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Mar/14

Preparing For Ubuntu 14.04

Filed Under Hardware, Linux at 24th March 2014 0:01 by

Overview With Ubuntu 14.04 LTS coming up I thought it would be fitting to discuss my plans for upgrading. My current setup has 1 computer running 12.04 LTS and it has been running relatively well except for the first few … Continue reading →

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Mar/14

cFos Spurious ICMP

Filed Under Networking at 17th March 2014 0:01 by
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Another spot were rogue ICMP being sent to 194.95.249.23 which goes to a German company. A quick Google reveals it’s due to cFos software which is included again by Asus as part of the ROG traffic management software.

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Mar/14

Brute Force Protection On Ubuntu 12.04

Filed Under Linux at 3rd March 2014 0:01 by

Overview Protection from spammers and slowing down brute force attacks should always be used especially with cheap VPS / cloud computing as well as the botnets. Whilst there are no 100% way of preventing the issue there are software to … Continue reading →

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Feb/14

Keep VPN Alive On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux, Networking at 24th February 2014 0:01 by

Overview I have tried VPNs in the past but for whatever reason they always disconnect after a certain amount of time despite selecting automatically connect. I found a post on how to keep a VPN alive by using network manger … Continue reading →

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Feb/14

Create Swap Partition Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux at 17th February 2014 0:01 by

To check if there are any SWAP files configured run the following command: sudo swapon -s It will list all swaps if any. Ensure there is enough space on the root partition to create the swap: df -h Create the … Continue reading →

10

Feb/14

Setting Github Repository

Filed Under SCM at 10th February 2014 0:01 by

Overview This article will walkthrough setting up a Github repository and using a Ubuntu Desktop environment to perform push and pull requests. Pre-Requisits It is assumed you have an account on Github already at http://github.com. It is also assumed you … Continue reading →

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Feb/14

Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions On Ubuntu Server 12.04

Filed Under Linux at 3rd February 2014 0:01 by

Overview Trying to install the VirtualBox guest additions in a non desktop system I encounter errors. Luckily the solution wasn’t too difficult to fix. Install Use the Virtualbox menu to install the guest additions CD image Mount the Guest Additions … Continue reading →

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Jan/14

Check & Change Ubuntu Locale

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

Overview I recently moved some of my hosted servers to Digital Ocean for their low cost, SSD tiers. On doing so I noticed the time was out by few ours only to realise NTP was not installed and also the … Continue reading →