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Free E-Books… Way beyond PDF Files!
Back in 2013 I published an article about free e-books from Microsoft Press, and I got some great response to it. Why? My readers love books, and everyone loves getting something for nothing. That is just simple math. I was having a conversation with my team last week, and they told me they did not…
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Time for a change…
It’s not what you’re thinking… I am still doing what I did professionally, although I did have a bit of a hiccup in my schedule today. I live in a condo building in Burlington. I have been here since September, and while I try to be friendly, it doesn’t seem that many of the neighbours…
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Apple Dongles… Dangling functionality in front of you!
“Just remember Mitch… you are coming into an environment where people love their Macs and their Linux. As long as you don’t come in and try to convert them, you will do well here.” Yes, when I had my initial conversation with the leadership at Kobo I was told something very much like that. Obviously…
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Whisky is Wonderful, but…
If you know me, you probably know that I am a whisky drinker. Had you asked me eighteen months ago I would have said I am a scotch drinker, but that changed when Michael Kulwicki joined the Rakuten End User Technology team in October of 2013. Michael is Scottish, but is living in Tokyo with…
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An Experienced Eye
There’s an old adage about a guy who takes his car to a mechanic. The car is coughing and banging and sounds like it is dying. The mechanic listens for a minute, then takes a hammer and takes a big whack at the engine, which then starts purring perfectly. That will be $200 please. ‘WHAT?…
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Pan Am… Do something for nothing, and get so much!
If you follow me on Facebook you will already know that I was selected as a volunteer for the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games. My decision to volunteer dates back to the 2013 Taekwondo Canada Open; at the end of the event the administrator thanked me for my hard work, and hoped that I would…
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My Next (and Previous) Challenge
I was in Montreal last week-end, and a friend of mine (Rick is a faithful reader of my blog) asked me why I have been so quiet recently. I want to apologize to you all for being a bit cagey about what was going on… and to the myriad friends on Facebook who expressed concern…
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New Interior…
I nearly panicked when I boarded the Air Canada Boeing 777-300 that will take me to Vancouver, for the connecting flight to Seattle. The First Class cabin did not have the pods that I was used to… just regular seats… …or so it seemed. In truth they have revamped the cabin and while the pods…
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Welcome to What’s Next…
There is irony in the title of this post… What’s next. I posted on Friday that it was my last day working full time at Yakidoo. I really enjoyed my time there, and am glad that my next venture will allow me to stay on there on a limited basis. This afternoon I am meeting…
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Onboard SAN… Issues.
A client of mine is a small business with a couple of physical servers and a couple of virtualization hosts. One of the physical servers, a Lenovo ThinkServer, has been acting as a file server, so it has really been very under-used. It is a good server that has never been used to its potential…
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Private Posts
I want to thank all of you who reached out to me this morning when you could not get into my ‘private’ article. I wanted to share something that I had written (that believe it or not is far too incendiary to post on this site) with an old army buddy, so I pass-word protected…
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Keep Up: How to configure SCOM to monitor the running state of services and restart them when they stop
Windows runs on services. Don’t believe me? Open your Services console and count just how many are running at any given time. Of course, some of them are more important than others… especially when you are talking about servers that are critical to your organization. A new customer recently called me for a DEAR Call…
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Way Way Back!
There is a nifty tool on the Internet called the Wayback Machine. It lets you see what websites looked like a long time ago. My blog (garvis.ca, as well as virtualizationczar.com) evolved from mitchgarvis.com, which came about when I decided to take my blog off mitpro.ca. However before any of those there was e-mitch.com, and…
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2015: My New Year’s Resolutions
I can honestly say that I don’t think I have ever made New Year’s Resolutions… at least, I have never written them down. At the end of 2014, my annus horribilus, I am looking forward to a spectacular 2015. Yesterday afternoon – December 30th – I was looking at my dashboard on www.asana.com – a…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 