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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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Sep/14

Installing Latest Docker Server On Ubuntu 14.04

Filed Under Linux, Software at 8th September 2014 0:01 by

Overview Docker is becoming a very popular software container for Linux based deployments. It allows software to be wrapped into containers and deployed onto the server. The container is “jailed” so that it’s processes cannot interfer with others (a sandboxing … Continue reading →

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Jun/14

Install Latest Ruby On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux, Ruby at 16th June 2014 0:01 by
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Go to https://gorails.com/ and go to the setup section. The site has step by step to install a Ruby environment.

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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 →

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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

motion – Motion Detection Software On Ubuntu

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

Overview I had tried (and failed) before to setup a motion detection camera using Linux (Ubuntu) and a USB webcam. The 2 most popular choices seemed to be zoneminder or motion. Install sudo apt-get install motion To test motion use … 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 →

09

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 →