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As an occasional DBA and full time troubleshooter, I have had a number of complex interactions with SQL server. Most of the time, I do not blog about them, In this instance I decided to document the solution to this problem for everyone, but also in case I need it again in the future. I […]
The U.K. Cyber Essentials Security Scheme – a useful framework for small businesses in other countries! In October 2014 the UK government created a low-cost, light-touch scheme called Cyber Essentials. It doesn’t introduce new concepts, controls or processes. It takes items from existing standards such as the ISO 27000 and NIST SP 800-53 publications and […]
Having helped many small organizations troubleshoot problems with Microsoft Active Directory, I thought I would put a few of my favorite trouble shooting tips and tricks in a blog for reference and for my later reference. First: how do you determine that something may be wrong with the current active directory configuration? Here are a […]
AMD has won the bids for the upcoming Playstation/Xbox consoles, and a wide range of Macintosh devices With the new Polaris GPU architecture soon to be released, AMD has secured the console and next generation Macintosh hardware with the new Polaris architecture, based on 14nm Finfet technology. This is quite interesting to see, and comes […]
I was looking back at some of my very early policy that I wrote back in 2004. After reviewing some of my initial policy, I realized that creating a good policy can be a hard thing to perform correctly the first time. I decided to help people new to policy writing by outlining a template […]
Here is an interesting vaguely worked email if I have ever seen one that made me snort out loud when it was sent to me. One of my employees got this error when trying to clean up a former employee’s mailbox in Office365! These types of errors always make me wonder who proof reads the […]
As more and more businesses are either voluntarily or forced to increase their security posture, the first step is developing and documenting good security policy and procedure. There are only a few times where I have not performed this essential step before making changes to the environment. Writing security policy is a large task that […]
This is a review of the GTX 465, which is a video card made by Nvidia all the way back in 2010. I am going to run through a gauntlet of up to date test, like 3dmark Firestrike, Performance test 8, as well as a variety of others. Background and Specs of the GTX 465 […]
I have the opportunity to test the Firepro W8100 from AMD. and this review will include not only the computational performance of the Firepro W8100, but also a variety of gaming benchmarks. The Firepro W8100: Specs and Overview The Firepro W8100 nearly mirrors the specs of the Radeon R9 290, except for two important features: […]
A funny thing happened a few months ago, I opened up my Internet explorer compatibility list and found that I could only put domains in it and not specific web sites like I used to be able to. This presents a frustrating problem if there are more than a couple websites hosted at a particular […]