by Dean | Feb 24, 2017 | Apple, Common Sense, Hacking, HyperV, IT, OS X
Recently I picked up a Mac Book Air. It is a nice device, fast processor, lots of memory and fast hard drives. I am not to keen on using OS X so I decided to install Windows onto it. So I installed windows, loaded the drivers, installed all my applications and then...
by Dean | Sep 5, 2016 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, Hacking, Misc, Watching
I have recently pick up a BlackVue dash cam. Overall I am extremely happy with the device, it does just as it should do and faithfully records the view from my windshield day and night, driving or parked. The quality of the video is great and it has some great Wi-Fi...
by Dean | Apr 17, 2016 | Backup, Common Sense, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, PHP
So in my last post I setup and configured EHCP onto a Raspberry Pi. I thought this would be a good and easy way to run a web server from home. The installation was fairly straight forward and it all seemed like it was good except I remembered that I work in IT and I...
by Dean | Jan 13, 2016 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, Networking, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security
I was talking to someone the other day about the security of My Book It. It is something that I have always tried to build into the program with everything that I do. So far I think that I am doing a pretty good job of the security of the data. But as I was talking...
by Dean | Dec 7, 2015 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, Misc, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security
I have been wanting to change My Book It from a default of HTTP to a default of HTTPS. While doing this I also wanted to ensure that everything kept working for the users to prevent issues. (or at least minimize them). For this to run smoothly I needed to do a number...
by Dean | Nov 9, 2015 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, Linux, Microsoft, Tutorial, Virtualisation, VMWare
My home lab is a single workstation that runs the free version of ESXi. I don’t really have much of a need for more then that so I don’t want to go spending large amounts of money on licences etc that I really am not going to make good use of. So today...
