MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL. MariaDB strives to be the logical choice for database professionals looking for a robust, scalable, and reliable SQL server. To accomplish this, MariaDB works to hire the best and brightest developers in the industry, work closely and cooperatively with the larger community of users and developers in the… Read More
I like to call the method below “The Easy Ubuntu Server Firewall”. You may ask why I call it easy. The answer is simple, it uses standard IPTable’s and has a start and stop script to quickly disable it in the event that debugging is required. Installing the firewall is a simple two stage process…. Read More
MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database software, with over 100 million copies of its software downloaded or distributed throughout it’s history. With its superior speed, reliability, and ease of use, MySQL has become the preferred choice for Web, Web 2.0, SaaS, ISV, Telecom companies and forward-thinking corporate IT Managers because it eliminates… Read More
If you are using subversion(svn), you may or may not know that it has a pluggable architecture that allows you to automate certain aspects of the workflow with hook scripts. These hook scripts are written in bash on Linux and batch files on Windows, today we will be focusing on bash. Below are some basic… Read More
If you are running Dell OpenManage on Ubuntu 12.04 as I previously detailed, then chances are you would also like to automate alerts via email. Since Dell OpenManage does not natively support e-mails we will need to turn to our trusty bash script in order to accomplish this task. The only requirement for my script… Read More
Like many, I have always been a fan of the old Linksys WRT54G/GS/GL routers. These routers have been and still are a work horse in many installations of mine. Originally I was a proponent of DD-WRT firmware and most of my production installs started with DD-WRT. Since that time I have become an even bigger… Read More
Alfresco helps teams share, manage and retain content across the extended enterprise with simplicity that end users love and smarts that IT can endorse. Alfresco enables organizations in more than 180 countries to collaborate more effectively, improve business process efficiency and ensure information governance. Across cloud, mobile, hybrid and on-premise environments, Alfresco is smart enterprise… Read More
Pure-FTPd is a free (BSD), secure, production-quality and standard-conformant FTP server. It doesn’t provide useless bells and whistles, but focuses on efficiency and ease of use. It provides simple answers to common needs, plus unique useful features for personal users as well as hosting providers. Pure-FTPd is actively supported, and it was always designed with… Read More
ProFTPD (short for Pro FTP daemon) is a FTP server. ProFTPD is Free and open-source software, compatible with Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin). Along with vsftpd and Pure-FTPd, ProFTPD is among the most popular FTP servers in Unix-like environments today. Compared to those, which focus e.g. on simplicity, speed or security, ProFTPD’s primary… Read More
In my home shop, a lot of testing gets done using Virtualbox. As part of that testing backups are commonly made of virtual machines that mirror production configurations. I typically use thin provisioning on my test rigs. On of the things i have noticed is in working with the virtual machines the backups get very… Read More