Thanks to the raging wildfires here in British Columbia, our moon is a not-not blood moon:

Is this beautiful or awful?

I am happy to say that my company, PWN Consulting is exactly 16 years old today, and still going strong.

I am becoming increasingly annoyed by the amount of misinformation being spread by some people, especially those supposed to be specialists in their field. The internet, coupled with the prominence some of these people have among their subscribers or viewers, makes such misinformation sometimes downright dangerous.

Now do not get me wrong - I am the first one to admit I do not possess the skills to factually criticize all knowledge domains. But there are some domains for which I do have those skills. I have unfortunately not made a list of all the instances of false facts that pushed my buttons, but I will try and post an entry under the category Post Truth as and when I do come across them.

For this first entry, the false fact is trivial to explain. But first, review this video from Techquickie by Linus Sebastian.

One of the many reasons I absolutely (still) love Apple Mac is its power user features. Target disk mode, and the ability to quickly create a Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt ethernet bridge between two macs are just two examples.

I regularly need to copy 250GB+ files between my macs. This is what happened when I simply connected a thunderbolt cable between my laptop and my Mac Pro, set two static IPs and copied the file: