One really handy thing you can do in your Ubuntu installation is to add a custom .bash_aliases file.Some background… When you SSH into your server a number of commands and files are run. One of these is the .bashrc file which lives in the user’s home directory. This is custom for each user. So when…
Continue reading →This will be the first of our guides where I’ll show you how to do it from a command line and I’ll then show you how to put it all together and automate the install. The reason I ended up doing this was that I wanted to automate my Raspberry Pi setup as much as…
Continue reading →This little guide should help with configuring a USB WiFi adapter in Linux – this was in Ubuntu 12.04 but should work for later releases and other Debian based Unix versions. I recently configured my Raspberry Pi to use a wiki dongle but this guide didn’t work for some reason. This guide still works though…
Continue reading →This (along with all my guides) is for Ubuntu but it could probably be done on any Debian based linux variant. It is worth setting your drives to spin down when the system is inactive. This will save some power and reduce the wear on the drive.First install your dependencies: apt-get install hdparm smartmontools You…
Continue reading →This one is fairly straight forward. This is what you need to do if your boot partition should fail and you need to remount the LVM logical partition in a new machine or once you’ve re-installed Ubuntu on a new boot partition.Make sure the HDDs are recognised. fdisk –lu Scan all disks for physical volumes:…
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I really wanted to name James “James’); DROP TABLE *;” but unfortunately I saw sense… https://xkcd.com/327/ This is one of the best drawings from my favourite webcomic: XKCD It is a bit geeky and you won’t really get it unless you know about SQL injection attacks. There are a lot of other great drawings which…
Continue reading →While we are on the subject of setting up LVMs and hard drives (see previous post), I thought I’d continue with how to upgrade your NAS by replacing one hard drive with another of a bigger size.Note that you will need to do this while your logical partition has free space equal (or greater) than…
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Bibles.org (http://bibles.org) has an excellent set of tools which can be used on blogs or embedded in other websites. Here’s a quick summary of how to get the various bits and bobs working. Bible search widget (see sidebar) Go here http://tools.bibles.org/ widget.html and click Get Started at the bottom. Pick the various versions you want. Next Customise the…
Continue reading →Obligatory warning: Don’t do this! It is stupid! You will delete all your stuffs! You may die!Although most people will ‘tell you’ that it is stupid to enable and use the root account on your server, sometimes it is just really handy! When you are forst setting up your server and need to run a…
Continue reading →Jenna and I watched Pitch Perfect together the other night… Going into it I was pretty skeptical that it would be any good whatsoever. But after the first 5 minutes I was actually quite impressed. It wasn’t trying to take itself too seriously, in fact it almost seemed to be setting itself up to be…
Continue reading →In my previous NAS I ran a RAID 5 array for redundancy (see post here for more details on my previous build). However the whole point of setting up this NAS was to make use of a load of different size spare/old drives I had lying about. Given that my disks are of varying sizes a…
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I’ve been looking for a simple image host which I can use to store and access the pictures I use here on the blog. So far I have been using Blogger itself and just uploading pictures as I need them via the ‘insert picture’ button. While this is great and convenient, it is not accessible…
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