30 10, 2018

Microsoft Outlook: Destined for the Dumpster

I am writing this post about a program that is destined for the dumpster: Outlook. Just like the titans of the past, Outlook too will soon be done for. Here in this article I go over 10 reasons why Outlook is done for, and why I believe Outlook is the forgotten child of the Microsoft Office Suite. outlook old   First, some history. I, like many IT helpdesk support agents, have grew up with Outlook. For years, Outlook was really the only sure-fire way to get your email from the late 90’s until the widespread adoption of web-based email clients. The first version of Outlook I can remember servicing at the time was O [...]

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16 12, 2017

Netgate SG-1000: The Little Firewall That Could!

Looking to find a semi decent firewall solution that has amazing functionality that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg? Looking for a firewall that doesn’t require large amounts of power draw and a server you really don’t want running because it’s too old, loud, and clunky? The SG-1000 is a match made in heaven. SG-1000-netgate-size To preface, this isn’t the first SG-1000 I’ve owned. This isn’t the first Netgate box I owned. But let me tell you, with the advancements in ARM processor technology paired with the solid, trusted solution that PFsense offers – This is one hell of a box. You get a lot for your mon [...]

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1 07, 2017

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ransomware: What Ransomware is, How it Works & Ways to Stop it.

  Happy July everyone! Wow! Year is definitely flying by. I’ve been asked by many my overall thoughts / plan of action against ransomware, and here it is: Your official (User-friendly!) guide to understanding and preventing ransomware. You know, a couple of years ago the state of the PC security industry met a remarkable peak: Things were going well security wise. Edge firewalls were getting decent, client PCs finally became stable software / support wise, and operating systems were finally getting remarkably easy to configure / deploy. Windows 7 was the heartbeat of small business, and, for a little bit, the infections of activeX / browser toolbars / fake antivirus seemed to have disappeared. The biggest threat on our list was all those fake search engines / browser manipulat [...]

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20 03, 2017

Is Bitcoin losing its gold standard? Why Bitcoin Unlimited Scares The Heck Outta Me

Sometime change is good. It’s 2017 – we now have LEDs that don’t suck, cars that can (somewhat) drive themselves, and a fine choice of 3 Big Mac sandwiches – But two bitcoins? Not so much.   Look, let me be quite straight with all of you: I have no vote in this core / unlimited debate. I’ve checked out long ago after my bitcoin farm of 9 GPUs decided to Chernobyl and shut my operations down. But the one thing this community needs to question is: Is the light at the end of the tunnel really a light? Or a train? The bitcoin community has seen a lot over the last 3 years. We organically came back from a Mt. Gox / negative news bonanza, several pump n dump runs, and (again) media intervention partnered with those ima-get-rich quick guys. However, although [...]

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13 02, 2017

You, (Windows) ME, And The Future Have a Lot In Common

The time was June of 2000.

Your Chevy Silverado got a new face lift. Your AOL logins got a little quicker, and, your desktop took a change. The internet was here, the future was clear, and with Windows 98 behind us, we knew exactly how the world was going to work – for the world was a friendly place and all would work out in the future, right? Wrong. Sandwiched somewhere between the rise of McDonalds and the explosive end of the dot com bubble lies the product of what happens when your bitcoin portfolio explodes too quickly and you have no exit strategy: Windows ME. Where were you in the summer of 2000? If you were me, you were stuck in a house all day, smashing away at a keyboard. No, I wasn’t stuck in some miserable desk job that will drive me to become a divorce stat [...]

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