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Migrating From MySQL 5.7 to MariaDB 10.2 on Ubuntu 16.04
For those unfamiliar with MariaDB, it’s a fork of MySQL that is dedicated to remaining free to use. It was created the day Oracle bought out Sun Microsystems in 2010 who had previously acquired MySQL in 2008. MariaDB was built by the very developers who worked on MySQL and for most users the transition to MariaDB should be fairly painless. All of the clients and tools that work with MySQL wor ...
Connecting a “Smart Switch” to a Smarter Switch
A couple months ago, a customer of mine was kind enough to donate some decommissioned Cisco Catalyst 3750G’s to me. I was happy to accept them as my test lab was growing in size and I had the need for multiple network segments. With the switches capable of doing Etherchannel, VLAN Trunking & Stacking I finally had a large-scale network infrastructure which in all honesty is probably overkill f ...
Bluetooth & Triple Booting
Isn’t this supposed to be easy?
Are you crazy like me and love to fit as many Operating Systems on one machine as possible in the rare case you need to test something out in Windows, OS X and Linux all at the same time? Well, if you’re not, then this article is probably not for you. For the 5 people in the world who can relate, this read will solve a problem that’s bee ...
Budget “Family PC” Build
Google “Family Computer”
and everyone looks like this
I recently built a computer for my sister to replace an aging HP Pavilion she bought from a chain store around 6 years ago. Her old computer had become bogged down with viruses/adware/spyware and every other kind of ware imaginable. I was able to clean out most of the crap that had accumulated on her machine, but afte ...
Installing Piwik on Ubuntu 15.04
Piwik is an open-source alternative to Google Analytics which provides useful stats about who visits your website. It’s biggest selling point, funny since its free!, is that your stats & data are kept private and isn’t accessible by the corporate behemoth known as Google. If you don’t really care about keeping that info private, then Google Analytics will pro ...
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