The World According to Mitch

At TechEd NorAm 2009 in Los Angeles the Community Corner had an XBox 360 setup to play Guitar Hero… Some buddies and I played a couple of songs.  Watch them now! (I seem to recall we also did Hotel California with me on vocals… be glad that video appears to be lost forever!)

For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918. In June of 2009 I wrote an article about a feature of Windows 7 that I loved… but couldn’t at the time confirm would actually make it into the final release of Windows 7.  In fact I was unable to find any documentation on it…

I couldn’t believe it.  There is actually a contest to write haiku about Windows Server 2008 R2.  I used to write poetry, so I gave it a shot.  Here are MY entries, based on the two technologies that I use most often: Virtualize All / Hyper-V is the true path / Green are your servers…

My files are bulletproof… or at least I think/hope/pray that they are.  I have a 60GB file on my laptop that stores my documents (and another 10GB of pictures).  For security reasons the partition on which those directories sit is encrypted with BitLocker, so if I lose my laptop my files are safe.  Every night…

In her recent article ‘Windows 7: Seven points of imperfection’ (posted on IT World Canada, and written for PC World US) Jacqueline Emigh  calls out seven deficiencies in Microsoft’s new client operating system. While I understand that columnists have to find a hook to please their editors, I am beginning to find it boring with…

This article came over my RSS feed from Global Knowledge; it is an article from January by David Davis which outlines 10 things you shouldn’t do with your Cisco router.  If you were to turn it upside down, it is a really good reminder of ten tips you should always follow with your Cisco router……

<Originally posted October, 2006> Earlier today someone referenced this article from my old blog which will, eventually, be migrated over to my new blog.  However in the meantime I am reposting it.  To be frank the perfect record no longer stands true. –MDG Don’t Mess With Juju: Even if you are not superstitious it cannot…

The week Windows 7 released Microsoft was slated to sponsor a portion of the Fox TV animated(and rather colourful) show Family Guy.  At the last minute they pulled the plug because someone realized that the show did not quite … well frankly it is crude and tasteless.  Nonetheless the original clip has made it to…

I can hardly believe it has been nearly a year since I sat down to speak with Stephen Ibaraki.  Stephen is a very well respected professional, a past-president of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), Advisor to Chair of Culminis (now GITCA), and a 44-year-veteran of the technology field.  Aside from all of that I…

There are two schools of thought when it comes to physical memory over-commitment between virtual machines. The first school of thought is that it is a great way for virtual machines to leverage more memory than the host server actually has. the memory resources available to the Guest OS machines exceed the available resources of…

I have seen a lot of contests recently… some promise cash, others cool prizes.  This contest will actually help you to grow your business! Microsoft Canada has a great contest for IT professionals and implementers.  Do you have a story about how Windows 7 is helping you to expand your customer base?  Have you developed…

On October 28 I was invited to present a STEP (Springboard Technical Experts Panel) Event for the Sarnia Computer Users Group in Sarnia, Ontario.  Steve Syfuhs and I drove out there and had a great time, even though we were in for a surprise!  I have to say that this group of retired hobbyists were…

When Microsoft announced that rather than throwing large launch events in select cities they would enable Influencers to throw ‘House Parties’ there was a lot of ridicule; many said it wouldn’t work, others poked fun and even shot mocumentaries about them.  Cameron McKay and I set out to prove that not only COULD they work,…

My wife’s 17” HP Pavillion laptop broke; when I say that it broke I do not mean that the OS crashed or that the hard disk was defective, or even that the motherboard fried, which are all legitimate reasons for computers to stop working.  It seems that a couple of people liked to carry the…

Back when I was a computer support technician I used to carry a binder of CDs and DVDs, including (but certainly not limited to!) every version and edition of Windows client and server.  This came in handy every time I replaced a hard drive because I could reinstall the OS without having to take it…