Polls

Do you know that great Green Day song “Wake Me Up When September Ends”? Well, September can be rough, but many IT pros would prefer to sleep through October, because this can be a pretty stressful mon...

A new survey by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint has found that a whopping 99% of email attacks rely on victims clicking links. However, negligent end users aren’t always to blame (or at least they’re no...

Some cyber scams are easy to spot — like the ones that end up in your SPAM folder and claim to be from “PayePall”, or from yet another fleeing ambassador (those guys sure have a lot of money stashed a...

Luke Skywalker has The Force. Spiderman has Spidey Sense. Wolverine has Primal Instincts. And IT Pros? Well, they too have something that makes them unique and amazing: IT Hacks! Last month, we asked...

How can you tell the difference between a real IT pro and everyone else? It’s not how they dress, talk, or even if they triumph in our new Game of Thrones quiz. No, the real test is whether they have ...

SysAdmins and other IT pros don’t have to binge watch Stranger Things — because they see strange things every day at work! And that’s why for July’s poll question, we asked you to think back to some o...

About 60 years ago, legendary rock group The Doors sang: “people are strange when you’re a stranger”. But you know what? When you’re a Sysadmin or other IT pro, sometimes end users are strange, even i...

The famous 19th century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once said: “Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy fu...

Every now and then, we all wish we had a time machine that would allow us to meet our younger self so we could share some really important advice. Stuff like “don’t eat that hot pepper” or “don’t get ...

By now, you’ve either decided that you love the Game of Thrones series finale, or it was the worst thing you’ve seen since Battlefield Earth. That means we can move on to other priorities, such as the...

Over the years, the term “geek” has totally changed its image. Once upon a time, it was a massive insult to be branded a geek. Basically, it was like being called a nerd but without the high IQ. But t...

In April, many of us did a lot of waiting. First, we waited for the teaser for “Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker.” Then we waited for Game of Thrones Season 8. And we’re still waiting for ...

April is a month made to have fun. It starts with a day full of pranks and laughter. It’s spring and the snow from a harsh winter is finally melting. And then there are all of those chocolate bunnies....

In March, we asked you to share the pros and cons of your remote access tool. We truly expected most of you to comment on popular tools like TeamViewer, ScreenConnect and LogMeIn. However, we were a l...

In the past, we’ve asked you to share what remote access tool you use. With this month’s poll, we’re diving deeper and would like to know about your experiences. Specifically, we’d like to know: what ...

Last month, we asked you to let us know whether your organization is using session recording – along with an explanation for why it is or why it isn’t. It turns out the overwhelming majority of you ar...

Before we get to January’s poll results, I wanted to invite you all to join me in a stroll down memory lane…. Recently, I came across something interesting: our very first poll ever, from way back in ...

Now that we’re past making New Year’s Resolutions for our personal lives, we can focus on resolutions that we need to make for work. And for most of you (or probably all of you), your focus this year ...

We hope that you’ve all recovered from your New Year’s Eve (and perhaps New Year’s Day) reveling, and that your body is slowly but surely forgiving you for various excesses…but hey, New Year’s only ha...

We hope you had an amazing time over the holidays and didn’t have too many emails to get through upon return. Hey, another holiday season is only 11.5 months away! Considering the Milky Way Galaxy is ...