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Welcome to the site. If you are a techie then you are at the right place. Here you’ll find articles on the technology used by IT, cloud, and cybersecurity professionals.

Technological innovations move at a crazy fast speed. After a few decades of using technology to run my own business, I decided to dive deep into the tech that working professionals need to know and then document what I learned.

What should you learn to enter the tech field? What skills should you acquire to elevate your career? I’ll try to answer those questions through my tech journey. And I hope you can learn from my experiences.

Good luck with your own tech journey.

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Featured posts

  • Home Lab: VMware Workstation and Kali Linux

    This is the first post in a series that documents the creation of a home lab using VMware Workstation Pro and Kali Linux. By following along with these posts you will learn how to create your own home lab on a single computer. Table of Contents This Post Lab Overview In this lab we will…

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  • Home Lab: Windows Server and Active Directory

    In this series of blog posts we will create a Windows Server and Active Directory home lab. Hiring managers are looking for IT professionals who have at least a working understanding of Active Directory Domain Services (aka Active Directory). By following along with these posts, you can create your own home lab that you can…

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  • How to Configure VMware Workstation

    In this post, we will configure the VMware Workstation settings for a recently installed Kali Linux virtual machine (VM). Table of Contents This Post This post is part of a series that documents the creation of a home lab using VMware Workstation Pro and Kali Linux. Virtual Machine Settings Once a Kali Linux VM is…

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