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
I had a problem installing Teamviewer on Ubuntu 13.10. This is an awesome tool for helping to remote desktop into other Linux or Windows machines. I downloaded the .deb file but when installing it complained: unresolvable dependency: lib32asound2 I did some research and some various solutions including installing the package which has been removed from … Read more
I forgot the password to my Macbook Pro and it turns out that there aren’t very many short guides on this. However, it turns out that it is very easy to reset the password on a Macbook. Step 1 – Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold … Read more