The World According to Mitch

The World According to Mitch

The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)

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  • First Amendment Rights

    <rant> To all of the First Amendment ‘journalists’ who post videos of themselves arguing with the police for asking them to not record: Yes, it might be your right to do it. It is always your right to be a belligerent and argumentative jackass. In the vast majority of cases, the police are very respectful…

    Mitch Garvis

    March 23, 2023
    Uncategorized
  • Another Pensive Airport Article

    Airports can be hard to predict. When I got to the airport in Toronto ten days ago at 3:30am I was shocked by the mob scene that greeted me. It was only later when a friend informed me that it was the beginning of March Break that I understood the madness. Assuming that today is…

    Mitch Garvis

    March 20, 2023
    Airplanes, Airports, Excitement, Travel, Wonders
  • Intune is In Tune… Again.

    **NOTE: I do not know if there is currently an official logo for Microsoft Intune. Of the two included in this article, one was the original logo in 2010, and the other was found on the Internet. After being introduced to Microsoft Intune in the early part of the last decade, I was troubled by…

    Mitch Garvis

    March 3, 2023
    Endpoint Security, Microsoft, Microsoft Endpoint Management, Windows Intune
  • A Brief Explanation of Subnet Masks

    If you have ever searched for the IP Address of your computer, you have probably used one of the following commands: ipconfig, ifconfig, or ip addr. If you are really fancy and decided to use Windows PowerShell, you might even have used get-netipconfiguration. Whichever one you used on whichever is your preferred operating system, you…

    Mitch Garvis

    February 27, 2023
    Binary Math, IP Addressing, Networking, Subnet Masks, Subnetting
  • If Anyone Could Do It… Revisited

    I came across this article that I posted three years ago, and thought it was worth sharing again. During my last contract with Microsoft I discovered that within the company they are essentially handing out the credential Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) like it was candy, requiring little or no proof of actual training ability. To…

    Mitch Garvis

    February 23, 2023
    Microsoft Certified Trainer, Presentation, Skills, Trainer, Training
  • Linux on Active Directory

    I remember a decade or so ago when Microsoft tried to reach out to the Open Source community and get them to give their products and environments a chance. ‘Microsoft loves Linux!’ was the slogan, with a big heart in there. I remember joking with some of my colleagues that they really did not, but…

    Mitch Garvis

    February 22, 2023
    Active Directory, Linux
  • Lessons Of The Father… or things he should have taught you

    A few weeks ago I heard a story on the radio about a man who lost over $40,000 to online scammers, and I was absolutely floored by how anyone could be taken in by such a scam. Please understand that online scammers are very good at what they do. If you are not actively expecting…

    Mitch Garvis

    February 20, 2023
    Banking, Cyber Crime, Scams
  • VMware Vulnerability

    This article was sent to me over the weekend. It seems that VMware is no longer immune to ransomware. If you did not believe me before when I told you that patch management was one of your most important defensive weapons in the fight against cybersecurity incidents, please believe me now! Massive ESXiArgs ransomware attack…

    Mitch Garvis

    February 6, 2023
    Cyber Crime, Ransomware, VMware
  • Kali on Hyper-V: Start to Done.

    **See notes on SecurityOnion at the bottom! It is funny where life can take you. I have been a specialist (and in some things maybe even expert) in so many different technologies over the course of my career, so when I sat down a few weeks ago to create a Kali Linux virtual machine on…

    Mitch Garvis

    February 6, 2023
    Hyper-V, Linux, Virtualization
  • Layoffs Layoffs Everywhere…

    With the exception of a period from late 2014 through mid-2020, I have been a contractor in the IT space for most of my post-Army life. That was not necessarily how I wanted things to be, but it has been the reality nonetheless. In the parlance of the industry, I eat what I kill, and…

    Mitch Garvis

    January 25, 2023
    Contacts, Corporations, Layoffs, Stability
  • System Issues and Public Panic

    Air travel in the United States was severely interrupted by a cyber incident last week. I heard about it on the news as I walked my dog and spent the entirety of that walk framing how I would speak to the incident at the opening of my class later that day. I was teaching a…

    Mitch Garvis

    January 16, 2023
    Cyber Crime, IT Security, Security, System
  • To Upgrade Or Not to Upgrade

    If you had told a fifteen-year-old me that in adulthood I would be using exclusively laptops, having eschewed the expandability of desktops for the convenience and portability of the smaller (but at the time prohibitively expensive) form factor, I would probably have laughed at you. Of course, had you told me then that I would…

    Mitch Garvis

    August 15, 2022
    Hard Disk, HP, Laptop, Upgrade
  • The Twelve Networking Truths

    As the weekend approaches, I am looking forward to breaking for a couple of days. I have not posted in a while, and I thought I would share this with you. If you are not familiar, RFC stands for Request For Comments, and is usually the definitive rules for a particular technology. Those of us…

    Mitch Garvis

    August 12, 2022
    Networking
  • Women in IT

    I have been in the IT field for most of my adult life… in addition to several years of my adolescence. I have seen trends come and go, and I have seen technology evolve exponentially. We have evolved from 8-bit computing to symmetric multiprocessing 64-bit CPUs that would blow the doors off of anything that…

    Mitch Garvis

    July 29, 2022
    IT Pro, Women in IT
  • Operation National Proposal

    I knew a couple of months ago that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. We had a few ups and downs, but those were always caused by outside forces interfering with our lives. I knew in March that I was going to ask her to marry me, and I knew…

    Mitch Garvis

    May 29, 2022
    Uncategorized
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