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I Finally Figured Out Why There’s an Ethernet Port on the Back of Some Cable Boxes
As I’m about to drop cable TV in an effort to start saving money on something I hardly use, I got curious about the Ethernet port on the back of my set top boxes. When we moved about four years ago, the tech doing the install in the new house looked at my existing box […]
Waxing Nostalgic
I just watched a webinar on how to hold a conference online. Given the current state of affairs, with COVID-19 keeping us locked up in our homes, the planning committee for the Rochester Security Summit is rightly concerned that we might not be able to hold our traditional conference this October and we’re exploring virtual […]
Jekyll for Drupal Users
For the past ten years or so, I’ve had various responsibilities over a web hosting environment that relies on Drupal to power hundreds of sites. I was largely responsible for the selection of Drupal and it was definitely the right solution for us when we picked it, but over the years I’ve grown frustrated with […]
xBrowserSync
I started using Xmarks to sync my bookmarks between multiple browsers and computers so long ago that it may have still been called Foxmarks when I started using it. While I had a handful of problems with it from time to time–mainly with syncs failing and leaving my bookmarks corrupted in a given browser–the tool […]
Getting Around Spectrum’s Email Blocks
Our local cable TV and broadband provider, Spectrum, in their infinite wisdom, appears to have blocked the entire IP range owned by Digital Ocean (and possibly other similar hosting providers) from sending mail to their email users. I discovered this a month or two ago when mail from my scout troop’s emails just stopped going […]