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Disclaimer:  I’m not a gadget freak.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  iPhones, Storms, Bolds, toaster ovens, etc…don’t want them.  I do have an iPod…a G2 Nano circa 2006.
With that out of the way I can broach a recent post by Hoff and the associated banter in the comments regarding Amazon’s Kindle […]

That was sarcasm.  Its pert near impossible to go to any nerd site today and not read about it.  My personal favorite was JJ’s.  After a disappearing act for the better part of two months she comes out swinging for the fences.  She really should write one of those “for dummies” books.
Tough to believe there […]

Metaphor hunt…first one to bag a metaphor wins nothing.
Came across this Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive post today over at codinghorror.com.  Anyone looking for a logical explination to server sprawl need not look any further.  Why take the time to write optimized code when the advances in hardware can compensate?  I think this is a big part of the […]

Its Britney, Bitch!  Oops! …Microsoft did it again.  They played with your browser.  Got lost on the web.  Oh, baby, baby.
Now that the worst intro ever to a post is behind us its probably not a mystery what this is going to be about.  For the second time in less than two months an out-of-band, emergency update to patch a […]

Just sitting here kicking around the web tonight.  My tendencies are much like how a guy watches TV…going from site to site at a rapid pace waiting for something to catch my eye.  A quick scan of the headlines at each site and I was changing channels as if Oprah or Rosie O’Donnell were on every channel.  Nothing was […]

Today was one of those days where you earn your peanuts.  We replaced a firewall at one location with a high availability firewall cluster.  The firewall replacement went very well but somehow, with a very odd coincidence of timing, a Citrix Access Gateway decided to expire at the exact same time.  So as a stopgap I brought […]

I’m actually a little disappointed I’m using that word because its the new “hip” word and I usually try to stay away from what all the cool kids are doing.
Yesterday, four of us walked out of our network operations center just before lunch.  Right outside our door sits a male programmer.  As myself and two others […]

This Computerworld article about the Countrywide breach struck a chord with me.  “Breach” isn’t really the correct word.  This was data stolen from the inside from a computer that was not secured like the rest of the computers.  Whether or not it was not secured intentionally is irrelevant.  Why?  Because every security policy that gets put in […]

I tell you…when a person that knows every admin/root password in an environment leaves it is a real pain.  Well, its a real pain if you do the smart thing and change all of the passwords.  It is nothing short of ridiculous the number of passwords that are in a “mature” environment.  Today we managed […]

We’ve got a doozy of a task in front of us.  We are losing a member of our team that has had the highest level of clearance for over four years.  That’s right…a whole heap of passwords have to be changed now.  Its going to be ugly.  Routers, switches, firewalls, servers, service accounts, sql accounts, […]