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Home Automation and Smart Home

Home Automation Solution Mapping

June 11, 2017June 12, 2017 by John P. Hoke
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Home Automation, or has my house become self-aware? SkyNet Be Damned! I've been playing around with Home Automation and SmartHome IoT technology for a couple of months and went searching for a way to map out all the connections, dependencies and devices in the house. I tripped across SmartHomeDB on…
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WannaCry aka WannaCrypt ransomware

WannaCry in my beer

May 16, 2017January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke
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WannaCry or the Cyber-Event that should never have happened If you see this - it's not going to be a good day Ok, the WannaCry tears are drying and InfoSec and IT professionals around the world are catching up on sleep lost over the weekend. A fair number of them are probably,…
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Holy Shit Batman - thats a LOT of spam

Hosted email and/or spam filtering?

June 20, 2015January 20, 2020 by John P. Hoke
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Did someone say SPAM?!? Updated at end of article 22June2015 So, I've been using the same web hosting provider for about 10 years and love the service and people... the one thing I am not digging is the tools available for spam filtering ...  Long story short - I'm in…
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Coffee Junkie, Mac Addict, InfoSec Professional, amateur photographer, craft beer and whiskey connoisseur, IoT & Smart Home fiddler, UAV flyer & all around Curmudgeon and Generally Sarcastic SOB (not necessarily in that order).
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Traveling for work the on a long business trip tha Traveling for work the on a long business trip that had me in Rome for a weekend. As such, I absolutely had to visit the Vatican and St. Peter's. Unfortunately tripods were not allowed so I hand shot the bracket for this HDR image of the ceiling and dome of the basilica. . The shots were taken with a Sony A7Rii and a Laowa 15mm manual lens at f/2.8 (+/-2, 0 EV). Edits were done in Aurora HDR 2019 and On1 Photo 2020 (Beta version). I will be posting more photos as I get time to process them from Rome last week - Milan this week ... and Dublin next 😁📸♥️ ----- . . . . . . . #on1pics #sonyalphagallery #travelpicsdaily #instatravel #travelgram #wanderlust #thattravelblog #lonelyplanet #BBCTravel #justgoshoot #aChurchaDay #rome #vaticancity #vatican #saintpetersbasilica #hdr #kings_hdr #eclectic_shotz @venuslaowa @on1photo @wanderlust @visitromeofficial @vaticanpatrons @italiait @sonyalpha @st.petersbasilica @skylum_global
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania - trying out the new @ven Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania - trying out the new @venuslaowa 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 lens for my @sonyalpha #A7Rii this weekend. The weather was amazing! There was a break in traffic on Broadway, so I sat the camera down on the street and grabbed three quick #brackets . Edits and cleanup were in @skylum_global #aurorahdr for the #hdr mapping and then @on1photo RAW for some basic cleanup and a couple tweaks to make me happy . @southernpoconos @townofjimthorpe @jimthorpepolicedepartment @visitjimthorpe @visitjimthorpepa #on1pics #JimThorpe #JimThorpePA #poconomnts #streetphotography #hdrphotography #ig_pennsylvania #pennsylvaniaphotographer #streetlevel #wideangle #ultrawideangle #tiltshift #travelphotography #NEPA #NEPATravel
Yesterday I went for a drive to a few local spots Yesterday I went for a drive to a few local spots I like to shoot at, including Hickory Run State Park, which has a long history in my #family back to the 1800s when Issac Gould on my father's side of the family owned a number of lumber mills in the area. I was having a rough day, as it was the 40th anniversary of my mother's passing, so I stopped at the old graveyard in the park (just across the way from the Ranger Station) to look around, think and grab a few photographs of the area. . This shot is of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Gould's marker, she died in 1849 at just about 11 years old from a major flood that raged through the area. Her older sister Joanna wrote about the flood in detail which can be read here (https://tinyurl.com/JoannaGouldFlood). It is said that Lizzie haunts the area, and I have to admit some REALLY weird things happened last night when I got back down the road to my place ... but that's for another time. . #on1pics #hickoryrunstatepark #poconoshistory #graveyard #gravemarker #headstone #pennsylvania #staylocal #pennsylvaniahistory #poconomnts #ghosts #pennsylvaniaphotographer #pastateparks #padcnr #forest #hikingtrails #ig_pennsylvania #weirdshithappens #geneology . @padcnr @visit_pa @poconomts @southernpoconos @sonyalphagallery @on1photo
Home Sweet Homicide ? . More older shots from a tr Home Sweet Homicide ? . More older shots from a trip to Australia about five years ago. This was in a museum somewhere in Sydney - I forget where - but I love the image and decided it was time to play with it. . This was shot with a Nikon D610 and a 24-85mm lens (29mm) at f/3.8 and ISO 1600 and completely worked on in @on1photo RAW . #todaysmood #selfportrait #selfie #on1pics #sydney #ig_sydney #australia #ig_australia #justgoshoot #tavelshotz #getlost #eclectic_shotz #igersbnw #nepa #downunder #bw_mania #bnw_planet_2019 #theworldshotz_bnw #landmarks #ig_travel #moody #skeleton #homesweethome #homesweethomicide #monochrome #bnw #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #nikon #blackandwhiteisworththefight
Sagrada Familia - Look Up! There is so much to cat Sagrada Familia - Look Up! There is so much to catch your eye in Sagrada Familia, and I never get bored looking for new things and perspectives in the Basilica. This shot is from my last trip to Barcelona with a Platypod. Tripods are not allowed, but they did not seem to have issues with using the Platypod on the floor, go figure 🙂 . @basilicasagradafamilia @sonyalphagallery @visitbarcelona @barcelona_barcelona @thisisbarcelona @topbarcelonaphoto @wonderlust.barcelona @on1photo #sagradafamilia . #kings_hdr #hdrphotography #hdr #getlost #explorer #theworldshotz #createexplore #travelphoto #travelworld #keepexploring #instapassport #igtravel #on1pics #eclectic_shotz #visitbarcelona #barcelona #spain #catalunya #barcelonaspain #ig_barcelona #catalonia #church #cathedral #gaudi #platypod
Spiral Staircase to Booklover's Heaven An HDR imag Spiral Staircase to Booklover's Heaven An HDR image taken from inside Trinity College's Library in Dublin, Ireland on my last trip in October. The exposures were taken with a @venuslaowa 15mm lens on a Sony A7Rii ISO800 f/2.8 +/-2, 0 EV. The post was done entirely within @on1photo including the HDR mapping and blending. . #dublin #ireland #trinitycollege @trinitycollegedublin @trinitycollegedublin #wanderlust #ig_ireland #kings_hdr #eclectic_shotz #natgeotravel #instatravel #instatrip #instatravelling #justgoshoot #library #books #moody #hdrphoto #master_gallery #on1pics #a7rii #thattravelblog #lonelyplanet #BBCTravel
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