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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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Oct/13

Using VirtualBox Shared Folders With Ubuntu 12.04

Filed Under Virtualization at 28th October 2013 0:01 by

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/13

Enable SFTP / SSH Password Authentication Amazon EC2

Filed Under Infrastructure, Linux at 22nd July 2013 0:01 by

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/13

Install FreePBX On Raspberry Pi

Filed Under Linux, PBX at 27th May 2013 0:01 by

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/12

Increase Samba File Transfer In Ubuntu 12.04

Filed Under Linux, Windows at 10th December 2012 0:01 by

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/12

Run Vuze / Azureus On 64bit Java

Filed Under Linux at 24th September 2012 0:01 by

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/12

Ubuntu 12.04 DVD Playback

Filed Under Linux at 13th August 2012 0:01 by

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 →