![]() ![]() ![]() Inateck is quickly rising up to become one of my favorite consumer electronics vendors. In general the band feels really well put together and the sliding clasp type holder is unique. It is just a pity that you can’t read the entire email should you choose to do so. It will discretely buzz and flash the email subject. This feature is really handy if you are like me and have your phone on silent frequently. It does however have a nice things that put it on the right side of useful but without being boring, including the big bright screen and the ability to see emails and messages come in with a gentle buzz on your wrist. It is noticeably heavier than the Fitbit, as well as more expensive. If you are using a Fitbit or similar, the first thing you will notice is the weight and the size of the band. Unfortunately, it won’t let you bypass putting your weight in or the requirement of having a Microsoft account. I was using an Android phone using Lollipop and it worked fine, setting up a Bluetooth pairing without issue. Setup pretty much consists of installing the Microsoft Health app from the store for the relevant mobile phone and then follow the on phone setup wizard. Firstly, the fact that it doesn’t interface with your PC, at all. When it came to unboxing and setting it up, there were a few surprises. The Microsoft band is actually about more than just fitness. I decided to try the new Microsoft Band activity tracker and see what it had to offer, it being one of the new kids on the block. A tragedy that, in.īeing a very unfit kind of guy I decided it was time to perhaps take a look at getting myself that bit thinner. So why is it that we so frequently expect systems administrators to maintain increasingly complex networks with the digital equivalent of two rocks to bash together? It’s a terrible prejudice that leads many organizations to digital ruin. You wouldn’t ask a builder to build you a home using slivers of metal and a rock to hammer them. Whether due to unreasonable demand, impossible deadlines, or networks which have simply grown too large to keep all the moving parts in our memory at given time, we fallible humans need the right tools to do the job well. Our likelihood of making an error increases the more stress we’re put under. ![]() The weakest link is always that which exists between keyboard and chair. ![]() The people telling the computers what to do – be they end users or systems administrators – are fallible. They do exactly they are told, and that’s usually the problem. They don’t have motives and they don’t act without input. We can’t help it: anthropomorphizing is part of being human. We similarly ascribe personalities and motivations to individual computers or even entire networks of them, often despite being perfectly aware of the irrationality of this. Many of us give our cars names, ascribe to them personalities, talk to them and sometimes treat them like members of the family. Humans have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize inanimate objects. One important tool in a systems administrator’s arsenal is Solarwinds’ Virtualization Manager. What’s much more difficult, yet distressingly important, is figuring out why computers have done something unappreciated and remedying the situation. It’s easy to blame computers they don’t fight back. Computers are the most awful way to do things, except for all the other ways we’ve tried. ![]()
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