As I was merrily Facebook’ing, the site redirected to a big, awful, center-page modal that loudly proclaimed WE HAVE SUSPENDED YOUR ACCOUNT. The abruptness of this immediately had me thinking it was some sort of redirect injection or at least some kind of malware. There’s no way Facebook just chops off longtime accounts like this, right? Wrong.
Remote access is something of an occasional tool for most people. They might use it to help mom find that website, but for us in I.T., this is a fundamental tool, nearly as important as a web browser or a file manager. I’ve written about other tools, such as Logmein, that abandoned it’s free users, […]
You want to install Zima OS, but want to try it in a virtual machine first. More specifically, in a Vmware Workstation virtual machine. I looked for more out there, and couldn’t find much in a Google search – I think some of that has to do with prior versions of ZimaOS (at least 1.0) […]
TL;DR: I came across a new notes/text tool, it’s great and I’m genuinely surprised I hadn’t seen it before today. If you haven’t, take a look at it. So, this is crazy, I found something new and I love it. It’s a generally free text editor that supports the Markdown standard. This is no paid […]
A recent announcement dropped from Plex. It seemed to fly under the radar for a few days until I came across it on Tik Tok (of all places). The most important of these changes will be in effect on April 29th, 2025. The biggest part of this announcement is that people watching videos on your […]
Hello again blog readers, it’s been a long time. I wanted to share some of what I’ve been up to since my last blog post. I wrote the book From Rent to Ruin: The True Story of My Tenant Nightmare to tell my story of unexpectedly becoming a small landlord, renting my home to a […]
You might have heard talk of a new way to secure systems and that it involves something described as Two Factor or 2FA. What you need to know is that it’s an extra layer of protection on your accounts that can protect you from hackers. The idea is that while a hacker may have gotten […]
The Remote Control tool landscape is a bit crazy these days. As someone that often controls computers remotely, I’m always looking for better and more useful options in this space. I’ve even spoken about the lack of an open-source peer-to-peer remote access tool. Well, no longer is that the case. RustDesk is a remote access tool modeled much like TeamViewer.
Writing is difficult for me. But, conversely, reading is relatively easy. The better the book appeals to my sensibilities, the easier it is to read. The concept that reading more might make my writing better never really connected until I started reading close to one hundred books a year. Here are six ways I’ve found […]
The problem being solved: Some pesky tools have changed locations and even file names over the years through different versions of Windows. To account for these changes, runlist allows you to create a template for all these different locations and run the tool consistently across machines.