Falcon Heavy Launch
Not much to say, the live cast was awesome. And SpaceX landed the Center Core this time.
Windows XP is Finally Dead
It took 17 years, 7 months and 16 days to happen, but Windows XP and all of it’s variants are no longer supported by Microsoft. Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 is no longer supported as of today. This marks the end of the Windows NT 5.1 code base, which definitely makes it the oldest Windows version […]
Sorry, I Don’t Have a GitHub Page
I think that I have probably been interviewed a lot. In the past 10 years I have probably been interviewed at least 100 times for positions that I have applied for. This does not count the number of phone interviews that I have had or any screening calls with an HR person, I mean I […]
World Backup Day 2019
World Backup Day takes place every year on March 31st, but it is never a bad time to talk about backups and why they should be important to you. Unfortunately for most people, backing up their data is a pretty major afterthought and most people never even think about it. Backups are easier to do […]
SpaceX DM1 Flight
The SpaceX Demonstration Mission 1 Flight has successfully completed as of 8:45 EST on Friday March 8, 2019. There were no issues and this is the very successful first step towards the next flight (In-Flight Abort Test) that will take place in the next few weeks, using the same Dragon Capsule that completed the DM1 […]
Most Common Mistakes in Active Directory
The Microsoft Services Secure Infrastructure Team recently published a very detailed three-part series on the most common mistakes that they have encountered in Active Directory deployments. It was a very informative series to go through, the links can be found below: Part 1: Most Common Mistakes in Active Directory and Domain Services – Part 1 […]
OpenSSH Client and OpenSSH Server on Windows
Introduction One of the biggest and most welcome changes to the Windows 10 1809 update and in Windows Server 2019 was the addition of the OpenSSH Client and OpenSSH Server features. It is now incredibly easy to SSH into a Windows Workstation/Server using native tools that are now builtin to the Operating System. In the […]
Ultima Thule Flyby
The New Horizons spacecraft successfully completed it’s flyby of Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) at 12:33am on January 1st 2019. So far there has not been a lot of information released due to the slow (but steady) retrieval of data from the spacecraft, but the initial images are amazing: I have been following the New Horizons […]
My Year in Review
2018 in General When I decided that I actually wanted to start a dedicated website/blog earlier in 2018, I intended to use it as a way to showcase what I was working on and what I have accomplished overall. I find that I work through a lot of problems and I never share the solutions […]
VMware Workstation and Hyper-V
I recently ran into an issue with my ThinkPad while trying to run VMware Workstation 15.0 when I had the Hyper-V role installed on Windows 10 Pro 1809. Having VMware installed at the same time as having the Hyper-V role installed is not an issue, but it is not possible to run both of them […]