Gaming with a GeForce GT 710
I have an older Dell PC. A Dell OptiPlex 7010 in fact with a 3.2 ghz Intel i5-3470 CPU with…
Cryptocoin – Month 3 – Checking In
I still have the initial grubstake in Ripple Labs XRP Tokens with the initial buy in of the cryptocoin back…
Microsoft Azure Portal + Ubuntu
Now with some time under my belt working with Microsoft’s Azure Cloud and getting some understanding of the Portals interface…
cowsay and lolcat – more Ubuntu shell commands
If you read my article about fortune, I mention cowsay and lolcat towards the end of that article. I decided…
fortune – Unix/Linux Shell Goody
"You are WRONG, you ol' brass-breasted fascist poop!" -- Bloom County (fortune) fortune is a little program that I install…
There’s a Cursor in My Browser
A little problem started bugging me a few weeks ago. Every once in while when browsing web pages there would…
Internet Architecture for Beginners – What are Tiers?
I’ve spent 35+ years of building and deploying internet facing web sites. The front end load balancers and web servers…
Linux shell commands I use daily
In day to day administration we as system administrators have literally thousands of commands to choose from to keep our…
fail2ban for Ubuntu – ssh port security
fail2ban is a tool in the Ubuntu repository which helps in securing your internet facing ssh port. It uses a…
Tripwire for Ubuntu
Tripwire is a file integrity checking tool. It’s primary function is notify you of any changes made to files or…