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Aug/13

Ubuntu 12.04 Disk Utility S.M.A.R.T

Filed Under Hardware, Linux at 19th August 2013 0:01 by

I was surprised to be greeted by an error dialogue notifying me of a potential issue with one of the HDD but also very grateful. Clicking on the Examine button opened up the Disk Utility program which is part of … Continue reading →

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Jul/13

Enable SFTP / SSH Password Authentication Amazon EC2

Filed Under Infrastructure, Linux at 22nd July 2013 0:01 by

By default EC2 default Linux (Amazon, Ubuntu, etc) AMI do not have password authentication enabled and must use certificates. This improves security but also removes convenience of username/password authentication especially on a multi user system. To enable this feature again … Continue reading →

08

Jul/13

Install Tiny, Tiny RSS On Ubuntu 12.04

Filed Under Database, Linux, Software at 8th July 2013 0:01 by

Overview Since Google announced they were shutting down their Google Reader service it has come to light how dependent I was on a third party. Fortunately, Google allows data to be exported in a variety of formats including standard variants. … Continue reading →

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Jun/13

Installing MySQL Ubuntu

Filed Under Database, Linux, Software at 24th June 2013 0:01 by
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MySQL is very easy to install and the commands work for most versions of Ubuntu. Start a terminal. Update Ubuntu’s repository: sudo apt-get update Install MySQL server: sudo apt-get install mysql-server A prompt will appear asking for the root (admin) … Continue reading →

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May/13

Install FreePBX On Raspberry Pi

Filed Under Linux, PBX at 27th May 2013 0:01 by

Overview The great thing about the Raspberry Pi is it’s ability to change it’s OS with a swap of an SD card. This allows the Pi to change functions and testing almost as easily as spinning up a Virtual Machine … Continue reading →

08

Apr/13

Enabling MPEG2 / VC1 Codec On Raspberry Pi XMBC

Filed Under Hardware, Linux at 8th April 2013 0:01 by

Purchasing License Buy a license from Raspberry Pi site at http://www.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/ Before doing so you’ll need to get the serial number from the Raspberry Pi. This is NOT printed physically on the board. Power up RaspBMC and go to Settings … Continue reading →

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Mar/13

Install Sun JDK On Ubuntu 12.04

Filed Under Java, Linux at 4th March 2013 0:01 by

Overview Ubuntu had removed the latest version of Java from the repository and uses the OpenJDK instead. Whilst this is fine for personal use but for development purposes the development should be done against the runtime environment which is usually … Continue reading →

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Jan/13

Install Hudson On Ubuntu 12.04

Filed Under Linux, Programming at 21st January 2013 0:01 by
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Add Hudson to the sources list: sudo sh -c “echo ‘deb http://hudson-ci.org/debian binary/’ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hudson.list” Do an update to refresh the repository list: sudo apt-get update Install Hudson sudo apt-get install hudson By default the administration page is at http://localhost:8080. … Continue reading →