Year: 2019

  • You served me well

    Time to say goodbye to my old laptop. I have had it for six or seven-years, and it has served me well. A few years back the hard drive controller started to exhibit issues – it did not always boot because it could not find the hard drive. Other times it worked fine, but any…

  • Naming Conventions for the Cloud

    A good summary resource on naming conventions for system resources (servers, DNS, labels, etc.) in your network infrastructure. Be it your own data center or in someone else’s, i.e. the Cloud. Cloud Naming Convention

  • Fallout 76 1st subscription service

    Fallout 76 1st subscription service

    The Fallout 76 private servers are here. It makes me really excited because it offers an opportunity to explore the world firsthand, so to speak. Unfortunately, I am reading reports that server instances are not fresh. I will probably wait to subscribe, or maybe I won’t and just deal with it. 

  • Google Assistant on Xbox

    According to a Reddit post from Microsoft’s Harrison Hoffman, from Team Xbox – the Google Assistant is coming to the Xbox. For the time being the integration is in beta and it is limited to controlling the Xbox console. You can find more details from the original post – Get started with Xbox for Google Assistant.