Great article Phil. The core ability that all IT professionals share is what I call systems thinking. We understand the features and capabilities of the system. The key activity that...

If you use Linux on your network, you need onboard Linux expertise. In other words, you need to know what you are doing.

Unfortunately I am not in the computer field I am in the business field. When staffing an IT operation, Windows geeks grow on trees.

I am with umailedit on this. We keep improving efficiency and we have more people than work. I think this is a good thing. I would love it if my...

I have an extensive and detailed list of things that MS does wrong. My list and yours have zero coincidence.

If there is any animosity on my part, it is because Microsoft helped me to raise a family and pay my mortgage. They have done more to help me be...

umailedit (3/15/2016)

You mean amazon hasn't been hacked yet? What will happen to your cc numbers then?

Trusting MS and google just isn't enough you have to trust the hackers who hack...

You pay for free services like cloud storage with your usage data. In aggregate this is easy to monetize and I am glad to give it. I trust MS and...

djackson, I seriously do not agree with you. 1) Microsoft has a place in the enterprise. There is no question about that. 2) I have done a ton of Win10...

Dag nabbit, dang kids these days with their pretty pichers and icons. In my day we used 3.5" floppies. And we liked it!

Let me put a point on it: All software publishers are intensely interested in how you use their software. None of them give a flip what sites you visit or...

The OS upgrades itself. I don't see how it can do this without xmitting data.

So Bill Gates knows that I visit moveon.org. I am pretty sure that he has bigger...

lol ouch sorry Rod.

I am IT support for everyone who loves me. It is ok.

I always set their photos folder to cloud storage somewhere. Everyone has some.

All Windows 10 upgrades...

SQL Server is itself just an abstraction layer over the machine. In the stack, the application layer is much closer to the user. Easy-IDEs really help with developing this part,...

Earlier I said that professionalism can help with the easy-IDE problem. Newbie bashing is probably unprofessional.