Last week, Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) made a sizable purchase to increase its stake in Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL)on a major down day and amidst unnerving turbulence in the markets. Last week will linger on in memory for a while as the harbinger of what is now undoubtedly the markets’ slide into bear-market territory, probably precipitated by the oil price collapse, triggered over the weekend by the OPEC-Russia impasse, and fueled on by the inexorable spread of COVID-19. We saw several alternating days in a row of big moves in the S&P 500 of plus or minus 4% or more, and we saw even bigger moves this week with the circuit breaker triggered after the … Read More
[MUSINGS] What a Week! EPL Football
This is likely the first non-technology article I’m publishing here, and it is the first of many to come. So indulge me, as I lighten the content in this here blogosphere of mine. What a whirlwind week it’s been indeed. What with the global financial markets in a tailspin, and reeling from a coronavirus-driven rout, and Elton John’s beloved, albeit bottom table-dwelling Watford putting paid to Liverpool’s bid for a record-setting 19 unbeaten games in the top flight of English football. But this article isn’t about the market. There’s another 5 articles coming on that subject. This is purely about the beautiful game, football. Yes, It’s been 422 days since Liverpool lost a game in the Premier league. And while … Read More
Speaking at the Midwest Management Summit (MMS 2015)
I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting various sessions at the Midwest Management Summit (MMS 2015) at the Mall of America, Bloomington, MN. MMS is a premier systems management community event that takes place over 3 days. This event features over 80 speakers presenting over 110 different sessions on a wide variety of subjects around various products in the Microsoft ecosystem, and 3rd party tools, and products. I will be co-presenting the following sessions: How to use System Center as a Platform tool to build solutions to manage your data center. 11:00 am , Tuesday November 10, 2015 (Paul Keely and Chiyo Odika) Extending your Datacenter to the Cloud. 11:00 am, Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (Steve Beaumont … Read More
PowerShell Queries and Square Brackets
I recently encountered an interesting issue while trying to query class instances in SCOM. The class instances for certain classes will return the parent class as well as associated classes in the following format: [Parent Class Name].attribute. For instance the class instance for Microsoft.Windows.Computer returns the following: $SCOMClass = Get-SCOMClass -Name Microsoft.Windows.Computer (Get-SCOMClassInstance -Class $SCOMClass)[0] | Select-Object * Ok so this returns expected values. Now let’s return a specific object instead of all objects: (Get-SCOMClassInstance -Class $SCOMClass)[0] | Select-Object [Microsoft.Windows.Computer].LogicalProcessors This returns nothing, even though we clearly see values for the Logical Processors when we select all objects. After some checking, re-checking, and second guessing, I found an article that’s as short as the solution is simple. Apparently double-escaping … Read More
New Preview Build Released for Windows 10 Technical Preview
In the wake of the recently released Windows 10 Technical Preview, Microsoft has just issued an update. The update takes the form of a new preview build that’s available for installation from the update and recovery section of PC setting. This comes on the heels of the speculation around the updates KB3008956, KB3008931 and KB3008956 which were readily available for download in the 9841 build of Windows 10 Technical preview, but failed to install because of a build incompatibility. As Microsoft continues to develop Windows 10, the latest preview build (9860) refines a few of the already existing features, as well as adds some new features. Noteworthy is the Notification Center (Action Center) which collects alerts … Read More