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Marc Elliot

My Two Cents on Bitcoin

I first got into bitcoin at the end of March 2013 after news broke about the people of Cyprus putting their money in bitcoin at the threat of bank bailouts. Just the thought of that alone peaked my interest in…

Popcorn Time!

I haven’t been blogging much so I thought I would take the time to write about Popcorn Time. Popcorn Time is an app available for windows, mac, and linux that allows you to stream movies from torrents! You can give…

BALLAST Exclusive Guest Mix on Shifty Rhythms

Homie Ballast has dumped this mix on Shifty Rhythms. Follow the man. Yo that “Front Ta Back” track is nuts man, I have listened to it at least 10 times today. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/118876172″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]

How to Tweet Instagram Photos

If you follow me on Twitter you might have noticed Instagram pictures in my Twitter feed. This is possible with ifttt.com. It’s a site were you make “recipes”. Like in this example if I post a photo to Tumblr it…

2ToneDisco Horizon Mix

2Tone has dropped a new mix for our listening pleasure. Although I still haven’t listened to it yet, lol, i’m sure it’s good. He is one of my favorite djs in the phx metro area. Dude has helped me out…

iOS 7 Beta

Installed iOS 7 Beta on my 4s today. It is a little buggy but I think im going keep using it. Some of the bugs I have noticed are: when opening apps they don’t line up with the screen until…

My week so far with Office 365

Moved our mailboxes off exchange 2007 and into Microsoft’s 365 cloud. My boss hired “office 365 experts”. We have multiple email domains in our environment. During the migration some mailboxes synced with errors. We had to get all the sent…

Coachella 2013

Finally got around to posting my Coachella adventure. I wasn’t even gonna go this year, but some of my best friends decided to go last minute, so I had to hit craigslist to find a ticket. I was lucky enough…

Upgrade WordPress from 3.4.2 to 3.5.1

Just upgraded then wrote this. Well I didn’t even know there was an update to 3.5 because usually the dashboard tells you. I guess there is no automatic upgrade. I downloaded the zip from wordpress, and extracted the files. Backed…

Sony VSP-NS7

Sony vsp-ns7 is a digital signage appliance. My work has one, and I was given the task to reprogram it. I have never worked with one of these before. The main reason for this post is the frustration I had…

Foul Play @ Bar Smith

Foul Play is what has taken over the Friday nights at Bar Smith in downtown Phoenix. I still haven’t been since the Foul Play takeover. This video from the homies at Pheosia Films shows me how bad I suck at…

Ballast / RCKSTR

Three posts this month, woah i must be bored. This one is for my buddy Ballast He’s the better half of the duo formerly known as Moxxy, who was formerly known as La Sape, ha. Here is his first original…

Cannibal Ox @ The Blunt Club

Well this Thursday Jan. 10th I’m super excited for. Cannibal Ox, which has one of the best Hip-Hop albums of all time, Cold Vein, is coming to the Blunt Club. I never thought I would be able to see an…

Android vs. iPhone

I never thought I would ever have an iPhone. I have had an Android Phone since the first Droid came out. I guess I just liked the idea behind Google’s linux-based phone and it’s open-ness. Apple is just so expensive,…

User not appearing in global address list

Well I haven’t posted in awhile so I thought I would write about this because I just ran into this issue. I made a new user and mailbox, changed their email address, and that user was not appearing under the…

Dillon Francis in Phoenix

This post is dedicated to Dillon Francis. I was able to see him in downtown Phoenix a couple of weeks back, and the place was wild. I was able to sneak backstage and ask him about his recent trip to…

Sipwise sip:providerCE a free VoIP solution

Sipwise’s sip:providerCE v2.6 is a free VoIP solution that works…that’s about it, it doesn’t work great but it does work. It could have been my environment, but I don’t think the setup is anything special. First I installed sip:providerCE virtual…

AOC-SIMLP-3(+) Configuration

I had to install this remote access card into one of my clients servers. The documentation was pretty straight forward, boot off install CD and run IPMICFG.exe to configure, except when you boot of the CD and it’s doesn’t recognize…

Engenius ECB9500 POS

The other day I had to swap out one of my client’s old access point with this Engenius ECB9500. By default it is configured as a wireless bridge and has an IP of 192.168.1.2. I log into it change the…