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My Quick TOR Socks / Web Proxy

I originally preformed similar steps to setup a raspberry pi for this reason, later using a very tiny Ubuntu server install. Using a clean Ubuntu / or / Debian installation (recommended, not necessary) add the following repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org <DISTRIBUTION> main to figure out the name of your distribution. A quick command to run […]

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How to uninstall CrashPlan Debian

I wanted to update CrashPlan to the latest version. So I download the latest Linux install and what I found after attempting to install was that I needed to uninstall the existing version before installing the new one. The following steps Stop the CrashPlan process from running /etc/init.d/crashplan stop Manually delete the following directories /usr/local/crashplan […]

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Keep Calm and Install Wheezy

Want to give it a try? Check out the live images! Want to install it? Choose your favorite installation media among Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, CDs and USB sticks. Already on Debian and want to upgrade? You are just an apt-get dist-upgrade away from Wheezy! Find how, reading the installation guide and the release notes.

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Crashplan, I choose you

Back at home I use Open Media Vault as my NAS (Network Attached Storage solution to store and serve up my media and documents to my computers and devices. Open Media Vault (OMV) gives me all the things I need with one single exception; that’s backups. So at home I backup to USB disks, but what if there was […]

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Debian 7.0 Wheezy live images now available

Just a quick post. If you haven’t been following the latest updates. I just want to inform you that Debian has released the live cd images for its new distribution “Wheezy”. It’s fully available for amd64 and i386 architectures.  More info and links to this here: http://deb.li/livewheezy

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Remove CD-ROM from apt-get repositories

I just got my hands on the new Debian 7 DVDs and installed a fresh server install. Now up and running its time to use aptitude to install some software when I kept receiving the following message: Media change: please insert the disc labeled ‘Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ – Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20130504-14:44’ in the drive ‘/media/cdrom/’ […]