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I haven’t reviewed Venmo security in a long time.  Originally I took a look when my middle daughter was looking for an electronic payment service to sort out payments to roommates and friends in college.  At that time (2010?), Venmo … Continue reading →

Lots of people ask about backup and disaster recovery for family computers. I use an external USB/eSATA case and Acronis True Image software to image all my friends and family computers. Reference links below for the hardware and software. The … Continue reading →

This is a post to answer some regular questions I get from friends and family. I’ll update it regularly as required. First, I use an ad blocker. Sites don’t like you to block ads, but there are so many malicious … Continue reading →

We are watching the FCC sell out the consumers it is supposed to protect. Ajit Pai is the head of the FCC. He’s a smart guy, but he is not the friend of the consumer, he’s a former Communication Industry … Continue reading →

I was trying to optimize my home network and determined using a local DNS server significantly  improved our internet experience.  I did the testing with my home server, but it’s a beast (six cores, 32GB RAM, and 4-6TB storage).  Since … Continue reading →

How to open the Normal template in any version of Word To edit the normal template in any version of Word on any Windows operating system do the following: Open Word. Open the vba Editor by Pressing Alt+F11 together. At … Continue reading →

I was trying to optimize my home network and determined using a local DNS server significantly  improved our internet experience.  I did the testing with my home server, but it’s a beast (six cores, 32GB RAM, and 4-6TB storage).  Since … Continue reading →

I haven’t read about other people with this exact problem, so I’m posting my solution in the hopes of helping some other poor soul.   Problem We had significant performance issues with 2.4GHz and 5.0 GHz wifi connections on our … Continue reading →

Doing a lot of research on Cloud services.  Aside from services, features, and cost, my focus has been Federation (with on premise Active Directory specifically) and Security.  I haven’t duplicated the root access in this article, but this is exactly … Continue reading →