I am going to preface this article with a brief explanation of why I am sold on one Microsoft product – Microsoft Security Essentials(MSE) or Windows Defender. I say one because these products are essentially the same thing. I can tell you that I have used nearly every anti-virus product under the sun, but I… Read More
Recently after installing a fresh new copy of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I found that root ssh access was set to without-password by default now. What that means to you is that if you are trying to ssh to your server with your root account and password, you will receive an access denied error. In order… Read More
Recently I ran into an issue with upgrading a Dell PowerEdge 4400 BIOS. This specific server is currently running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and I needed an easy way to update the bios while in Ubuntu or Debian. The official option from Dell consist of a windows based bios update tool. Obviously that is not going… Read More
FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system that can be used to play games, run legacy software, or support embedded systems. FreeDOS is basically like the old MS-DOS, but better! For example, FreeDOS lets you access FAT32 file systems and use large disk support (LBA) — a feature not available in MS-DOS, and only included… Read More