foster technologies

08/17/2026

Are you wanting to know if your license has been flocked?

Have I Been Flocked? – Search Flock ALPR Audit Logs

Have police looked up your travel history? Search Flock Safety audit logs for your license plate.

08/16/2026

Preventing e-bike fires

E-bikes and e-scooters have to be charged, and how you do that is i...

08/02/2026

Microsoft OneNote has done it again. Today, it stopped syncing data between devices and left 3 "chapters" sitting on my phone that it refuses to sync over to other devices. No errors, no indication of what's wrong, they just won't sync.

If any of you were around when Microsoft's ActiveSync was a thing, you know that syncing has never been Microsoft's forte, yet people continue to throw all their eggs into Microsoft's Ecosystem trusting that it will always work.

So, it's time to migrate everything to Joplin (which is free BTW). Bye-bye Microsoft, my days of putting up with your crap sync product are over. BTW, Joplin is available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux along with Android and iOS phone operating systems.

07/21/2026

Oh no, LG!!

LG admits its monitor app installs bloatware via Windows Update, and Microsoft is letting it happen

Windows Update silently installs LG's McAfee-pushing app when you connect certain monitors, and here's exactly how to block it for good.

07/11/2026

The secure boot update is already causing problems for some users.

Microsoft confirms Secure Boot update failing on some Windows 11 PCs, blocks update due to known issues

Microsoft has confirmed that Secure Boot certificate updates are failing or being blocked on some Windows 11 PCs.

05/27/2026

IT work takes me to interesting places...

05/25/2026

05/18/2026

3D printed dance figurines are flying off the printers.

05/06/2026

Sitting in a communications room trying to install a switch. Stupid Microsoft.