182,000 IT Positions Available By 2019 – True or False?
I know this article is quite old from 2015 but it inspires IT professionals and business owners like me to muse aloud about the reality. It is really based on a report from the...
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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...
Bittrex added XRP and ETC to their USD Markets
This is old news from August 2018 but I thought I’d mention it is significant for Ripple’s XRP because it allows direct trading and conversion between the USD. This makes it a lot easier...
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...
The S in HTTPS
Have no fear and secure using the “s” in “https” So DuckDuckGo referenced this cool SSL Poem by Amber Wilson and I thought I’d share a few thoughts on SSL. And admittedly I think...
Negative Thoughts Slow You Down
No Surprise Here It’s a well known fact that having a negative mindset will slow you down, but it can also stop you from succeeding. If you’re a business person, having some doubts can...
Verizon Throttling Creates Life and Death Situations
The Cost Of Net Neutrality For those who don’t know a lot of outrage has been directed at Verizon for throttling firefighter’s using an unlimited data plan (apparently once you hit 25GB they throttle...
Is Decentralized Centralized?
Vitalik Buterin VS Changpeng Zhao I always found it strange when people refer to decentralized as completely decentralized when it comes to cryptocurrency. Because, there is never truly such a thing as decentralized. It...
Monero lost more than 50% of its network hash rate
This is old news to many but I’ve been watching it, the hash rate on Monero was just over 1000 MH/s prior to the algorithm update as a way to combat ASIC mining by...
VMWare 6.7 A Blast From The Past
Or A Blast To Their Market? I’ve used VMWare on and off over the years but mainly during the pre-opensource days before the days of Virtualbox, KVM, Xen, OpenVZ etc… and have dabbled and...
