Author Archives: Paul Begley

Obihai Update

Posted on 2016-05-30 by Paul Begley

We have used an Obi 110 as our home phone service through Google Voice since June 2011.  This month, we started having a problem dialing outbound and received a male voice referencing a password issue with the Google Voice account.  … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi-Hole

Posted on 2016-04-12 by Paul Begley

I was trying to optimize my home network and determined using a local DNS server significantly  improved our internet experience.  I did the testing with my home server, but it’s a beast (six cores, 32GB RAM, and 4-6TB storage).  Since … Continue reading →

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Edit Word Normal.dot template

Posted on 2016-04-12 by Paul Begley

How to open the Normal template in any version of Word To edit the normal template in any version of Word on any Windows operating system do the following: Open Word. Open the vba Editor by Pressing Alt+F11 together. At … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi 3

Posted on 2016-03-04 by Paul Begley

I just ordered one from Newark Electronics.  At a meeting today, we had a discussion about Raspberry Pi 3, so I thought I would post my notes for reference. I did some quick checking, and I would recommend only buying … Continue reading →

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Samsung Note 4–contact sync issue

Posted on 2016-01-17 by Paul Begley

After updating my Note 4 to Android 5.1.1, I noticed that a few of my contacts weren’t synchronizing correctly from Google.  After looking into it further, I realized there were MANY contacts that were missing.  No real pattern, but I’ve … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi-Hole

Posted on 2016-01-15 by Paul Begley

I was trying to optimize my home network and determined using a local DNS server significantly  improved our internet experience.  I did the testing with my home server, but it’s a beast (six cores, 32GB RAM, and 4-6TB storage).  Since … Continue reading →

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Windows 10–favorite new feature

Posted on 2015-11-12 by Paul Begley

I’ve been using Windows 10 through the Windows Insider program, but I’m still discovering new features.  This morning I was using Sysinternals to test something and realized it wasn’t on my Path.  I decided to edit my system settings (clean … Continue reading →

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Android issues with Netgear R6250 and Motorola SB6121

Posted on 2015-08-10 by Paul Begley

I haven’t read about other people with this exact problem, so I’m posting my solution in the hopes of helping some other poor soul.   Problem We had significant performance issues with 2.4GHz and 5.0 GHz wifi connections on our … Continue reading →

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Docker security issue?

Posted on 2015-04-24 by Paul Begley

Doing a lot of research on Cloud services.  Aside from services, features, and cost, my focus has been Federation (with on premise Active Directory specifically) and Security.  I haven’t duplicated the root access in this article, but this is exactly … Continue reading →

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Software to securely erase hard drives

Posted on 2015-03-29 by Paul Begley

Did some R&D for my brother and wanted to document the best options for securely erasing hard drives for sale or donation. Disc Wipe Utility – Windows executable and source (should compile on UNIX/Linux systems).http://sourceforge.net/projects/disc-wipe/ Eraser – Windows scrub utilityhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/ … Continue reading →

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