It was a casual Thursday afternoon, and it was just a few days before our senior infrastructure administrator was scheduled to be moving on in his career and start somewhere new. As his time with us counted down, he was asked to help clean up unused data to ease our storage woes. Having only 20TB of physical storage in our server room and quickly approaching that threshold, it was a team effort to clean up around 5TB of data to prevent maxing out our storage environment. As the senior infrastructure admin started to clean up old server backups, he, truly,…
Author: Justin Vendette
Windows 10 is arguably Microsoft’s greatest operating system ever. It’s modern design, universal compatibility, and revised upgrade scheme allowed the operating system to quickly become the new standard. With Windows 7 soon falling out of support and headed towards the fate Windows XP suffered, many should consider the switch to Windows 10, if you haven’t already. Luckily, the upgrade process is easy, robust, and quick to do. One of Windows 10’s strongest features are their built-in Apps. These apps are Microsoft certified apps that are downloadable through the Windows 10 Store. Most Microsoft Apps are preinstalled with Windows 10 and…
I don’t know about you, but I cannot stand my alarm clock. That blaring, headache-inducing, screech that is found on all too many alarm clocks just make the mornings even more challenging. Growing up, I remember watching the Drake and Josh comedy show, and there was one episode where Drake was waking up one morning to his alarm clock going off. Instead of getting up, he took the trophy that he had sitting on his nightstand and used it to bash the alarm clock until it had stopped making a sound. This is how I feel in the morning. It…
I was coming home one evening, down a hill and the next right was into my neighborhood. As I came down the hill, my car unexpectedly shut off and displayed absolutely nothing in terms of power. Luckily, I used my momentum to roll into my neighborhood and got out of the way of the fast, hilly two-way street. Weird that the car just shut down like that. After I came to a safe stop, I pressed the Start/Stop button, and the engine and car roared back to life as if nothing happened. What could that have been I wondered. Confused,…
The internet is changing all around us. We’ve gone from reading daily news to daily downloads to daily streaming content. As the internet continues to evolve with mankind, it’s becoming more and more a part of our daily routine. Practically every job out there requires some sort of internet-connected device. Whether it’s an electric picking system for pickers at Amazon or a machine to clock in for work, we’re all a part of the internet now. At the place I work, we have internet connected tablets everywhere. The distribution center simply cannot function without them. In the morning, the workers…
It’s common for PC gamers to pull a tongue-in-cheek joke about how console gamers should convert to the dark side and join the PC Gaming Master Race, but the underlying reality is that most PC gamers themselves started on a console. I sure did, all the way back on the Nintendo N64 as I am sure most of you did too. After that, I made the jump to the original Xbox and upgraded later to the Xbox 360. Hours upon hours of games were played on the Xbox, with one of my favorite games being Battlefield Bad Company 2. When…
If you work in IT, you will be familiar with what a standard business server room sounds like. For those that aren’t so familiar, let me give you some insight. A server room is often a medium-sized room that contains rack-mounted computer equipment. This equipment is expensive and works around the clock 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You’ll find networking switches, cores, and firewalls as well as storage racks and virtual machine hosts. As this equipment is meant to run non-stop, it gets hot. To keep the equipment cooled and functioning, the racked mounted equipment holds high…
Despite being involved in the technology world and having all of these products on Qwerty Articles to review, I often stay away from the latest and greatest technology. By the time I had finally gotten a smartphone, friends of mine were already on their third or fourth. I started off getting the most popular smartphone way back then, the Samsung Galaxy S3. It was slightly cheaper than an iPhone at the time, and it offered more bang for your buck. I loved my Galaxy S3; it had Samsung’s big new user interface push behind it with new technology that no…
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During the snowy months in Wisconsin, people appear to lose the ability to drive like normal, well-behaved human beings. The white, slippery powder that falls from the sky and lies on our roads has little effect on drivers as they drive as if it were a summer’s day. There will always be drivers who believe they are unstoppable in the snow. They will slide about with their bald tires, wait to stop the car until the last possible minute, and drive around as if they own the road. Driving is dangerous enough and when you introduce snow into the equation…