When you have time, you do something. Tonight I was headed over the Ubuntu site to grab me the latest version because I was thinking of installing OpenStack when I noticed on their landing page and noticed “Get Ubuntu Core” ; yes something new. But where is my Raspberry Pi? No worries they have OVF […]
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After a quick LAMP install, I decided to install PhpMyAdmin. Logging into I noticed a warring message that read: The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration To resolve this I attempted the following: Elevated my console to root (sudo -i) apt-get install mcrypt apt-get install php5-mcrypt (no need because the previous command […]
If you have run Ubuntu Server you may have noticed that each time you log into your system via SSH system information status are displayed. I have wondered this for a while now and tonight I found out. The command to reproduce this information is landscape-sysinfo This command is run from /etc/update-motd.d/50-landscape-sysinfo and exists when […]
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Finally I can Watch Netflix in Ubuntu
Hi all, I just read on the Ubuntu insights that watching Netflix is now a thing for Ubuntu. Recent efforts have finally paid off and Canonical, Ubuntu now supports it when using Google Chrome version 37 and above. I big thanks goes out to those at Netflix and Ubuntu for making this “official”. I’ve personally […]
A while back I wrote about how I setup a small yet effective Tor network proxy server titled “My Quick Tor Socks / Web Proxy“. After running this for sometime now I wanted to get some real time status, but more than that I wanted it to look cool. And this brings me to what […]
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 […]