White Canyon Software has been in the business of certified drive wipes for over 21 years! It's about time I had a look for myself, here's their WipeDrive 9 Product Page. Disclosure: This unpaid article and video demonstrates WipeDrive by WhiteCanyon. WhiteCanyon has run an occasional ad through…
TinkerTry is not a news site, but I have written a lot of how to articles about Supermicro systems based on Intel's versatile Xeon D-1500 SoC motherboard. They all have a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) for management, as do most servers. The particular BMC chips used for Xeon D-1500 is the…
This article is a summary of a newly disclosed CPU vulnerability. It's a little like Spectre and Meltdown, but it's also quite different, as is the PowerShell based remediation for VMware Hypervisor. I tried to summarize the explainer articles and videos in my series of my tweets from @paulbraren…
This story continues to develop. Consider revisiting and refreshing. Disclosure: I'm a vSAN Systems Engineer, but this article isn't official VMware documentation. Please refer to articles on vmware.com listed below, and to each of the vendor's sites listed below, for their latest, official…
Here's Ubiquity's announcement: Introducing UNMS (beta) Ubiquiti Network Management System We invite you to use our new free Ubiquiti Network Management System. You can simply configure, monitor, upgrade, and back up your UBNT devices. Add your routers and switches. You can include your wireless…
You may have read about the Intel Management Engine Flaw, earlier this year, along with yesterday and today's wave of new articles about an Intel portable tool to check if your Windows or Linux system is vulnerable, with a step-by-step look below. You can read up on the Intel Management Engine in…
I make no claims to be an expert in .htaccess syntax. Back on March 22, 2015, I quietly: changed from http to https (and dropped the www and trailing slashes) changed from WordPress CMS to Kirby Flat-File CMS changed web hosting providers for TinkerTry.com This article focuses is on that first…
I learned a lot about money lately, the hard way. Here's 4 money tips that'll help you make payments, the easy way. I feel like 2014 has been a big year for payments systems. Change is in the wind, not in my pocket. For me, there's four recent tales to tell here: How to survive with just an Co…
.PDF version of presentation: Connect to your home's OpenVPN appliance, for free - NYC VMUG Jul24 2014.pdf See also step by step guide: Using your home network’s ESXi or Hyper-V OpenVPN appliance to safely use public WiFi Living in Southern New England, specifically, in scenic Central Connecticut, I…
Last year, I was pondering new ways to remotely surf the web securely, privately, from my home's IP address, even when far away from my home. The concern wasn't so much about my internet provider, Cox Communications, from knowing what I'm doing. It was more about securing in-the-clear…
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 …
Yes, Heartbleed is still hanging in there for the IT pro, continuing to demand our attention. Earlier today, during a long drive to a virtualization user group meeting here in New Hampshire, I had the opportunity to catch up on some podcasts, including yesterday's Security Now Podcast 452. Steve …
Illustration above by Randall Munroe, with the full comic strip at xkcd.com/1354. See also preorders for his What If? book. April 9th 2014 got off to a rough start, with my phone alerting me about TinkerTry.com downtime overnight. Turns out my CentOS instance ran its usual overnight chron job to …
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After 6 successful years testing then shipping well over 1,000 Xeon D Bundles, Wiredzone had to stop selling them in mid-2021 due to cost, supply, and logistics challenges. So far, Xeon D-1700/2700 (Ice Lake D) was a minor refresh for 2023, with Xeon D-1800/2800 (Granite Rapids D) refresh looking a little better for 2024. More cores, but still just PCIe Gen4 and DDR4. Looking ahead, I'm glad it's Pat Gelsinger at Intel's helm. I'm also grateful to have had the honor of working at VMware when Pat was the CIO there. I'll leave it at that, given the whole Broadcom thing.
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