Tag: Featured
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Enterprise Printing Explained and Why Printing Still Breaks IT Printing is one of those technologies everyone assumes should have been solved years ago — until someone can’t print invoices, shipping labels stop coming out, or 50,000 customer letters suddenly disappear into a print queue somewhere. In this episode, we take a tour through the strange…
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How a Laptop Took Down a Warehouse Welcome to the story of a perfectly known and visible laptop that somehow became critical production infrastructure inside a warehouse environment — without going through proper validation, testing, or operational review. The system worked, solved an immediate problem, and was quickly integrated into daily operations… right up until…
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What a Real-World Ransomware Attack Looks Like: Incident Response and Recovery This article looks at a ransomware scenario that could happen to almost any organization. A normal day suddenly turns into inaccessible systems, encrypted data, and a growing realization of how far the attack has spread. The teams involved have to work out what happened…
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Why Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Disks for Flight Management Systems The Boeing 747 is often used as proof that aviation still runs on floppy disks, but the reality is a little more specific. Some older aircraft, particularly certain 747-400 configurations, used floppy disks to load navigation data into their Flight Management Systems. Keeping them…
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Lessons from a Successfully Failed Disaster Recovery and Failover Test Conducted during a busy release weekend, the failover test exposed gaps not in the technology itself, but in coordination and communication. While production ultimately stayed unaffected, the situation quickly escalated as subcontractors weren’t aligned, assumptions didn’t match reality, and information didn’t flow when it mattered…
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The Strange State of the Tech Job Market In this short episode, Jack takes a look at the current state of the IT hiring market — where job postings seem plentiful, but actual opportunities often feel strangely elusive. From “entry-level” roles asking for a decade of experience to companies searching for the mythical full-stack, cloud,…
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200 Techs Using A Single Raspberry Pi: The Temporary Server That Failed A few hundred field engineers. Real humans. With vans. And jobs. All coordinated by a device roughly the size of a coaster and powered by something suspiciously similar to a phone charger. For months, it runs slow but flawlessly. Tickets dispatched. Routes optimized.…
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Why Your Bank Account Just Got Hit Multiple Times Jack’s Rants dives into the world of banking mainframes and the batch jobs that quietly keep everything moving — until one of them doesn’t. What starts as a routine overnight run turns into a multiple transactions on thousands of accounts that didnt happen in the real…
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Surviving an Anonymous DDoS Attack: A Real-World IT Horror Story This is a real-world story of a datacenter facing a DDoS attack attributed to Anonymous, what happened when the network had no dedicated DDoS protection, and how the team learned to survive the attacks that followed. Instead of glorifying attackers, we center on mindset: staying…
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Why you should not have a “Quick Sales Tool” in production We dive into the familiar chaos of Shadow IT created by the sales department — well-intentioned, fast-moving, and completely invisible until something breaks. A “quick tool” turns into a critical system overnight, contracts appear after go-live, and IT is asked to secure, integrate, and…