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CrashPlan on headless debian server

I had been interested in using a backup solution for my photos when I came across CrashPlan. The price for one was a quick sale and the idea of being able to backup “unlimited” data from a single computer just seemed to fit what I had been looking for. I recently changed my home file […]

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“Permissions are too open”

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it. – Theodore Roosevelt You are attempting to automate your ssh session to a remote system using keys and you get the following “Permissions are too open” message. The problem is, that […]

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Show List Of Network Cards in Linux

Here is a question I got not so long ago. Jermal, How do I go about finding the name and type of network card I have in my Linux installation? First off, thanks for asking me. I know of a few ways and I’ll list them here. Short and simple. We have the the following commands: […]

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How to get information about hardware on Linux

The dmidecode command reads the system DMI table to display hardware and BIOS information of the server. Apart from getting current configuration of the system, you can also get information about maximum supported configuration of the system using dmidecode. For example, dmidecode gives both the current RAM on the system and the maximum RAM supported […]

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How do i check which LVM version i’m using.

“bump” root@websvr:~# lvm version LVM version: 2.02.66(2) (2010-05-20) Library version: 1.02.48 (2010-05-20) Driver version: 4.22.0 And that is my filler post for the day. — more info — Logical Volume Manager (Linux) LVM is a logical volume manager for the Linux kernel; it manages disk drives and similar mass-storage devices. The term “volume” refers to […]

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Use lspci tells me my VGA Memory Usage

“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.” – Kurt Cobain Sitting here playing around with some cli I wanted to know how much memory my VGA card was using so to find out I did the […]