Blast from the Past: 10 reasons why Mint might not fail in India
This post was originally published on July 7, 2010. The original can be found here. Last evening while reading the SA forums, I encountered a […]
Ubuntu
Stop screen tearing with Nvidia/Intel graphics combo
Ever since upgrading my laptop to Linux Mint 18 I’ve noticed some pronounced screen tearing happening. Initially I figured this was something I would simply […]
Removing old Kernels in Ubuntu 16.04/Linux Mint 18
Recently I’ve noticed that my /boot partition has become full and I’ve even had some new kernel updates fail as a result. It seems the culprit […]
Ubuntu 16.04 VNC woes? Try this!
You may recall a few years back I made a very similar post about Ubuntu 14.04’s ‘VNC woes’. Well unfortunately it seems things have changed […]
Fix: trying to overwrite ‘/usr/share/accounts/services/google-im.service’ installing kubuntu-desktop
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 desktop installation with Unity and wanted to try KDE, so I ran sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. apt failed with the […]
Automating Let’s Encrypt certificates on nginx
Let’s Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority that provides free SSL certificates. It is intended to be automated, so that certificates are renewed automatically. We’re […]
Distro hopping: how to install Plex Home Theater on elementary OS
Plex is great. It is a very easy to use cross-platform program that lets you view and watch your own personal media almost anywhere. The […]
Applying updates to Docker and the Plex container
In my last post, I discussed several Docker containers that I’m using for my home media streaming solution. Since then, Plex Media Server has updated to 0.9.11.4 for […]
Running a containerized media server with Ubuntu 14.04, Docker, and Plex
I recently took it upon myself to rebuild a general-purpose home server – installing a new Intel 530 240GB solid-state drive to replace a “spinning rust” […]
How to set a static IP address on Ubuntu 14.04 server (and others)
This assumes you want to set a static IP address on the network device eth0. Open up the interfaces file sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces and remove […]
Ubuntu 14.04 VNC woes? Try this!
If, like me, you’ve recently upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 only to find out that for whatever reason you can no longer VNC to that machine […]
A tale of a gillion installs
Install number one: LMDE 201303. Â I was hoping for the best of both worlds, but I got driver issues instead. Â LMDE has known ATI proprietary […]
So many flavours – with bonus privacy rant!
It’s interesting reading the old Linux Experiment first posts when people were contemplating which distro to install.  It’s been 4.5 years since then and the […]
And I thought this would be easy…
Some of you may remember my earlier post about contemplating an upgrade from Windows Home Server (Version 1) to a Linux alternative. Since then, I have […]
WTF Ubuntu
I’m not even sure what to say about this one… it looks like I might have an angry video card.
Dual Booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8 on a Lenovo Y400 IdeaPad
With the third edition of The Linux Experiment already underway, I decided to get my new laptop set up with an Ubuntu partition to work […]
Airing of grievances: in which upgrading Ubuntu wreaks havoc
I’ve had a few nasty experiences this week with Linux and figured I’d vent here. Unlike my previous efforts with Linux From Scratch and Gentoo, […]
Using ATI Catalyst drivers on Ubuntu 12.10 with old hardware
As of version 12.10, Ubuntu has upgraded the version of X.org they include to the latest and unfortunately it is no longer compatible with the […]
Limit Bandwitdth Used by apt-get
It’s easy. Simply throw “-o Acquire::http::Dl-Limit=X” in your apt-get command where X is the kb/s you wish to limit it to. So for example let’s […]
Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 1 (Report #3)
Just a quick update on my experience running the pre-release version of Ubuntu (this time upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 1!). Not a whole lot […]