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Obvious? No…
I learned a lesson today, after I thought I had heard it all. It seems that when there is mould in your server room it is important to specify to everyone involved at every level that the equipment in there – often valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars, not to mention the potential for…
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Keep it Clean… it will last longer!
Last night at Taekwondo two women (a student and a parent) asked me the same question: ‘Is that a new dobok?’ The dobok is of course the uniform we wear, and until you are a Senior Instructor in our system it is white with our logo on the back. Additionally I have two flag patches…
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Milestones
This morning I stepped onto the scale and got an unexpected surprise… I was, for the first time (since I started losing weight last August) under a certain multiple of ten (I am still not telling you what I weigh, so you can try to guess but you will be wrong). It was a very…
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Hyper-V 2008 R2: Still good enough?
I manage a vSphere environment at work, and it is a real change from the last few years when I spent all of my time talking about Hyper-V. I want to be clear – it is not better or worse, it is just… different. We have a number of virtualization hosts, plus a physical domain…
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It is a Loooong Journey…
The scale this morning was kind to me… down 1.7lbs over yesterday. However looking at my 30 day graph I am only down 8lbs this month… respectable, but not where I want it to be (10lbs per month). Last week I was sitting with the Educator at the Weight Management Clinic and she looked through…
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Dropbox: The saga continues
Dropbox was not hacked. At least, that is according to them. And in truth it wasn’t… at least, not in the strict definition of the word hacked. With that being said, it was compromised. It could in fact be that another service was hacked, but the hackers then cross-referenced those passwords to Dropbox and found hundreds…
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The journey continues…
Anyone who has ever tried to lose weight – I don’t mean ten or twenty pounds, but a significant amount of weight – will know that there is a certain point when you start to feel the weight loss, not only because you see the numbers on the scale, but in other facets of life. …
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Dropbox users beware
It has happened again. If you use Dropbox there has been another massive security breach. It is vital that you change your passwords now… Along with the password on any other site where you use the same password. (Admit it, yes you do it!)
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Are you embarrassed?
Originally posted on The World According to Mitch: We have all done things that we are ashamed of, embarrassed by, or simply regret. If anyone tells me that they have not then I will say they are probably lying. The thing is, the world has changed over the past few years, and there are two…
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Jacob comes for a visit
A lot of people asked me how I could bear to part with my dogs when I moved out of my house. Well I do have shared custody of them, and I am allowed to take them when I want. In truth my lifestyle now is not conducive to having dogs – I work from…
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Bypassing IT: A REALLY bad idea.
Wow. I just read an e-mail that made me lose a lot of respect for one of the most respected publications in the world of journalism: The Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com). The article, Ten Things Your IT Department Won’t Tell You, outlines several (would you believe 10) issues that employees encounter with corporate systems, and…
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Office Customization without VL Media
Over the years I have written quite a bit about Desktop Deployment, especially using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). It allows us to install not only our operating system but also our drivers, patches, and applications with little or no user interaction. Recently I did some consulting for a small company of seven users. They…
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The Evils of Offices…
I have really been enjoying working at Yakidoo. The people are really nice, I am enjoying the work, it’s all good. However they are out to get me, the lot of them… As I have mentioned in the recent past I have been losing weight. It is, as anyone who has gone before me knows,…
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Nothing Technical Today
If you are Jewish, and especially if you are from Montreal… make sure you do this: Find 15 minutes where you can watch YouTube videos, and look up Yid-Life Crisis. Trust me, they are hilarious… even if you don’t speak Yiddish! 🙂 Thanks to my sister Jen for showing me the way!
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Losing a Part of Me… What I would like to share.
Last week I posted on Facebook that I have lost 25lbs in the past three months, and a lot of people offered words of congratulations and encouragement. I want to thank them for that. The truth is, I have struggled with my weight for the past twenty years. Since before I got out of the army…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
