by wwarren | Apr 2, 2025 | Government Regulations
Maryland has passed the sales tax on IT services. Of course, they are not thinking that IT is easily moved out of state. Every facet of my business is impacted by this. It is not “only” a 3 percent tax. There are additional compliance costs as well. I am...
by wwarren | Mar 9, 2025 | IOT, Security
Many cameras require open ports for remote access.and also run outdated operating systems that are ripe for takeover. This article points out this attack leveraged Linux…Linux itself isn’t the issue, the lack of security updates AND the fact the cameras...
by wwarren | Feb 24, 2025 | Annoucements
PFSense is becoming closed source as announced by Netgate. IXSystems has take TrueNAS to Linux with Scale away from its BSD roots. While OPNSense is a BSD based firewall and often completes with PFSense they are based in Europe and do nto have 24 hour tech support. ...
by wwarren | Feb 2, 2025 | Hardware
Earlier I made this post about my initial thoughts on t he s25 series of phones but most pointedly the S25 Ultra. After seeing JerryRigEverything’s video about the even greater downgrades given to the S25 if you have a S Series that’s the s23 or the S24 I...
by wwarren | Feb 1, 2025 | Annoucements, Hosting, Linux, Open Source
For the first 10 years of my hosting service I have used Ubuntu Server LTS. Ubuntu has become quite bloated and the amount of time I spent turning off cruft in the background has gotten to be on par with Windows. With RedHat now being totally a paid for product that...
by wwarren | Feb 1, 2025 | Annoucements, Hosting
ETC Maryland would like to announce a further expansion of our hosting products. With our new datacenter partners, new opportunities have presented themselves and we would like to pass these opportunities to the general public. We would like to announce the...
by wwarren | Jan 22, 2025 | Android, Cloud Computing, Google, IOT
In summary..if you have a Pixel 8 Pro or Samsung S24 Ultra, The S25 series and Pixel 9 are not compelling upgrades. If you have a phone that’s more than two years old then upgrading might be a good idea. However, the Pixel 8 Pro and the Samsung S24 series will...
by wwarren | Jan 20, 2025 | Annoucements, Hosting
With our new datacenter partners ETC Maryland can now announce new hosting services for sites that either have high traffic needs or hosting without the limitations of shared hosting. The two new Services are virtual Private Servers. Two types of VPS servers are...
by wwarren | Aug 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
https://mashable.com/article/google-chrome-killing-ad-blocker-ublock-origin Google I said they’re going to in support and they’re specifically targeting you block origin. That’s mainly because you block origin is excellent at blocking ads including...
by wwarren | Oct 30, 2023 | Firewalls, FreeBSD, Open Source, PFSense, Security, Ubiquiti
First Netgate announced their move away from PSense free(known as CE). This resulted in outcry but at least they announced their intentions. Recently, Netgate announced the termination of the free homelab PFSense plus license with no option to keep it running. ...
