What’s a DTC? If you’ve ever owned a car, driven a car, or have been around people that have owned or driven them, you have probably heard of the Malfunction Indicator Lamp (MIL, also known better as the Check Engine Light or CEL) and Diagnostic Trouble Code (DTC, or sometimes just “code”). What are these …
NAS Is Everywhere! It seems like, everywhere I turn, I’m reading about how people need a NAS and why it’s so important. Many companies sell enclosures with their own software: QNAP, Synology, and Asustor are just a few names you may come acrcoss. Open Source software like FreeNAS, UnRAID, NAS4Free, or Open Media Vault can …
Up-level your virtual meeting skills!
Bitlocker has its benefits and its issues. This write-up covers the specific problems I encountered when attempting to encrypt a virtual hard drive of a Windows 10 guest on XenServer. What is Bitlocker? Bitlocker is a built-in full drive encryption utility that is part of the Microsoft Windows operating systems. It affords you the ability …
A New Way to Work Prior to 2020, working remotely was “the norm” for a lot of people, but was only adopted for certain types of workers. When the COVID-19 pandemic effectively shut down everyone’s ability to commute and work in an office, the world had to quickly pivot to having the majority of people …
What is Multi-Factor Authentication? Should you use it? Why?
An overview of the use of Under Cabinet Lighting and some details about how I installed mine.