Laptop Can't Find A Good Laptop in 2017 Recently I decided to go over my gadgets and started by making a list of what needed to be updated or replaced. Having gone through 4 phones in 2 years but unsurprisingly not
Operating System The Pain of Upgrades. How It's Mucked Up and Complicated I started the weekend with one simple objective - update my blog. Fun, quick, easy and painless. After all writing is the perfect remedy for most things and a good way to calm
Windows Replicating with Hyper-V A few months ago I wrote a post [https://bigthinkingapplied.com/disaster-recovery-with-vmware-site-recovery-manager-srm/] describing how disaster recovery can be achieved on a virtual environment through real time replication by using VMware [https://www.vmware.
Government The New Surveillance Conversation With the FBI [https://www.fbi.gov/] withdrawing its court petition [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35868322] against Apple [https://apple.com] due to assistance from "an outside party" there is
Solutions How to be an Effective Solutions Architect Earlier this week a colleague of mine, Wesley George [https://www.linkedin.com/in/wfgeorge], shared an article he had written named Shifting the bar in the architect role on an internal Fujitsu
Netflix No More Waiting. More Cheers to 2016! Happy New Year Everyone! Kicking off the year on a lighter note so I will forgo the usual tutorial post for now and begin with something different. Instead, to start things off let
Google How to Chromecast on VPN the Simple Way A few months ago I wrote how to chromecast behind a VPN [https://bigthinkingapplied.com/how-to-use-the-google-chromecast-behind-a-vpn/] which demonstrated a method of using the Google Chromecast device [https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/
Most Read Our Most Read in 2015 To date, 2015 has proven to be a great year. This year has seen the blog celebrating its 1st anniversary and nearly tripling the average number of monthly readers from 2014. 42 articles
Windows How to Rename Multiple Files on Windows Have you ever wanted to bulk rename files on Windows and wondered how to get this task accomplished? Maybe you needed to edit the file extensions on mass or had a desire to
Oracle Getting Started with Oracle Database As a systems administrator and part-time developer I find myself touching and playing around with many technologies including databases. However, one particular flavour has always seemed to elude my understanding until lately and
