One of the things that keeps us awake at nights is the fear that a ransomware attack will take out one or more of our clients. They don’t seem quite as worried as us, maybe because they have us to worry? But really the only sure fire way of having your backups safe from an encryption program that will attack
(This post is now outdated as the technique does not work with Pi-Hole version 4. Here is the technique for Version 4) This is just a short note on installing this. It is a very quick process, but it took me way longer than it should have because I misunderstood a couple of things. Why? Pi-Hole is a very lightweight
I recently had to upgrade a couple of servers running 10.8.5 to High Sierra. And found that it had to be done in stages- you can only go up 2 version of operating system at a time- try 3 and you’re SOL. but 10.8 to 10.13 is 5 versions of upgrade? So how did we do it? Backup, Upgrade
I’ve written a number of other articles about ESXi, but I’m trying to deploy a 2013 Mac Pro into my lab and realised I was back to square one because I hadn’t documented the first, baby steps. So here we go- Download the latest .ISO from VMWare. You need to register to be able to do this Get 2x 8GB
**This post is now out of date- if you want to see how to do it with the new version of Raspian Buster, or with a Raspberry Pi 4, go to this link My son has a habit of asking what’s on about 15 times day, and if that weren’t bad enough, he often comes into my office and uses
I’ve just spent some time comparing payment providers in an attempt to Get a better deal than I currently get from the bank reduce the ongoing costs from the bank Just to be clear, I’ve been using Xero for some time to do all of my invoicing (I moved over from Lightspeed because they started removing features from the software
This article came about because of a client who is overseas. He wrote me an email saying that he couldn’t figure out where all of the space on his MacBook Air SSD had gone. This question doesn’t have a simple answer, so I’m writing this to help him, and everyone else out. Here’s the problem- There are lots of similar
Let me start by saying that I think Cisco are a great company and I have huge respect for them. They have some amazing products and services particularly if you can stand some of the eye watering prices. But they make some delicious gear! But this tale doesn’t start with them, it starts at MIT, where a couple of students
We like Macs, but there are some er, less desirable models in the line up- so If you’re buying a new Mac this year, what specs to recommend? This post was originally written in March 2017, and since then Apple has updated many of the models- I have updated each of the categories with new recommendations as needed. All prices lifted
Let’s face it, Apple has been pretty stingy with the size of the SSD drives that they put in their machines. Although that is changing now, a lot of people are quite happy with their MacBook Air or MacBook Pro- apart from the fact that the drive is always full. This is particularly painful if you’ve bought an 11″ machine
