Install the coolest Ubuntu terminal software – Guake
If you want to have a really cool and highly customizable terminal installed in your Ubuntu distribution, look no further than Guake! Guake was inspired by the console pop up behavior of popular old...
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As of late, many are wondering just where the Linux client for Google Drive is? End users have been patiently waiting on Google to release the Google Drive client as there already are clients for...
View ArticleHow to install the latest software updates Ubuntu 13.04
Keeping your software up to date in your Ubuntu 13.04 installation is important for stability and security reasons. It is very painless to do in Ubuntu 13.04 either from using the builtin GUI software...
View ArticleLinux redirected output not showing in file
Recently, when working with Nginx, I wanted to export out the details of my Nginx build so I could see all modules the webserver was compiled with. However, each time I tried to redirect the output of...
View ArticleHow to troubleshoot MySQL connectivity issues
So you have setup a wordpress or drupal site and you need to access MySQL to be able to work on your database. However, you can’t seem to connect to MySQL as you expect. Each time you try to connect...
View ArticleInstall all updates besides select few Ubuntu Server
Recently, in working on updating an Ubuntu server for a client that was running a customized version of Nginx compiled with Google Pagespeed and other mods, we wanted to install all the updates besides...
View ArticleUse WinSCP commandline to copy from Windows to Linux
WinSCP is a great Windows GUI utility to copy files to and from Linux boxes, but many don’t know about the powerful WinSCP commandline functionality that are extremely useful to setup jobs to...
View ArticleInstalling a LEMP server with WordPress and Google Pagespeed
If you are looking to host a webserver and want a really reliable, stable platform that has excellent performance, a LEMP server using the latest flavor of Ubuntu – 14.04 along with Nginx and Google...
View ArticleHow to upgrade VMware Operations Manager VM Tools
In rolling out the latest vCenter and ESXi host updates that have come about in the last couple of days, the other part of that step is making sure that all vm tools are updated on guest VMs in the...
View ArticleCreate isolated test environment same ips and subnet with VMware
Recently, I had the need to setup a test/development environment that met the requirements of being able to keep the same IPs, subnet, and machine names as the production environment and still be able...
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