When you need to edit a file on Linux, it is highly recommended that you use a linux text editor. If you’re using a windows machine or something else, the editor you use might introduce carriage return characters into the end of every line. This can prove to be a problem as it WILL wreak…
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Backups: a bit of insight and perspective.
Many of us have backups. Many of us don’t. Here’s an interesting question though. Those of us that have backups. How many have actually tested them out to make sure they’re working? If you have, how often do you test them? Most people set up a backup solution and just let it run. They don’t…
Redundant Application and Database Infrastructures
Most people don’t backup their databases, much less set up redundancy. It’s an important thing to consider when your application / website just cannot go down. This article discusses what it will take to set up that type of redundancy and I will be following up with a document on how to do it in…
Update and Review on Recovering Space ala Percy
I’ve written about recovering space on your hard-drive using a method called data-deduplication. It’s beyond the complexities and skill of most people out there except for the select few that are the true gurus of the tech world. The original Posting is here: http://swimminginthought.com/recovering-space-hard-drive/ I just thought it would be important to point out how…
Using Amazon’s Free Tier to get a free VPN connection for a year.
I know I’ve written about this in the past, but I’ve finally created a guide on how to do this step by step. It’s available for purchase now. This is literally a how-to on getting an OpenVPN server up and running for free for a year. Specify Your Donation: (Min. $5.00) [wp_eStore_buy_now:product_id:11:end]
Recovering space on your hard drive
There are many articles about dealing with recovering space on your computer / hard drive / Storage and they all talk about the same things. This article isn’t going to so much focus on that, but simply focus on the not so obvious things you can do. As a rule of thumb, there are always…
A Follow Up to Using the Promise R4/R6 natively in Bootcamp using my solution. [Solved and Verified]
A few months ago, I posted the following: http://swimminginthought.com/2012/01/promise-pegasys-r6r4-on-windows-bootcamp-solved/ I figured out the solution on how to run this wonderful device on Bootcamp / Windows natively. Needless to say, it’s been a while now and I’ve even gone so far as to update the firmware on the R4/R6 (I’m running an R6 by the way)….
Is Firefox preventing you from going to a website because of the port it’s on? [Solved]
Every once in a while, we need to go to a website that has a non-standard port. For example, the address might look like this: https://localhost:888 (This would be for the 3ware management interface for example). In Mozilla Firefox, you’ll get a screen that looks like this: [singlepic id=63] Obviously, this can be a real…
How to Bind utorrent to a specific ip and route it out a vpn for better speed. [Solved]
Torrent technology is an amazing in the sense it uses swarms of users to serve and share files you may be trying to download. It’s been implemented by many companies and is a very bandwidth efficient format to get your files served to you faster. Whenever I download CentOS DVDs, I use utorrent and other…
Finding out the Backbone Provider of an ISP, VOIP Provider, or any SaaS provider [SOLVED]
It’s amazing how all the providers out there refuse to tell you who they’re connected to. This is very prevalent amongst VOIP providers as well as quite a few SaaS providers. You want to know who they’re connected to so you can make a decision on whether or not they’re going to be reliable. So…