Security is often one of the last things IT professionals think about when starting a project. Most of the time tight deadlines and an overworked staff lead to a less than perfect implementation. Security, along with other important things...looking at you Documentation...get pushed to the back burner and sometimes forgotten about altogether. One safeguard that is seldom implemented is database encryption. Most people don't realize that databases are used everywhere....
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Automatic Webmail Notifications in Linux
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-notifier to 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...
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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...
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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...
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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 commercial offerings, or just have the hankering...
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