Getting Started With the Microsoft Ecosystem
As I was thinking about what I wanted to post during 2021, I thought it may be good to go back to the basics. I’ve been in the Microsoft ecosystem for so long that...
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Some Thoughts on 2020…. From a Tech Perspective
It would be stupid to say 2020 was a different year all together, it would be easy to say it didn’t go as planned, it would be foolish to think 2021 starts out any...
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It’s Here – Edge Released to Stable Channel
After months of testing and a year after the initial announcement; Microsoft has released the new Edge Browser to all supported systems in the “stable” channel. As promised this also includes the now unsupported...
Riding The Edge Wave
At Ignite this year there was a lot of buzz around Microsoft’s re-branded browser, and rightfully so. They gave us a Release Candidate, a new logo, and a target for the launch of the...
Edging Closer
Wow. Microsoft is doing this, and doing this quickly. This week they released the first Beta of the new Chromium based Edge. Some say Edgeium, some say Chredge, or the NEW Edge. I think...
Microsoft is kind of Edge(y)
After months of waiting, Microsoft has finally released the first public builds of its new Edge browser. And boy was it worth it. As I wrote in Headed Towards The Open Edge, last year...
The Sorry State of Video
As mentioned in my New Year’s Tech Resolutions, one of them was to work on creating my digital library on my Synology NAS using Plex. Part of this is necessitated by the constant searching...
New Year’s Tech Resolutions
Now that 2019 is upon us I thought I would list a couple of tech resolutions to make for the coming year. If I write them down.. maybe I will get to them, and...
Headed towards the Open Edge
Recently Microsoft made a huge announcement regarding its built-in browser in Windows 10. No not Internet Explorer, the other, younger more attractive one: Edge. The browser we know as Edge is changing in a...
Thinking Smartly About Homes
As I have previously mentioned this last year we purchased a new home and as such there have been certain upgrades we’ve done, wanted to do, and were done out of necessity. With such...
Sys Admin Day 2018!
Today is the 19th Annual System Admin Day! Thank you to all the Sys Admins out there for all your hard work. Keep up the good fight! Or is it more keep up with...
Upgrading the Wi-Fi
For Wi-Fi access at home, I have always used Netgear products. For the last 15 or so years, upgrading whenever it made sense to. This last year we moved into a different house where...
Spectre & Meltdown
As I hope everyone has heard this last week a couple major CPU vulnerabilities were discovered and fixes have started to rollout. There is a lot of information out there and some of it...