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Life hacking So, a new year, new possibilities. Here’s my main missions for this year..
I’ve been living in Japan for over 4 years now and to be truly honest, haven’t made near enough effort to learn the lingo. This has been my main stumbling block to progressing here. I became lazy because after moving here I managed to find a job in which English was a requirement, Japanese not so much. That was great, until late last year when the main company in the US closed the Japanese department down – bit of a blow especially after the magnitude 9 quake last March. Now I’m finding employers here don’t want to hire a foreigner who isn’t fluent in Japanese – and I can fully sympathize and understand their position – hey I live in their country, I should be able to freely communicate in their language!
I have some quite good ideas for apps, and how I’d like to see other apps operating – things don;t work quite the way I’d like them to on my phone. I have an itch to scratch, and hey, I might even be able to make a living selling awesome apps ;)
I have lots more articles up my sleeve for this blog – some to do with Linux, some to do with Life, and more! I also need you to fill the suggestion box with what you’d like to see too – so don’t be lazy, jot some of your requests down at the Suggestion Box ;) Take care and have a prosperous 2012!
Life hacking To all site visitors: Have A Cool Yule! 2011 has been a challenging year for me and mine…
Apart from that everything’s been brilliant ;)
And here’s hoping 2012 will be slightly less exciting than 2011 for myself and for you all! Best regards! Kevin and family. Uncategorized I always find these “blogging is light” posts dull, but, I feel they’re necessary… I’ve had a stinker of a cold the past week or so, which is why there’s been nothing new. Suffice to say the cold has still got a hold of me, but, at the same time in the background I am working on a few ideas. So bear with me :) Regards, Kev. Linux Tips & Tricks
Lets say you have a laptop or a netbook which you take with you everywhere, and on which you keep sensitive information. (Lets even say you have a home computer with sensitive information.) You don’t have to be a secret agent or a crook to have sensitive information. Everyone has sensitive information! Sensitive information can be anything, like all and any passwords for every online and offline account you subscribe to, be it facebook or google plus/mail/adsense/analytics/etc. , your email passwords, ssh keys, bank accounts. Other types of sensitive information might be that novel you’ve been writing, or company documents that you don’t wish to fall into the wrong hands (i.e. any hands other than yours ;) ). What if you accidentally left your machine behind? Or if it was stolen? If like most people, you just use the machine the way you got it – with Windows already installed on it for example – then it’s a trivial thing for the person now in possession of that machine to be able to garner all your sensitive information, and you now have an enormous amount of problems on your hands, other than just having lost a shiny toy. The best way to mitigate against such an occurrence, is to encrypt your data. This can be done in a number of ways – if you’re installing Ubuntu, for instance, it offers you the chance to encrypt your home directory. This is nice, but I have recently encountered a problem where the encrypted home directory became corrupted – it was mounted on top of an ext4 filesystem and for some reason Something Bad Happened and some of my encrypted files became corrupt – nothing too important, but it was an annoyance. I googled for a similar occurrence and found some people had similar problems. Another method, is to contain the entire system, swap, and home partitions within encrypted LVM partitions, and this is what this tutorial is going to cover. We’ll look at an example machine. This machine has a 300GB hard drive and only has Windows 7 installed on it. (For this example, I will be using a suitably configured virtual machine, but all the steps are valid for any similarly set up laptop, netbook, and PC). What I want to eventually end up with in this first part, is to be able to multi boot between Windows, and Debian Testing which has been installed in an encrypted LVM partition. Share the knowledge :         Linux Tips & Tricks There’s all sorts of terminal emulators available these days. Most of the “modern” ones, like gnome-terminal for example, have lots of whiz-bang features like menu-driven customization, background picture or transparency, setting the font used, and so on. The thing is, all these nice features introduce their own problems, the biggest one for me is BLOAT. Gnome-terminal to me is like a monster, with an insatiable appetite for memory and CPU cycles. I’ve had gnome-terminal using 66% CPU just sitting there looking at me, in an RDP session fer goodness sake! Unacceptable! Anyway, Xterm is my current choice of terminals for use in RDP sessions (and for general-purpose use). It’s pretty lightweight compared to its KDE and Gnome cousins, and believe it or not it’s actually quite configurable. Experienced Linux users and admins probably already know the charms of xterm, however I think from time to time it’s good to have a refreshed article, to show Linux newcomers or just basically people who never give xterm a second glance, that xterm is actually a very good (if not the best) terminal of choice ;) → Continue reading Customize Xterm, the original and best terminal… → Share the knowledge : Suggestions I’m trying this out as a trial. If you’d like to see an article/tutorial here on a topic not yet covered, go to the suggestion box page and add a comment in there.I’ll pick from the best ideas. If I think it’s a great idea I’ll investigate and find the solution for you and publish it.I’ll wipe the comments from time to time, once the page becomes cluttered up.Go on then, tell me what you’d like me to write about! ;)
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This is a followup to my original article, “Install xrdp and X11rdp – the comprehensive HOWTO for Ubuntu and Debian based systems“. In that article I used the tarball – and hence old – version of x11rdp, because at the time of writing the article, I thought the SVN – hence more up to date – version did not work. It does in fact work, if you use the more up to date version from the SVN repository, AND you use the newer xrdp server from the Git repository. Thanks to a reader named Daniel for pointing this out. So now you have a choice, the Old and Busted method from earlier, or the New Hotness I outline below ;) The info here is also updated so that users of Ubuntu 11.10 (and possibly later, time will tell) can configure RDP to work properly. The Bonus here is I’ll also add in handy tips on how to customize X11rdp so that it’ll have the rdp session as default when you connect to it, plus how to customize the logo you see when you connect! Hurrah! 2011-12-02 : Article updated. Changelog:
2011-11-18 : See Update 1 near the bottom of the article for automatically removing&restoring the background picture for the RDP session.
→ Continue reading X11rdp, Ubuntu 11.10, Gnome 3, xrdp customization – New Hotness! Updated! → Share the knowledge : Linux Tips & Tricks So you’ve downloaded and are installing the latest Ubuntu release (11.10 at time of writing), with a manic grin on your face as it’s promising all sorts of exciting stuff during the installation…
 Looks cool
Oh the excitement!
 Can't wait!
You log in and…..
→ Continue reading Get rid of Unity on fresh Ubuntu installation and customize to your liking → Share the knowledge : Linux Tips & Tricks I have a NAS. It’s a nice NAS. It’s a QNAP TurboNAS TS-419P, and it’s just what I need for my SOHO setup. Amongst many other things it can do, it can allow me to use its RAID array as iSCSI targets. VirtualBox is also great. It can use iSCSI targets as storage devices, and it can do this directly, without ever touching either Windows’ or Linux’s iSCSI utilities. This HOWTO works for both Windows and Linux – the command to access the iSCSI target for both is exactly the same and I show this in the tutorial. Here’s how… → Continue reading VirtualBox and iSCSI / NAS How-To – Linux and Windows → Share the knowledge : |
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