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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 →

22

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 →

29

Apr/13

IaaS Or VPS Part 3 – Up And Running

Filed Under Infrastructure at 29th April 2013 0:01 by

Overview Part 2 looked at the differences of AWS/IaaS to VPS. Part 3 will be looking at the cost after a period of time. Running Report The Amazon Web Services have been running for over 3 months with February running … Continue reading →

08

Apr/13

Enabling MPEG2 / VC1 Codec On Raspberry Pi XMBC

Filed Under Hardware, Linux at 8th April 2013 0:01 by

Purchasing License Buy a license from Raspberry Pi site at http://www.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/ Before doing so you’ll need to get the serial number from the Raspberry Pi. This is NOT printed physically on the board. Power up RaspBMC and go to Settings … Continue reading →

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Feb/13

IaaS Or VPS Part 2 – Setup And Install

Filed Under Infrastructure at 11th February 2013 0:01 by

Overview Part 1 described the reasoning and setup behind the comparison. In this post I will go through the implementation of AWS and the final comparison of IaaS Vs. VPS Setup EC2 Setting up an EC2 and RDS instance was … Continue reading →

10

Sep/12

SSH 2 Factor Authentication With Google Authenticator In Ubuntu 12.04

Filed Under Linux, Security at 10th September 2012 0:01 by

Overview I love 2 factor authentication and believe it’s one of the best way forward to securing access. 2 Factor authentication combines something you know such as a password with something you have like fingerprint. In this case SSh will … Continue reading →

03

Jul/11

Ubuntu 10.04 Firewall (UFW) Basics

Filed Under Linux, Networking, Security at 3rd July 2011 0:01 by

Overview UFW or Uncomplicated FireWall is a basic software solution for protecting against network intrusions. It’s basic in the form that it’s a wrapper around the more powerful and complex iptables and therefore makes some assumptions such as rate limits. … Continue reading →

01

Sep/10

Kick A Linux User Who’s Logged In

Filed Under Linux at 1st September 2010 0:01 by

In command line type in who or w will list all the users who are currently logged in. To log them off type in the following: pkill -KILL -u danny where danny is the username. If ‘danny’ was logged in … Continue reading →