How to easily forward Firefox (PC & Android) traffic through an SSH tunnel
Say you are travelling, or are at a neighbourhood coffee shop, using whatever unsecured WiFi network they make available. You could either: trust that no […]
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 […]
Big distributions, little RAM 7
It’s been a while but once again here is the latest instalment of the series of posts where I install the major, full desktop, distributions […]
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 […]
CoreGTK 2.24.0 Released!
The initial version of CoreGTK, version 2.24.0, has been tagged for release today. Features include: Targets GTK+ 2.24 Support for GtkBuilder Can be used on […]
Linux alternatives: Mp3tag → EasyTAG
A big part of my move from Windows to Linux has been finding replacements for the applications that I had previously used day-to-day that are […]
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. […]
Create a virtual hard drive volume within a file in Linux
If you are not familiar with the concept of virtual hard drive volumes, sometimes called file containers, they are basically regular looking files that can […]
Set up KeePass Auto-Type on Linux
If you’ve used KeePass on Windows you may be very attached to its auto-type feature, where with a single key-combo press the application with magically […]
Force Thunderbird/Enigmail to use a specific signing (hash) algorithm
If you’ve had issues trying to get Thunderbird to send your PGP signed e-mail using anything other than SHA-1 there is a quick and easy […]
How to mount a Windows share on startup
I recently invested in a NAS device to add a little bit of redundancy to my personal files. With this particular NAS the most convenient […]
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 […]
Cloud Saves for Minecraft
I’ve recently become addicted to Minecraft. I realize that I’m late to this game, having only recently discovered it despite its popularity over the past […]
Extend the life of your SSD on linux
This past year I purchased a laptop that came with two drives, a small 24GB SSD and a larger 1TB HDD. My configuration has placed […]
Change the default sort order in Nautilus
The default sort order in Nautilus has been changed to sorting alphabetically by name and the option to change this seems to be broken. For […]
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 […]