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How to reset the root password on Ubuntu using a Live DVD
Yesterday I talked about how to mount an lvm2 volume in Ubuntu using a live DVD. In that post I talked about needing to do that to reset a root password for a server that I hadn't logged into in a...
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Free alternative to Plex on your Android device
A little while ago I wrote about a free alternative to the Plex app for Roku. That all started because I didn't want my smoking hot girlfriend to have to pay $4.99 to stream videos from the Plex media...
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The Best (and Worst) Corporate Responses to High-Profile Hacks
We live in an age where data breaches are common, hitting even some of the biggest corporations in the world. The data breach that struck Target during the holiday shopping season in 2013, for example,...
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Damn! Got my first copyright notice. Time for extra precautions.
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)Last week my Plex media server randomly disconnected from my VPN service while in the middle of downloading a popular TV show. It was during that window that my IP was made...
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Get Your Head Out of the Cloud and Put Your Business in It
Whether your business is large or small, the ability to expand and grow within your economic means is essential. One way of doing that is taking advantage of cloud storage technology. The trend of...
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How to install Cinnamon in Ubuntu 15.04
Ever since Ubuntu moved to it's awful Unity desktop environment, I've looked to other environments that work better for me. For a while I was using XFCE in Xubuntu, but I eventually fell in love with...
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Script To Automatically Connect and Reconnect VPN in Ubuntu 15.04
This is an update to my post I did a few years ago on how to make a script that will automatically keep you connected to VPN. You would think that it would still work in Ubuntu 15.04, but then you...
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Change the interface threshold for high utilization in Zenoss
One of my favorite open source network and monitoring solutions is Zenoss Core. It is so easy to setup and configure! Just like most monitoring solutions though, you need to make adjustments for you...
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Creating a Website: The Importance of Mobile Optimization
The Internet now runs on mobile, and it's not going back. More than 60 percent of the Internet is accessed through mobile devices, according to ad network InMobi, and that number is expected to...
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Create scheduled tasks to protect your Windows 8 computer from viruses using...
For the last few years I have been a big proponent of Microsoft Security Essentials for use as an antivirus solution for Windows. To me, it is the best virus protection I have ever used. As some of you...
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The Newest Trend: Movies Filmed With a Smartphone
It isn't shocking to learn that a Hollywood movie budget can easily hit $200 million. There are some filmmakers who are trying an alternative route; they are filming movies entirely on a smartphone....
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Buffalo TeraStation TS-RIXL LUNs Missing
A couple of weekends ago my company who shall not be named received a notice from building management that they were going to be shutting power down to the office building for electrical maintenance....
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Protect Your BitTorrent Privacy With Tribler
 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)I wrote a few weeks back about how after years of torrenting I finally received a nasty graham from my ISP about downloading torrents. For the last year or so I've been using...
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Harness Your Creativity: 7 Must-Have Digital Tools
In the popular AMC series "Mad Men," it took an entire agency on Madison Avenue to churn out the world's most creative advertising campaigns for companies like Kodak and Honda. Dozens of directors,...
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Free Open Source Secure Email Gateway
Sweet baby Jesus do I love Linux! Just about anything you need or want can be done in Linux. For instance, the other day my ex-wife sent me an email from her work email. I noticed that she was using a...
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How to make WordPress custom permalinks work with SSL on Ubuntu 14.04
English: The logo of the blogging software WordPress. Deutsch: WordPress Logo ä¸æ–‡: WordPress Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)I manage a WordPress server, and the way this particular server works is weird....
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How to force SSL in Ubuntu 14.04 Apache
 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Years ago I wrote about a PHP script you can include in your PHP websites to force SSL. Well, It turns out it's easier, more effective and more secure to make this change...
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VoIP calls dropping after two minutes over a Fortigate 100D firewall
A Cisco 7960G IP telephone (Photo credit: Wikipedia)This past week has seriously made me want to drown my sorrows in alcohol. One of the issues we had was all of a sudden users phone calls would drop...
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How to hack VMWare ESXi 4.1 to run Windows 2012 R2
Before we get too far, you are probably asking, "Why not just upgrade to VMWare 5.5" or something right? Well, there could be a number of reasons why someone wouldn't want to upgrade from VMWare 4.1 to...
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5 big name websites who use round-robin DNS and their TTL values
There are many ways to make your websites redundant. The best way to do that is by using multiple websites with a load balancer, or with load balancing built in (Microsoft Load Balancing for instance)....
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