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| Air Cooling the Perfect Computer |
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| |Air Cooling the Perfect ComputerThis blog post is part of a series on my experience building the perfect computer, where I discuss the various decisions that I made on the most efficient, reliable way to cool my computer's components.Air cooling was only part of my solution. For more, see Water-Cooling Part 1 and Part 2.To decide which fans to choose, you need to consider the following:Air FlowCubic Feet per Minute (CFM) This tells you the volume of air pushed by a fan, given no resistance. Higher airflow is better; however, high airflow fans can sometimes have lower static pressure, which |
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| Brands and Retailers for Building the Perfect Computer |
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| |Brands and Retails for Building the Perfect ComputerThis blog post is part of a series on my experience building my perfect computer. As part of my job at Member.buzz, I needed a high-performance computer for programming, graphic design, and video rendering. I also wanted it to look the part; looking as beautiful on the outside as it is in the inside.This article focuses on describing the various brands, retailers, and vendors that I used while building my computer. While you can get many of the required parts and products on a general e-commerce site like Amazon, it is often helpful to buy from |
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| Building the Perfect Computer |
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| In this series of blogs, I have documented my journey to build my perfect computer – a new workstation that will be used for the heavy programming and graphic design that I do as part of my job at Member.buzz. |
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| Cable Management for the Perfect Computer |
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| |Cable Management for the Perfect ComputerThis blog post is part of a series on my experience building the perfect computer.This is one of the most complex, open ended parts of my build. There are lots of solutions out there for cable management – and there is no substitution for experience to do it well.PSU CablesCustom PSU CablesOne of the customizations that has the most significant impact is having some custom PSU Cables made. While you can do these yourself, there are some subtle differences around the wiring specifications of different PSUs that made me opt to have someone else do |
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| C-Level Security: Bank security and the egg timer (how good management trumps technology) |
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| The development of technology for securing information has been advancing at a pace that is truly astounding. In 20 years the security industry has evolved from Sun Micro Systems' Sunscreen and the Cisco PIX (yes I know there were a few others) to over a thousand security products of which nearly 700 are currently VC funded. All are trying to generate business from within this ever advancing market currently called Cyber Security. There are few tech markets growing at the rate of Cyber Security and as a result we are seeing investors, in a near desperate attempt to gather slivers of this market, throwing money at companies with Rube-Goldberg-inspired technology. We now have a flood of technology solutions that no one person can understand and the customers that consume this technology struggle daily with supporting and operating these systems. Many of the C-Level executives reading this may want to consider a management solution for the next expensive problem your engineering team presents to you. |
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| C-Level Security: When your team uses military analogies, are they using the wrong narrative? |
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| For years, I have bristled when people would use medieval military descriptions in an attempt to convey concepts within the Network Security business. Bastions, Firewalls, Moats, Drawbridges, Countermeasures; all of these descriptions give way to a more accurate and detailed explanation of what was really taking place. |
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| In 1999 I was extremely busy. I had just started a company, my second, in the Network Security field which was new and unknown. Sales were slow, hacking was deep, deep inside campuses like Stanford and MIT and was considered sport. I was getting traction with banks and was in SF for a meeting. I remember walking down Mission past a guitar shop and hearing this song, guitar was hitting the tonic breaking into cool background riffs, a little vocal falsetto opening then breaking into verse…..broken and then back…..WTF. Reminiscent of a Cello piece I know……..inspired….. I stopped dead in my tracks - stunned. Who are these guys!?! |
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| C-Level: Is your business secure enough to survive open firewalls? |
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| The most expensive firewall is pretty dumb. It can keep external probes from seeing what your Security Team wants to hide. In some cases, they are also configured to protect people within your company from wasting time or violating your network policies. There are no guarantees that these devices will protect your network, quite the opposite, near every network hack of note, was conducted through a firewall. The information assets that Firewalls protect are also secured in a variety of dissimilar ways so in a perfect world the Firewall is your front line of defense, information access policies are a secondary line of defense. In a very simple sense, firewalls are about noise reduction, blocking out a nearly infinite number of probes from an ever increasing number of probers. So, ponder for a minute, if you opened this electronic front door to the world what would happen? Would the damage be limited to only an increase in network noise? |
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| Components for the Perfect Computer |
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| Comparing and choosing your components can be one of the most intimidating parts of creating your own computer. A lot of the decisions that you have to make early on will dictate what options you have for subsequent decisions. |
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| Lighting the Perfect Computer |
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| |Lighting the Perfect ComputerThis blog post is part of a series on my experience building the perfect computer, where I cover the various decisions and research that I did as I figured out how to best setup my lighting.The Corsair Commander Pro is great because it allows you to control two lighting channels, six fans, and it also has 2 USB headers, which are great for adding additional Lighting Pro Nodes to have extra channels. There are four temperature sensors, but these seem pretty pointless since you can use the sensors built into your motherboard (for CPU, GPU, etc.) to |
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| Microsoft Azure/Office 365 PowerShell Cookbook |
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| |Microsoft Azure/Office 365 PowerShell CookbookFirst of all, to connect to Azure, open PowerShell and run the following commands:Import-Module AzureRMLogin-AzureRMAccountIf you have multiple subscriptions tied to your account, you may want to specify which subscription you want to be working on, which yoiu can do with the following command:Set-AzureRMContext -SubscriptionName NetworkingCreating |
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| Modding the Perfect Computer |
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| Learn how we created modifications for our custom workstation. |
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| Overclocking the Perfect Computer |
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| |Overclocking the Perfect ComputerThis blog post is part of a series on my experience building the perfect computer. Before you start to decide what type of performance you require, you should put yourself into one of two categories: 1.	Gamers: are you someone who uses your computer to play video games? For gamers, the number of threads and quantity of memory is less important than their speed. 2.	Creators: do you plan to use your computer mostly for work, building code, rending video, graphic design, etc.? This user category wants more threads on their CPU (at least 20) and a higher quality |
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| Programmatically Manage IIS with C# |
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| Microsoft Web Administration (MWA) is an extremely useful library that allows you to manage an IIS application programmatically – either from the same server or remotely. However, referencing this library can be a confusing process full of pitfalls. |
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| Scholar Wine leverages the Member.buzz Platform for Explosive Growth |
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| Scholar Wine has grown into a successful nonprofit that supports university-level students across California. |
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| The Member.buzz Journey: Lessons from My First Startup |
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| When people ask me about my entrepreneurial journey, I usually start with Member.buzz, the first company I built. It began in an unexpected place — the May Ball hosted by the St Andrews Alumni Club in New York City. I was helping coordinate the event, and I realized how painful it was to pull everything together. Ticketing, communication, membership, logistics — none of the tools available worked well enough for a group that was growing quickly.That frustration became the spark for Member.buzz.Building at NightI officially started building the platform in 2014 as a side project. By day, I worked full-time in |
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| Tools for Building the Perfect Computer |
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| In this article, we cover the tools used for building the perfect computer. |
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| Turn Your Covid Passion Project Into A Side Hustle Using Member.buzz |
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| If you have recently started knitting, baking, candle-making, coding, or even becoming a full-time content creator, you are one of the many side-hustlers born out of COVID. |
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| Using Atlassian and RefinedWiki to create an Awesome Support Experience |
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| We detail our journey using Atlassian and RefinedWiki to create an awesome support experience. |
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| Water Cooling the Perfect Computer, Part 1 |
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| |Water Cooling the Perfect Computer, Part 1This blog post is part of a serieson my experience building the perfect computer.As part of my job atMember.buzz, I needed a high-performance computer for programming, graphic design, and video rendering. I also wanted it to look the part; looking as beautiful on the outside as it is in the inside.This article covers the paths available for water cooling your computer. For information on the other components required once you figure out what you want to do,see Water Cooling the Perfect Computer, Part 2.Why Water Cool?Traditionally, components inside of a computer are cooled using |
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