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Dec/13

WD Black 2009 V.S WD Black 2013

Filed Under Blog at 30th December 2013 0:01 by

A quick post to show the difference between 2 Western Digital Caviar Black drives with about 3-4 years and twice the capacity. The non-scientific results show only minor improvements on the read and random write. The read improvement is probably … Continue reading →

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Dec/13

SATA3 v.s SATA3 Speeds

Filed Under Hardware at 23rd December 2013 0:01 by

I’ve recently switched Asus Sabertooth X58 to an Asus Maximus VI Hero X87. Both had SATA 3.0 ports but I found they were not both equal. I used Samsung Magician which came with my SSD to perform for a simple … Continue reading →

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Dec/13

Persistent SSH Tunnel

Filed Under Linux, Security at 16th December 2013 0:01 by

Overview An tunnel is a way of providing a connection for which other connections can be made without revealing what they are. An SSH tunnel is using the SSH protocol to create such connection. One of the main benefit to … Continue reading →

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Dec/13

Run Dropbox On Ubuntu 12.04 Server

Filed Under Linux, Software at 9th December 2013 0:01 by

Overview I wanted to set up Dropbox on a headless server so I can access files sync’d rom Dropbox as well as having an online backup of the files away from Dropbox itself. Install Download and extract the zip file: … Continue reading →

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Dec/13

Install Sonar 3.5.1 With MySQL On Tomcat 7 Running Ubuntu 13.04

Filed Under Java, Linux, Software at 2nd December 2013 0:01 by

Overview This post assumes MySQL is already installed. Create an empty schema for Sonar and a user with create, update, index, and delete like privileges. Tomcat 7 sudo apt-get install tomcat7 Java sudo apt-get install default-jdk Sonar Download and extract … Continue reading →

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Nov/13

Backup & Restore EXT To Smaller Drive

Filed Under Hardware, Linux at 25th November 2013 0:01 by

Overview Linux provides great tools for doing this albeit not in a very user friendly way. As usually it is best to backup before trying this and make sure the space used fits onto the new drive. This method can … Continue reading →

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Nov/13

useradd: user already exists

Filed Under Linux at 18th November 2013 0:01 by
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Adding a user to an existing group may give an error: useradd: user ‘name’ already exists where name is the username. An example of this command should look similar to sudo useradd -G sambashare danny where sambashare is the group … Continue reading →

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Nov/13

Continuous Local Backup

Filed Under Software at 11th November 2013 0:01 by

Overview Currently I have off site backup which occur usually on a monthly basis but had no solution for a daily or even weekly backup. Concept The idea of a daily or weekly backup was not new. It allowed for … Continue reading →