How to create a Raspberry PI Pixel VM on VirtualBox with Persistence
This “HowTo” will cover creating a Raspberry PI Pixel VM on VirtualBox with Persistence The VM will have the look and feel of a Raspberry PI, but will run on x86 not ARM.
Category: Linux
Junior Hackers Unite!
The Stamford Innovation Center has a new Meetup on Tuesday nights 6-8pm called “Junior Hacker Night” directed to children 5-15 years old. Bring a laptop and watch the children program right in front of you. Windows, MAC or Linux laptops welcome, the application they use is available on all platforms: Scratch. Scratch is a project…
15 Things I Did After Installing New Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot | Tech Drive-in
Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot is scheduled to arrive on Oct 13, 2011. A lot of things have changed with Ubuntu in the mean time. This Ubuntu 11.10 screenshot tour will give you a quick preview of important changes in the upcoming Ubuntu Oneiric release. I have been using Ubuntu 11.10 as my netbook’s primary OS…
Howto: Highly available Zimbra cluster using Heartbeat and DRBD
This morning I successfully set up a clustered, high availability pair of Zimbra (VMware virtual) servers, synced with DRBD and using Heartbeat to failover to the secondary standby server. This is a howto that tries to cover *all* the steps, as there seems to be a great series of Howto’s on the subject that in…
Linux for Children – Stepcase Lifehack
desc via Linux for Children – Stepcase Lifehack.
20 Linux System Monitoring Tools Every SysAdmin Should Know
Posted By Vivek Gite On June 27, 2009 @ 2:26 am In CentOS, Debian Linux, FreeBSD, Linux, Linux Scalability, Monitoring, Networking, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Security, Storage, Sys admin, Troubleshooting, Tuning, UNIX, fedora linux | Original [1] Need to monitor Linux server performance? Try these built-in command and a few add-on tools. Most Linux distributions are equipped…
Linux Distribution Review
Distributions or flavors we run here at “Home” Servers: Web: AMD X2 64 with CentOS 5x Cluster with Virtalmin. Email: Dell 8100 P4, Fedora 7 / Zimbra. NAS/SAN: Compaq P3-700, Openfiler. FW: Compaq P3-400, Soothwall. Wireless: Linksys, OpenWRT.
Cat Joke
Problem: mount //puppy/1 /opus/puppy Solution: umount //opus/puppy Outcome: tar zcvf Shipper.tar.gz /opus/* //puppy/* /* ************ Hint: ************ Puppy, Opus and Shipper are cats… */
WordPress Training and Information Links
Below are just a few of the resources, outside of WordPress.org, that I use to maintain my 20+ WordPress web sites. Simple widgets. Widgets 101. http://wpbits.wordpress.com/2007/06/16/simple-widgets-widgets-101/ WordPress Plugin/ Template list http://mashable.com/2007/08/16/wordpress-god300-tools-for-running-your-wordpress-blog/ Top 10 Tricks to Master Your WordPress Blog Empire! http://top10tricks.com/report/wordpress-setup/ How to Easily Manage Multiple WordPress Sites With One Database and One Code Base…
Life with SmoothWall
Well it has been 6 months since I installed the SmoothWall Firewall and I must say it is one of the best linux installations i have ever used. Simple to modify, easy to restore (I will get into that shortly), rock steady and reliable. It all started back in January of 2008, I was having…