It's always MY problem

Rob Moir's take on IT and the IT industry

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Stormy weather for cloud providers and users?

May 16, 2013by Rob 1 Comment

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 […]

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Being a better Sysadmin, Cloud, email, grumble
Keyboard keys in water

Keep taking the tablets Dell

April 30, 2013by Rob Leave a comment

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 […]

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Being a better Sysadmin, grumble, SCCM
Microsoft_Windows_8_Packaging_final

The problem with Windows 8

February 7, 2013by Rob Leave a comment

When Windows 8 was first released to techies, I made the effort to install it on my main computer at home and use it in order to try and get […]

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grumble, In the news, Operating Systems, Windows

I’m not very good with computers

April 16, 2011by Rob 3 Comments

The phrase “I’m not very good with computers” is one you frequently hear, sometimes from people who are embarrassed to have a problem with their computer, sometimes as a response […]

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grumble
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From Hell’s heart, I email thee

April 15, 2011by Rob 1 Comment

My feelings about various email servers I’ve had to do battle with over the years are well known to those people who have worked with me. Imagine my surprise to […]

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email, grumble

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What I’ve been talking about.

BYOD Carphone Warehouse cloud computer Dell ea email Exploit gadgets Google HP Procurve hp procurve switches infrastructure internet iPad iPhone Java java runtime environment java sandbox java vulnerability Latitude Mac OSX MDM microsoft antivirus mimecast Mobile Computing mobile device management multihomed server network O2 online Operating system operations operations staff risk SCCM Security simcity software sysadmin technology technorati trusting trust Windows

People I read

  • Angry Aussie
  • Daring Fireball
  • Grand Stream Dreams
  • H-Online Security
  • John Welch's blog
  • kurt wismer's anti-virus rants
  • SCCM Guy
  • Standalone Sysadmin
  • Sysadmin 1138 expounds
  • The Nubby Admin
  • The Register
  • Tom O'Connor's blog
  • You had me at EHLO

Rob’s Twitter Feed

  • #xboxreveal Actually I don't want a "social TV experience". I like watching the shows I like, not the shows other people like. 1 day ago
  • #xboxone #xboxreveal I've not seen anything much yet that makes me think "oh what a great games machine". Meh. 1 day ago
  • Credit to #mimecast for producing an honest & open "post mortem" after the problems last week. 1 day ago
  • Member of staff asked me to unblock a webpage. When I tested it, it tried to install 3 viruses on my computer. That's a "no" then. 1 day ago
  • Looking forward to the xbox announcement today to compare it to the PS4 #sony #microsoft #boystoys 1 day ago

It’s always MY problem.

Whenever things go wrong it's always me who has to fix it. And then very likely, complain about it here...

Other Places I post

I use Server Fault quite a bit. I occasionally pop up at edugeek, too.

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