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Amazon AWS: Free SSL Certificates and Renewals

Maintaining SSL certificates used to be the bane of my existence mainly because it is ALWAYS crazy different depending on where you are deploying, what OS, whether or not you have openSSL installed etc….

Reason #42 why I love AWS ? SSL certs are…

Python: Append items to a tuple

Tuples, tuples, tuples. Thats fun to say. We’ve all used them, but dynamic assembly of them? Now this is cool — and something I never needed to do until today of course. Appending values to a list, or a dict is easy and well documented, but less common is the need to append…

VirtualBox and Resizing an LVM root partition

New projects to work on! That means configuring my virtual machines to fit more stuff. I never seem to think ahead about how much space I need. I work on a laptop with an SSD, so storage is a premium… 

Sure, I could just create a new VM, but all…

tech360 ITAG Presentation: Privacy Crisis in Post Snowden Era

Thanks to everybody that came to my talk today at the tech360 conference at Penn State Great Valley. Included here is the presentation powerpoint I used for my talk.



Here is the presentation, enjoy!


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How to add new domains to your FREE Google Apps account

If you have a legacy (free edition) google apps account, you may have noticed that you can no longer add new domains to your freebie account. You can add domain aliases, but not a new domain with separate email boxes.

Well as always…

False: Entrepreneurs Need to Work Until Their Eyes Bleed To Succeed

WAMP Apache Performance Woes [Fixed]

I’ve been running Apache on Windows for many years. This particular server is a relic from when I had mostly windows servers running. Nowadays, everything is cloud deployed with Linux. Still, its nice to have a “physical server” somewhere for quick prototype and…

Update 1 week with iPhone 6 plus

I have had the iPhone 6 plus for one week. How is it going? Lets find out!
*** THERE IS AN OCT 1 UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM ***

D’oh! One week later and the phone is damaged.