September 17th, 2009 | Category:
Opinionation |
There are days when all I can see are blood covered daggers sticking out of oozing backup tapes, strewn about a field littered with corpses of Symantec’s heinous Backup Exec non-application. I often wonder if there can be a new class of software called Frustrationware or Failureware. SBE is a horrible blight on human kind, and I don’t care if Symantec reads this. In fact, I relish the idea that they read this piece and decide that they are going to abandon their lofty and impossible goal of making SBE work as simply unattainable and cast it into the sea, thanking me along the way with a $10,000,000.00 grant.
Continue reading Its Time For Tape To Die
September 14th, 2009 | Category:
Opinionation |
There is a smell in the air tells me that people are starting to think that living and working in the so-called Cloud is already well on its way. In case you don’t know what this means, its simple. Google is a part of the cloud. If, when you login to your computer at your desk, you use all of what Google offers and never use a desktop application to get what you need done, you are working partly in the Cloud. The Cloud, after all, is an old term for the network. It really refers to the public network, more widely referred to as the Internet (or Interwebs by some dorks who can’t stop making fun of former Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens (R) and part-time stand-up comedian).
Continue reading Why Cloud Computing Just Isn’t Ready Yet
September 11th, 2009 | Category:
Site News |
Ok, its not MY book, per se, but I did contribute three whole chapters to it and you can find my name in the Acknowledgments section. The book is actually Bob Cowart and Brian Knittle’s book, and they are good friends. I contributed the contents of chapters 10, 12, and 15, and there’s a little treat [...]
September 11th, 2009 | Category:
The Practicals |
Process and procedure are critical in any business, and not just in the IT department. If you work at home and you pull down $20K a month in sales, you don’t have an IT department, but your data and ability to work is just as important. The same goes for a company with 150 employees. I was going over some old worksheets and technical documentation and I came across a number of scenarios which are super important. The companies which learned these hard lessons were able to grow from their experiences. You should learn something from their experiences, too.
Continue reading Four Things You Can Do To Protect Your Network (And Probably Your Job)
September 5th, 2009 | Category:
Cool Tools |
I’ve actually been loathe to tell people about this website because I feared that it would get drowned out like Deviant Art did. Deviant Art is no longer of any real value and they charge a premium for nothing at all. Its very sad to see, since many very talented artists in a number of disciplines [...]
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