If you have installed the Dropbox and the TortoiseGIT or the TortoiseSVN on one computer, you had to met the nightmare with Overlay Icons. Even you want to see Tortoise Icons, the Dropbox aggressively remove them and pushed all own Icons to you instead icons what you really want to see. This battle is caused […]
Read more »A month ago I have discovered new world of cheap dedicated servers. If you hear a term "Dedicated Server" you probably imagine powerful machine located in a data-center and with price around $60/month or more. But nowadays you can rent something less expensive, from $6 to $15, with 0.5-1TB drive and unlimited traffic. It is ideal solution for personal data warehouse, own e-mail server f course nowadays (especially after Snowden affair) security of stored data is important. Secured lines and encryption is now essential. But because you do not have a physical access to the server encryption can be difficult because you have to "unlock" encrypted container during boot and it is usually done by typing password on the server physical console or by a dongle inserted to the server. Nothing from that is possible with remote access only.. But several days ago I found great idea how to solve this problem on the Internet. The Encrypted Linux Dedicated Server with drive unlocked remotely by SSH temporary login. I tried to configure my server and it works flawlessly!
Read more »If you are using Virtual Box virtualization technology then you know that is possible to share some folders between the host OS and guest OS. The problem is when you share files between Windows host and Linux guest. In this case, files on Linux get executable flag by default, what is in most cases annoying and unwanted behavior – for example file names coloring will stop working, because all archives, sources etc. now looks like executable. I cannot imagine regular computer user scenario when he need to get shared windows file as executable in Linux. Here you can find how to disable this behavior and share files as normal data (not executable files).
Read more »In my previous post related to the Broadcom WiFi adapters, I have explained a way how to fix the WPA on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. In reaction to the post I have received many responses from users, many positive, but also negative. I have tried to explore the issue deeply and then I found more pieces of information. This post will summarize new info about the problem and maybe offer more general solution.
Read more »One of main reasons to build own Home Server is to provide NAS functionality. But for this functionality is necessary to create data disk space. This post will show you how to create extendable data storage on the server.
Read more »If you have long post on your WordPress blog, then present i to reader on one long page is not comfortable for reading and it also consumes more server resources to render this long page. The solution for this is to split post to several smallest pages. WordPress has support for this functionality, but on many themes it is not enabled. In this post I'll show to you how to enable this feature if your theme doesn't support this by default and how to beautify Pages navigation bar.
Read more »In previous Home server related post I described how to connect to the server remotely and I have discussed some security issues about remote connection. In this post I can offer to you some hints how to improve your SSH remote access security.
Read more »Because place for the server is somewhere in the dark, without connected keyboard and monitor, the essential part of the configuration is to grant remote access for the server console. This post describes how to do that.
Read more »This post will show to you HowTo obtain LAN configuration parameters on Linux Host or HowTo change it. You can find here base information how to obtain LAN parameters as hostname, DNS name, IP address, LAN Local IP address range, Default Gateway IP, DNS server IP etc.
Read more »When I have installed the Ubuntu Lucid Lynx distribution on my Dell Latitude E4300 laptop, I was not able to connect to my Wireless network with WPA encryption enabled. This post will show to you how to fix the problem.
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