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An iOS 9.0 Feature: For those who are truly lost
This morning I decided to upgrade my iPhone to iOS 9.0. To be fair, I decided to do it overnight while I was asleep, but the phone seemed to sense this, and decided to keep me company when I slept, and only started to upgrade when I woke up and wanted to use it. I…
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August!
I have been watching the numbers on the site for years. This month we have broken almost every record for the site’s history. A couple of hours ago The World According to Mitch welcomed its 20,000th visitor for the month of August. That is by far a record… and considering today is only the 28th,…
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It Was 20 Years Ago Today!
I was in the army and did not own a computer. I had vowed to put the world of computers behind me. But twenty years ago today, on August 24, 1995, Bill Gates got on to the stage and launched Windows 95. Microsoft Windows was, of course, already ten years old at the time; Windows…
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Not In It For the Money…
It is almost ten years since I started blogging. It is hard to believe that it has been that long, but there it is… A little over twelve years ago I registered my first domain and opened my own website, and I used that as a pulpit from which to to ‘speak’ to the masses. …
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The Ways of Small Business IT
Over the years I have consulted for many companies, from really small to really large. I have managed organizations of five users, and of fifty thousand. I realized a long time ago – and have never been shy in saying – that while the two are very different, the truth is that while Enterprise policies…
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Windows to Go: Ironkey gets it right
Back in 2012 I spent a lot of time talking (and writing) about Windows to Go (WTG). This was Microsoft’s newest feature that allowed you to install Windows 8 on a USB key. In theory I loved it, in practice… well, most of the USB keys that I tried it on (the certified ones, and…
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Windows 10–A few days in
By the time you read this, we will be a few days into August, which means that Windows 10 started to become available a few days ago, and chances are this is not the first piece you are reading on Microsoft’s newest OS. Over the past few years Microsoft has been talking about a single…
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A Sour Note From Toronto 2015 Volunteers
Let me start by saying that I had the greatest time at the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games. It was a pleasure to spend eight days (plus training) with a group of mostly like-minded individuals who, when they were asked, signed up by the tens of thousands to volunteer at the Games… in any capacity…
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A Tale of Two Tablets…
I like my Surface Pro 3. Despite a couple of hiccoughs before the drivers were stable I have always liked it. It is a wonderful computer for what I use it for… and frankly, for a lot of things I don’t use it for. So when I started commuting to a new office in Toronto…
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Toronto 2015: What an experience!
A year ago I got an e-mail from WTF (World Taekwondo Federation) Canada reminding me to apply to volunteer for the Pan Am Games. I was walking back to my hotel in Bellevue, Washington one afternoon in January when the e-mail offering me a position came. I started getting excited right then and there. I…
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The World Has Changed…
I looked at my eBay profile today to see if someone had left me negative feedback out of spite. He hadn’t… But as I was in there I took notice of an interesting stat. Member since: 2003. I was a latecomer to online commerce for the simple reason that I didn’t have a credit card…
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That Was the Week That Was…
This has been one of those weeks that I love as an IT Professional. I have succeeded in keeping meetings to a minimum, and got to play with a lot of cool technology. If I look back on the week, and this is without reviewing my notes, I have built: Storage Pools iSCSI Targets Failover…
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My New Word…?
I was driving with a friend over the week-end, and describing the behaviour of someone with whom I recently cut all ties. Part of the reason I did is because she is a master manipulator. “She is a Manipulatrix.” Brad said he loved that word, even though he had never heard it before. I admit,…
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Let’s Spread the Action Around… With NLB! (Part 1)
**AUTHOR’S NOTE: I have written hundreds of articles on this blog over the past decade. Until recently I spent a lot of time taking screen shots of GUI consoles for my how-to articles. For the time being, as I try to force myself into the habit, I will be using Windows PowerShell as much as…
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Follow-up to a comment.
Per my comment reply to Peter, this is from the My Certifications > MCSE: Private Cloud page.
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