This is why you buy a house.

#1 benefit of home ownership (besides building equity in the property) : you are your own landlord.

Requires companies to EXPAND their workforce to have people to reply to the emails ... and the whole point of automated emails is so they can cut staff.

The two efforts are polar opposites.

Last night's vote on this failed ... so hopefully this is now stymied.

Just minor nitpick, but a PDP-11 is a Digital Equipment Corp system ... not IBM. They were fierce rivals ...

Best suggestion I can think of ...

1) servers (take the entire racks), documentation, backups, certificates (to prove you own what's on the servers), network gear, etc first. Make sure you have EVEYRTHING needed, core-wise, to operate.

2) THEN start loading workstations. If you have to leave some behind, and the place burns down, that's what insurance is for.

You can operate a business on leased workstations.

You cannot operate a business without all your core servers, and you wouldn't want to wait for the downtime required to rebuild them.

I run a ballroom at Dragoncon every year.

Hardwired or not, seen plenty of fanboy-ism ... from the guy asking Felicia Day for her phone number, to the screaming girls when Tom Felton walked out on stage.

It's just normal hero worship .. or something .. or not ...

Just last week, here, we had a truck driver following his GPS ignore no less than EIGHT road signs saying "no trucks allowed" ...

Then he got stuck on the train tracks (which was WHY the signs said "no trucks allowed") ... the predictable result followed, and about 24,000 lbs of pizza ingredients got scattered over a fairly good chunk of town.

There are some people in the world who just shouldn't abandon paper.