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It s no secret that in recent months, Broadcom has been dragging their feet getting CVSS 9+ patches in the hands of people that no longer have active support. In fact I covered this along with some other means of mitigations previously. However, I recently stumbled across some changes I noticed on the Broadcom download site The post How to Download Free VMware Updates (Including Critical Patches…
Since I started using Proxmox at home I have been pretty impressed with not only the capabilities, but also the development going into the product. I recently setup their own backup server and not soon after they release the new Proxmox Backup Server 4.0 that added a new feature to use S3 compatible storage. For The post Proxmox Backup 4.0 With S3 Tech Preview appeared first on Chris Colotti s…
A lot of people are looking at other options after the Broadcom buyout of VMware. That is no secret at this point, although some of the die hards out there will completely deny it. Those choosing to move on and not buy into the subscription model who have perpetual licenses were also promised CVSS9+ patches The post Mitigating VMware CVE s Without Patching appeared first on Chris Colotti s Blog .
I recently started playing a lot with Proxmox hosts. Most folks know I am a fan of Cloudflare Tunnels as well. Seeing these are externally available via tunnels as well as CloudFlare Zero Trust Access, I wanted to add OpenID Connect directly to the Proxmox web login for my Google Workspace account. This same account The post Using Google Workspace OAuth with Proxmox appeared first on Chris…
It s been one hell of a crazy year for me, that s for sure. It s hard to believe we started all this now over a year ago and since opening we ve got so many positive reviews on the food and the truck itself. We ve learned a ton both before we opened, and since we ve opened about The post Cycling Down For Winter appeared first on Chris Colotti s Blog .
While we are new to the Food Truck business, we are not new to capacity planning. I, the owner, Chris, spent many years in IT planning and executing projects and capacity planning is pretty straight forward for just about anything. You just need to know what you are planning for. In the case of events The post How Many Food Trucks To Book For Your Event appeared first on Chris Colotti s Blog .
We ve been up and running now for a few months and done a bunch of events. One thing that is common is paying entry fees to park as a vendor for events or festivals. This is something that is pretty common, and nothing in general we have an issue with at all. Most event organizers The post The Flaw With Percentage Based Event Fees appeared first on Chris Colotti s Blog .
As we get closer to hitting the road, the topic of Convenience Fees and Surcharges is something we see lately as a consumer ourselves. Interestingly we had a question on our November Survey about this and the responses were interesting. We will show those down below but let s hit the main point from our perspective The post Cash or Credit, You Pay The Same appeared first on Chris Colotti s Blog .
Through the month of November, we ran a quick survey for folks to provide us some valuable insight before we get our truck on the road. The survey is still open but the bulk of the responses are in and we promised to share some of them with you here in December. We can say The post Our Pre-Launch Survey Results appeared first on Chris Colotti s Blog .
Image Attribution: Alpha Stock Images http://alphastockimages.com/ I have been on a tear on social media channels and more specifically on my Google/Opentable reviews when it comes to merchants and restaurants incorrectly using of so-called convenience fees. The problem lately is everyone is starting to do it because they THINK it s actually solving some new sort The post How Merchants are…
James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons This past weekend and the subsequent days since have literally been a roller coaster of emotions. It has ended up resulting in not only the single worst vacation to date, but also created such a blast radius of mis communication, mis interpretation, and collateral damage The post The Great Divide That…
Just about 8 weeks ago, as many people may know, I went in for surgery to repair my left distal bicep tendon. Back in 2022, I was lifting a sheet of plywood in Lowes and ended up with a high grade partial tear . I won t go into the mess that followed of just let it The post What I Learned From Taking Extended Time off and Short Term Disability appeared first on Chris Colotti s Blog .
Recently, Cloudways announced the new release of their Autoscale solution for WordPress. Naturally as a Cloudways fan, I wanted to try it out so I signed up for the public beta. The idea behind such a solution for WordPress honestly is the first I have seen. Most folks have been used to running WordPress on The post Cloudways Auto Scale Review appeared first on Chris Colotti s Blog .
I have sparked a lot of interest with the home lab and tech community about the use of CloudFlare Tunnels and CloudFlare Access. These offerings have a great potential for people like me and others as well as legitimate use for enterprises. That being said, I put on my what if hat and decided to The post Blocking The Use of CloudFlare Tunnels appeared first on Chris Colotti s Blog .
The other day I posted about CloudFlare Tunnels which has gotten a bit of interest around the community. CloudFlare Tunnel on their own are good because they allow you to publish an external routable hostname without opening firewall ports and port forwarding. As I have had to address on Twitter that is only PART ONE The post How To Add CloudFlare Access to Tunnels appeared first on Chris Colotti…