Category: Miscellaneous

Items that don't seem to fit in any other category.

TV From Across the Pond

Have you ever been traveling across the pond and want to watch your favorite streaming service or news broadcast. You fire up your tablet tap on the app or go to the website and you get… “we’re sorry this content is unavailable out side of the…”

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OpenVPN on IOS 12.x fails to Connect to PiVPN

OpenVPN Client Screenshot

I use the PiVPN deployment of OpenVPN on a Raspberry Pi to connect back into my home network when I’m on the road. About a month ago my SD card gave out and I had to rebuild. I decided to go with PiVPN for my OpenVPN deployment. Setup was really easy and it worked great …

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Happy Day After Yesterday

Happy Day After Yesterday in blue text with a gray and wite spiral.

Happy day after yesterday y’all, You may or may not have noticed that many of the emails or calls with me start out with “Happy <day>” (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, etc.). Every so often I get the question why are you always so happy? People want to figure out my trick… This is a …

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This Space NOT For #Rent

Not For Rent Sign. Black background with red border. Not is scribbled in along with Don't bother in the call blank.

Of late I have been hearing about companies strongly ‘asking’ their employees to publish corporate content on their personal social media feeds like Twitter, Facebook, and Linked-In. I’m not a fan of letting employers spam my friends. If I want to share something it needs to be something I’m interested in and something my followers …

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Good Sounding Virtual Desktops

speaker with sound bars and a no symbol across it

You’re prepping an image for use with a VMware Horizon deployment. You get all your applications tweaked and life is good. You optimized your image with the VMware OS Optimization Tool Fling. You go and test it, it appears to work great. On to the next task, oh wait you didn’t hear the familiar sound …

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GPUs and Detecting Pestilence

This is a project that has been on my mind for about a year now. Chalk this up as another crazy idea that could make someone a lot of money. About a year ago, it was announced that K-State University (proud alumnus) would be partnering with Australia’s Queensland University of Technology in a really cool …

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Backing Up My WordPress Site

Thought I would share a quick post on how I protect this site. For those who don’t know me I started my career working in the backup industry. As such I am a firm believer in the saying “if you don’t have 3 copies of it then it doesn’t exist.” As such I try to …

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Casting a Wider Net

For the past 19 months I’ve had the awesome opportunity to work at VCE as a solutions architect specializing in the VMware Horizon Suite. Which is a fancy way of saying an end user computing (EUC) subject mater expert (SME). During this time I’ve been able to work with some of the smartest people in …

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Random Musings for July, 11 2013

Today I had a lot of insights. So many that I figured I should blog about them lest I forget them. That and maybe they’ll help someone else. Most of these musings are related to the management audio books I’ve been listening to of late. (I’ll blog about that later.) What follows may seem obvious …

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Sonic Peanut Butter Bacon Shake

Today I had the opportunity to try a Sonic Peanut Butter Bacon shake. Here is my review of that shake… The short of it: It’s good! The cost of it: A small runs about $2 bucks Overall bacony goodness rating: 3.5 out of 5 strips of bacon. Amount left after testing: None Corporate site:Sonic Peanut …

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