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Windows and Linux – Quest for Best Practices
In a few days I’m going to update two of my computers. One of them (Athlon X2) used to run as a server with Ubuntu 9.04, the other one (Intel Core 2 Duo) was configured as a dual-boot system with … Continue reading
Ubuntu: .nano_history Permission denied
If you do man nano, you’ll see there’s a /etc/nanorc config file. Edit this to comment out #set historylog. This will prevent sudo nano commands from creating the root users .nano_history in your home directory, which nano can’t read when … Continue reading
Mounting NAS with Read-Write Permissions
When I browsed my shared folders on the Lacie Ethernet Disk I noticed that I didn’t have any write access in Ubuntu, even though I explicitly gave read/write access to the NAS users. As I was never asked for a … Continue reading
Music Networking with XMMS2, Icecast2 and Last.fm
In the last few months I haven’t found much time to listen to music, but I decided this needs to change and I should finally dust off my old music library. About two years ago I signed up for last.fm, … Continue reading
Headphones with Ubuntu 9.04 and Gateway T-6345u
Ubuntu seemed to work perfectly on the Gateway T-6345u laptop model…until I plugged my headphones in and found that no sound was coming out of them. I tried a second pair and could make sure there was nothing wrong with … Continue reading
Accessing MySQL through SSH Tunnel
I‘ve been experimenting with SSH the secure shell lately and wanted to write a little about it. When I needed to access a remote computer I used to use SSH as a simple replacement for telnet providing an encrypted channel … Continue reading
DynDNS with ddclient
If your router doesn’t have a build-in feature to update dynamic DNS records you will have to use a software client that runs on one of your computers. The Linux tool ddclient already comes packaged in the Ubuntu repository and … Continue reading