Stormy weather for cloud providers and users?
So we’re a Mimecast customer and today they had a few problems with their email services in the UK going offline for a large part of the working day. No […]
The Problem with BYOD projects
I see lots of people talking about and asking about hardware being “prepared for BYOD” and/or “BYOD ready”. Most of the time they’re talking about Wireless Access Points(WAPs) or other […]
Keep taking the tablets Dell
Let me just start this post by saying that professionally at least, I’m a happy Dell customer. I’ve built up a good relationship with them over the years, met senior […]
Robert’s Modern Sysadmin Rules, Part 2
5. “Nuke from orbit” is still the best approach to a rooted system. See http://serverfault.com/a/218011/7783 I’ve talked about this in the Server Fault answer above, and I might do another […]
Robert’s Modern Sysadmin Rules, Part 1
Based losely on a series of tweets I made last year. 10. Documentation & planning may not be fun but they can be the difference between being promoted & being […]
Procurve Manager – multihomed gotchas
We are almost exclusively a user of HP Procurve switches where I work. We have a wide range of models that we’ve used at both core and edge and have […]
SCCM 2012 WTF moment
We’ve been migrating from SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012 at work. One very interesting part of SCCM 2012 for us has been the support for Mac OSX that was added […]
At least you don’t work for EA.
If you do then my condolences, but you probably don’t. And if you don’t then however bad your day at work was, it’s probably not as bad as the network […]
IT Science vs. IT Religion. Again
What we’re going to here is go back. Way back. A long time ago, I made a brief comment on Mr Angry’s blog article about project managment disasters where I […]
Java – Unsafe at any speed?
So another day, another Java vulnerability. Before we go on, if you’re not actually using Java for anything then uninstall it right now from your computer – or at the […]
