Now for my annual exhortation to you all.  I'm sure you are tired of this...

Besides your career evaluation it is time for your after-career evaluation too.  Someday you won't have...

My year end evaluation:  "Wow, was I ever lucky!"  My IT career began in 1969 when my friend Robert Maple invited me to visit him at Bendix Corporation in South...

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Brian, I agree that for a vdj system you don't need a whole lot of power.  Mine runs on a little 11" Samsung netbook, but with a really good output...

As I have recommended before, again I really like and recommend the Asus ROG (Republic of Gamers) laptops.  I'm on my fourth one in the series, that I think is...

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Backing up your photos and personal documents to removable storage and then losing it is a nightmare scenario. For that reason, I think thumb drives and SD cards are...

Something else that amazes me... when I was 5 years old in Detroit (circa 1957), we had the latest and greatest dialess phone... where you needed an operator to...

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I use portable hard drives for my personal systems because the internet is not truly global and I go to many places where it is not possible to get...

What do you mean 'still using'?  Historically, my first 'portable drives' were on an IBM 360-50 and an IBM 360-30 at work about 1968 with four storage units with two...

Thanks.  I think I got a workaround by removing the second monitor in Win, forcing Ssms to open on the one, than re-registering the second monitor.  Had another app doing...

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I'm trying to learn to do better at writing things down in a planner. But then I get too busy to write it all down and things lapse or...

You've all heard me say this  before, but I will repeat that the greatest thief of time at work is meetings.  My smart-ass comment has been that if a meeting...

In my last position some of the DBAs and a couple mainframe developers who had offices close by around our server room came to regularly do social things for several,...

To follow up on my first response. My wife and I did over the years of OUR careers actually invest in 529 plans for five grandchildren.  The benefits of these...

No way in hell!  More unpaid education loans.  Sounds like a great way to divide families and lose friends. Should have saved this for April Fool's Day.

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No, thanks.  Next time you go to your doctor, just picture him looking through all the crap some kid like Sam Bankman-Fried sitting in his basement at the computer wrote...