2018. What a year. My family moved from Cupertino to San Jose, where we
purchased a new home (don't even get me started on housing prices). I
started in a new
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My family and I just returned from a week in paradise, in Ko'Olina, Oh'au,
Hawaii. Why Oa'hu? Because in Ko'Olina there is a relatively new
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This afternoon I was doing some network maintenance around the house. While
inspecting all of my wireless clients, I happened to find a host that I didn't
recognize (I name all
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As most people who know me and lots of my readers know, my son has Down
syndrome. Down syndrome "also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused
by the presence
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Recently I was invited to participate in the World of WarCraft, Battle for
Azeroth Alpha Test. I know you're thrilled (I was too!). However, in order to
install the game, it
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Today is a special day in the lives of my family. It's also a special day for
millions of people across the world. March 21st is celebrated as World Down
Syndrome
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2017 found my family and I finally settled, if a bit temporarily, in our new
home in Cupertino, CA. We're renting and that will be the next major milestone
we cross
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I've now reached a milestone in my life that everyone dreads, that age when your
friends start to pass. I didn't think it would happen this soon. I'
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I’ve been having a long-running conversation with various folks in the Ubiquiti
Forums here
[https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Routing-Switching/UniFi-USG-local-DNS-not-resolving-local-hostname-correctly/m-p/2031489#M54558]
and here
[https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Routing-Switching/
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One of the greatest advances towards securing the Internet happened on April 12,
2016 when the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) launched the “Let’s
Encrypt” X.509 Transport Layer Security (TLS) (you
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Recently I rebuilt my personal mail server (and Mailman list server) on a new
version of Ubuntu. Everything went well and the Mailman list worked fine, except
that all of the CGI-BIN scripts
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I recently installed Fail2Ban on my personal mail/web host as the number of "bad
actors" has climbed a lot in recent years and I no longer felt comfortable just
allowing
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It's spring here in Silicon Valley and that means it's time for the Apple World
Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). This year did not disappoint with Apple
making not 1,
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I recently decided to run Kali Linux on my MacBook. I originally thought I'd
just build it into a Virtual Machine (using Parallels), but was concerned that I
might not have
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