08/22/18
NCAA Allegations and Jimbo Fisher
I was asked tonight if I had heard about the allegations made against the Aggie Football team of Texas A&M University and their head coach, Jimbo Fisher, I had not.
In fact, that question was the first I had heard of it.
The questioner then posted to me a link to an NBC Sports article.
Titled:
“Jimbo Fisher doesn't 'know anything about' report alleging NCAA violations, injury mishandling” written by John Taylor.
The first line of the article made me question if the piece was even serious:
“Not surprisingly, Sgt. Schultz showed up at the podium in College Station Tuesday night.”
I soldiered on and read the piece.
Now I do have doubts.
07/16/18
Low Tech Phone Scam
Low tech scams are still alive and well.
We are all very aware of high tech scams, phishing scams, email scams and ransomeware, but low tech scams are still alive and well.
And for the record, no, you do not have $20,000,000 sitting in a Nigerian bank waiting for you to transfer it and I am pretty sure there is no Prince somewhere with you email address.
12/04/17
How Open Source Can Save You Money
Would you walk to the trash can and throw a stack of hundred dollar bills away?
How Open Source can save your business money!
Everyone knows by now that Open Source is free, or at least I do hope the word is spreading. The computing world and the Internet Of Things is a vast gold mine of information and ideas. Open Source harnesses those ideas and the creativity of the masses to produce Operating Systems, Apps and platforms that in some cases outperform the expensive commercial counter parts.
03/31/17
How To Turn Off Amber Alerts On Your iPhone
Has your iPhones Amber Alert function every gone off in the middle of the night waking you from a wonderful dream?
Squawked in the middle of an important meeting?
Scared the bejesus out of you while you were driving?
Only to find out the incident is five hundred miles away.
Wish you could silence the Alerts?
IPhones have two alert functions, Amber Alert and Emergency Alerts.
We all know what Amber Alerts are; Emergency Alerts are for evacuations, storms, fires, alien invasions and incoming meteors.
You can turn off the notifications so your phone will not end your life in a heart attack and here is how:
01/03/16
Murphy's Law 21 Brutal Rules of The Combat Soldier.
Link: http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/21-brutal-rules-of-warfare-according-to-actual-soldiers
Here are 21 brutally accurate rules to combat and warfare, as told by soldiers.
What do you think? Are they accurate?
03/06/15
How can your business benefit from open source?
Maybe 15 or 20 years ago most managers and IT pros alike would have cringed at the very thought. Only serious tech geeks used Linux, but times have changed.
Here are some interesting key areas your business can benefit from the cost savings, security and flexibility of open source software, servers and applications.
12/28/13
A Tear Down of the New Steam Machine
Link: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Steam+Machine+Teardown/20473
For you PC Gamers out there, here it is, a tear down of the new Steam Machine.
The Steam OS gamer PC.
If like me, you have enjoyed the Steam based games, I am addicted to HalfLife, this should be a good read.
Valve has released 300 beta test units out to the community, iFixit has acquired one of these gaming computers to do a tear down and assessment of the computer.
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