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Just started looking at http://www.trumethods.com/ One thing I've noticed regarding the business of Information Technology is that you can be excellent technically but you will not have an opportunity to use the skills you have unless the organisation you work for can...

Back to Exetel after a couple of years with Tel$tra Unlimited and approx 30$ a month cheaper with a fixed IP  

I am moving my blog under my business domain toggen.com.au. For years I have blogged at jamesmcdonald.id.au but want to move everything under the one umbrella so to speak. I've had a couple of names for this blog The Telarah Times, The Shouthern IT Observer but now...

Q: How long does a Gmail to GSuite Email Migration Take? A: A very very long time. 5+ GB can take over a week Just moving 2.45GB of my email out of a free Google Apps account with a custom domain to a new G Suite account and 5.56GB of email from my wifes account. The...

This script run from cron will keep 7 days of backups in S3 overwriting as needed. Your cron entry will look like 22 18 * * * /path/to/the/script/backup.sh #!/bin/bash cd `dirname $0` DIR_ROOT=/var/www WEB_DIRS=`ls -1 $DIR_ROOT` DAY=`date +%a`...

Background: Created an EC2 instance with a 40GB hard drive, realized that I wouldn't need that size and seeing that the EBS pricing for my region is $0.12 per GB-month of provisioned storage I was paying for 32GB of unneeded space. So I thought to myself I should...

Fedora 26 comes with Postbooks 4.10.1 (Fedora 25 had 4.10.0) so you need to upgrade your Postbooks database when you move to F26. But the Updater application errors out with missing libraries. So the answer is to run it on Ubuntu 14.04 as a Virtual Box Guest Other...