Attack The Day
Are you wasting time or valuing it? I have to admit, I have been very bored these last 3 years. So much so that my wife told me to either get a hobby outside...
Category: CEO
Vancouver a Tech Hub for Large Business only?
Not Really… I found this article by Microsoft to be fairly interesting and if anything it mirrors what I’ve been saying even though I would say my perspective (as small/mid business is the opposite). ...
Were Amazon, Elemental, Apple and Thousands of Supermicro Servers Compromised by the Chinese Government?
I’m going to be discussing some astounding news from Bloomberg, which is an allegation that Chinese Operatives working for the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) forced subcontractors working for Supermicro to alter their hardware design...
My experience as an instructor at BCIT’s High Tech Professional, NASP Program
I’ve done a lot of technical support in a hands-on way as a junior over a decade ago and I think this sets a person up for being able to train and teach. As...
Smart Contracts On A Public Blockchain
Good or Bad? Smart Contracts are all the rage lately, with Ethereum bringing them into the limelight but a lot of other currencies also support them. The problem with smart contracts is that they...
Public Blockchain Breaks IT Security Standards
The thing that makes me nervous from an IT Security Administration perspective, is that I think a lot of the population has not been through the dot-com to dot-bomb era and seen the numerous...
My experience with Proxmox 5.2 vs VMWare ESXi/vSphere 6.7
Recently I’ve been teaching a course on these two beasts and thought I’d give my perspective and that of the students in dealing with it in terms of pros and cons. Ease Of Use...
Quantum Computing Cloud Provider Rigetti Takes on Big Cloud Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft
Who says competitors can’t say good things about each other? While we are not into quantum computing we do salute Rigetti’s foray into Cloud Computing. But as some say even with quantum computing their...
PayPal demands PCI DSS Compliance with TLS 1.2 but misses the cut!
Whoops! PayPal warns that if you don’t support TLS 1.2 that you won’t be able to process payments with them but what happens if they don’t support it themselves?! PayPal has sent numerous dire...
Thanks Linus
20 Years of Linux Milestones! This post is long over due. Summer vacation and I was taking some time to hang out with my wife and kids. So I’m a little behind. But the...
Recent Comments