Have my super secret accounts been compromised? Probably. I know, that’s not really what anyone wants to hear, but it’s also pretty truthful at this point. I mean, if you pay any attention to the news these days, then you’ve heard about all the recent data breaches. Most recently, there’s the Saks Fifth Avenue and […]
Sounds like a good title for a book! Except it’s not. In my day job, I’m a professional geek. And, what I mean by that is that I work with computers for money. It seems like the vast majority of the guys my age who got into computers professionally did so because they were inspired […]
It’s never too late, or too early, to get more secure on-line. Those of you who know me, know that I spend most of my days toiling in the corporate data mines and as a result, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about computer security. I also tend to be tech support for […]
In the Christmas spirit of giving, give the scammers a headache. I don’t know about you, but this time of year, I seem to get twice the number of scam and spam email that I normally get. It’s pretty terrible. I mean, most of the year, it’s bad enough, but we are all extra busy […]
That’s a long title for something only a few of my hardcore readers will be interested in. I used to blog about a lot of hardcore geeky things, professional geeky things and personal geeky things both. But, for a while now, I’ve drifted away from some of the geekier stuff. It’s not that I have […]
Seems like everyone is looking for a “side hustle” these days. Personally, I’ve never felt very comfortable in a real entrepreneurial role, but even I have gone hunting for a side business on occasion, trying to get a leg up. When I was in college, I wrote. I’d always had the idea that I might […]
No, I’m not talking about building the skills that go on resumes, but the resume itself. For reasons that are best left unexplored, I’ve been thinking about resumes lately. Specifically, writing them and formatting them. It’s a chore. And, it’s hard to do well, frankly. For example, I’ve been using the same basic resume format […]
My wife and I officially upgraded our laptops this month, which means we’re now running Windows 10. Personally, I like Windows 10. I think it’s got all the best features of Windows 7 with a minimal amount of new junk that Microsoft threw in to justify a new version, and charge for it. Now, my […]
Not my usual Friday Fun, but great for system administrators trying to get ahead. And, not too bad for power users trying to figure out some of what the professional system administrators are talking about when they’re trying to talk over your head. What I’ve got for you this week, gentle readers, are “bite-sized” system […]
Prepare yourself for some high-intensity geekery! No, seriously. So, I’ve been contracting somewhere that has virtually no network documentation and what little they did have got destroyed in a catastrophic event. For privacy and security, not to mention client confidentiality, I won’t go into details on that. But, as a result, one of the things […]