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Nov/13Backup & Restore EXT To Smaller Drive
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/13useradd: user already exists
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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Oct/13Using VirtualBox Shared Folders With Ubuntu 12.04
VirtualBox includes an easy to user shared folder option in the settings. It allows anyone to add a folder from the host computer and share it with the guest. All that is required is for the guest OS, in this … Continue reading
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Jul/13Enable SFTP / SSH Password Authentication Amazon EC2
By default EC2 default Linux (Amazon, Ubuntu, etc) AMI do not have password authentication enabled and must use certificates. This improves security but also removes convenience of username/password authentication especially on a multi user system. To enable this feature again … Continue reading
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May/13Install FreePBX On Raspberry Pi
Overview The great thing about the Raspberry Pi is it’s ability to change it’s OS with a swap of an SD card. This allows the Pi to change functions and testing almost as easily as spinning up a Virtual Machine … Continue reading
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Dec/12Increase 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
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Sep/12Run 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
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Aug/12Ubuntu 12.04 DVD Playback
Overview For some reason the encrypted library for playing back DVDs (libdvdcss) is not install as part of apt-get and therefore must be done manually. Install Download the library and install DVD library: sudo apt-get install libdvdread4 Then run the … Continue reading