When I buy a product I expect it to last for as long as I look after it and as long as wear and tear allows.  I think that...

This is the basic concept of being tethered to the Internet and I pay attention to it for all Internet-related things that I am interested in.

I have old Macs...

Hi Steve,

I completely agree on how companies ignore technical debt. Developers raise the issue and management ignores it because another checkbox on the sales flier is what marketing is...

Steve, if it were possible I'd give your editorial one billion likes! I work in state government. I've been a software engineer for a couple decades. I've never seen...

Sorry Steve, I don't have a recommendation for a sound bar, as we are still using our 30 year old Sony sound system, that just works.  No software to...

Sorry Steve, I don't have a recommendation for a sound bar, as we are still using our 30 year old Sony sound system, that just works.  No software to...

Underground tour is fantastic. There are likely some other night stuff, but I'm not much for that. There are cool museums if you have a free few hours. The museum...

It's an interesting article.

You mention the growth of the amount of memory, memory bandwidth has grown at the same pace. Memory bandwidth is crucial, especially for databases.

Also, as capacity...

People make or break many things.

So, the maint plan in general runs under the Agent account. Did you change that to an account with rights to the folder? The user running the plan doesn't matter,...

This table is written to by various backup processes, where they log what they do. As noted, potentially you have something doing some sort of snapshot that is recorded as...

Like above, I almost always land in string formats because then a) I have the data, and b) I can convert to the proper data type and c), I can...

Coming back! I'm like J Burrow and the Bengals. A bad start, but getting better.

Many years ago I was reading a column by someone who was lamenting the change in her searches.  She remembered searching for a term and the first few hits...

Rod, sounds like you want waterfall. Perfect customers.

Part of the reason for Lean, Agile, DevOps, etc. is that people don't know what they want. They often have suggestions when they...