Why should I use their cloud when I can have MyCloud? “The Odyssey of MyCloud”
One day after going over the concept paper for my dissertation; it hit me that I have no place to store my dissertation data. So I created my very own cloud services and I kind of went overboard from my original thoughts. So here is the Odyssey of how I went for FTP to Cloud services. Continue reading
A Dose of Nagios pt. 2 (the installation)
What’s up fellow techies and welcome back to my series on Nagios. In the first part of this series we talked about what Nagios is and how it works. In part two I’m going to dive into the installation of Read more…
Do You Have Any Good Ideas? – Black Inventors, Think Patents!! (Part 2)
When developing a patent one must understand that the patent must be unique and able to be used for a purpose. Inventors are hackers, and hackers are inventors. Knowing this is one thing that provides comfort in the world of technology. There is diversity, but that diversity remains greatly unknown and untapped. So as the title says: Do You Have Any Good Ideas? – Black Inventors, Think Patents!! Continue reading
Nmap Scanning basics w/ Debian Linux pt. 1
This is going to be just a basic Nmap scanning tutorial, more advanced tutorials about Nmap will come later. Let’s begin. So what is Nmap? Nmap is for all intent purposes, a port scanner. You might ask, “Well what is Read more…
Do You Have Any Good Ideas? – Black Inventors, Think Patents!!
There are many good ideas out there, why not think about getting them patented, the process while not hard is tedious, but not insurmountable. Hey give it a try the worst that can happen is that you wait until you get a patent 6-7 years later, trust me it is worth the wait. Continue reading
A dose of Nagios pt.1
Hey that rhymed!!! OK, I couldn’t help myself, it’s the hip-hop in me. plus I’m excited to finally write about Nagios. I’ve used Nagios in my workplace for the past 5 years and have really become more intimate with the Read more…
Tunneling….it’s not just for rats
The information in this blog is about the use of tunneling as a tool for privacy. It is not meant to provide a way to bypass security. However, this is a way of allowing a person to offer access via a safe and some what acceptable way because direct access to the company’s assets would have been prevented. The Banner picture is a network I designed using the information I conveyed in this blog to allow remote testers to access a test environment and then send the code and test results to me at my company’s web site. This was done to provide 24/7 testing remotely. It worked great and I even got a promotion because of the concept. Continue reading
Chicken, Pigs, Poker and Master Splinter – The Scrum Methodology just got real!
Though I’ve been a part of Scrum teams for years now it wasn’t until about two years ago that I started hearing about Chickens and Pigs in engineering meetings. Chickens are the observers in meetings they are not allowed to Read more…
Top 10 Reasons to be a Technical Consultant as a Minority
Alan Weiss describes a consultant as “anyone that improves a client’s condition”. If you are directing someone on how to solve a problem, then you are consulting. Consulting includes a wide spectrum of activities. On one side of the spectrum Read more…
“Computer Love”….Digital Love is a Beautiful Love (Turning Consumers into Digital Innovators)
It was somewhat like “last call” at a club when you’re the last one on the dance floor, folks are cleaning up around you and you’re the only one on the dance floor because your song is still on! Only Read more…
“Nobody puts BABY in the corner”… Creating a Basic HTML5 Player.
One of my favorite quotes from a movie was in “Dirty Dancing” when Patrick Swayze came over to the table and said to Jennifer Grey’s family a.ka. Baby, “Nobody puts BABY in the corner”. I’ve always felt like that was Read more…
Wonders of setgid
Samba Project is perhaps the best example of the value of reverse engineering. More specifically, I would assert that Samba is the critical glue application that provides tremendous value to Linux kernel and also helps to transform the operating system into Read more…
Multiple Personalities in Social Media
{originally posted at RixBits.com in May 2011} I eventually decided to start shifting my SharePoint-related posts over to a new blog, instead of at RixBits.com. My main concern was that I had [at least] two very different types of content that I Read more…
Why I Use Twitter and Why You Should Too
{originally posted at RixBits.com in May 2011} There’s an online techie forum I subscribe to, in which a conversation got started regarding Twitter. They were discussing the relevance of Twitter versus ‘more popular’ services like Facebook. I got a slight suspicion that maybe they Read more…
8 Steps to becoming an I.T. Professional
As an I.T. professional with over 12 years of experience in the field, I sometimes get asked the question, “How’d YOU get started in I.T?” I figured that the answers that I give could become a good article on breaking into the Read more…
Are You Willing To Pay The Price For A Career In IT?
Originally posted on www.soulofageek.com During a past class session, a student asked me if there was an easier way to get into the I.T. field because there was just too much reading involved and he didn’t have time to do Read more…
When Windows becomes Linux…the “Cygwin Project”
The Cygwin Project is a collection of tools that gives Windows the ability to look and operate as Unix/Linux environment. Apparently this project has been around since 2000 but I just found out about it recently. Previously the way I Read more…
Minimalistic Testing
The problem with TDD is in the real world you often have to work with people who refuse to do it. In my experience with rules of thumb/policies/best practices everything comes down to my ability to sell the technique/technology/belief system. Read more…
The Mono Project and how I chose a Compiler to fit my needs
I decided to get back into Object-Oriented Programming and chose C# (pronounced C-Sharp) to focus on. Once I decided on the Language my next task was to find a Compiler. I wanted something that was quick to install, open source, Read more…
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