Anyone in IT and works with multinational organizations has at some time or another heard the phrase “do the needful” commonly followed with “revert”. Originating mostly from India (or “Joe” pretending to be elsewhere), this phrase more often than not is preceded/followed with “WebEx” and is like a poke in the side with a sharp dung covered stick. … Read More »
I have been wanting to expand my lab capabilities at home with out adding more noise and keeping equipment footprint to a minimum. Looking around I settled on Gigabyte BRIX as a low power Mini-PC, selecting it over the Intel NUC, MSI Cubi, and Asus VivoPC/Mini due to availability, cost (here in AU) and hardware features including the… Read More »
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I am not going to say these are the best or “must have” Linux distributions but they are some of my favorites and what I use. elementary OS https://elementary.io/ Dare I say the sexiest distro available, based off of Ubuntu it has a very OS X feel with simple clean applications and not a lot of bloat out… Read More »
Later this week I will be receiving a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B in the mail and have a few possible projects in mind. Possible projects: Radio SDR Receiver APRS Tracker 40 Meter QRP WRSP/CW/RTTY PSK31 Home NAS Alarm Clock Media Server Development web server I will update with new posts about some of these projects as they… Read More »
The most common web platform out there is Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP or LAMP for short. Below is my quick guide for setting up LAMP on CentOS 7 (or RHEL 7). LAMP Installation For this configuration CentOS was installed with minimal packages (no GUI) and all commands are run with root privileges. Package Install Core components of… Read More »
I have been working with HTML and web design and development on and off over the last 15 years, some serious projects and others not so much. Starting with WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors such as Netscape Composer, FrontPage, I quickly became frustrated with the formatting of the code and especially in the early… Read More »
I frequently use tape devices, libraries and drives, in my daily course of work. Unfortunately it isn’t possible to have every type of device in a lab or in many cases any physical devices available for testing, etc. When it comes to VTLs (Virtual Tape Libraries) there are a handful of vendors and options ranging from thousands of… Read More »
While I have never used 123456, password, or qwerty, the ever growing need for not only complex but independent passwords (unique to account, site, system, etc) keeping track of multiple usernames and passwords in my memory just isn’t possible any more. I have for some time used password managers to keep usernames, passwords, etc., and have been asked… Read More »
I recently was presented a discussion regarding the lack of Telnet client on Windows Server 2008/R2 and 2012/R2 and a peer fighting to get a 3rd party application installed on a Server. I very quickly responded that the Telnet client is still included with Windows as a feature and only needs to be enabled. Installing the Telnet Client… Read More »