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Rob Tacey

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Rob is the IT Systems Manager for a manufacturing automation company in Southwestern Ontario. It's great. He's a technologist focusing on information technology, IT security, and customer satisfaction. With over 20 years of experience in various IT roles, it might actually be worth reading some of his stuff.

What To Do When You're Hacked

Here's the directions I give to my coworkers when they're hacked. I know it's not terribly original. It's been cobbled together from a variety of sources (as well as some hard lessions discovering malfeasance after the fact). For sure there's lots of these guides on…

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Some Well Needed Downtime

I had the opportunity to get some painting on my Warhammer 40,000 terrain over the weekend. I'm pretty pleased with the results. Chances are you're not here to view my hobby posts, but I think it's important to have a hobby that's all about you.

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So Many Things

Where I work right now there's a mighty IT team of one. There's a whole lot to recommend working in an environment where the only IT resource is yours truly. But sometimes... every so often... It'd be nice to have a peer to bounce stuff…

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The Goal: Not Being That IT Guy

Yesterday I was forced to call the support line for one of our vendors. I hate doing that. I recognize that it's a weakness on my part. I'm of the opinion that software vendors make their software in such a way that an individual such as myself…

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Wait!.?.. What?!!? No CMS?

You may notice that this site is powered by Publii rather than Drupal or Wordpress or something even more esoteric (like Pimcore or Elg). One of the things I wanted to avoid with this blog is cost of ownership - in both funds and time.

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