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Rob Tacey

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Rob is the IT Systems Manager for a manufacturing automation company in Southwestern Ontario. It's great. He's a technologist focusing on information technology, IT security, and customer satisfaction. With over 20 years of experience in various IT roles, it might actually be worth reading some of his stuff.

When You have A Hammer

So I've been looking for a solution to publish my hobby works online. As they're largely image/object cenric the idea of using something like Collective/Access or Omeka has been pretty compelling. Now the issue I'm running into with both Collective/Access and Omeka is that the…

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Mikrotik SWOS Upgrade Failures

Last night I was updating the Switch OS on my Mikrotik routers. I was doing it remotely, cause that's what you do when you only live three minutes away from the site. It was not working. Automatic update. No joy. Manual update? Nope. It'd flash…

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Excluding a Subfolder In .htaccess

I'm fundamentally lazy when it comes to running infrastructure management tools. I don't like running a ton of virtual machines that I have to keep updated and backed up. I'd much rather run a collection of web apps on a single server. Since the user…

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Adding Snipe-IT for Asset Management

At my last gig I was hoping that a CMDB would be able to act as a single pane of glass for managing the IT environment. We were using Sysaid which did a great many things (except for monitoring Linux servers which was 90% of…

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Security 101: Privileged User Logging

Is authority and access to use advanced operating system utilities and commands that bypass system access controls monitored, logged, reviewed and restricted to those individuals or accounts that require access to perform the respective job function(s)? Welcome to the second post in my series on…

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