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By Kevin Cave, on November 15th, 2011 (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
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!
Continue reading Get rid of Unity on fresh Ubuntu installation and customize to your liking
By Kevin Cave, on November 4th, 2011 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
Continue reading VirtualBox and iSCSI / NAS How-To – Linux and Windows
By Kevin Cave, on September 23rd, 2011
Learn how to get the X11rdp binary up and running, for use with the xrdp package.
Continue reading Install xrdp and X11rdp – the comprehensive HOWTO for Ubuntu and Debian based systems
By Kevin Cave, on September 6th, 2011 Ugh.
My websites are self-hosted and run in virtual machines by way of Virtualbox. I have two physical servers, both can access the virtual drives used by my VM’s via LVM partitions on a separate NAS, which means if I need to I can teleport the VM’s from one physical server to another, and perform
Continue reading Problem with Virtualbox 4.1 and Teleporting
By Kevin Cave, on February 7th, 2011 Just copy/paste this entire line into a terminal window…
sudo cd /usr/share/virtualbox/src/vboxhost && for file in `grep “autoconf.h” * -R| cut -f1 -d:`; do sed -i ‘s/^#\(\s*\)include <linux\/autoconf\.h>/#\1include <generated\/autoconf.h>/g’ $file; done
Then type;
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
The virtualbox driver should now compile.
The file “autoconf.h” has been moved in more recent kernels from <linux/autoconf.h> to
Continue reading Problems with virtualbox 4.0.2 and linux kernel 2.6.38? Here’s a solution..
By Kevin Cave, on January 21st, 2011
Ubunut Natty is now underway, and Ubuntu want to push its use of Unity desktop manager. I however wish to use the gnome-desktop without any fancy-schmancy features, because I remotely log in to that machine via xrdp.
Continue reading Ubuntu Natty, xrdp, gnome-session, “No valid session found.”
By Kevin Cave, on December 9th, 2010 Solution to xrdp-sesman crashing on Ubuntu 10.04 on second login attempt.
Continue reading Solution to Ubuntu 10.10 and xrdp sesman crashes on 2nd login.
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