I’ve always been interested in Windows virtualization. While I’ve exercised it somewhat, I haven’t made continual use of it especially after Oracle bought Sun. Then recently while listening to Windows Weekly Paul Thurrott described Windows Sandbox. I knew about Hyper-V but didn’t know about Sandbox. Here’s Microsoft’s documentation ( archive.org)…

Way back in 2000, I visited New Zealand for work. I returned home and told my wife what I had seen. It became her #1 bucket list destination. We worked with some of my former co-workers on an itinerary. When I shared our plans with our daughter, she said we…

I’m building a new server. When I built Trump, I put 2 2TB drives into a Storage Spaces RAID-1 configuration. That has worked well so I wanted to do the same in the new server. But it got complicated. When I started looking at 4TB drives for RAID configurations, I…

Windows Weekly is one of my favorite podcasts. Recently it has added a new co-host of Richard Campbell. He also has his own podcast at RunAsRadio. Of course, I added that to my podcast list. Jess Dodson was a recent guest on the RunAsRadio podcast. Here’s the synopsis of the…

My “Trump” PC server is getting long in the tooth. It won’t run Windows 11 so I set out to replace it sometime down the road. I clearly wanted the new PC to run Windows 11 so I carefully selected a tower system that supported that. In a future post…

Here we go again! There’s a list of Microsoft availability problems here. Don’t think I’m all doom and gloom on Microsoft. It’s just that even HUGE organizations struggle with subtleties. Microsoft recently released their postmortem. I applaud Microsoft for publishing this. Could your company have done such a thorough job…

Once again I found myself with a new laptop and no Microsoft Office license. I found one of those gray market key vendors and bought a Office 2021 Professional Pro key for less than $20. It came promptly and even included a link to a Microsoft download site. (Don’t rush…

Earlier this year I shared a post on USB-C vs Lightning. It was mostly on the durability aspects of the different connectors. But with the recent release of the iPhone 14 Pro, there’s another furor around Lightning connectors. The earlier post included the following chart: But I didn’t pay…

Insteon users have had a bad couple of months. I gave up and moved on. Then Insteon rose from the ashes. Maybe. Here’s their blog post: We are a small group of passionate Insteon users that have successfully acquired Insteon. Like many of you, our homes are powered by Insteon’s…