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Why You Need a Personal Computer If You Have A Corporate Computer
Last week without paying attention I scheduled this article to publish Monday morning, not realizing that in North America we would be celebrating Labour Day. Almost none of my readers were in the office, and many (including myself) were relaxing by a beach somewhere. As I expect the article was largely overlooked in lieu of late…
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UNC Path Nightmare
Anyone who has taken a basic networking course will understand that UNC (Universal Naming Convention) paths are one of the common ways we in IT access file shares across our local networks. They will usually look like this: \\oak-mgt-01\Sharename. Of course, you can see all of the shares on a particular server by just entering…
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Passwords: Beware
I held out as long as I could; I have never used a password vault, thinking that I could remember all of my passwords for several dozen sites and applications without having to trust them to any third party. Of course, many of the passwords I used were reused a few times, and oftentimes I…
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The Perils of a Manual Environment
I am not going to lie to you and say that every environment that I manage or have managed is an optimized Secure, Well-Managed IT Environment. It’s just not true. In a secure, well-managed IT environment we monitor to make sure that things are working the way they are supposed to. When we spin up…
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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 10 have VD! No, it’s not what it sounds like…
When I first got into IT after the army my boss at the time was big into Linux… which didn’t bother me at all, because I wasn’t really ‘in to’ anything. I certainly knew Windows better than I knew Linux, but I was just happy to be there. There was one concept that I had…
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Tsk Tsk Lenovo……
Raise your hand if you hate CrapWare. Yes, CrapWare (or BloatWare) are those programs that come with your OEM-installed PC. Most of the time you don’t want it (or don’t even realize it is there). Depending on the variant, it can the OEM (original equipment manufacturer, such as HP or Dell or Lenovo, to name…
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Ransomware Sucks.
A few weeks ago I started receiving resumés from what looked like legitimate job seekers. The only problems were a) I am not currently hiring, nor have I put out any feelers that might be misconstrued as I am, and b) There was no cover letter – just a quick note like this: Hi, my…
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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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Working From Anywhere
Over the years I have written extensively about methods of working from anywhere using various technologies including Remote Desktop, Virtual Desktop, Remote Apps, Virtual Apps, and Windows To Go. I have been a huge advocate of many of these, both in my blog, in my professional life, and in my capacity as a community leader…
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Live Writer: Not gone, just a pain in the Windows 10.
I have been blogging with Windows Live Writer for a very long time. So when Microsoft did not see fit to install a Universal App (formerly Windows 8 app) of it, I was glad that I could simply install the same old version… and even if they were not going to upgrade it who cares,…
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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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