I use webmail for all of my email accounts as I find it much more convenient than setting up a local mail client like Thunderbird. For what seems like forever, I had been using a Firefox Add-On called X-notifierto alert me when I receive new mail. It was a cool little utility that allowed Firefox to regularly notify me of new mail from my various email accounts. User submitted scripts provide ...
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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 ...
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Bluetooth & Triple Booting
Isn’t this supposed to be easy?
The Problem
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 ...
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Should I Build My Own Router?
If you’re the average user who’s happy with your basic wireless router or is possibly looking to upgrade your aging N-router or…*gasp*…G-router with a shiny new AC-router, building your own router is probably not the road you want to venture down. If, however, you have the need for multiple network segments, want the added functionality of enterprise-class routers without the high cost of comm ...
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Installing Piwik on Ubuntu 15.04
Sample Piwik DashboardIntro
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 ...
