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
Just has another little problem while upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10. It seems that smbfs no longers works in Ubuntu 12.10. Once again, why don’t the developers make a webpage or a popup application which tells you these changes? It would save hours of time for lots of users. Anyhow, here is how … Read more
I just upgraded my desktop from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10. Everything looked good until I tried to launch an application – then Unity frooze. I thought it might be nvidia driver issues and tried: However, this didn’t fixed the problem. After some searching around it appears that reseting Unity to default fixed the issue. I … Read more
Using the tar (the Tape Archiver) command: The options used are:
KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) is a brilliant visualization software. Over the last few years, I have installed quite a few hosts and have been keeping notes – so I thought that I would put them up on this blog. Install Packages Firstly, you need to install the basic Ubuntu packages. I use ubuntu-vm-builder which automates … Read more
In the last few years we’ve been migrating all our servers over to KVM virtual machines running on a Ubuntu servers. I’ve come to love VM’s. There seems to be compelling reasons for using them. You can install a new VM very quickly without having to setup new hardware. You can control the resources for … Read more
I just installed a new Syncology 814 server in our rack to give us some more storage for backups. It is very simple to use and well made. While browsing through the software that comes with the NAS, I discovered it has a centralised syslog server. There are instructions for installing the Syncology syslog server are … Read more