Analysis and Review

How to Erase Your Hard Drive with DBAN | Review

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In this review of DBAN I mention that it's not the most user friendly product, but if you give it a couple stabs more often than not you'll succeed. Keep in mind DBAN is open source and free. Commercial products often come with support where as open source, not so much. Now on to the DBAN review. Darik's boot and nuke is Free Software one can use to boot and nuke your HDD (hard … [Read more...]

How to Upgrade To mySQL 5.7 on Ubuntu 14

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS doesn't allow for MySQL 5.7 via the base repository. You must tell apt-get where to grab the latest version of MySQL. Here's a cheat sheet on what to do and the order you need to do it in. But before I get into how I upgraded MySQL on my Ubuntu server, I'm going to tell you why I needed 5.7. MySQL 5.7 has some new triggers I'd like to use for logging CRUD, good … [Read more...]

FreeBSD 8 LAMP Install for WordPress

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How to install FreeBSD 8 for Wordpress. It's a basic LAMP install but since we're not using linux it should be called BAMP or maybe FAMP? Who cares.. here are the steps to install FreeBSD 8 with apache, mySQL, PHP then install wordpress. I'll be using ports of course for this entire install. I'm assuming that you have the proper hardware for this type installation. Start with … [Read more...]