Category Archives: Tips & Tricks

Blogs about software tips and tricks.

Cloudflare Cache Reserve Walkthrough and Demo [Video]

Many organizations store large, infrequently changing assets like videos, images or large binary files on cloud provider networks for easy access. Unfortunately, any time an asset is fetched from the origin server, many cloud providers charge an egress fee. These … Continue reading

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Cache Reserve: Eliminating the Creeping Costs of Egress Fees [Video]

Checkout the below video on how Cloudflare via Cache Reserve can help minimize egress fees many cloud providers charge. I also show a demo and walk through features/capabilities. Watch directly below or on the DevOpsTV YouTube channel here. Follow me … Continue reading

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LinkedIN Publishing Platform – Bugs and Issues to Know

It’s brilliant that LinkedIN created an integrated publishing platform. It’s been a huge success and has allowed many talented writers and experts across many industries to publish and share their knowledge with the communities who would most likely be interested … Continue reading

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How to Transfer Your Putty Settings Between PCs Running Windows

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had people ask me how they can export their Putty settings. For those of you who have been completely in the dark for the last decade, Putty is a Telnet and SSH … Continue reading

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Open Virtualization Format – VMs in transit

The Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) describes a format for the packaging and distribution of virtual machines (VMs). It is touted as open, secure, and portable. OVF can be seen as a packaging format for software appliances. I see it … Continue reading

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How to sink your company with bugs, poor design, and poor support – SnagIt Case Study

TechSmith’s SnagIt is a popular screen/video capture software for Windows and Mac. It does get the job done most of the time, but these days, especially with basic screen and video capture, I expect much better. After having been forced … Continue reading

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Linux with Windows Apps

In terms of using Ubuntu Linux as my laptop operating system, I have often been put in the predicament of needing to use applications that either I only have for Windows or applications that are not available for Linux. In … Continue reading

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Run Windows & Linux on the same PC at the same time!

I’m currently writing this blog from a 1 GB Lenovo NetBook running Ubuntu Linux 8.10 inside virtualization software installed on Windows XP Home Edition. I have been experimenting with different hosted virtualization software to compare and contrast – I have … Continue reading

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