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Removing all Empty Directories in a Subtree on Linux

December 9, 2019

Another simple and not often used solution to a problem you may not of know you have. This is more of a housekeeping command;…

Error Message: Unit -.mount is masked.

December 1, 2019

Received the following error message when attempting to restart a network service recently. I do not have a technical explanation for what this means,…

SSHFS – Too Many Levels of Symbolic Links

November 23, 2019

I’ve found using SSHFS for network mounts to be quite convenient. Mainly between remote servers and other machines that connect to my host via…

Organized TMP / Temporary Directories on Windows Servers and Clients Using Group Policy *Updated

November 19, 2019

Windows in general does a fairly poor job of maintaining temporary files between users and scatters a lot of this clutter among many directories. …

Reverse SSH Tunneling Between Two Linux Hosts

November 18, 2019

Reverse SSH tunneling allows you to access a host by traversing a firewall / nat router by creating an outbound session from the obfuscated…

IBM TM1 vs Oracle Hyperion

November 7, 2019

IBM TM1 Contrasted with Oracle Hyperion Planning We will refer to IBM Business Analytics (BI) as TM1 for this article – personal preference. Honestly,…

Neofetch for Windows

November 3, 2019

First Let’s install scoop – it’s similar to Chocolately, but has more in common with a package manager as it is able to resolve…

Enable IP Forwarding / Routing on Ubuntu 18.04+

October 27, 2019

Enabling routing via iptables is slightly different on Ubuntu than Centos / RHEL. That is explained here in depth using firewalld. On Ubuntu the…

Disabling Ubuntu Suspend / Power Management Features from the Command Line

October 20, 2019

In some configurations, Ubuntu power conservation options are enabled by default. For server machines this is something that can make the machine unavailable and…

Upgrading to Ubuntu 19.10

October 18, 2019

Another version of Ubuntu is here, at the time of writing it’s 19.10 “Disco Dingo” but these steps apply to former and (near) future…