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.
