Andrew Wippler's Sketchpad

A stack is a group of software that creates a foundation to build upon.

I particularly enjoy using a web browser to administer GUI appliances.

With the release of MySQL 5.7, I was pleasantly surprised to see the install generated a random, secure password.

I recently received a subscription to Linux Academy.

Today I am pleased to announce a new offering - Blame as a Service (BlaaS).

The greatest story ever told is how an Almighty God came down to earth, lived a perfect life, and offered Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of the whole world (past, present, and future).

Sunday is so awesome that cron repeats it!

The atom editor has quickly become my favorite IDE for working with web projects.

A captive portal is a piece of software that prompts for user interaction before allowing the client to access the internet or other resources on the network.

I have been using an Android phone for the past several years (since version 2.3.2).

There are many free, open source programs available which are equal (if not better) than paid counterparts, but the biggest hurdle to overcome is getting people to switch.

It's 2016, the cloud computing has been around for nearly two decades, but there still seems to be a lack of knowledge in what cloud computing actually is and how to do it.

In a fictitious world where I started my own company and developed a LEMP-stack chat application, this is how I would do it in 2016: I would use WebSockets as the protocol in which data is being sent to and from the server.

When a dnf or yum process gets interrupted, you may get the below error: Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded.

As an IT worker, I have to re-learn my position every 3 years.

Voice over IP is very robust and reliable when set up properly.

In a previous post, I mentioned that we switched to Digium Switchvox.

In 2014, we decided to transition from a Mitel sx200 to a VoIP solution.

After you use something for a bit, you notice the issues associated with it.

Most Christians read the Bible every day.

For those who read my blog, I want to wish a Merry Christmas.

Active Directory is solid, secure, and stable platform for user, group, and computer management.

oVirt 3.6 will have a better way to import virtual machines.

My existing Hyper-V infrastructure consisted of Windows, a few CentOS, and Debian/Ubuntu guests.

After I played with oVirt I needed to do several items: Migrate the oVirt engine to a new host Migrate the storage from a single NFS share to GlusterFS Move my VMs from Hyper-V to oVirt Test my setup Migrate the oVirt Engine to a new host This task was to…

For quite some time I have heard that Hyper-V was a low player when it came to virtualization.

We live in the year 2016 - anyone who does not know how to use basic computer functionality (such as email, using a word processor, decyphering between a spreadsheet and database, etc.) should not be allowed to hold public office.

While Open Source software is free to download, use, and depending on the license, free to distribute, it is not free to creator.

I have completed the migration of my blog to Wordpress.

Back in the good 'ole days of floppy drives, I used to install grub onto one.

After my minimal install of Arch, I was greeted by a terminal console upon booting the kernel.

Well, after avoiding it for a few years, I have decided to install the Arch GNU/Linux distribution on my Acer C710.

Wouldn't it be nice to program a script that expects a certain line of text then sends a predetermined string?

When I first started out with Linux, I was having trouble understanding the basic commands such as ln, andrewmv, scp, rsync, etc.

I was recently tasked to install a group of fonts on windows systems.

The recommended way to install TeamViewer is from a desktop environment using a package manager such as Synaptic, Yum, or apt-get.

You can set your IO scheduler on-the-fly by echoing the scheduler you want into /sys/block/{DEVICE-NAME}/queue/scheduler.

Bash reads aliases from a file only; however, this file does not have to reside on the server you are connecting to.

I am currently using 14.2 of Kodi on my home media center.

Andrew Wippler's Sketchpad is where I express my interests.

Named virtual hosts are not enabled by default on an Amazon AMI.