-
·
Secure it: Essential VPS Security for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Learn how to secure your Ubuntu VPS against common attacks. This practical guide covers SSH hardening, DDoS protection, and automated security measures for indie developers.
-
·
Install Google Cloud CLI on Debian 12
If you’re anything like me, and you go for bleeding edge releases to see what they’re like, there can be some drawbacks. The biggest being there is close to no updated documentation when trying to install common packages. I decided to give Debian 12 a try after not using Debian since version 3. I was…
-
·
Installing Dropbox on Red Hat 9 [SOLVED]
Welcome back to the world of Red Hat and enterprise Linux and dependencies you don’t get in server software but you do in other distributions, like Fedora or Ubuntu. Installing Dropbox on Red Hat has a few command line steps and some compile time. Due to the fact that this is server software and you…
-
·
Gems when using Ruby via Software Collections
In my previous article I outlined how to get Ruby installed via RedHat Software Collections (SCL) and this works for basic ruby commands until I tried to install my backup gem. I got an install error when trying to build the native extensions. This guide will show you how to install gems when using ruby…
-
·
Centos 6.5 and Ruby 1.9.3 via Software Collections
I wanted to cut the amount of repositories that my systems were running and I recently came across Red Hats Software Collections (SCL). Software collections is a relatively new system that allows you to run some newer versions of popular packages including ruby, php, postgreSQL and more. I needed a newer version of Ruby (1.9.3) for…
-
·
Raspberry Pi + Asus N10 wireless
I’ve finally got some time to do some work on my time-lapse project when I hit a brick wall straight off the bat. My $15 tiny wireless adaptor from Asus wasn’t working so I did some digging to try to work out what was going on. I first tried to use the GUI WiFi Config and…
-
·
Nginx Rewrite Rule for Html Files
I’ve recently switched to using nginx + php-fpm + mariaDB for the backend running this WordPress blog and running it on a micro instance on amazon web services. I did this because I wanted to learn some newer technologies and see how they differ from the standard LAMP setup that I’m so familiar with. While doing so I…
-
·
VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone – key can’t be retrieved. (return code 2) [SOLVED]
When trying to convert a running Linux machine with the stand alone converter I came across this error: I checked around the internet and came across this post. The guy worked out that he had a bunch of stuff in his hosts.allow and hosts.deny and added the other correct subnets and it worked. I checked…
-
·
Data Recovery: Part One
I’ve been collecting digital media files ever since online storage became cheaper than burning them to DVD. The shelf life is longer and I have better chances of knowing where the hell my files are. Well shelf life should be better, if you actually have a decent setup, which I’ve learned over time is something…