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Get rid of Unity on fresh Ubuntu installation and customize to your liking

By Kevin Cave, on November 15th, 2011

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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!

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VirtualBox and iSCSI / NAS How-To – Linux and Windows

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

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Install xrdp and X11rdp – the comprehensive HOWTO for Ubuntu and Debian based systems

By Kevin Cave, on September 23rd, 2011

Learn how to get the X11rdp binary up and running, for use with the xrdp package.

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Problem with Virtualbox 4.1 and Teleporting

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

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Problems with virtualbox 4.0.2 and linux kernel 2.6.38? Here’s a solution..

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

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Ubuntu Natty, xrdp, gnome-session, “No valid session found.”

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.

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Solution to Ubuntu 10.10 and xrdp sesman crashes on 2nd login.

By Kevin Cave, on December 9th, 2010

Solution to xrdp-sesman crashing on Ubuntu 10.04 on second login attempt.

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