Welcome to The Dark Side

I saw this comic in my images I downloaded at some point.  I think it is pretty damn awesome.  

And this is why : Lesson Learned: Never Ask Strangers About #DefCon – #Lulz Edition From My experience, this is dead on, unfortunately.

I have been working on creating a “Virtual-Desktop-as-a-service” for a while now.  I have hit bumps in the road, including technical aspects of fail-over and  redundancy, all the way to headache inducing licensing. Now, with support from Citrix and Microsoft though, I have managed to now have something that I feel will work well, but I need beta [...]

So for the last month, my server has been getting attacked. nothing has gotten through, but I get emails every time someone tries to hack either my site or my server. Almost all the attacks have been based out of China, so I gotta ask, WTF china? It isn’t like these are awesome hack attempts [...]

I hate laying cable. If you have ever done your own home/small office network, or setup a surround sound system, and hid the wires, you most likely know what I am talking about. Toss in the fact that someone has left the area above our false ceiling tiles a bit of a mess, and add [...]

In my job, I have seen a ton of hacking attempts and exploits targeting servers and websites. Most often, when someone is hacked it is because some part of their website has allowed for an injection into the code, or a remote file include (Yes, there are other methods, but these are by far the [...]

This blog is progressively turning into my “omg, wtf, did he/she do what I think they just did?” moments. This one was caused by someone that isn’t one of our customers, so I am going to toss their name out for the world to see, and show people that you really do need to watch [...]

So I have started using google buzz, the new social service from google, and I have to say, I like it a lot. I first found out about it when google maps updated on my Android OS phone, and mentioned the me “Google Buzz” Feature. So while I was out for sushi last night I [...]

I have always been huge on keeping backups (this is why I have most my ripped songs music from Middle School still). In the last couple weeks we have had at least 3 people call in about their servers being down, we found that the hard drive was either : 1) Corrupted beyond repair, due [...]