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In December 2013, the website www.whereivebeen.com discontinued its service. It offered a means of creating a map of all of the places you’ve been. The good folks at amCharts offer a good alternative to Where I’ve Been. Use their website to select the states or countries you’ve visited, and they will provide you the JavaScript …
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In June 2014, Microsoft will release a system update that they claim will include “two of your most-requested features will be here soon: external storage support and real names for identifying your friends.” While both of these changes add value, neither address one the most frequently requested features: which is to bring back Media Center …
Yesterday, Pure Storage support and I performed a non-disruptive upgrade of the operating system (called Purity) that runs the controllers for our solid state SAN (storage area network). Prior to the upgrade, Pure Storage support wanted to confirm that all of our LUNs were configured to use Round Robin. Specifically, their “VMware ESXi 5.1 Best …
NetworkWorld magazine featured a brief blurb on me regarding my appreciation for Pure Storage‘s SSD SAN.
The recent Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability prompted another healthy round of resetting my passwords all over the web. I already have a good understanding and high regard for password security thanks to Steve Gibson‘s Security Now podcast and Password Haystacks service. This time around, I have noticed more sites are permitting longer passwords, which is great. …