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Nov/14

Firefox Interupts localhost To www.localhost.com

Filed Under Software at 3rd November 2014 0:01 by

Firefox tries to be too clever and when the address doesn’t work, it tries to connect to sites on common patterns like adding .com or www. to the address in case the user accidentally forgot to put them in. For … Continue reading →

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Oct/14

Modify “Places” In Nautilus, Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux at 27th October 2014 0:01 by

Places in the Ubuntu equivilent explorer bar is quick and easy way to navigate to folders but there is no easy way to customise them. The configuration file is actually located in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs so it’s on a per user basis. … Continue reading →

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Oct/14

Install HA Proxy 1.5 On Ubuntu

Filed Under Networking at 20th October 2014 0:01 by

Overview Apache’s HAProxy is a proxy software but it can also load balance between servers. The significance of version 1.5 is it’s ability to handle SSL connections where as before you needed to off load the connection to a different … Continue reading →

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Oct/14

Managing Servers On The Go With Android

Filed Under Infrastructure, Linux, Mobile Phone at 13th October 2014 0:01 by

Overview Since the ye ol’ days I have been self hosting one thing or another at first from a repurposed family computer to now using cloud infrastructure like Linode and Digital Ocean. I’m not a sys admin by day (and … Continue reading →

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Oct/14

BitTorrent Sync On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux, Software at 6th October 2014 0:01 by

Overview BitTorrent Sync or BT Sync uses BitTorrent technology to facilitate peer to peer file synchronization. It allows almost true peer to peer setup without a central server (except for a tracker). Clients can come on and offline as an … Continue reading →

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Sep/14

MySQL Server 5.6 512MB RAM

Filed Under Linux at 29th September 2014 0:01 by

Overview Ubuntu 14.04 added MySQL 5.6 to the official repository but it turns out installing it on anything less than 1GB RAM is pretty difficult. Disable Service Startup It is necessary to disable service startup after an install to prevent … Continue reading →

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Sep/14

Removing Passphrase From SSL Key

Filed Under Linux at 22nd September 2014 0:01 by

It’s good practice to password protect any encryption keys but it’s not always practicle to do so. So in doing this it degrades security for convenience. Create a copy to backup the key in case something goes wrong: cp my.key … Continue reading →

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Sep/14

Ubuntu 14.04: add-apt-repository – command not found

Filed Under Linux at 15th September 2014 0:01 by

The tradational command to a PPA repository was to use add-apt-repository but in 14.04 the command is not always part of the default OS install. To fix this just install software-properties-common python-software-properties sudo apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties add-apt-repository not found