Rant Delicious Strategy I don't know who Peter Drucker is, but Matt's quote attributed to him, is sound: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" This cannot be overstated. pic.twitter.com/pWwjEw8Z4j — Matt Haedo (@matthaedo) January 7, 2020 Apparently Peter is a kind of a big deal, at least according to
Rant Uber Annoyed This afternoon, this image and rants from angry Kansans hit my Twitter timeline. I didn’t even realize prior to today, that it was even a thing, and when I saw Uber’s announcement my reaction was, immediately … I can’t believe I agree with Governor Brownback! “As I said
Rant Fewer Fucks Pardon my language, or don’t. Last weekend in my Instapaper Weekly email, was a link to a fantastic article by Mark Manson called The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. Take 12 minutes, and give it a read: Most of us struggle throughout our lives by giving too
VMware Guidance Change A few months ago I wrote about the VMware View optimization script breaking Internet Explorer and Adobe Acrobat through the addition of a registry entry that disabled Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR): ASLR was a feature added to Windows starting with Vista. It’s present in Linux and Mac OS
Rant Guided Powers Power… it is the only thing that you will find more prevalent in a datacenter than racks, yet many times when discussing upgrades and new installations it’s the part that no one ever mentions. the IT team isn’t in charge of the power design (leased building, union, or
Rant Great Success There is a bug in Windows Server 2012 R2 in the volume license activation wizard, that if you don’t change the Key Management Service port setting when applying the configuration (from “0” to whatever you want it to be, such as the default of 1688) you get this absolutelty
Rant Oracle VM Oracle VM 3 improved a lot, they are not close to Microsoft or VMware, but it is pretty good if you are not trying to do dramatic things like moving virtual machines around. Gartner’s vice president and distinguished analyst Thomas Bittman, talking about how Oracle VM is poised to
VMware Little Megabits You really should never use 100mb networking with VMware for much of anything. I’m not even sure 100mb networking has any place in a modern datacenter, except maybe cheap connectivity to something like an iLO/DRAC. You should avoid using a single vNIC for any vSwitch, unless you just
Rant AT&T Fun I’ve had AT&T’s U-verse service since October 2009, the day we moved into our house. At it’s heart, it’s really a fantastic service offering… IPTV, whole home DVR, advanced DSL, all wrapped up into a nice package. But for the last 6 months I’
Apple Phone Stress The boys who cried wolf (AKA The Wall Street Journal, et al) are all indicating that Tuesday will be the announcement of the long awaited iPhone 4 on Verizon. I hope they’re finally right. Not because I’m going to switch, no, I’m actually pretty satisfied with my
Microsoft Lazy Explorers The number of businesses still using Internet Explorer 6 is painful to see. Coupled with the fact that all of them are on Windows XP or Windows 2000, it turns from pain into terror, especially when it comes to security. For a lot of system administrators, the reasons to stay
Microsoft Local Admin A recent email discussion over a education security listserv got me thinking about the topic of giving users administrator rights to their local machines. This is a common discussion that comes up about once every month or so, when ever someone new joins the group. The discussion usually starts by