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Category: Rants

Lack of Control?

Posted on June 7, 2018 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Lack of Control?

You get a tool to use. The tool looks good, in fact other tools from the same company look good. This tool though seems to be the red-headed stepchild. Recently, I have been trying to clean up and tune an endpoint solution. It is made by a company I have some respect for, and I…

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Simple Post

Posted on May 31, 2018 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Simple Post

Quick post this week, just to keep posting. With starting a new job this week, I haven’t had the time to really work on an idea for a post. That being said one thing did cross the Twitterverse this week that I wanted to weigh in on. Seems there is some controversy over a shirt…

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Crying Wolf

Posted on May 18, 2018 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Crying Wolf

It is happening more and more, and it is hurting how we are perceived. Flaws that are treated as super critical potentially end of the world and upon further inspection are not. This needs to change. I almost titled this piece OMGWTFBBQ because that is what happened again recently. A flaw was teased on Monday…

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