Author: Mike Moffit
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VPNs and You
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History books of the future will refer to the mid-90s to early 2000s as the golden age of the internet. Why do they they think that? Well for starters, before I sat down to write this I googled “how to write a good tech article” and over 6 million results were found. Truly a marvelous…
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Lightning Preparedness
We’ve had two 90-degree days here at the office. There is contention about whether the heat is good or bad. I personally like it. I think riding a bike on a nice hot day is one of the best things ever, especially if you can jump in a river or lake afterwards. This hot weather…
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Terminal Tidbits: LS Command
One of the most handy commands to use in terminal for navigation in the terminal is the LS command. The LS command will list all files and folders in your present working directory. The syntax works something like this: **ls:** displays contents in list view of folder **ls -l:** displays contents in list view of…
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VPNs and You!
History books of the future will refer to the mid-90s to early 2000s as the golden age of the internet. Why do they they think that? Well for starters, before I sat down to write this I googled “how to write a good tech article” and over 6 million results were found. Truly a marvelous…
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Data: The World's Most Valuable Resource?
Since the start of the internet age, we humans, along with the technology we use everyday generate an enormous amount of data every day–upwards of 3 exabytes every day in 2017. That’s 250,000 libraries of congress. Internet-enabled devices, including smartphones, have been or are becoming universally adopted and are essential to life “**even in the…
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Terminal Tidbits
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Disk Usage Command There might be a time when you need to know how much space is available on your hard drive and you need to do it without a GUI. When trying to do diagnostics to find issues, it’s good to know if your hard drive is simply at capacity. Hard drives filled to…
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Electrical Networks
Usually each week something happens that spurs me to think of an interesting article to write for you here about electricity or electrical engineering. Sadly I was struck by no such inspiration this week, so I have something a bit different. I went to college for a B.S. in Computer Science. The school I went…