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				Uncategorized 				By Kevin Cave, on January 20th, 2012 		 (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});  
Apologies for the recent downtime… I was relocating the servers to another room. Business as usual now! Although, please expect some additional periods of downtime as I rearrange the room layout to my liking. 
Regards! 
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				Life hacking 				By Kevin Cave, on January 6th, 2012 		So, a new year, new possibilities. Here’s my main missions for this year.. 
 Become extremely fluent in Japanese – LIKE A BOSS.  
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  
Continue reading My mission for 2012 
 								 	
						
		
								
				Life hacking 				By Kevin Cave, on December 25th, 2011 		To all site visitors: Have A Cool Yule! 
2011 has been a challenging year for me and mine… 
 We’ve had to deal with the Magnitude 9 quake in March – which was a bit of an adventure, I can assure you ;) Then the radiation threat from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. My house is  
Continue reading 2011 Seasons Greetings 
 								 	
						
		
								
				Uncategorized 				By Kevin Cave, on December 22nd, 2011 		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  
Continue reading Light blogging 
 								 	
						
		
								
				Linux Tips & Tricks 				By Kevin Cave, on December 6th, 2011 		                  
				  
  
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  
Continue reading How to install and multi-boot between Windows, and Debian Testing with full disk encryption 
 								 	
						
		
								
				Linux Tips & Tricks 				By Kevin Cave, on December 1st, 2011 		                  
				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. 
Continue reading Customize Xterm, the original and best terminal… 
 								 	
						
		
								
				Suggestions 				By Kevin Cave, on November 28th, 2011 		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  
Continue reading Need help on a topic not yet covered here? Use the Suggestion Box! 
 								 	
						
		
								
				Linux Tips & Tricks 				By Kevin Cave, on November 17th, 2011 		 Note : this tutorial is getting really old now and Distributions have moved on a lot since Ubuntu 11.10! Use X11RDP-o-Matic instead.  
  
  
This is a followup to my original article, “Install xrdp and X11rdp – the comprehensive HOWTO for Ubuntu and Debian based systems“. In  
Continue reading X11rdp, Ubuntu 11.10, Gnome 3, xrdp customization – New Hotness! Updated! 
 								 	
						
		
								
				Linux Tips & Tricks 				By Kevin Cave, on November 15th, 2011 		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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				Linux Tips & Tricks 				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 
 								 	
						
	
					
    
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