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  • Your Fitbit may need a flu shot!

    Your Fitbit may need a flu shot!

    I ran across an article on The Register this morning of someone hacking a Fitbit into malware spreading mode in less than 10 seconds. So that could be a hacker sitting at a park bench and you run past them and you are now contagious and spreading your newly contracted malware. This attack is done… Read more

  • 4k Video in Horizon View 6.2

    4k Video in Horizon View 6.2

    How many of you have went out and purchased new 4K monitors for your users yet? I am guessing none, beings the 4k monitors are astronomically expensive. The cheapest one I found was $350 for a bottom of the line 4k, and $750 for a nice 27in ViewSonic, and I found a high end Sharp… Read more

  • Hold onto your Butts Wireshark 2.0 RC is available.

    Hold onto your Butts Wireshark 2.0 RC is available.

    Its official Wireshark has a RC version on its 2.0 software available to download. Why is this a big deal? For a long time Wireshark has really just been about network and Bluetooth captures. Now with some added features like USBPcap with support from Wireshark. USBPcap is a USB Packet capture tool designed to capture… Read more

  • Horizon View Persona Management Duplicate AppData LOC folders

    Horizon View Persona Management Duplicate AppData LOC folders

    I don’t know if anyone out there has had issues with Horizon View 6 with Persona Management and Duplicate AppData LOC folders like this one here in the picture. As you can see the one on top is a current LOC folder. But the one on the bottom has an older date. When you get… Read more

  • Boxer to join VMware Airwatch product line!

    Boxer to join VMware Airwatch product line!

    VMware announces its plans to acquire Boxer and bring it into the Airwatch product. Boxer is a company that delivers enterprise grade features with consumer grade design. This is a great announcement. The Airwatch product was amazing before, but this adds a secure mail, calendar, and into the suite. I have not used Boxer but… Read more

  • Home Transition from archaic Incandescent to LED lighting.

    Home Transition from archaic Incandescent to LED lighting.

    After buying a new house here this May. I noticed a few things about this new house. One most of the light bulbs in this house were burnt out, or burnt out shortly after we took ownership and they were all old fashioned incandescent light bulbs. I had my eye on the LED market place… Read more

  • Surface Pro 4 or Surface Book?

    After VMworld and talking to some people who have given up the traditional laptop form I was convinced that i needed to replace my current laptop with a Surface or a convertible on the next refresh (Thanks Jim Jones @k00laidIT). On the October 6th I was ready for the Microsoft announcement. I am need of a… Read more

  • Is writing to yourself kind of like talking to yourself?

    This has been really a long time coming. I am not one to blog, but why in the hell did I decide to write a blog? Well I needed to do something to get some of this stuff out on the cloud that no one understands and this is a way for me to get more comfortable… Read more