Was remarkably easy to upgrade over SSH (which is good as I am not in the Linux command line world as often these days!) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes Have also applied many of the hardening steps at: https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/07/30/national-cyber-security-centre-publish-ubuntu-18-04-lts-security-guide Well worth a read if you are running Ubuntu and want to improve security. Not mentioned on there (probably as […]
Category Archives: Ubuntu
Streaming HD content to your TV via a PS3 from a Linux Server (or Windows PC)
Quick post – caveat haven’t had a chance to proof read this one and its late so it will have to do for now! You may not be aware that you can use a Playstation 3 to act as a media streaming/playback client using a system called DNLA (also known as uPNP). This allows you […]
This blog is now running on new hardware & software!
Recently changed the server this blog runs on to a low power Dual Core Intel Atom in a smaller form factor case (mini ITX). In an attempt to reduce my environmental and electricity footprint. Took the opportunity to upgrade Ubuntu Server to 10.04 LTS which comes with MySQL 5.1 and WordPress is now 3.0.1 ( […]
Adventures to fix Ubuntu & RAID boot up
Yeah finally fixed an annoying issue with my Linux Server at home (nice to flex my Linux admin skills!) documenting it here in case I ever need the commands again or its useful to others: Problem: Ubuntu 9.04 no longer booted after a minor update (from .15 to .16) with my Software RAID setup as […]
Running Windows via Linux to improve performance (fixing VirtualBox on Ubuntu 9.04)
Recently I’ve started using Virtualisation – for those who don’t know this is running an Operating System or OS for short (such as Windows) as an application (so you could think of it as running a computer within a computer). I’ve started doing this as I’ve got frustrated with Windows slowing down after being installed […]
Fix for Firefox Addons error…
If your not having any joy when installing addons in Firefox 3 (sorry can’t remember the specific error message) – but nothing seem to fix it – even re-installing) we managed to confirm the fix today at work. Note that involves completely clearing all Firefox related info (so settings, bookmarks etc will be gone)… * […]
Installing Zend Core PHP on Ubuntu Linux (8.04)
Warning! Techy post – if your not into Web development you’ll want to skip this one… I’ve been wanting to try out Zend Core (Zend’s standard PHP stack / extension or “Reliable PHP made easy”) for a while but as Ubuntu isn’t officially supported I’ve held off. A problem with some code running on the […]
Zend Framework to be bundled with Ubuntu Hardy (8.04)
Interesting & good news – Zend Framework is being bundled as part of Ubuntu Linux: http://devzone.zend.com/article/3232–Zend-Framework-to-be-part-of-Ubuntu Direct link to article: http://andigutmans.blogspot.com/2008/02/zend-framework-to-be-part-of-ubuntu.html Also found an interesting presentation on version 1.5 of the Zend Framework.
Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04 alpha), Sony Vaio Memory Stick slot reader
Bit of a techy one here (so skip this if your not into Linux!) but sometimes these posts are useful to others!!! Whilst trying to get my Sony memory stick slot (Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) working on my Vaio under Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) I came across this bug […]
Ubuntu (7.04) on HP Proliant DL385 G2 Server
2 word summary = Works well! -Here’s a picture of one of the boxes I got in for work recently: Thought I’d share a few notes… Firstly these don’t appear to ship with Optical drives as standard as (after talking to my friend who works at HP) most large customers use network based deployment systems […]