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How Meltdown and Spectre Impact VMware ESXi Guests

So the cat’s out of the bag and OS vendors have begun issuing patches to plug the latest in Security Vulnerabilities and Exposures made known to the public. What is Meltdown and Spectre: Meltdown and Spectre are exploits, operating against computer architecture that’s been designed into Intel chips. They are capable of accessing the protected areas of […]

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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 […]

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Backup of VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

It’s always a good idea to backup your work to provide you a way to recovery if things go wrong with your environment. Running an home lab I have cause my own share of issues many of times which had forced me to reinstall and configure my vCenter environment. Moving forward I will be taking advantage […]

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My Facebook: Why I recently purged

Today is Monday, January 1, 2018 I just finished what I is the first round of purges of my social media feeds. Mostly on my Facebook accounts. This was not a task that was simple to do, because many of the persons removed I do like them but no longer maintain a connection outside of […]

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It’s 2018 – Happy New Year

Happy New Year, Wishing you all the best this year.  Starting now we have 365 days to go after all the things we want and finish 2018 strong.  Be relentless in your efforts and focused on the desired results.  At the end of the day, the only thing that matter is what you truly want.  […]

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Richard Branson: My Tips for Happiness in 2018

We all have influencers in our lives; either by choice or organically. It is those set of influential people who help open our minds to new ways of thinking and going about our day-to-day.  I have followed Richard Branson for a long time and truly admin this man.  Today he posted on LinkedIn a open letter […]