I ran across a blog post from fellow Pluralsight author Troy Hunt (Twitter), on how Extended Validation SSL certificates are dying a slow death, thanks to the way major browser manufacturers are displaying SSL information. If you’re responsible for SSL certs in your organization, it’s worth the 10 minutes to read it. Also, consider services …
Author: Greg Dickinson
DreamHost fights for the users
This caught my eye from Slashdot (yes, people still read that 🙂 ) https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/we-fight-for-the-users/ DreamHost is the hosting company that enables the hyperpowered.com empire so I took particular interest in it. In my opinion, this is just another example of the ruling party using the federal government as a tool of vengeance against those that …
You didn’t say the magic word…
So I’m reconfiguring a router, and just out of habit I typed this command, and got an interesting response: Router-2911(config)#no voice-port 0/1/0:23 % Cannot remove voice-ports this way Maybe it’s just my lack of sleep, but I found it humorous. Almost like the line from Jurassic Park: For the record, the only way to actually …
Getting VMware guest disk information
Hey, what do you know, an actual update. I might eventually get good at this whole “blogging” thing. I had need this morning to collect the disk size from all of the guest VMs running in our environment, to create seed disks for VMware SRM. There was one that got close, it listed each VM …
Welcome to my new home on the web
Welcome to the new home of Hyperpowered Thoughts. Strangely enough, it looks almost identical to the old site 🙂 I will be attempting to revamp my “online presence”, as I’m now getting slightly more traction in the online training space, and feel that an online presence to match is in order. Some may remember the …