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Book Review – ArmadaBook Review – Armada

December 2, 2019December 2, 2019| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 4:33 pm

A few weeks ago I wrote about Ernest Cline’s first novel Ready Player One, this week I’m writing about his...

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Packet Fragment: Windows Blocking an SSIDPacket Fragment: Windows Blocking an SSID

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019| 2 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 1:39 pm

Recently I got brought in on a ticket where the colleague couldn’t connect to our wireless network. Even manually adding...

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2019 IT Blog Awards2019 IT Blog Awards

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 3:29 pm

My humble little blog has been chosen as a finalist in the 2019 IT Blog Awards. Please consider taking a...

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Book Review – Ready Player OneBook Review – Ready Player One

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 8:00 am

For this book, I went even farther away from my steady diet of Cisco Press books. Ready Player One is...

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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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