It took me a while to find the PSP for Ubuntu. It turns out that HP have renamed the old Proliant Support Pack to Management Component Pack. We use HP ProLiant DL380 G6 servers and want to monitor the raid without using HP Insight software. You can either download the .deb files from the HP … Read more
Everytime I ran the sudo command, it took about 3-10 seconds to ask for the password. I found that the reason for this is that sudo does a DNS lookup. There was a problem with my /etc/hosts file. I had changed the hostname of the computer without updating the /etc/hosts file. The fix was to … Read more
We have a Synology Rackstation NAS and it comes with a VPN server. I decided to try and work out how to connect my Ubuntu laptop to the Synology VPN server and route my network through that. It took me sometime to get the settings right, so I have put together a guide in the … Read more
I’ve recently been visiting China and have been caught out by their Firewall. This hasn’t be too bad but Google Mail and Google Drive is really slow or intermittent. Also you can’t access YouTube or the BBC IPlayer. The final straw for me was for some reason they have blocked the Ubuntu Dropbox repository – … Read more