This is going to date me, but what if I told you I’d been blogging since 1998. Then, my site was nothing more than an offshoot of the original framed HTML page I created at Seneca College. At the school, a bit of hosting space was provided to everyone in an active technology course-load. After tinkering with some HTML (and leaving the school), I took the files, added more details, a few blog posts and then released it…
When a client approached me and asked for an application to help them search for and bring up specification documents, I thought it was something I could help with. One caveat, however, was that the database referencing these documents was a Microsoft Access Database. Perhaps even more interesting was that files the database referenced were […]
Coming in the standard tower look that APC popularized, Unifi’s product is white rather than the typical black look. The UPS comes with the battery unplugged and one simply has to open the front panel and connect the battery. Once the UPS is then plugged into the network it can be adopted by your Unifi […]
Ubiquiti Networks (or Unifi) have made a ton of different network gateway devices over the years, from the Dream Machine to the Dream Wall, to the original UCG. These have all made full use of the Unifi Network Controller’s abilities. In the cases where you have no gateway device, the controller is great software, but […]
The idea was quite simple: Create a program that made an empty Microsoft Access Database. This was the spring of 2003 and I was willing and ready to take on small things like this to, well, see if I could. The program would need to create a basic database structure resembling an address book that […]
This dreary time of year in the the Northern Hemisphere so many are talking about “Blue Monday,” but I’ve been taken by such happy things that this day isn’t even registering for me. I’ve been reading and watching recent projects that highlighted the man and actor John Candy. I read the outstanding hardcover John Candy: […]
Iodd seems to be adept at making clones of other company’s products (see Zalman). This one may be a clone also, though it’s hard to know. The ST300 drive enclosure is something of a unique product. It’s an external drive, yes, but when you place CD image files in a folder named _ISO, you can internally mount up to four virtual drives and boot from them. This is great for installing operating systems as it’s the standard format for these. Today, I take a look.
For those that run the free version of RustDesk’s open source remote access server one big missing good address book. The RustDesk client is good for one-off connections, but a paid license is needed to get the full-featured web address book. This may change in 2026, but for now, many are looking for a decent […]
On occasion I partake in online sales. These usually take the form of Kijiji or Facebook Marketplace listings and an in-person meeting to either buy or sell an item. The vast majority of the time, things go according to what’s agreed upon. But to say this environment is a cesspool is an understatement. It can bring out people intent on the shadiest of things. Today, I offer a bit of a different story…
In mid November of 2025, a web property I manage had the distinction of being compromised. Locking this site down had been difficult because of how many had permission over the installation. Too many things change, too often. None of these things I could control, but when it broke, they came to me for the fix. In I.T., this is usually not a position we want to be in, but sometimes I relish this kind of challenge.