Firing a SysAdmin

Recently I had to replace an IT guy who’d gone off the rails. Something odd about this profession seems to cause an unusually high number of them (say, compared to other engineers) to drop off the radar and partially or completely disappear. It usually happens in one of two ways, they start with sporadic attendance, [...]

Software in my Binder

Earlier this year I covered what items I carry in my backpack, this time it’s about what software I carry in my soft-sided TechNet folder. Of course there’s the usual operating system and application disks, but there are a number of rescue and utility disks as well… Operating Systems and Applications Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 2003 [...]

Function Keys at the Command Prompt

This is sort of a noob post, but I’d forgotten about these, even though I use the command prompt almost hourly at work. With a cmd shell open: Press     To Get F1           Last command displayed one letter at a time F3           Repeat last command F5           Displays the last commands one-by-one F7           Displays the command history F8           Cycles [...]

Microsoft Case Studies

Need that extra push to get a budget approved. Perhaps you need ammo to bring into fruition (or shoot down) the latest whim of those in executive row. Microsoft Case Studies may have your answer. Divided by Industry, Business Need, IT Issue, etc., with searchable fields as expected, there is a good amount of video and downloadable [...]

Google Website Backup

Google offers a lot of things, and I mean a lot, but this isn’t really one of them. And yet, in a fashion they do. A good friend of mine recently lost a rather good blog post due to a server issue (it was on a Linux box, so I’m not sure how that could ever [...]

Amusing Computer Quotes, Part II

Enjoy… “The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.” – Nathaniel Borenstein “The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier.” – [...]

Verizon Survey – Not!

Five days after I switched to AT&T, I received an e-mail from Verizon with the request: “Please tell us how we can improve”. I thought I would let them know they might try having a better selection of smart phones (sorry, 19 different flavors of Blackberry only count as one), letting customers know when more [...]

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