Free SSL Certificate with Let’s Encrypt
Free SSL Certificate with Let’s Encrypt If you have ever installed an SSL certificate you know that it can be a tedious process. Let’s Encrypt […]
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Filesystem and Directory size
Just a quick look at df and du. This comes up a lot when we have filesystems that are filling up and need to find […]
Linux File Server
File sharing is a critical business function for IT infrastructure. Using Samba we can create file shares that are highly available, secure, and accessible by […]
Red Hat 7.4 – VirtualBox Guest Additions issues
With the latest Red Hat release I experienced an issue with increasing the screen resolution above 1027×768. After checking out the VirtualBox forums, I found […]
Load Balancing with Nginx
Using Nginx as a load balancer Nginx as you may know is a fast and powerful web server. It can also be used as a […]
Experimenting with Arch: Playing some Pacman
In my last few posts I’ve sort of taken it for granted that we all know what the pacman commands I’ve been showing are actually […]
Experimenting with Arch: Adding Laptop Goodies
Since I’m trying out Arch Linux on a laptop I figured it would be a good idea to follow their recommendations for laptops and power […]
Media Server
Have you ever wanted to set up your own video streaming service on your home or work network? This simple guide will help you set […]
Experimenting with Arch: Enabling the AUR
The Arch Linux User Repository (or AUR) is a community driven repository of packages that don’t exist in the official repositories. These provide some nice […]
Linux DNS and DHCP Server
There are lots of reasons to use Linux for your networking needs both at home and at work not the least of which is the […]
Experimenting with Arch: Starting to Build the System I Want
At the conclusion of my previous post where I successfully installed the base Arch Linux system onto my laptop I was now presented with the following […]
Experimenting with Arch: The Installation
A while back I wrote about playing around with different distributions on an older laptop I had lying around. Well my time with Zorin OS […]
Fixing error with Google Chrome public key
Recently Google updated the key they use to sign Debian based Google Chrome releases and updates. Unfortunately this means that if you had it already […]
Optimizing your images
As part of the refresh we’re doing here at The Linux Experiment we wanted to see if we could optimize the image files we serve […]
Let your computer continue to boot even if it can’t mount something in fstab
I have a Drobo, basically a consumer grade NAS or network file share device, that I store the majority of my media and documents on. […]
Using SoundConverter to convert between file formats
SoundConverter is an excellent little utility that makes it super simple to convert from one audio format to another. As an example case I had […]
Blast from the Past: Create a GTK+ application on Linux with Objective-C
This post was originally published on December 8, 2010. The original can be found here. Note that while you can still write GTK+ applications on Linux […]
Blast from the Past: How to migrate from TrueCrypt to LUKS file containers
This post was originally published on June 15, 2014. The original can be found here. Note that there are other direct, compatible, alternatives and proper […]
Using a swap file instead of a swap partition in linux
Historically linux distributions have created a dedicated partition to be used as swap space and while this does come with some advantages there are other […]
Blast from the Past: VOIP with Linode, Ubuntu, Asterisk and FreePBX
This post was originally published on October 29, 2010. The original can be found here. Overview and Introduction I’ve been dabbling with managing a VOIP server […]