This past week was not a good one for Garmin. Their ransomware attack was one of the worst that I’ve ever seen. I’ve spent over 20 years in IT and I’ve never seen a company become so paralyzed for so long. Everything seems to be back up and running now, but a lot of people […]
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So for folks wondering about the Garmin outage, here’s my two decades of Enterprise IT experience “guess” at what’s going on. Just my speculation, but I’d put money on some of my predictions being right. The report is that they got hit with ransomware. That most likely means that someone got socially engineered and downloaded […]
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This past week was the WWDC conference, held every year by Apple to tout its newest features that will be making their way into their operating systems. This year, for the first time in a while, it felt like Apple had its ‘mojo’ back. A couple of the announcements have me thinking about my ecosystem […]
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Something that’s been bugging me a lot recently is the trend in technology to adopt a “surveillance capitalism” model of doing business. In Shoshana Zuboff’s recent tome on the topic, she dives into the nature of this new reality that we find ourselves in, and the pitfalls that we’re facing because of it. Quickly put, […]
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This past weekend I got to help some amazing people as they attempted the crazy Zumbro 100 in a blizzard. One of those people was Susan Donnelly, who is a beast in this sport, completing over one hundred, 100 mile races. She recently posted a blog about running and turning off your technology to listen […]
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Last weekend the wife and I decided to take an impromptu trip to Decorah, IA. We had a podcast from Ten Junk Miles to listen to and it was 5 hours long. I’ll tell the story of the trip in the next few posts on the blog, but what I wanted to share today is […]
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This blog post is a draft of something I’ve been working on. It’s not my typical “running, beer, and geeky things” type of post. However, it might give you a bit of insight as to what I do as a career right now, and how I think about things that I do at work. The […]
Read moreFor the past couple of months my old trusty cable modem (SB6121) has been acting a bit flaky. In particular it would completely freeze up if I started doing a large upload (like to a backup provider). I lived with the flakiness for a while, but with needing to switch from CrashPlan to Backblaze for […]
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For years I’ve been a pretty devoted user of the Logitech wireless mice that have the little USB dongle to connect them via their proprietary wireless protocol. It’s always felt easier than Bluetooth to work with, and the battery life was solid. However, times have changed. My Macbook only has a USB-C connector, which means […]
Read moreBack at the end of 2015 I blogged about my iMac starting to develop some graphics artifacts and being slow. Somehow, the graphics artifacts abated enough for me to get another couple years of life out of it. I managed to speed up the system with a shiny new SSD, which made it feel like […]
Read moreRecently, I’ve been starting to question how much of an Apple guy I am. Those who know me, know that I’ve been an Apple fan boy since the late 1990s when I was running OS 7.x on a clone Power Computing machine. The evolution of Macs to OS X was a tremendously welcome change for […]
Read moreThis past week Google had their big event to unveil a bunch of new hardware. Slowly but surely Google has been catching up to Apple (along with Microsoft and Samsung) and producing high end hardware that highlights their software in the most ideal way possible. This is an area where Apple has had an advantage […]
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