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By Kevin Cave, on December 6th, 2011
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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
Continue reading How to install and multi-boot between Windows, and Debian Testing with full disk encryption
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…
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!
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!
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 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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