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Well, we got a pretty amazing server two years ago and it is interesting to see how little has changed, most of the parts are still good (Haswell-E), but the main thing that has changed are: SSDs in Server NVMe. Wow boot drives and cache drives are much faster. With…

Wow the service run by Obitalk is pretty incredible. It has some incredible features using Google Voice and it works with a burglar alarm as well. It also has no FCC fees as well and you can hear your voice mail on Google Voice. Of course who knows how secure…

Time once again for my monthly security reminders here is what I learned (relearned): iMessage. This is actually quite a safe protocol. It is zero knowledge in that Apple cannot read the messages while in transit. Way better than sending a text or email both are unencrypted. The main vulnerabilities…

Lots in the news about cracking iPhones. Here’s some net net advice Let us all hope that iOS 10 not only signs updates with their key but also encrypts with the user passcode.  For the current iPhone the easy thing to do is to use TouchID and then bump up…

Wow what a difference two years make. We are now in free fall for tvs and HDR is coming as well. There is also a convergence happening as tvs get full operating systems and arm chips So here is a quick review of what to get depending on needs. Hat…

Never had so much fun learning about a new topic or building a computer but at last I have a reason to want a $5k desktop! arriving in two days! Of course since then it’s pretty clear that instead of the i7 we should Xeon e5-1650 v3. It’s the same…

Most of notes now go to slack. It’s so convenient to post there as I do most things in my phablet these days. 

Wow this is a cool application. it uses a web browser on the Mac and then you use a QR code to connect it to an Android device. This gives the local IP address of the Mac to the phone and somehow the browser application can facilitate the transfer

Living With the iPad Pro – Extratextuals https://apple.news/AJOMlfeCiMaGVF0hmAVERtw has great app list for productivity on iOS. 

Well finally back to running a Raspberry Pi stack. Got the new Hypriot Cluster Lab which is in it’s first incarnation. it is much easier than the manual docker swarm setup up, but a little less clear how to do thing. It uses Consul for managing the cluster (rather than…