Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Christmas Letter
Since it has been so long I wanted to provide an update of the last year. If there is one topic that dominates all others for the last year, it would be cycling. In March I decided that it was time for me to quit being lazy and start getting healthy again. I did two…
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Cloud Storage Sync Services – Update
2024 Brief Updates: Filen What sync.com should have been. Seems to be the leader in secure file storage today. ProtonDrive May be useful if already bought in to the Proton suite. Lacks many features, but seems to be secure. Given Proton’s development pace, this should be on par with minimum viable product feature sets of…
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VPN Travel Router part 2
A while back I wrote about a product that could be used to establish a connection with an untrusted wired or wireless network, establish a VPN connection, and only then allow traffic from my connected devices to reach the Internet through the VPN. The reason being is that if I have a bunch of applications…
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CWNA
I have been taking the CWNA (Certified Wireless Network Administrator) class this week and it has been pretty enjoyable. I am a little surprised at how much I am enjoying it and how much I am learning. One of the most shocking thing is to know how much conventional knowledge is completely wrong. Other things,…
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Monday, December 12, 2016
Today was the first day of the CWNA class. Starts at 8 in the morning and goes until 5 in the evening. I will talk more about the class in another post. After the class I visited a customer with a bad Palo Alto configuration. From what I can tell, someone got a brand new…
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Today I took a look at a customer’s VMware environment. They are a smaller business, had some recent issues, and wanted someone who does this stuff for a living to take a look. Some tips for keeping your VMware environment healthy if you are a smaller shop: Get the Essentials Plus license, two servers, shared…
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Monday, August 22, 2016
It was back to school day for my kids. The oldest is out of school now and awaiting college. The next oldest went off to Middle School for the first time. He was pretty nervous in the morning. We had a new hire start today at work. That is a good relief as things have…
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Friday, May 27, 2016
I brought my 10 year old to a Minecraft Hour of Code event at the Microsoft store this afternoon. He actually took to it really well. I showed him one design that included a nested loop and next thing he tries to do is make a very deeply nested loop that crashed the browser…
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Cancelling Paypal Soon
This latest incident with PayPal is the last straw. While it is not entirely their fault that I am having an issue, it is their fault that I am the one assuming all the risk until they resolve the issue. Here’s what is happening: I purchased a phone from Gazelle for my daughter for graduation.…
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
I got a call from a customer whose primary System Administrator was out sick. They were having an issue with Mimecast and Exchange. After much troubleshooting the problem boiled down to a password. Either the password for the AD account associated with LDAP was changed or the same saved password on Mimecast was changed. The…
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