Just another critical step that SpaceX needed to complete for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. As usual they nailed the test.

I liked Windows 7 a lot, it was a great operating system that I deployed and supported very early in my IT career. An end of an era, but it had to happen.

Once again, I made a promise to myself that I would post a lot more often to this site, but once again a lot of things got in the way, and I wasn’t able to get as much done as I hoped. I was doing very well in the earlier part of the year, but after the middle of April I ran into a lot of issues that prevented me from focusing my attention on the site.

As with all SpaceX launches, I will never not be impressed by how easy they make this look.

It had a good run, but the time has finally run out on Windows XP and all its variants. It was a great OS (eventually), but ultimately it has been succeeded by more modern operating systems and better practices.

In case you have been living under a rock, this thing called DevOps and Automation is a pretty big deal nowadays. The line between Developers, Systems Administrators and Network Administrators is being increasingly blurred, so it is not uncommon to be asked to do code deployments and support when it sort of isn’t something you should be doing.

World Backup Day is a day of awareness for people to learn about the importance of regular backups for their personal data.

The SpaceX Demonstration Mission 1 Flight has successfully completed as of 8:45am EST on Friday March 8, 2019. There were no issues, and this is the very successful first step towards the next flight (In-Flight Abort Test) that will take place in the next few weeks, using the same Dragon Capsule that completed the DM1 Mission. If nothing major comes up, the DM2 flight should occur in the Summer of 2019 with two Astronauts on board.