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Feb/10

Separate User & Windows Directory On Different Drives

Filed Under Windows at 22nd February 2010 0:01 by

Overview I wanted to have the Windows partition and the user partition on separate drives. I have done this in the past on a Linux computer and it was very painless. The advantage to this setup is that most of … Continue reading →

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Feb/10

Mount ISO File In Linux

Filed Under Linux at 13th February 2010 1:03 by

A neat trick in Linux is the ability to mount an .iso file as if it was a CDROM. The command to do this is: sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop /home/danny/filename.iso /media/cdrom where “/home/danny/filename.iso” is the path to the … Continue reading →

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Feb/10

NFS Server

Filed Under Linux, Windows at 12th February 2010 10:40 by

Overview Network File Share (NFS) is a protocol for sharing storage. It is quite common in Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices and is a standard compared to Samba which is Microsoft specific but has been ported to Linux. Install NFS … Continue reading →

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Jan/10

Bypass Blocked Websites Using SSH Proxy

Filed Under Linux, Software at 19th January 2010 0:01 by

Overview SSH tunnels are very useful for all sorts of things. One of these uses include proxy. If you have SSH access you can set one up very quickly. I do not condone any misuses of any I.T equipment, software … Continue reading →

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Oct/09

My Performance Tweaks To Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux at 31st October 2009 0:01 by

Now that I have a “spare” Linux box I thought I’d try and improve the speed on the box. If it goes kaput I learn and re-install. So here are the ones I found that worked: hdparm This is the … Continue reading →

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Oct/09

VirtualBox With Ubuntu Quick Review

Filed Under Linux, Review, Software, Windows at 19th October 2009 0:01 by

Overview I found Sun’s VirtualBox and thought I’d try it out. As everything is going virtual and having used it in Mac I thought it was time to step it up in Windows so I can start running things like … Continue reading →

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Sep/09

MythWeb Database Access Denied

Filed Under Linux at 21st September 2009 0:01 by

I recently had to re-install my Linux computer after a lot had screwed up (mainly my fault for experimenting with stuff). When I check MythWeb I got the Message “MythWeb Database Access Denied” with some more text below. MythWeb is … Continue reading →

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Jul/09

My Alternative Free Software On Windows

Filed Under Software at 6th July 2009 0:01 by

Overview Here are my picks for free software on Windows (currently Windows 7). Free and open source (two different licenses applied to software) have come a long way and have come to replace my ageing proprietary and non-free applications. I … Continue reading →