-
Lessons Of The Father… or things he should have taught you
A few weeks ago I heard a story on the radio about a man who lost over $40,000 to online scammers, and I was absolutely floored by how anyone could be taken in by such a scam. Please understand that online scammers are very good at what they do. If you are not actively expecting…
-
VMware Vulnerability
This article was sent to me over the weekend. It seems that VMware is no longer immune to ransomware. If you did not believe me before when I told you that patch management was one of your most important defensive weapons in the fight against cybersecurity incidents, please believe me now! Massive ESXiArgs ransomware attack…
-
Kali on Hyper-V: Start to Done.
**See notes on SecurityOnion at the bottom! It is funny where life can take you. I have been a specialist (and in some things maybe even expert) in so many different technologies over the course of my career, so when I sat down a few weeks ago to create a Kali Linux virtual machine on…
-
Layoffs Layoffs Everywhere…
With the exception of a period from late 2014 through mid-2020, I have been a contractor in the IT space for most of my post-Army life. That was not necessarily how I wanted things to be, but it has been the reality nonetheless. In the parlance of the industry, I eat what I kill, and…
-
System Issues and Public Panic
Air travel in the United States was severely interrupted by a cyber incident last week. I heard about it on the news as I walked my dog and spent the entirety of that walk framing how I would speak to the incident at the opening of my class later that day. I was teaching a…
-
To Upgrade Or Not to Upgrade
If you had told a fifteen-year-old me that in adulthood I would be using exclusively laptops, having eschewed the expandability of desktops for the convenience and portability of the smaller (but at the time prohibitively expensive) form factor, I would probably have laughed at you. Of course, had you told me then that I would…
-
The Twelve Networking Truths
As the weekend approaches, I am looking forward to breaking for a couple of days. I have not posted in a while, and I thought I would share this with you. If you are not familiar, RFC stands for Request For Comments, and is usually the definitive rules for a particular technology. Those of us…
-
Women in IT
I have been in the IT field for most of my adult life… in addition to several years of my adolescence. I have seen trends come and go, and I have seen technology evolve exponentially. We have evolved from 8-bit computing to symmetric multiprocessing 64-bit CPUs that would blow the doors off of anything that…
-
Operation National Proposal
I knew a couple of months ago that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. We had a few ups and downs, but those were always caused by outside forces interfering with our lives. I knew in March that I was going to ask her to marry me, and I knew…
-
Operation National Proposal
(While this was originally posted to my Weight Loss blog, I feel it should be shared on both of my permanent blogs as well. I look forward to reading your comments! –MDG) I knew a couple of months ago that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. We had a few…
-
How did you know?
On Quora, someone asked the question’How did your adopted puppy let you know hey chose you?’ This was my response. I got a terrible call on Wednesday. My ex-wife told me that Gingit ran into the street, was hit by a car, and died. I was so upset. That weekend my girlfriend (now ex) and…
-
War and Sanctions and the Economic Casualties of War
I am in a quandary. This week, Russia invaded Ukraine. We can discuss the reasons behind it, but they are irrelevant. Simply put, Vladimir Putin wants to control the country, while the country wants to join NATO and the European Union. It is clear that Putin is a ruthless dictator who wants to rebuild the…
-
New Notepad?
When preparing to publish this article, it came as no surprise to me that Notepad, long a feature in Microsoft Windows, was not listed as a blog Category. After all, it’s like writing an article about the carpets in the back seat of your car… who cares, right? They are there, you try to clean…
-
Troubleshooting Methodology
I was working on a project for a client recently that involved hundreds of accounts. I would test my process on a couple, make sure that it worked, and then run the script against the entire list. However before I moved the lot to the new location, my customer wanted his account to be a…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 