Ransomware Detection & Response

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Ransomware attacks have been on the rise in recent years, causing significant financial and operational disruptions for organizations across various sectors. This brief guide covers essential ransomware defense strategies, including understanding what ransomware is, implementing technology solutions and process controls, and preparing your organization to respond effectively to a ransomware attack. Ultimately, some of these […]

Fooling around with ChatGPT 4.0

Messing around with ChatGPT 4.0 So, like a lot of people I have been intrigued by ChatGPT and now that the 4.0 version has been released, I’ve signed up for a paid account to see what else I can do with it. I’ve gone down a few rabbit holes with the previous release, messing with […]

Migrating from Lightroom to On1 Photo Raw

My Workflow prior to migrating everything to On1 Photo

Operation: Workflow Simplification – On1 Photo Migration For a long time now, I have been using Adobe Lightroom for managing my photo collections and libraries, while using On1 Photo to perform the bulk of my editing, primarily because (in my eyes) On1 wasn’t yet mature enough to risk it. With the release of On1 Photo […]

WeeWX Weather Station Post Install Configurations

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Previously I posted about migrating my Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station running WeatherCat software on a MacMini to WeeWX software on a Raspberry Pi. This continues the configuration and customization of the solution

The Hubitat Journey Continues – WebCoRE

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The continuing saga of Local Processing – WebCoRE  Updated January 2nd 2021: A reader, Robert Challoner, messaged me that the GIT package address changed since I wrote this and I updated it below. Robert – thanks for the heads up! I also did some cleanup of the layout to make it easier to copy and […]

Migrating from SmartThings to Hubitat

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All Politics (and Automation) is Local As I have written about previously, I’ve been working on a smart home / automation solution in my house for about 12-18 months now. My initial buildout was heavily based on the Samsung SmartThings ecosystem, which at the time was probably the best available for the investment (time and […]

Weather Station Migration to weeWX on Raspberry Pi

Weather Station Migration: Mac to Raspberry Pi I have been running a Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station in my backyard for just under four years now. The area I live in has so many microclimates that if you don’t like the weather you can drive 5 minutes and be in completely different weather. As […]

Photography backup and archiving – plan for disaster

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Protecting your work with a successful photography backup plan I’ve been asked how I protect my artwork, images and related information with a dedicated photography backup plan. I take a belt and suspenders approach with multiple copies on and off site using both free and subscription services. When approaching a backup solution or plan, first […]

A Somewhat SmartHome or Where’s the Light Switch?

All this modern SmartHome Technology and I still cant turn on the damn lights!

My SmartHome is supposed to be smarter than me, right? I’ve avoided a lot of the SmartHome push, but finally gave in over the past week or so. My caving in was not really due to laziness or really needed to automate anything. It was more out of an intellectual curiosity, and to see what I could […]

Achievement unlocked: Phantom 3 Advanced

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Phantom 3 Advanced: Boys and their toys … Ok, I fully admit it, I have a need for gadgets… and I just got one of the best gadgets I’ve had in a while 🙂 I picked up the Phantom 3 over at Stroud Photo in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania; a great shop and the people are amazing […]