Category: Technology
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Setting Up a Second Ubiquiti Unifi Site
To finish out my misadventures in home networking, I wanted to capture the process to add a second site and setup the site-to-site VPN. It was less than obvious. Preparing Your First Site The first thing one needs to do is prepare the first site. This involves enabling Multi-Site Management…
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Weekend Project: Using a Nest Hub Max to Access GSuite + Control a Nest Home
One of my long weekend projects was to be able to use a Nest Hub Max to access my GSuite work calendar and reminders as well as control my smart home utilizing my personal GMail and Nest Account. Google has said that this is supported for a while, but it…
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ARM & Apple Silicon: The Future of Desktop Processors
I am in day two of living the Apple Silicon life. My 13″ MacBook Pro with 16GB and 2TB arrived yesterday. My initial impressions are that ARM and Apple Silicon (by proxy) are indeed the future of desktop processors. And once again we see a classic case of Microsoft having…
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Catching Up with Photography
Not only is it the 40th anniversary of Mt. St. Helens, but it was also Victoria Day in Canada. This meant that our offices were closed today, and I had a much less demanding weekend than normal. I used this weekend to catch up on some long overdue photography projects.…
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Op-Ed: My Take on Apple WWDC 2019
For years, I have observed Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference from the sidelines purely as an enthusiast. Since moving to Hootsuite, I can now definitively state that I have a proverbial horse in this race – as we publish multiple applications on the iOS App Store. Hence, this year I…
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My Sojourn with Android
I am a global traveler, spending a significant amount of my time in our Ottawa, ON; Copenhagen, DK; and Brussels, BE offices combined with a fair bit of time in the United Kingdom. Being connected is part of my job, which means having a local mobile plan is a must.…
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Windows 10 and the Surface: Winning Me Back
To celebrate the 30th birthday of Windows, I figured it was time to share my own thoughts on the operating system. With the Threshold 2 build of Windows 10 (build 10586) and the third generation of Surface devices (Surface Pro 3, Surface 3 LTE), Microsoft is winning me back. For…
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Misadventures in Home Networking (or creating house-wide 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz coverage)
One of the perils of having a large square footage house built in the 1980s is that it is impossible to get WiFi coverage from a single access point. And there is no Ethernet wiring in the walls. This is the tale of how I actually got this problem reliably…
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Home WiFi Misadventures
The point of this post is to hopefully save any reader the aggravation I just went through over the last several hours coupled with the years of missed performance. The Topology: The main access point is an Apple Airport Extreme 802.11ac access point connected to a Comcast cable modem at…
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Lots of Good Stuff from Build and Beyond
So far, Microsoft has done a very good job of impressing me the last week. In fact, I have seen some of the best decision-making out of the company in years. Although a lot of this may be due to One Microsoft and other forces already in play, some credit…