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Shecky Tweets for 2009-12-17

December 17, 2009 By Michael Kavka Leave a Comment

Technology Hiring Expected to Increase in 2010 – IT Management from eWeek – http://shar.es/aD22T #
Adobe to patch zero-day Reader, Acrobat hole – CNET News: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10416816-245.html?tag=twitter #
Firefox 3.5.6 patches critical security holes – CNET News: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10416753-264.html?tag=twitter #
10 steps to ensure foolproof client migrations http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1221 #
RT @karlpalachuk: "Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are." – Jim Rohn #
So it seems that eOpen is gone and VLSC should be up later today. Thanks for the big warning #microsoft #volumelicense #
It seems that if you don't have a BES server you won't get e-mail on your Blackberry right now. BIS is down RIM says. #
So it looks like RIM got the BIS working again. The real question is… How did it affect you? #BISCrash #RIM #Blackberry #
Well then. Mail stopped flowing to my Blackberry again. Troubleshooting time again. #
Well, if the lack of mail to my Blakcberry is the amount queued from the crash, then I figure I should get e-mail in like 3 days… #

And now for something completely different

December 17, 2009 By Michael Kavka Leave a Comment

Technology is a wonderful thing. We have computers, laptops, servers, the Internet, e-mail, and of course mobile technologies. We use and abuse them all without even a second thought. Then something breaks and we are lost.

It is amazing how much technology controls our lives. It is supposed to be a tool to make our lives easier, but we depend on it so heavily, it controls us. I’m as guilty as anyone in this respect. Today RIMs Blackberry Internet Service went boom again. North America and South America both wound up affected, and yet there was not a lot of talk about it. No CNN headlines, no nothing. It only affected e-mail and if you worked for a company that had a BES server you weren’t affected. Nope just people like me who use the BIS part were.

It drove me crazy. I thought maybe I left Outlook open at home. A visit to my webmail site showed that e-mail was not going to my PC at home, as all of it was still on the main server. A quick google search found a couple of articles about it finally.

Outages happen in the IT world. We all know that. What this instance shows us again is that relying on cloud services is an iffy thing. Its all still a beta product, all of it. The Internet, e-mail, mobile devices, all of it beta products. Don’t be controlled by it, for it is just a tool.

Shecky Tweets for 2009-12-16

December 16, 2009 By Michael Kavka Leave a Comment

Lets see, replace bad hard drive and reload system today. I hope the bad drive holds out long enough for me to copy some key stuff off of it #
28% off Technet Plus Subscription ending soon. #
Seems part of the whole FTC suing Intel is because of the problems with NVidia interoperability from earlier this year. Definitely watch it. #
@TechNetTips Yes to all! in reply to TechNetTips #
Finally have a full proposal set with new server upgrades so I don't ahve to worry about exchange. Now to get the higher ups to sign it. #