Hostwinds VPS
I recently had to switch hosting providers and, after researching what was available on the Linux-based front, went with Hostwinds1. I purchased their entry-level virtual…
Adventures in Migrating!
Back in early August the new owners of my long-term hosting service, Webfaction, told me they were “unable” to migrate my account to their new…
They’re Called “Personal” for a Reason
The other day my wife worked her way through a recent Microsoft Windows 10 update (I’d downloaded and done the update and rebooted the machine…
Adventures in Networking
My friend Tom recently touted a new-to-our-area fiber-optic service provider, Sonic, as having a great product offering very high access speeds, great customer service and…
Fixing Microsoft’s 20H2 Login Mess
I recently upgraded to the 20H2 (October update) version of Windows 10. It has a number of nice tweaks…and one seriously annoying one. In a…
Doing a Little Samba
I ran into some interesting problems getting Samba to work on my Raspberry Pi and be discoverable under Windows 10. This article summarizes how I…