Optimizing your HiFi Desktop Headphone Setup
Want to know the top audio plugins to optimize your desktop headphone experience? Check out this post, along with hardware recommendations.
New! Nutanix Database Modernization Services
Hot off the press are a collection of Nutanix professional services for database modernization. Nutanix now has Xpert professional services portfolio to meet the needs of enterprises of all sizes in their database modernization and automation journey. The series of database modernization services will bring your Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle,...
Nutanix + vSphere 7.0 Now Supported
Update 8/25/2020: AOS 5.18 (STS) is now GA and AOS 5.15.2 (LTS) is now also GA. Both support vSphere 7.0. One of the cornerstones of Nutanix is choice. Choice of hardware platforms and choice of hypervisor. I am very pleased to announce that we now fully support VMware vSphere 7.0...
Killer Deal on MacOS App bundle
I stumbled upon a great limited edition Mac app bundle that ends around June 9th, 2020. So if you want the bundle, act fast! For an extra 10% off use the coupon code APPLEINSIDER10. The bundle sells for $59.99 before the coupon, and has a retail price of $1127.82. Use my...
Announcing Nutanix Era 1.3 Release
Hot off the press is Nutanix Era v1.3. What is Era? Era is a database as a service (DBaaS) that automates and simplifies database administration, brings one-click simplicity and invisible operations to database provisioning and life-cycle management. Era enables database administrators to provision, clone, and refresh the database clones at...
How-To: Wireguard VPN on the Raspberry Pi 4
Do you want a wicked fast VPN back to to your home network that seamlessly roams between cellular/LTE and Wifi? Look no further than Wireguard. This blog post will show you how to install and configure Wireguard on a Raspberry Pi 4 and an endpoint such as your phone. I...
MacOS user? Check out these top apps and accessories (2020)
About 18 months ago I requested a MacBook Pro at work, instead of refreshing my Windows Lenovo laptop. I've always been a Windows user, so I was a bit unsure about the switch at first. However, already being in the Apple ecosystem with an iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and Apple...
Time to go Solar! My Guide to Solar System Selection
This post about Solar energy systems is going a little outside of my normal "IT" theme of this site, but it's very technical so I thought I would share. I've been doing a ton of research about going solar found all of the technical details fascinating, as well as confusing...
Redirect Hard-coded DNS To Pi-hole Using Ubiquiti EdgeRouter
​A little while ago I blogged about how to setup Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 4 B with DNSCrypt. However, not all devices on your network may play nice with your DHCP server and respect the DNS servers that it provides. Google is infamous for hard coding DNS in products,...
How-to: Pi-Hole Plus DNSCrypt Setup on Raspberry Pi 4
Note: Updated 6/28/2020 to include Gravity-sync and MacOS/iOS Pi-hole control apps. Note: Updated 11/15/2019 to optionally use the ​NextDNS.io DNS filtering and analytics service.Note: Updated 11/1/2019 for Anonymized DNS configuration, added Raspberry Pi 4 firmware update procedure, and apt package removal ​to free up more space.Recently I've become more and more...
VMworld 2019: Managing vSphere Certificates
Notes: Although the notes from the session are not lengthy, the impact of this announcement cannot be understated. VMware has finally brought to the table slimplifed VCSA (and later ESXi) certificate management. I can't wait for the future betas to try out these new features. New APIs for Cert...