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Book Review – Armada

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A few weeks ago I wrote about Ernest Cline’s first novel Ready Player One, this week I’m writing about his second novel Armada. The two novels are stand-alone, but they are definitely in the same vein. Ernest Cline’s ability to weave pop culture references throughout the novel takes the reader on a nostalgia trip along […]

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Packet Fragment: Windows Blocking an SSID

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| Blog, Microsoft, Packet Fragment, troubleshooting, War Stories, windows
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Recently I got brought in on a ticket where the colleague couldn’t connect to our wireless network. Even manually adding the SSID to the computer was met with an error of “Your network administrator has blocked you from connecting to this network.” But why would Windows block an SSID? As I said in a previous […]

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2019 IT Blog Awards

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My humble little blog has been chosen as a finalist in the 2019 IT Blog Awards. Please consider taking a look at all of the finalists and voting for me under the Certification Journey category. Good luck to all that are in the running. There are a lot of great blogs out there. You can […]

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Book Review – Ready Player One

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For this book, I went even farther away from my steady diet of Cisco Press books. Ready Player One is a great read. I’m thankful that I took the time to read this book before seeing the movie. TL;DR the book is better. The book is set in a dystopian future where a virtual reality […]

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Ben Story @ntwrk80

Ben Story is a network security engineer for a solution provider. He has been working with networking since 1998, his Freshman year at Truman State University, when he worked for a small dial-up ISP managing their Shiva LanRover modem bank. His random bits and bytes can be found on his blog at https://packitforwarding.com or on Twitter @ntwrk80.

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