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Okay but why? I have worked with computers since I was old enough to remember. The first computer I had in my room was a Commodore 64/128 (you held down the C= key on boot to switch). It was an elderly machine by the time I got it in the 1990s, but it started me…
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What I gushed over a few posts ago has finally happened! SQL Server has a come to Linux (sort of). The database engine is now available as CTP1 and you can get it by adding the repository and running the setup script. You can follow the walk through for your favorite flavor of Linux, so…
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Take Your Service Pack and Get Outta Town Service Packs (SPs) have long been an quick litmus test to determining where you are when assessing needed upgrades. You could almost ignore CUs (Cumulative Updates) and use the SP to define where you are and you needed to go. 2008R2 SP3? You’re pretty much all patched…
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While I’m putting together my next big post, I thought I’d take some time to throw confetti into the air. There may be some excited clapping as well. I warned you. I largely see myself as platform-agnostic. While I think that certain companies do individual products well, I also believe it’s fair to say that…
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Hello world! For anyone that may see this, my name is Clint, and I have been working in enterprise-level IT for nearly a decade – mostly on the database side of things. My buddy, Mr. Julius, has been kind enough to let me post on this blog, so I hope I do it justice. I…
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There are a lot of free materials out there for learning Microsoft products, and suprisingly (or not?) a lot of them are from Microsoft themselves. I thought I’d take a moment to organize and collect my list of free resources in the hopes that not only will it help me organize and find what I…
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A month or so ago I did a walk-through of some simple computer forensics using Deft 7 Linux (Carve and Sift: My Primer to Linux Computer Forensics). There have been several other versions of this distro to come out since then, but now that the beta for 8.0b has been released publicly, it marks a…
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As I had mentioned on a placeholder post (since deleted) I have been in Vietnam for the past few weeks on an academic trip. This blog is generally geared towards technology, so I won’t be focusing on my trip per se, but on the technology I encountered there. There are a few things of interesting…
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Whether you’re needing to create your own security camera, or you’re wanting to set up an always-on web video, having constant, recorded video feed can be useful. It’s even more so if you can access it while you’re not at home, say, over the internet. That’s what I did a few weeks ago, with an…