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…
My VPN Saga, Take Two
Some while back I finally got a VPN set up which allowed remote access to my home LAN from both my iOS devices and my…
A New Personal Record
I’ve noticed over the years I’ve spent programming that there’s a counter-intuitive metric for how well your architecture matches the problem you’re trying to solve…