100:LANDesk Management Group - we're expected by Management Suite.
460:
600:Good evening, Mr. HardDrive. Do come in.
790:It was the first time I'd actually met LANDesk Management Suite screen to screen.
1090:There she was - elegant, all-seeing, all-knowing, managing all of LANtropolis from a single console. 
1510:Software distribution, metering, remote control, server-based alerts - she did it all, baby.
1850:Before  meeting  her,  it  was  hard  to  impress  me.  Now  it  was  going  to  be  impossible.
2190:-Why, Mr. HardDrive. How very kind of you. -Now if I could just stop thinking out loud.
2544:Tell me, Mr. HardDrive, do you recognize this program? 
2750:Dr. Cyril Port. LANtropolis' very own knight in shining labcoat. What about him?
3140:Dr. Cyril Port is head of Control research and development, 
3380:and the inventor of the EtherExpress PRO/10 LAN Adapter, the Storage Express II Backup Server and the NetportExpress Print Server.
3870:-He made you? -He's that good.
4050:The doctor is a reknowned visionary, holding firmly to the belief that a unified LAN is an efficient LAN. 
4450:He works tirelessly on hardware and software for the greater good of the entire network. Unfortunately, Dr. Port has been unaccounted for for the last two backup cycles.
5150:I was beginning to wonder why I was here.
5310:Were you now? Well process this, smart guy.
5520:Ya know, you're not bad with that.
5710:NetportExpress Print Server, whom you call "Prints,"  provides centralized management and control of distributed printing for up to
6120:three printers, with simultaneous multi-NOS and multi-protocol support and data throughput up to 180Kbps.
6530:Yeah, that's what I meant.
6670:Enough about me, then. I showed you this little beauty before; the EtherExpress PRO/100 LAN Adapter,
7060:a.k.a.  the  bandwidth  wunderkind  that  Port  was  working  on  when  he  disappeared.
7350:In a perfect network, the PRO/100 boosts your throughput from your usual 10Mbps to an impressive 100Mbps,
7830:all  without  barely  tickling  the  CPU.  To  ice  the  cake,  Port  developed  these...
8160:...The Intel Express 100BASE-TX Stackable Hub. Dr. Port established these hubs throughout the LAN 
8640:to work in tandem with the EtherExpress PRO/100 cards 
8840: to  deploy  the  100Mbps  signal  from  here  to  the  farthest  corners  of  LANtropolis.
9160:Port was supposed to switch LANtropolis over from the old hubs to the new Express Stackable Hubs
9580:and install the final PRO/100 LAN Adapter onto the Central Server at a ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled for tomorrow.
9950:But like I said, that's in a perfect network, and LANtropolis, for all its considerable charms, isn't there yet. 
10450:Not with ne'er-do-wells like this on the circuit paths.
10690:Vic Virus. 
10770:I hissed. Now there was a face that only a motherboard could love. This case just got personal.
11150:I  have  placed  Mr. Virus  in  the  vicinity  at  the  time  of  the  doctor's  disappearance.
11490:It would be imprudent to believe he is not somehow involved. 
11740:There has been a suspicious amount of viral activity in LANtropolis since then.
12030:Great. Civilians. How many files were lost?
12240:None, thankfully. I was able to depend on the StorageExpress II Backup Server for data protection 
12640:and, consequently, data restoration. A simple matter.
12890:Too simple. Virus knows it's a downhill cakewalk to protect data with the StorageExpress II Backup Server in place. It's a diversion.
13390:My computations exactly. Which is why I'm sure a search function as sophisticated as yourself 
13750:should have no problem following Virus' trail, downloading Dr. Port 
14020:and returning him and the final PRO/100 card to the Central Server in time for tomorrow's ceremony. 
14400:We  have  taken  the  liberty  of  allocating  special  ordnance  to  this  project...
14700:No need. I'm covered.
14870:You're joking me.
15020:Search functions don't joke anybody.
15160:Well, be that as it may, you might want to give this baby a try.
15400:Hmm. This is some fancy heat.
15580:That "heat," Mr. HardDrive, is LANDesk Virus Protect; a proactive virus protectant that combines real time scanning 
16130:and clean file technologies with a unique Integrity Shield. The Virus Protect safeguards against active and latent viruses
16650:by creating, in effect, a "virus firewall" that cloisters the infecting agent - and all of its mutations - 
17080:from all clean files on the workstation as well as the network.
17320:Yeah, whatever.
17440:For the love a' NetWare*, HardDrive! Watch where you point that thing!
17710:Okay, then - what's in this for me?
17860:You  mean  besides  the  rosy  glow  that  you  get  from  helping  your  fellow  program?
18130:Yeah. Besides that.
18250:32 megs now. Another 64 upon the good doctor's safe return.
18640:So, whaddaya say to that, bloodhound?
18820:Woof.
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