble-ticket application, and this pilot fish creates an online video that shows how to log a problem. So why does a tech suddenly ask fish about his superpowers?
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September 23, 2008 - 8:30 A.M.
Senior professor at a big university complains that the wireless network connection in the main lecture hall isn't working -- and if it's not fixed, he'll talk to his pal the university chancellor.
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September 22, 2008 - 9:00 A.M.
Programmer pilot fish is hired by a city government and quickly gains a pair of nicknames: "the Gateway guy" -- because he helped swap out Macs for PCs -- and "FNG."
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September 19, 2008 - 9:10 A.M.
BlackBerry user is setting up his new device when he calls support pilot fish with a problem: The instructions just don't work.
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September 18, 2008 - 8:20 A.M.
Director of customer support at this big hospital calls the software team in for an important announcement: no more support for unauthorized handhelds.
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September 17, 2008 - 8:40 A.M.
It's mid-February, and the server that contains all the year-end processing data and reports for this company goes down -- irretrievably.
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