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How To Setup And Use CloudFlare Tunnels

Last week I was chatting in the OMBI Discord channel about CloudFlare in general and someone turned me on to the use of their free tunnels. I was not sure what it was all about so down the rabbit hole I decided to go. What became fascinating to me was …

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How To Safely Get DMARC Fully Configured

Late last year I had a new project for STK Promotions to build out this new store for Peacemaker Project 703. As part of that build we setup a new domain which also meant needing to setup new mail senders from the store. Well, really we needed more than that …

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A New Partnership Emerges for STK Promotions

Just over a year ago I wrote about a trip to Champaign Illinois to visit a friend who lost someone in the line of duty. The experience was humbling for me to say the least. In light of all the things going on in the world, for me the Police …

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How To Automate Lighting With Plex Playback

As my Plex setup and my Home Theater have evolved I am always looking for new ways to improve the usability and function of the combined experience. I actually did this a while back and just now got to documenting it, but the requirement I had was to operate the …

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How To Identify a Verizon Wireless Scammer

Today I got an unusual call (not a text) from Verizon Wireless, which frankly never happens, so I decided to let it go to voicemail.  What I learned after the caller left the message is something I wanted to share so that others can learn from this and hopefully Verizon …

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The Most Common Mistake Made in VMware vSphere Networking

It seems I have had a number of the same conversations in recent weeks about a very particular topic, and some could argue a design flaw, with the most basic of VMware vSphere deployments. This has to do with using an overly simplistic deployment whereby the ESX host is only …

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Did I Let Myself Down?

I woke up today, in a sense, hating myself. I’m going to disclose something only a handful people knew about 8 months ago when I wrote the post below. Today was to be my last day. My last day working in technology. My last day on any and every social …

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