There should be a way to block this traffic using a firewall rule. I doubt if SQL Server would stop working just because it can't post or ping Microsoft support...

Actually, much (if not most) of the posts in internet discussion forums or social media by actual humans is not really conversational. Folks are triggered by a keyword in someone...

Perhaps by the time we start building colonies on Mars, computer engineers will come...

By the time I retire, Mars will be an option.

I always imagined doctors dictating into a voice recorder, and then other people in the office actually deal with the paperwork. If that's not how it works, then that's how...

I stand by my assessment of Miami - even if working from home with no commute, it's just too spicy and blingy for my taste. If I were going to...

But Atlanta doesn't have the worst traffic in the US. The absolute worst commute is Miami, Florida - it's a maze of highways elevated above swamp land and...

I currently live in a suburb north of Atlanta. I'm a 5 - 45 minute drive from hundreds of companies that specialize in IT or have  a substantial...

If you do choose to move...

If I were younger, single, and living in a high rent place like Seattle or Sanfrancisco, then I certainly would be thinking about moving.

However, it also makes me wonder if...

I currently live in a suburb north of Atlanta. I'm a 5 - 45 minute drive from hundreds of companies that specialize in IT or have  a substantial internal IT...

So, post-pandemic (which I assume means at some point in the future when this COVID19 outbreak is considered over), will companies start reversing the current trend of remote working?

A few years back, I wrote a PowerShell script that queries login and permissions across 100+ servers. It's scheduled daily summarizes the data into SCD2 type tables for use in...

But what's the point in moving? You can't run from the virus, small towns can have a higher risk of spread than cities, and if you wait it out, the...

One aspect to this that doesn't get mentioned very often is that pensions don't exist in IT - or at least it doesn't here in the US private sector, so...