How to: Determine your Memory Usage & Free Memory in Ubuntu
How to: Determine your Memory Usage & Free Memory in Ubuntu One thing I have discovered with Ubuntu is that there is more than one way to skin a cat. All won’t yield the...
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How to: Connect to a Remote File System with Nautilus using SSH
How to: Connect to a Remote File System with Nautilus using SSH Nautilus supports connecting to a remote file system using an SSH connection. Before there used to be clear instructions but now it...
How to: Shutdown or Restart an Ubuntu Server via SSH
How to: Shutdown or Restart an Ubuntu Server via SSH If you want to remotely restart or shutdown an Ubuntu Server when connected via SSH you simply need to know the following commands (and...
Ubuntu: Basics of software repositories
Ubuntu: Basics of software repositories Ubuntu uses apt for package management. Apt stores a list of repositories or software channels in the file /etc/apt/sources.list This is important to note as if you want to add sources...
pgp – Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more
pgp – Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more I was working on getting a private key in order to sign a...
How to: Find a file in Ubuntu using complex criteria (or not)
How to: Find a file in Ubuntu using complex criteria (or not) Sometimes you need to find a file and all you know is the extension or the beginning of the file name. A powerful flexible...
Useful Ubuntu Service commands
Useful Ubuntu Service commands Ubuntu daemons/services/etc. have a few commonalities that are worth knowing when working with them. For example, from what I have read there is a way to reload the configuration changes...
How to: Build your own version of NginX
How to: Build your own version of NginX I was following a tutorial on how to use NginX with WordPress and the NginX Fast CGI cache caught my interest. The only problem is that...
Recommendations when Deploying Ubuntu VMs in Windows Azure
Recommendations when Deploying Ubuntu VMs in Windows Azure Below are a few recommendations to keep in mind when deploying Ubuntu VMs in Windows Azure. From networking to deploying applications and collecting metrics. With no...
How to: Enable dynamic DNS updates to a Microsoft DNS Server using an Ubuntu client workstation
How to: Enable dynamic DNS updates to a Microsoft DNS Server using an Ubuntu client workstation To my surprise it seems that the beauty of Windows being able to dynamically update corporate DNS servers...