I supported the new Linux Voice magazine with their Indegogo campaign and have just received the first digital issue. It is awesome and a great read. Given that the team is made up of mostly of ex-Linux Format employees, it shares some similarities. Well done Linux Voice!
I needed to connect to Oxford University via a VPN connection from my Ubuntu 13.10 laptop. They have some instructions by they are quite complicated and not very clear. Here is how I did it: 1 – Install a Cisco compatiable VPN Client Oxford University uses the Cisco VPN. You can install this directly from the … Read more
Ansible is a great tool for configuring servers. I only recently discovered the Ansible diff argument which can be used to check what changes are going to be made for a file. If you use this with the –check flag you can see what changes will be applied. I find this especially useful when coming … Read more
If you have cut a pasted the demo.py script from Paramiko to test is working on your server then you might get this error: There isn’t a python module called interactive – you need to download the interactive.py file which is included in the same folder as the demo application.
I just brought an Airplay device (an Audio Pro Allroom Air One) because I wanted to stream music from my iPhone and Synology NAS. I followed the installation instructions and connected the Airplay device to the network. The device appeared as an option when playing music on the phone. However, the streaming started and after … Read more
If you need to know what dns servers you are using on Ubuntu then this command will help:
You might want rotate an image from the command line using the command line in Ubuntu. This is really usefull if you are stripting pdf manipulations. Then Happy rotating.
I just installed a new Bacula client but for some reason the server could not connect to it. I found this out by trying to get the status of the client on the server with the following command: Here is the things that I checked on the server. Step 1 – Check that the service … Read more
I have just started using Teamviewer on Ubuntu 13.10 to help a few people setup some software on their computers. When I try and launch it pops up a dialogue saying: The TeamViewer daemon is not running! Please start the daemon (needs root permissions) before running TeamViewer teamviewer –daemon start …. Trying “sudo teamviewer –daemon … Read more
If you are trying to set your php memory limit at the top of a php script using the php int_set() and it doesn’t appear to have any affect then there is a chance that you have the PHP Suhosin security extension installed. Suhosin stops a script from being able to increase the memory limit. … Read more