I have a conversation that repeats every year and it goes like this: My friend “When are you getting the new iPhone xx?”Me: “Not this year. For sure I’m skipping it.”My Friend: “Uh huh” The thing is, there’s no lack of conviction when I say that. Recent years, however, I have been upgrading steadily through […]
Previously, I wrote about the prevalence of artificial intelligence (A.I. or the more common AI) and whether we should be worried. Months later, I came across a very real reason bloggers are getting worried about AI. Google appears to have taken a post of mine and used it to train its Gemini model an inject […]
Last year I self-published From Rent to Ruin. Part of this process required me to find the right way to make this book available to as many people as possible. Of course, like most authors, I wanted to be with a traditional publisher that believed in my work. I wanted to give my book the […]
The directive was simple: Build some sort of tool that could perform an installation similar to what ‘sudo’ does on Linux in a limited user session. There is literally nothing like this for Windows that performs in any sort of automated fashion…
Moving user profiles from domain to domain has often been the topic of conversation. I’ve even written an article that took me more than a year to compile about the very act of copying or moving profiles. Now, we have Active Directory…
The most important advice I’ve ever ignored is that of book outlining. The idea is, before writing that book, build a solid outline of each chapter and the ultimate flow of your book. It’s great idea in practice. But…
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) […]
An article on 404 Media had me thinking about the state of trust in society today. The article describes software landlords are using the U.S. that forces prospective tenants to offer login credentials (or pass through a login) into business systems so that tenant’s pay can be verified…