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I’m Juiced… Because My Surface Pro 3 Got Juiced!
Ok, the title might sound a little bit cryptic… let me explain. A few weeks ago I was listening to a podcast that I enjoy called Surface Smiths (www.surfacesmiths.com). It was Episode 11, and the product they were reviewing was called the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 – 4 In 1 USB 3.0 Adapter from Juiced…
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Higher Security: How’s it going a month in?
A few weeks ago I wrote about how I started using a password vault. Some of my keener observers noted that I did not mention which one I chose, and that was not an oversight. I am not an expert in the technology, and unlike many of the products and solutions I have reviewed over…
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Yom Kippur, 5776
On Yom Kippur (The Jewish Day of Atonement) we ask The Lord’s forgiveness for all of our transgressions against him over the past year. However in the ten days leading up to it (The Days of Awe) are a time when we ask forgiveness of our fellow man (and woman) for all of our transgressions…
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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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SQL Server: How to tame the beast!
One of the benefits of virtualization is that you can segregate your SQL Servers from your other workloads. Why? If not then Microsoft SQL Server will hoard every last bit of resources on your machine, leaving scant crumbs for other workloads. Seriously… when you start the Microsoft SQL Server you will immediately see your memory…
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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…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
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