Technical genius

Get serious about security

Recent hacking including the Target incident (that I wasn’t caught up in) incentivized me to become much more serious about online password security. Going into my secure password file, I discovered that I had over 200 online accounts registered. Large chunks of these accounts either used the same password or some slight variation thereof. I […]

Netflix Account Profile dead

Netflix Account Profiles feature has been broken for over 6 months. Customer services says, yes we know its broken and annoying. We hope to have a fix by the end of the year. This from a multi-billion dollar company. Really, they can’t find a team of engineers to fix the darn software. Sad.

Docker replaces VMs

Moved from KVM/QEMM to Docker for all of my various needs server needs, i.e. plex, LAMP, etc. I have beefy server hardware; nonetheless, the overall performance improvement of containers vs. virtualization is astounding. Moreover the community support for Docker is such that the move was painless. There’s still a use case for vitalization; for example, […]