Abbott's Admonitions 
   1.If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. 
   2.If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question. 

Abrams's Advice 
     When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. 

Absolute Principal 
     Beauty is only skin deep, ugly goes to the bone. 

Rule of Accuracy 
     When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer. 
     Corollary - Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem. 

I use Acronis products to take images and backup of my hard drives before doing anything that might damage the drive, and periodically throughout the year.  It provides you BARE METAL RESTORE capability!  Meaning if your hard drive craps out, you buy a new one, boot up to a CD you make with the software, point it to the last image you saved on an external drive and let 'er rip.  When done, reboot, back to where you were.

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Underpaid, underappreciated and overworked? Get back to work!

Network admins, unless they are basically amazing, are in for a typically rough ride through trying to get things to work, as things perceived as small changes can have enormous impact on network stability. Then you get to things like bad password policies, bad hardware policies, bad security policies, bad corporate policy and a good portion of the time network administration is just not worth the time.

I use Vipre Antivirus at work.  I chose it because of the effectiveness of the product and the low amount of systems resources used.  It has been vigilant over my corporate network for more than 3 years now.  I bought Vipre when it was Sunbelt Software, which was acquired by GFI.