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the quarterly magazine of ILTA 69 Peer to Peer mEmBER RESOURCES ILTA's Job Bank has long been the most frequently visited page on our website, and it grows in popularity each day. With the ability to sort by location or job title, it provides a quick look at the employment situation in your neighborhood or your area of expertise. The Job Bank has always been a popular online destination among ILTA members, but it's remarkable that even in these tough economic times, member entities continue to post jobs. As of this writing, there are more than 75 jobs posted in all aspects of legal IT. Anyone can post a job to the site. Simply send the text of your posting to Jeanne Martinez at jeanne@iltanet.org. Be sure to include the location of the office for that particular position, a list of all requirements and the contact information to which the applicant can send materials. The job listing will run for three months, though it can be removed sooner upon request. The fee to ILTA member firms and 2009 Platinum, Gold and Silver Sponsors is $150, for all others it's $500. Later this year, job posting will be automated. Don't forget: If you're looking for a job, make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed so that you receive notification whenever a new job is posted. Just go to ILTAnet.org and click on Job Bank in the Services menu. ILTA Fresh Jobs Posted Daily! You might want to check out the following link before you start forcing shutdowns on computers that may have unsaved documents open. You can manage the windows power settings with a GPO in XP. http://www.energystar.gov/index. cfm?c=power_mgt.pr_power_mgt_ez_gpo Jeff Healy Network Administrator Hunter Maclean Exley & Dunn, P.C. Savannah GA Number of Attorneys : 56 Number of Offices : 2 —————————————————— We use ShutdownPlus to turn off our systems at 1:10 am. It prompts the user in case they are still in the office, and it will save files (if they have been saved once already). http://www.wmsoftware.com/ Steven R. McCue Keker & Van Nest LLP Chief Information Officer San Francisco CA Number of Attorneys : 68 Number of Offices : 1 —————————————————— We use a free utility called poweroff.exe which runs nightly. We setup a prompt 30 minutes prior to shutdown notifying the user that a shutdown will occur. If they cancel, nothing happens till the next night. Otherwise the PC will shut down. We did this to ensure patches get installed each morning as people were not rebooting their PCs. We did an audit and found 300 PCs left on each night. The resulting savings was 100,000 watts per year. We used it as a part of our green initiative. Dean Leung Davis LLP National Director Information Technology Vancouver BC Number of Attorneys : 190 Number of Offices : 8 —————————————————— Is anyone encountering complaints from users who now have to wait every morning for their computer to start up? "It just takes so long to log in every morning." Bob Forwark Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, P.L.C. Director of Stuff Phoenix AZ Number of Attorneys : 75 Number of Offices : 8 —————————————————— We recently implemented Wake On LAN capability so we could power on the PCs to apply patches or updates. Then we asked the users to shut down every evening as part of our green effort. We did indeed start hearing about how long it took to power up and log in. It was a terrible thing, and our customers were up in arms. We asked some of them to please track their boot-up and log in timing, writing down each day the time from power on to login screen, and the time from login to display of our portal front page. We also explained that opening Outlook was a whole different issue. Turns out it only takes three minutes for the whole process. Nobody has suggested to us that three minutes is an unacceptably long time. Facts are a wonderful thing. Or perhaps boot up and login timing are like subatomic particles, in that when you observe their behavior, their behavior changes. Shirley Crow Farella Braun + Martel LLP Chief Information Officer San Francisco CA Number of Attorneys : 130 Number of Offices : 2 —————————————————— Would that be the heisenboot uncertainty principle, then? :) Jenn Steele Morrison Mahoney LLP IT Director Boston, MA Number of Attorneys: 165 Number of Offices: 9