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There is no Internet connection, and what my son taught me

This weekend we had a few internet connection issues at home.  As the in-house IT guy, I had a natural obligation to fix the issue right away. After all, my wife, son and his two sisters needed their connections restored. I worked to diagnose the issue and later resolve it. It was about 30 minutes […]

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Help me raise life-saving donations w/ American Heart Association

Hello Friends, there is 24 hours on the clock and my son has surpassed his original goal with help from others. I am asking those of you who haven’t had a chance to donate to pitch in on this noteworthy cause. Because together we can make a difference. AJ has done an excellent job in spreading awareness […]

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Saving Lives: American Heart Association! Please Donate

The following message is from my son:  Hi, I’m Anthony and my friends and family call me AJ for short.  I’ve joined millions of others to help save lives alongside the American Heart Association! At my school, I’m learning how I can help make a difference by raising lifesaving donations to help kids with heart […]

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Physical Fitness, Health & Leadership

Over many years I’ve come to learn from others and most importantly myself.  I recognize that leadership abilities have a common foundation made up of confidence, decisiveness, endurance as well as experience.  Another area I recognize are that of Physical Fitness, and Health that pull the aforementioned Leadership qualities together.   Team Entrainment  Studies have […]

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vSphere Customization Specification and Ubuntu 17.10

Has anyone noticed issues with #vSphere Customization Specification and #Ubuntu 17.10 (GNU/Linux 4.13.0-25-generic x86_64) – Now that the network settings are located in: /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml, I’m back to manually updating IP information (Server Naming still works). Although the traditional /etc/network/interfaces reflects the information provided by the customization process, the host still acquires a DHCP issued address. After some digging […]

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Network Wide Ad & Malicious Website Blocking | Pi-Hole

For a few months now I have used the software package named Pi-Hole as an internal network DNS server to prevent ad sites in addition to malicious websites from being accessible form compute resources on my home network. Pi-Hole is a small install that can be installed on any Linux system and it works like […]