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 […]
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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 […]
How To Set Up An OpenVPN Client On Linux
Getting a VPN set up right on your Linux machine has a number of advantages, especially today when online privacy is a must and files […]
RetroPie – turning your Raspberry Pi into a retro-gaming console!
Recently I decided to pick up a new Raspberry Pi 3 B from BuyaPi.ca. I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to do with […]
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 […]
Extract album art from MP3 files
Recently I needed to extract the album art from an MP3 file and came across a really easy to use command line utility called eyeD3 […]
Limit bandwidth used by a command in Linux
If you’ve ever wanted to run a bandwidth intensive command (for example downloading system updates) but limit how much of the available bandwidth it can actually use then […]
A nifty utility to limit CPU usage on Linux
If you want to run a command that you know is going to use quite a bit of CPU but you don’t want it to […]
Setting up Syncthing to share files on Linux
Syncthing is a file sharing application that lets you easily, and securely, share files between computers without having to store them on a third party […]
Installing ROS on a Raspberry Pi
As a lover of technology, I tend to accumulate bits and pieces of interesting devices. Usually, these are purchased for use on unrelated projects, and […]
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 […]
Turn your computer into your own Chromecast
UPDATE: this project is no longer working because Google has locked down their entire API. Google Chromecasts are neat little devices that let you ‘cast’ […]
Let’s write a very simple text editor in CoreGTK
In this post I’ll quickly show how you can write a very simple text editor using CoreGTK. This example is purposely very basic, has no […]
Archive your IMAP e-mail offline in Thunderbird
Thunderbird is an excellent e-mail client and has built in e-mail archiving, however one thing that it doesn’t do intuitively is an offline archive. Here’s […]
Distro hopping: Import music stored on NAS into Music
So you’re running elementary OS and want to access the music files you have stored on a Network-attached-storage device within the Music program. Unfortunately while […]
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” […]
Cloud software for a Synology NAS and setting up OwnCloud
Recently the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group held a couple of presentations on setting up your own personally hosted cloud. With their permission we are […]
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 […]
How to migrate from TrueCrypt to LUKS file containers
With the recent questions surrounding the security of TrueCrypt there has been a big push to move away from that program and switch to alternatives. […]