Lessons in backup (RAID failure) – never underestimate the cost of data loss
Client (I'll call then AirStuff) had around forty employees and does design and fabriaction of air handling systems. They have four "beige box" servers,...
Pranks have little room in IT
Hmmm ... had to be back in my programming days when I would receive data tapes (from hospitals) and had to offload all the...
And here’s the reason why we don’t just hand out admin access
I walked into work one morning and the company receptionist immediately greeted me with "Mornin! Hey the network's down." Unfortunately it wasn't the first...
Kind of like a landmine, only the fallout’s more expensive
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He was greeted at reception by Manny, one of the upper-level directors. He got the...
IT Fail: This is why you don’t mess with Windows logon
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Companies beyond a certain size all follow the same basic pattern. Where possible, everything gets centralized...
Shocking Experience
Firstly, let me start this submission off by stating that I myself and not an IT person, but do believe this experience is a...
This just fosters bad behavior…
I was just at a local tech conference, and of course, there were the various vendors from GFI, VMWare, HP, Microsoft, Lenovo, etc. -...
The touch of death
I work in a medical facility where we run a few procedure rooms for operations, etc. The PCs in the room are outfitted with...
Pro Tip: As an AV company, try not to flag your own software as...
Sophos had a little issue this week.
After a typical update - since AV products update frequently - update, their AV was then detecting various...
