SmartMerge – Free Command Line Directory Merge Utility
Here is a great free utility from Jacques Bensimon. A common operation when reorganizing or migrating a data folder in Windows is the merging of a source directory…
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VMware Cloud on Azure
Looks like there is a new Cloud offering available to VMware administrators. Sent over by Josiah Meurer, Microsoft has announced an Azure based VMware solution. Very similar to…
What happens if the Wink Platform goes out of business?
The Verge recently reported that the company that owns the Wink Smart Home platform is running out of money. The company i.am+ owned by Will.i.am has been apparently…
Citrix ShareFile is deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 soon. Upgrade your ShareFile Tools.
If you are a ShareFile administrator for your company or even just a user of the service, you may have received an email or popup when visiting your…
How to increase the root space on my AWS Hosted WordPress site
I have battled Out of Space errors before on my Pi-Hole, VMware and other systems in my career but this was the first time I had to resolve…
Static IP addresses for Amazon Web Services instances
This very blog you are reading right now is running on a t2.micro instance in the Amazon Web Services Cloud. The T2 micro instances are some of the…
How to optimize WordPress images for SPEED using WEBP
Today, I am compressing all of the images on this website. Hopefully after compressing, you will see that the pages are loading a bit faster. I had on…
RIP: Microsoft HealthVault – Migrating the data out
The first big PHR related service to shut down was in 2011. Google Health. PHR or Personal Health Record is the idea that you should not have your…
How to enable JIT (Just in Time) VM Access in Microsoft Azure
If you have Virtual Machines running on the Internet with Public IPs, you should know they are exposed to attacks from evil-doers. If you have a Windows VM…