Linux | Danny Tsang

Feb/10

Mount ISO File In Linux

Filed Under Linux at 13th February 2010 1:03 by Danny

Tags: CD-rom, CDROM, ISO, iso file, iso9660, Linux, Mount ISO

A neat trick in Linux is the ability to mount an .iso file as if it was a CDROM. The command to do this is: sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop /home/danny/filename.iso /media/cdrom where “/home/danny/filename.iso” is the path to the … Continue reading →

Feb/10

NFS Server

Filed Under Linux, Windows at 12th February 2010 10:40 by Danny

Tags: Linux, Mount NFS, NAS, Network Attached Storage, Network File Share, NFS, nfs client, Samba, Ubuntu, Windows, windows 7

Overview Network File Share (NFS) is a protocol for sharing storage. It is quite common in Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices and is a standard compared to Samba which is Microsoft specific but has been ported to Linux. Install NFS … Continue reading →

Jan/10

Bypass Blocked Websites Using SSH Proxy

Filed Under Linux, Software at 19th January 2010 0:01 by Danny

Tags: Firefox, internet explorer, Linux, open ssh, proxy, putty, ssh proxy, ssh server, ssh session, Ubuntu

Overview SSH tunnels are very useful for all sorts of things. One of these uses include proxy. If you have SSH access you can set one up very quickly. I do not condone any misuses of any I.T equipment, software … Continue reading →

Oct/09

My Performance Tweaks To Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux at 31st October 2009 0:01 by Danny

Tags: computer, DMA, HDD, hdparm, Linux, Optimizing, Performance, prefetching, shell, Startup, Ubuntu

Now that I have a “spare” Linux box I thought I’d try and improve the speed on the box. If it goes kaput I learn and re-install. So here are the ones I found that worked: hdparm This is the … Continue reading →

Oct/09

VirtualBox With Ubuntu Quick Review

Filed Under Linux, Review, Software, Windows at 19th October 2009 0:01 by Danny

Tags: fusion, iso image, Linux, Microsoft, physical computer, sun, Ubuntu, ubuntu 9.04, virtual environments, virtual machine, virtual media, virtualbox, vm, windows 7

Overview I found Sun’s VirtualBox and thought I’d try it out. As everything is going virtual and having used it in Mac I thought it was time to step it up in Windows so I can start running things like … Continue reading →

Sep/09

MythWeb Database Access Denied

Filed Under Linux at 21st September 2009 0:01 by Danny

Tags: apache, database, database access, Linux, MythWeb, password, setenv

I recently had to re-install my Linux computer after a lot had screwed up (mainly my fault for experimenting with stuff). When I check MythWeb I got the Message “MythWeb Database Access Denied” with some more text below. MythWeb is … Continue reading →

Jul/09

My Alternative Free Software On Windows

Filed Under Software at 6th July 2009 0:01 by Danny

Tags: 64bit, Dia, email client, Firefox, foss, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, mozilla thunderbird, open source software, opera, PDF, podcast, podcatcher, rss. notepad++, UPNP, video lan client, VLC, Windows

Overview Here are my picks for free software on Windows (currently Windows 7). Free and open source (two different licenses applied to software) have come a long way and have come to replace my ageing proprietary and non-free applications. I … Continue reading →

Jun/09

Replace /dev/xxx With UUID

Filed Under Linux at 23rd June 2009 0:01 by Danny

Tags: fstab, hardware abstraction, HDD, Linux, partition, sda, Ubuntu, UUID

Overview My recent (re)build of my old Intel Pentium 4 system to run in my Linux system has a slight problem with jumping drive points e.g one minute my /home drive on /dev/sdb1 suddent goes to /dev/sda1 after a reboot … Continue reading →