Welp, today Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2012 and 2012 r2 will be EoS (End of Support) on October 10th. These EoS announcements always make me feel my age, because it seems like just a few weeks ago I was testing 2012 to replace my 2008 r2 systems – and…
Like the t-shirt says: “That’s what I do: I fix stuff and I know things”… My time in the USN was on a submarine, and on a submarine you’re expected to be able to do everything and fix anything – so while I was a Radioman managing top secret comms,…
… of 2020. I decided to get out of the house for a bit and get some fast food for lunch / dinner, and the place of choice was Taco Bell… Mostly because I happen to like Taco Bell and it’s always been a cheap place to eat when I’m…
My company has been in business since 1999, and one of the services we used to provide was hardware compatibility testing. What hardware compatibility testing is, is seeing how a given piece of software operates on various hardware platforms – CPU, north/south bridge, video card, sound card, etc. In 2018…
Summer has finally arrived here in Colorado, and over the weekend it went from rainy and mid-70’s to dry and mid-90’s. And, being as the local utility company has raised the rates for electricity into the realm of painful, I’m determined to not use the AC at all this year.…
Just got back from my Saturday morning run to King Soopers; $27 in gas and $111.70 ($93.43 after coupons) in groceries. Gas was $0.50 off thanks to grocery points, so a mere $3.60 a gallon for the good stuff – and I burned a bit more than I usually do…