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Mar/14

Brute Force Protection On Ubuntu 12.04

Filed Under Linux at 3rd March 2014 0:01 by

Overview Protection from spammers and slowing down brute force attacks should always be used especially with cheap VPS / cloud computing as well as the botnets. Whilst there are no 100% way of preventing the issue there are software to … 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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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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Oct/13

Enable Grub Menu On Boot In Ubuntu 12.04

Filed Under Linux at 14th October 2013 0:01 by

Edit the file /etc/default/grub and comment out the following lines by adding a # at the beginning: GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=10 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true Update grub config by running: sudo update-grub The above will generate a new grub menu based on the configuration file. Missing … Continue reading →