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Unlock Domain Users and More From Your Android Device Remotely
I may have mentioned sometime last year that my current company (that shall remain nameless) allowed me to move to Colorado from California and work remotely. It was probably the coolest move any...
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osTicket Core 1.8.1.2 Review
I have written about osTicket in the past. It is a very simple, and easy to use help desk ticketing system that runs on a LAMP server. The first time I wrote about it was because I developed a way to...
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My New Favorite Twitter Client For Ubuntu: Birdie
For those of you who have been following the blog for a while know, I used to be heavily into social media. I was addicted! In fact, for a while when making Bauer-Puntu I made it based around social...
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Automate Your Small Business Accounting and Save
Accountants, financial managers and chief financial officers don't come cheap. In 2012, the American Institute of CPAs reported an average CFO salary of $150,000, a heavy burden for young companies....
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Securing Ubuntu: Use UFW Firewall
A lot of you probably already know this, then again some of you might not of thought about it too much. I mean, you're using Linux right? Nobody is going to be able to hack it right? Not necessarily.I...
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How Secure is The IRS's SSL Implementation? Not very
I write posts like this periodically. Mainly because implementing SSL is one of my duties at my day job. Not only that, I have to implement it and make sure it follows best practices for PCI...
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How To Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security in Apache on Ubuntu
So you have all heard of the new Heartbleed exploit in OpenSSL right? It's all the buzz at work since my company works with a lot of banks. All of the banking security people are contacting their...
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Are Apps Threatening Your Device's Security?
Image via CrunchBaseThere are apps to track your dog, an app for smoking (Fake Smoker) and apps to teach you how to play an instrument. Think about all those inexpensive apps you download onto your...
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How To Beat Heartbleed
If you watch the news, or logged into your online banking account you've no doubt heard about the Heartbleed bug that affects anything that uses OpenSSL 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f, as well as 1.0.2beta...
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My Review of Startmail Beta
I signed up a while back for a beta test of Startmail, a new encrypted email service from the makers of Startpage. If you've never heard of Startpage they are my search engine of choice because they...
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BEHOLD! New Professional FREE Powered By Ubuntu Stickers!
For those who have been following Bauer-Power for a long time, you know that I've been giving away free Powered by Ubuntu stickers. In fact, here is a fun promo I did about it a while back:The problem...
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Temporary Fix For Missing Network-Manager Icon in Xubuntu 14.04
I decided to upgrade my work laptop and my home desktop computer last night from Xubuntu 13.10 to Xubuntu 14.04. Everything went pretty smooth until I noticed that the Network-Manager icon was missing...
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How to restore/reshape a crushed baseball cap
I know I usually write about Linux or open source software, but today I wanted to share something I found over the weekend. To give you some background I have a favorite baseball cap that went missing...
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How To Force 256 Bit Encryption Using GnuTLS in Ubuntu
In my quest to have the most secure mail server on the planet I keep tinkering with my SSL settings. In my latest experiment I wanted to see if I could force 256 bit encryption. Before my experiment,...
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PERMANENT Fix For Missing Network-Manager Icon in Xubuntu 14.04
On Monday I posted an article on how to work around a bug in Xubuntu 14.04 that wouldn't allow you to launch nm-applet as a normal user. The only way it would work was if you launched nm-applet as...
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Free Tool To Patch Windows Offline
Many moons ago I wrote about a tool that one could use to speed up Windows updates. It was called Autopatcher and it used to be awesome. Then they went away for a while, then came back and they just...
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Prolong the Life of Your Mobile Device’s Battery With These Fast and Easy Tips
Though we often take them for granted, thanks to amazing technological advances and great electronic and portable devices like smartphones, tablets and laptops, people can work, play and communicate...
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Speed Up Downloads With This Alternative Download Manager
The other day for work I had to download an update for a component in one of our custom applications, and the file was almost 2GB in size. The company recommended downloading it with a download manager...
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How To Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1g To Guard Against Heartbleed in Ubuntu
So you have an older version of Ubuntu Server that is running some web server or application that uses OpenSSL. You are vulnerable to The Heartbleed Bug and simply running apt-get upgrade isn't doing...
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Where To Get Old Repositories For Older Versions of Ubuntu
The other day I inherited my brother's old HP Pavilion zd7000a laptop. It only has 2GB of RAM and an Intel Pentium 4 processor. Pretty damned old, and not worth a whole lot anymore. I thought it would...
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