Idea Man

Have you ever seen a keyboard with a laminated piece of paper cut out like a long rectangular template to fit around the function keys? They do it here for Banner to help end users know what function keys perform what actions (like copy, paste, delete, help etc,…) Wouldn’t it be cool if you could [...]

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I developed the password management system we use at the college and I want to revamp it to allow for self service. Let me explain, if a person does not change their password after 6 months it will be reset for them and they have to contact the helpdesk, prove their identity, then get a [...]

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Before I mention this idea I want to preface it by stating that it is probably not legal…. not sure. Anyway, I used to have a stock purchase plan at a company I worked at and it seemed like a good deal if you had money to invest from your paycheck. The way ours worked [...]

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I noticed that I never use the PCMCIA slots on the laptops I have had…. not sure why, I guess the equipment I need has always been built in. I have a new razr phone (which I highly recommend for guys who do not want to look like a handy man carrying a phone on [...]

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I am always amazed at the people in line in front of me at the grocery store who have a bazillion coupons cut out and their $120 total comes to $4.20 when they are done. What I don’t get is how they found these coupons and is the amount of time they took to find [...]

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About 6 months ago a relative turned me onto a book by Joel Greenblatt titled “The Little Book that Beats the Market”. The book is short and is a quick read and is pretty informative for people like me with no educational background in finance (and no willingness to spend hours a day pouring over [...]

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I was practicing this morning and I always have my tuner on the stand (I don’t always look at it or believe what I see but that is just my own baggage). I wish there were a device that could measure the amount of air in my sound. Sometimes when I am playing and the [...]

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I always thought that I would pay off my mortgage a lot quicker if I could chip away at it with the ease of using my credit card. This idea is not for those who have excessive credit card debt, I think this would be best served for those folks, like me, that live off [...]

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I had an idea the other day when we were looking at our Data Center racks, we were trying to figure out where we can locate some new systems. I thought…. we have lots of rack space but it is not contiguous. What if the major vendors rebuilt their larger rack unit models (ex: 7 [...]

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