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Ubuntu 11.04 SBS (Small Business Server) Setup: Part 6 – Account Management
This is part of a guide to setting up Ubuntu Server Edition 11.04 for a small/medium business. The server will provide DHCP, DNS, NTP, LDAP, Kerberos and NFS services such that users can login to any...
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Ubuntu 11.04 SBS (Small Business Server) Setup: Part 7 – Setting Up Clients
This is part of a guide to setting up Ubuntu Server Edition 11.04 for a small/medium business. The server will provide DHCP, DNS, NTP, LDAP, Kerberos and NFS services such that users can login to any...
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Make Windows the Default Operating System in Grub2… even after Ubuntu updates…
Many guides for changing the default operating system for Grub2 to boot involve setting the number indicating where in the list that OS appears… unfortunately, when kernel updates are released for...
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Ubuntu 11.04 SBS (Small Business Server) Setup: Part 8 – Connecting Mac OS X...
Sadly, it’s inevitable (until the resolution of bug number 1) that many organisations will use software only available for platforms other than Ubuntu. This section of the guide is going to look at...
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How to Install Ubuntu from USB on Macbook Air 4,2 (2011)
Installing Ubuntu from USB on a Mac can seem impossible at first… but it’s not! Create Ubuntu USB Stick First download an Ubuntu iso from www.ubuntu.com/download Be sure to get the 64bit+mac desktop...
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How to mount SFTP/SSH shares in OS X NOW UPDATED to include OS X 10.8
If you’d like to use an sftp share directly though finder then this guide is for you. First, you need to install OSXFuse from https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/downloads If you’re using OS X 10.8 (or...
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How to Build an Ubuntu 11.10 SBS (Small Business Server)
This guide will help you configure Ubuntu Server Edition 11.10 for a small/medium business. The server will provide DHCP, DNS, NTP, LDAP, Kerberos and NFS services such that users can login to any...
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How to batch convert PDFs to Jpgs
This is mainly for my own future reference, but might be useful to others. First things first, I had to clean up the PDF filenames, some contained spaces, some did not. dan@dan-desktop:$ rename 'y/...
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Using hostapd to add wireless access point capabilities to an Ubuntu server.
The first thing to do is find out whether your hardware is capable of running in master mode. The easiest way to check this is like so: dan@neo:$ sudo apt-get install iw dan@neo:$ iw list Look through...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Ultimate Server Guide
This guide will help you configure Ubuntu Server Edition 12.04 for a small/medium business. The server will provide DHCP, DNS, NTP, LDAP, Kerberos and NFS services such that users can login to any...
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Using WordPress Behind a Proxy
Occasionally, it’s useful to setup a test WordPress installation on a local machine, however, if this machine is on a corporate network, there’s a good chance it uses a proxy server for external...
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DLNA/UPnP Servers on Ubuntu
DLNA is great. It allows smart TVs, blu-ray players, phones, laptops etc. to access your Photos, Videos and Music across your network. Once you’ve set it up… it “just works”. The first step in setting...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Ultimate Server Guide
This guide will help you configure Ubuntu Server Edition 14.04 for a small/medium business. The server will provide DHCP, DNS, NTP, LDAP, Kerberos and NFS services such that users can login to any...
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Add eduroam (or any other 802.1x) wireless network to Ubuntu Phone
I’m currently running Ubuntu Touch on a Nexus 4, unfortunately at present, there is no way to connect to 802.1x secured networks through the GUI. It is, however, possible to do this through the...
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Synthesia 10.2 on Ubuntu
Synthesia runs very well on Ubuntu under wine, however, only if using OpenGL rather than Direct3D in my experience. There are many guides that reference changing this setting by editing the wine...
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Counting Colours in Google Sheets
A function to count the number of cells with a given background colour: function COUNTCOLOUR(range, colour) { // Get sheet var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet(); // Get the formula from the cell...
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