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Feb/10NFS Server
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/10Enable SFTP On VSFTPD In Ubuntu
Enabling SFTP is very easy and makes FTP protocol a lot more secure than traditional FTP because passwords are not sent in plain text which is susceptible to a lot of things such as packet sniffers, man-in-the-middle, etc. Assuming VSFTPD … Continue reading
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Jan/10Bypass Blocked Websites Using SSH Proxy
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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Dec/09Unable to access MythTV Perl API. Try with –verbose to find out why.
I have been getting the error message Unable to access MythTV Perl API. Try with –verbose to find out why. on MythTv running on Ubuntu 8.04. It wasn’t bothering me too much because the TV guide was still being updated. … Continue reading
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Nov/09Ubuntu 9.10 Grub2 No Timeout
I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and found that the timeout doesn’t seem to be working. Grub’s timeout feature allows for automatically boot up into a selected OS after a specified amount of time. By default it’s 10 seconds. … Continue reading
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Nov/09Check GUI Program Is Running In Linux
Overview I have create a bash script to: Check if the program’s process is running If so just quit the script If not start up the program Using this script and crontab it allows the script to be ran every … Continue reading
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Oct/09My Performance Tweaks To Ubuntu
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/09VirtualBox With Ubuntu Quick Review
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