Linux The Beauty of Package Management in Linux A friend of mine called me recently stating that he had a very stripped down (No GUI, minimal packages) version of SUSE linux and wished to install the Apache Web Server. The problem
SSH How to access a Remote Server via SSH Port Forwarding or Tunneling Occasionally, when working over a corporate local network or VPN [https://bigthinkingapplied.com/how-to-virtual-private-network-vpn/] you may need to access a machine that is blocked or otherwise inaccessible while on the present network. In
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
VMware Disaster Recovery with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) No matter how resilient the infrastructure, disasters will happen! They are an inevitable feature of life and any Systems Administrator worth their salt will be prepared to deal with them whatever the root
Internet How to Mute Noisy Browser Tabs Have you ever experienced being suddenly disturbed by jarring sound from some ad or music in a background tab - I know I have! Worst still, you can't identify which tab