On Wednesday night, we hosted a wine tasting event for a number of customers and prospects at Claridges . The event was very well attended, to the point that we had an unexpected “extra” guest (thanks Mark!), putting the arrangements into minor disarray – but nothing that the Claridges…
We’ve recently been struggling with issues caused by a OS patch, which is not that unusual.
To understand the problem you need a bit of history. Back in the early 1990’s Sun switched from BSD based SunOS to System V based Solaris (we’ll skip the marketing move of rebranding SunOS 4.1 as Solaris 1).
In my early career I worked in Technical Support. One of the most important pieces of information you need to answer a customer question is what version of the software they are using.
Software version information is also critical important if you’re managing an IT estate (large or…
Like most people, when my job takes to out of the office, I use a laptop. I’ve been using laptops for about 13 years now – I’m old enough to remember the early “portable” computers like the Sun Voyager! – and with that one exception, they have all run Windows…
