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Jan/13

FreePBX 2.9/2.10 On Ubuntu 12.04

Overview Here’s an updated guide for installing FreePBX on Ubuntu 12.04. I found a different guide to installing FreePBX against the 12.04 LTS with some minor tweaks. I have opted for installing 2.9.x of FreePBX because the changes in 2.10 … Continue reading

10

Dec/12

Increase Samba File Transfer In Ubuntu 12.04

Overview There are 2 lines in the Samba configuration file which are commented out by default which can be uncommented out to increase read speeds. It is very easy to do and reversible as well. From personal experience it has … Continue reading

27

Nov/12

Monitor Services On Ubuntu 12.04 With Monit

Overview Monit is a very simple daemon which monitors conditions. Conditions can be defined as anything from a file to mounted drives. Monit can send email alerts, log to syslog and also restart services. Install Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) To … Continue reading

29

Oct/12

MediaTomb Samsung TV On Ubuntu

Overview MediaTomb uPnP / DLNA server works out the box for standard media servers but required some configuration tweaks to enable playback on PlayStation 3. Whilst the changes were done manually in an XML file, the changes were simple and … Continue reading

24

Oct/12

Apache 2 Error “(98)Address already in use”

Overview I performed a reboot of my server running Apache 2 with SSL and found the sites were not loading when it came back up. Once the server was backup I assumed Apache had already started but none of the … Continue reading

24

Sep/12

Run Vuze / Azureus On 64bit Java

Go to SWT Eclipse project website and download the Linux (x86_64/GTK 2) version. At the time. SWY was at version 3.7.2 and the downloaded file was swt-3.7.2-gtk-linux-x86_64.zip. Make a temporary folder to unzip the files to: mkdir ~/swt Unzip the … Continue reading

17

Sep/12

Ubuntu Preload

Preload is a daemon which monitors “adaptive readahead daemon” which analysises and monitors most used programs in the background. Once it knows this information, it will load them into memory so that when they are run, it’s already in memory … Continue reading

10

Sep/12

SSH 2 Factor Authentication With Google Authenticator In Ubuntu 12.04

Overview I love 2 factor authentication and believe it’s one of the best way forward to securing access. 2 Factor authentication combines something you know such as a password with something you have like fingerprint. In this case SSh will … Continue reading