A few days ago, a colleague I used to work with at VMware Tyler Gates @TSGates_ reached out to me to see if I'd be interesting in being a guest on a new podcast. Knowing the wealth of entertaining stories Tyler has up his sleeves, and hearing that he was doing this with co-host Aaron Buley…
TeslaFi Affiliate Link above, Amazon and other commission-earning links below. I just got home from a roadtrip to visit family in Boston, spending just $9.11 cents in electricity to move ourselves 208 miles total. What a nice treat to catch this tweet (pictured at right) by @awraynor, time to…
This new podcast episode 385 is now available at the averageguy.tv here, where you can also view, listen, and/or subscribe. Here's an excerpt: Paul Braren from https://tinkertry.com and on Twitter at @paulbraren joins this week as we catch up with him and his job with VMware, some travel tech from…
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"Home Gadget Geeks" available in 5 color choices and 3 sizes at Amazon. Alternative title: "Paul Braren's nostalgic look back at PC, audio, video, PC, and phone tech from the 1970s to 2000s, including the ThinkPad 701c Butterfly with an expanding keyboard" The below article…
New podcast episode announced at the averageguy.tv, where you can also listen and/or subscribe: Paul Braren (@paulbraren) joins us to talk about his current work load at VMware and an update on some super fast VM parts that will make his home lab a bunch faster, his home Wifi set up with Eero, a…
New podcast episode announced here: Jim Collison https://twitter.com/jcollison was joined by Paul Braren from https://TinkerTry.com for show #299 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. It's been about 9 months since I've had the opportunity to be on Jim's show, and we…
Always an honor to join Jim on the air! When recording this on a very special May 5, 2016, also known as: Cinco de Mayo Revenge of the Fifth World Password Day 2016 I had a lot of topics on my mind, and Jim graciously gave me great freedom to roam off topic constantly. When Jim's good podcaster…
Recently, I had a conversation with Dan Stolts of Microsoft, who is also the creator of IT Pro Guru Blog. We've run into each other at various New England User Groups, and always enjoy talking tech things like booting from VHD on an external ThinkPad drive, or using eSATA to temporarily run another…
Long road trips and podcasts go together nicely, such as my recent 2 hour Saturday excursion to a Microsoft focus group gathered by Paul Thurrott. Boy was I entertained and educated as I drove, and I kept thinking that it would sure seem likely that folks who visit TinkerTry would love to hear this…
I'm adding all my photos, videos, and updates under the original post: "The 5th Annual Home Server Show Meetup" in Indianapolis Sep 12 2015 - TinkerTry will be there! John is a guy who actually read my stuff about RAID [4 years ago!], graceful ESXi shutdown, and RDM mappings. Nobody…
The stars started to align recently, with an unused personal flight voucher making all the difference, along with finding out some conflicting work travel had shifted. So it was with great joy that I was able to reach out to leader David McCabe earlier today, to coordinate some logistics for a very…
Always an honor to join Jim on the air, getting to use my new mic for the first time. turns out this podcast might also get rebroadcast on AM radio in West Virginia. Now that's a first for me! Despite my temporary, less-than-optimal Tucson AZ hotel "studio" with efficient lighting and a…
I've been keeping my eye on these Monoprice headphones for some months now, especially having spent a lot of time on cross-country trips lately, as well as greatly increased time spent with my snow blower. Of course, there's no SkyMall in flight magazine to peruse these days. So yes, I'll admit…
I've never been all that comfortable with public speaking. Which is why I try to face my fears and tackle user group presentations, podcast guesting, and Hangouts on Air somewhat regularly. I know I can teach a group of up to 10 IT Professionals comfortably, having done numerous VMware Jumpstarts…
Showtime at 7pm Eastern time this Monday, December 22nd. View all the event details, and/or join the event LIVE, at: Event is over, and we sure got into the weeds for a bit there. Playback with demo already available right here below: *My backup demo with Rick was using a network share on a…
TinkerTry's tagline (since January 2013): TinkerTry IT @ home Efficient virtualization, storage, backup, and more... My writings are not done on a whim. This new Veeam beta obviously has my attention as the most interesting product in years, since bare metal restore software for Windows is…
June 2013: I had the opportunity to talk about my home automation tinkering with my CES 2012 friend Mike Faucher, over on his podcast, BYOB Episode 125 “Home Automation”. Another guest on that very same episode was Richard Gunther, from The Digital Media Zone. Very grateful for that…
Always fun with Jim, who speaks really good English! It was a joy to talk tech for a bit, after being far away from the comforts of home for some weeks. Took a bit of sneakiness to stay online in my Mainz Germany hotel, including a D-link SharePort Go Mobile Companion DIR-506L and LastPass…
Always fun with Jim and Christian around, have a listen! Paul Braren from TinkerTry.com (https://tinkertry.com/) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/tinkererguy) and Christian Johnson (@TheWizBM) join Jim (@jcollison) and for show #174 of Home Tech Podcast brought to you by the Average Guy Network,…
Steve Gibson is on quite a roll lately. Over the past few months, I've had the pleasure of witnessing the evolution of his thinking, with the unfolding of his thought process expertly explained to his listeners. His thoughts and ideas eventually become realities. He has a way of engaging his…
All the details about this event right here, or register for free here. Very much looking forward to this trip up to Portsmouth New Hampshire, a seaside town I'm rather fond of. See also my post last year, Summer virtualization travels to Maine. Yep, it's time for a lobster roll at River…
Jim Collison invited me back for another fun and hopefully informative podcast, as his guest on Thursday, April 3rd, 2013. Jim (@jcollison) and I (@tinkererguy) discuss Chrome Hangouts Extension, a VOIP issue that finally led me to give up on 3rd party VOIP for now, and finally, some loosely…
Whatever you think of Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson, this is quite the entertaining episode. Leo has a hard time hiding his disdain for Comcast. While I don't (yet) have this cable giant in my town, this episode explores the far-reaching implications of all this, and a bunch of other interesting…
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