I love the genius of "AND".  I use both, my rule being if it's going to be done more than (twiceish or so) make it code otherwise GUI away.

You're right about the 2 nics. I've just found it runs better with 2. For some reason I am too cheap to buy a switch plus I have...

I budgeted 1000 dollars for my home server. I used old parts (keyboard and monitor) so they were free and waited until Dell had a crazy sale and bought...

Windows Server 2016 had a much 'potentially' smaller footprint and is probably getting close to VMware for thinness (at least that's the M$ marketing line).

You know the comments about family and friends hits home. For my first 30 years of work I refused to work more than 40 hours most of the time....

I used to build VMs on my laptop but finally broke down and bought a small dell server a couple of weeks ago. It has a 3.4 xeon skylake...

Nice one.

Khan Academy has good math courses. All the way through DiffEq. It's actually pretty fun and if you have HS age kids it helps you help them with...

Steve- I have not used it as I am too cheap and frankly don't surf much. I've done the research though. John Dvorak wrote an article on PCMag...

A couple of notes:

For web browsing a pretty safe way is to use a VPN service. You can sometimes get lifetime service for 30ish dollars. It would be...

Many of those weird table names came from the 'olden' days. In ERP systems they used some sort of ISAM file system back then. When they moved to...

COALESCE is the knees bees!

We used a service to send phishing emails to our entire company. The results were pretty interesting. What was more interesting was the company we used (Kevin Mintick...

My impression from reading some of the "leading" IT mags is that M$ SQL is losing market share especially to MySQL. I know if you look at Craigslist in...

The front end can only do so much to stop bad user action. We have some items which allow decimal places and some that don't. Our system has...