AdvancedTomato is GUI only based modification of Tomato Shibby mods. Its been adapted to newer web browser technologies and coding standards. It uses CSS3, HTML5 (some), Vector based Images (Best Quality) for compatibility with new Super HD displays & Retina, Ajax and so on. Support for custom themes has been removed in the latest versions… Read More
Windows Sysinternals is a part of the Microsoft TechNet website which offers technical resources and utilities to manage, diagnose, troubleshoot, and monitor a Microsoft Windows environment. Originally, the Sysinternals website was created in 1996 and was operated by the company Winternals Software LP, which was located in Austin, Texas. It was started by software developers… Read More
If you are running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Servers, you may have found over the last week that the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release is now being offered. That message is a part of the “Message Of The Day” (MOTD) system. If you have a system that will not be updated, below we will outline the steps… Read More
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
As of late, I have had several clients receiving Hewlett Packard Critical Advisory’s concerning a manufacturing defect with certain hard drives. This specific advisory states that the customer must run an ADU Disk Report in order determine whether or not their drives are affected. With that said, most if not all of my clients are… Read More
Previously I wrote and article detailing how to Monitor HP RAID Array on Debian, unfortunately since that writing I have found a fatal flaw in it’s methodology. While our automated monitoring system using cciss-vol-status will in fact report a failed drive/array, it’s flaw lies in not reporting a predictive drive failure. The hpacucli tool is… Read More
As of late it seems as if everyone is jumping on the MariaDB Database bandwagon. In this article I will provide a bash automation script as well as detail it’s usage in order to ease the MySQL Server to MariaDB Server migration. The script is broken down into four stages. Below I will break down… Read More