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My Wintel Infrastructure Transitioning Experience

Although I have done many transitions on Intel and Windows Infrastructures in Domestic Market in India, this time I was a part of a very strong transitioning team to transition an International Infrastructure project. I was in AZ, USA in last November and stayed there for about a month for knowledge transfer and documentation of the current state of infrastructure and used a sequential process centric transitioning to enable customers to experience the benefit of off-shoring. The new model is going to be a global infrastructure support model and will have presence in Mexico, Romania, USA and India. That was really a nice experience! Meeting with new people, understanding their views, the different perceptions and ideas on life, profession and technologies was exciting me. Soon I came to know that it is not easy to work with people from different regions of the globe. To understand them, to understand their culture, the behavior, the accent, the professional approach of doing the work c

Find files with the path, longer then given characters limit

One of my friend ask me to find any tool or script which can list all the files longer then 255 characters under any given path including subdirectory. Here is the solution and its free :) Path Scan is a useful software application that will calculate the total path length of your files. Scan files in directories and get their path length. This is useful to determine failures in particular processes which are limited with path length, like CD/DVD burning Software or File Synchronization. Path Scan is a useful software utility that allows you to easily determine if paths are compatible with a process.

My Experience with the Dell Studio Refusbished laptop

During my Visit to US, A good friend of mine helped me to purchased a Dell Studio 1530 Refurbished Laptop and here is my review on it: Price/Specifications-530$ All inclusive Memory: 4 Gig HDD: 350 Gig Screen: 15.1" Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 2.0 Ghz 800 mhz FSB 2 mb Cache Buying- The inventory In Dell Outlet is constantly refreshed so finding precisely what you want should not take long. However be sure to fully read each computers description fully as Some are ""Scratch and dent"" Or ""Off lease"" Your best off sticking to factory refurbished. The process is as simple as selecting the system you want adding to cart and Purchasing with a variety of Payment options (I chose to use Paypal). The process is quite simple and fast And if you need to ask any questions Use the live chat on the Dell Main Webpage as it is MUCH faster then telephone support. (Unless it's an inventory question then you have to call). Shipping- Dell claims