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Smart Home Technology for the Savvy Homeowner
Tech gadgets are sometimes the most handy when found in the home. They help you save time, prioritize items on your daily to-do list and even save money. But what tech gadgets are the latest and...
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How to monitor MySQL in Zenoss
Years ago I discovered Zenoss Core and it has been my favorite monitoring system ever since. I've used lots of monitoring tools from Cacti to Nagios, from Manage Engine OpManager to Solar Winds and...
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Hacking my Earthwise lawn mower battery
I bought an Earthwise 24-volt lawn mower last year to keep my lawn in check. It worked pretty good, but the battery didn't last the summer. It just stopped charging. I of course got lazy and didn't...
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How to Better Manage Businesses with Multiple Locations
Just a few of Business News Daily's top 2016 business trend predictions include continued small business growth, an increased desire for human connections within business, same-day delivery and...
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How to Outwit the Credit Card Fraudsters
If you conduct a lot of business online, you're probably giving your credit cards a good workout. And why not? You get airline miles, bonus points and discounts. But keep in mind that credit card...
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Keeping Your Phone Safe
If there is one piece of property that you would want to save from a fire today it would probably be your computer. It is a treasure trove of memories and important documents and it is one of your...
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Protect Yourself from Cyberthieves When Using Public Wi-Fi Networks
Nine out of ten Americans expose themselves to the risk of public Wi-Fi networks at least once a month, and more than four out of 10 connect at least once a week. According to Avast estimates, hackers...
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3-D Printing's Role in the Manufacturing Industry
One of the most interesting forms of prototyping and manufacturing is 3-D printing in large part because it is so new to the consumer space. Many are wondering if this new, cheap form of manufacturing...
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Vonage Business Is Down Hard. It's Not Just You. cc @VonageBusiness
Are you a Vonage Business customer? Can't make or receive phone calls can you? Well, join the club! Oh, have you tried to call their support number but can't? Yep, join the club! Did you try to go to...
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Two Apps That Will Help You Lose Weight
I could have sworn I wrote about this already, but I can't seem to find a post for it in my archives. Oh well, if you've already heard this from me you can skip this post. If not, and you are looking...
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How I Recovered My LaCie 5Big Network RAID 5 Array
I had a pretty crappy week. I'm sure you can imagine with a title about how I had to recover important files from a failed LaCie 5Big NAS unit. It's a device that I inherited years ago and was made in...
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3 Technology Concepts that Could Shape the Future of Gadgetry
As usual, this year’s Consumer Electronics Show was chock full of cool futuristic gadgets, from 8K TVs and OLED laptops to virtual reality goggles and obstacle-avoiding drones. One of the most...
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I made the switch from Plex to Emby on my Roku. Maybe you should too!
The other day I was upgrading the Plex server at my girlfriend's house like I usually do when I see there is an update. This time the update caused RARFlix on her Roku to stop working! I wrote about...
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How to expand a LUN on your SCST Bauer-Power SAN
I thought I had already written about this, but apparently I haven't. Many moons ago I developed what I like to refer to as a Bauer-Power SAN. It was actually an idea I got from a former boss of mine...
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Bauer-Power Media Launches a New Podcast - Mainwashed Weekly Scoop
It's been a few years since I did any kind of actual show. As some of you know, I used to do Tech Chop weekly on The Tech Podcast Network. I stopped doing that because it started to become a full time...
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How To Fix Slow SSTP RRAS VPN on a Citrix XenServer Virtual Server
Ever since moving to Windows 10 and Windows 2012 R2 we've seen a serious drop in performance when using SSTP (Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol) on our Windows 10 machines. After weeks and weeks of...
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Trying out yet another new Adsense Alternative
It's been a few years since I was kicked out of Google's Adsense program, and I'll be honest, I've never truly recovered. I used to write here on a daily basis, but because I don't get hardly any...
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How Customization Is Shaping Technology
Japanese mobile provider SoftBank has announced that it is releasing two customized Star Wars phones ahead of this December’s release of the new Star Wars spinoff, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story." The...
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Waste of time: Obama's "BS" review of alleged cyber attacks from Russia
President Obama(Photo credit: Wikipedia)An interesting story popped up yesterday in several mainstream news publications that Obama is ordering a " deep dive" into alleged reports of Russian hackers...
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Holy crap Yahoo! Can't you get your security shit together?
Y from the Yahoo logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)It's happened yet again. It was only a few months ago when Yahoo revealed that around 500 million of their users had their accounts hacked back in 2014....
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