Pragmatic IT

I don't want to start a flame war, but I've been unable to adjust to Unity. So I've been using Xubuntu for some months now. I j...

Since I got my Dell Vostro 1440, I felt that it wasn't quite as responsive as it should have been. Yesterday I spent a little time tryin...

[I've made an important change to this post -- steps 3 and 4 below are new. Apologies to anyone I've lead astray.] I'm back to...

"Know what you're building" seems like an obvious thing to say, but I don't think we do it that well in IT. For my recent ...

In my home office, I have a multi-function printer that does pretty much everything I typically need, except printing two sides. Here's ...

I've never had to relocate a data centre in one big bang. You hear stories about organizations that shut down all the computers at 5:00 ...

We're pretty much done the current project: relocation of 600 servers to a new data centre 400 kms from the old one. By accident more th...