Dual Time Machine Locations

Apple must have been reading my blog when I wrote-up how to use two locations for Time Machine. Now in Mountain Lion it is built in and is much more seamless than my band-aid hack. Backups were always such an elusive concept for people, but Apple has really done a great job here. If you own a Mac and do not use Time Machine…shame… The two locations here are a Whole Disk Encrypted external FW drive and a Debian file server with an encrypted volume. ...

August 17, 2012 · 1 min · Nick

Race to the median travel screen…

TL;DR – Sometimes the smallest laptop isn’t the best option for a traveler. If you live on one machine then maybe sucking up the weight for power isn’t a bad idea. If you have a tablet then there is no question My apologies to my blog readers for two things: That my blog has not been updated in N+1 more months than it should have That it has taken a very travel oriented slant as of late I blame both on starting an international engineering firm, but it has forced me to change my habits (what do you mean I don’t have time to blog on only 4 hours of sleep!?!) and learn to get smarter with my travel. ...

August 12, 2012 · 3 min · Nick

Dreamhost was hacked

It is highly infuriating to be a security person and have your own house knocked down. This was the case if you visited my site as of late and found broken links and spam spewed across it. This was not due to my own security mishaps. This website is: Scanned daily by WSD Security script Multifactor authenticated with a Yubikey for all logins and edits Weekly backup sent to offsite Strong passwords across the board Check for updates weekly and subscribe to security lists As we say in the security world if you lock the doors, but leave the windows open your security is not that strong. Hence was the case with my hosted site here. I locked the doors, but dreamhost left wide-open the windows. I have been a paying customer since 2007 and will now be looking for a new host. Here is the hack below: ...

March 12, 2012 · 2 min · Nick

iOS Apps for Business Owners and Travelers

Contents 1 Home Screen: 2 Productivity: 3 Finance: 4 Travel: 5 Transportation: 6 Personal: 7 Share this: I think I was one of the first to carry around a smartphone. I remember the marriage of a phone and PDA made me so excited and to see that technology in a single device…phew…love. The Treo 180 was severely limited, but it brought to the world an idea that phones were for more than phone calls. Fast forward a decade and now I can run the entire company from a smart phone. Out of all the travel gadgets I carry, my smart phone is the one most necessary. I wanted to run through my favorite apps that make it happen. ...

January 15, 2012 · 13 min · Nick

Best things and stuff from 2011

Contents 0.0.1 Events 0.0.2 News 0.0.3 Music 0.0.4 Moving Images 0.0.5 Tech News 0.0.6 Dumbest Things of the Year <li> <a href="#Here_is_to_2012"><span class="toc_number toc_depth_1">1</span> Here is to 2012!</a><ul> <li> <a href="#Share_this"><span class="toc_number toc_depth_2">1.1</span> Share this:</a> </li> </ul> </li> It is coming up on the end of another year so I wanted to look back and give some “Best Of” Events Professionally: Started Spec Ops Technology Location: Moved into Washington DC and the great neighborhood of Brookland ...

December 31, 2011 · 4 min · Nick