Rob Pickering
Leader, Mentor, Challenger, Educator, Network Engineer, System Administrator, Developer, Hacker, Writer, Diver, and Technology Explorer
Weekly Update 4
Back from my break over the holidays! Back to work, son is back to school. I didn't publish any articles over the break, but that doesn't mean I wasn&
Goodbye eBay, I will sell no more
I recently read the following blog post post by Matthew Sag, "One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay is for Suckers [http://matthewsag.com/?p=1642]". It compelled me to tell
Weekly Update 3
Time flies when you're having fun! I'm really happy to be back in Silicon Valley after returning from Calgary (and Edmonton). Nothing like being back, getting up in the
Serial - Driverless Serial Terminal Emulator for macOS
Apple/Mac
This review is a long-time in coming. Back at the end of 2013 I wrote an article on Enabling a USB to Serial Port Adapter in OSX [https://robpickering.com/enabling-a-usb-to-serial-port-adapter-under-os-x-10-9-mavericks/] . The issue
Cable TV Providers are in Trouble
iOS
Today Apple released iOS 10.2 [http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2016/12/12/apple-ios-10-2-is-now-available-what-is-included-in-the-update/#43b8479976be] which, among some other features, includes support for Cable TV (and other) provider Single Sign-on and
Weekly Update 2
WEEKLY UPDATE
The second week of my new blog and I was able to accelerate the number of articles that I published, even during a heavy travel week at work. Two of the articles were
The Temperfect Mug by Joeveo
kickstarter
The team behind the Joeveo Temperfect Mug had quite a story in bringing this product to market: tree through roof, hurricane, bad factories, scheduling, design issues, and production issues. The concept is that
Ube (now Plum) WiFi Connected Smart Light Dimmer (Lightpad)
kickstarter
Ube renamed themselves to Plum and renamed the WiFi Connected Smart Light Dimmer to Lightpad. The Plum Lightpad is a WiFi-Connected "Smart Switch". It installs in place of an existing dimmer
2016 - What I've Read
reading
I recently saw an article on another blog where the author documents all of the books that he read [https://medium.com/personal-growth/every-book-ive-read-in-2016-afedade17695#.6cy23hazh] during the course of the year. I like
Ubiquiti - Configure micro-segmentation for IoT devices
Security
Internet of Things (IoT) The Internet of Things is a label that the computer industry, the media, and manufacturers have created to describe small devices that live on a network and provide a
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Weekly Update 1
WEEKLY UPDATE
It's my first Weekly Update since my re-launch and I had quite a bit of activity this week. On the blog: 1. It's a new Blog! [https://robpickering.com/
It's a new blog!
Recently I've been inspired in a number of areas by Mr. Troy Hunt. I have always followed security professionals and tried to stay on top of the landscape. I recently started
Quicken Essentials for Mac - The Bare Minimum
finance
> Update – 20120712:  I was wrong, this is still a great article, but I gave up on Intuit and any and all of their Macintosh software, see my latest post here [https://robpickering.
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Quicken Essentials 2010 for Mac.  Why bother?
quicken
I’m upset with Intuit and I’m not sure what to do about it. First and foremost, let me get this out of the way. I love Quicken [http://quicken.intuit.com/

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