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TTYL

Today’s editorial was originally released on Nov 20, 2007. It is being republished as Steve is at DevConnections. OMG! The DB if FUBAR. The sysop added an HDD and did a RAID rebuild OTF. AFAIK, the Vol with the MDFs … Continue reading

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Question what you think

Good advice from Jeff Bezos.

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Dare to Disagree

This talk on disagreement and openness is very thought provoking. I tend to agree with it, but at what point does disagreement become disharmony? How do you teach the skills to argue and disagree passionately, but do so rationally and … Continue reading

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Shadow IT

When I started working as a system administrator over 20 years ago, I worked for a central IT department at a remote facility for our company. Four of us managed a network of 1,000 nodes, with multiple servers under a … Continue reading

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