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...
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OpenSource Opens Doors For Your IT Career Path
Open That Door This was a great article that I thought was a nice reminder about how vital the Open Source community is for computing, IT and business. There’s no denying Open Source is...
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...
Google Chrome now marking non-SSL sites as insecure
Another Google Unnecessity? Previously Google’s Chrome was just marking sensitive sites where you would input things like credit card details as insecure (and rightfully so) but what’s happened in July of 2018 here is...
Bitcoin Anonymity at what cost?
Wasabi Wallet We’ve already heard of “tumblers” which make it very difficult to trace the true sender or receiver of a Bitcoin transaction. Now we have the “Wasabi” wallet project, which does something a...
Python Easy To Code
IF you can install the required modules I was thinking to myself tonight here at 1AM wondering why do I hate Python sometimes and dread using it? Why does nothing work in Python and...
Meltdown and Spectre Analysis and Current Status
There seems to be a lot of complacent or feel-good news that Meltdown and Spectre will solve themselves or that no worry or care should be taken from users but this couldn’t be further...
My Take On Meltdown and Spectre Computer Security Flaws
Spectre and Meltdown allow a non-privileged user (non-root/non-Admin) to access memory they aren’t supposed to essentially dissolving the majority of computing security and privacy barriers. This could be a guest user collecting sensitive information/passwords...
Why Don’t I/We Use RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux Instead of Centos?
This a question one of our good client’s asked me one day and I have to admit I wasn’t prepared for this one, it’s something we’ve never put active thought in but was rather...
Green Low-Power Alternative Computing Intel NUC Boxes
The key features of low power NUC boxes are that they are small,lightweight,portable,efficient and the low power means less heat and energy savings which all mean “Green Efficient Computing for the Environment”. In addition...
