Migrating Webmin users, permissions, and access control lists
I recently had to replace a DNS server due to the hosting platform no longer supporting OpenVZ, and because the server was getting a bit ancient. The efforts involved in …
linux
Why is the Windows 11 upgrade so slow?
On one of my laptops, a premium model with a Core i7, 32GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD disk, it seems to take forever (possibly longer) to upgrade from …
Using sfdisk to recover a partition table on Linux
As he re-entered the sfdisk dump manually in the remote recovery console, using the devil’s editor (vi), he was silently thanking the Linux developers for not screwing around with the …
Fixing some keyboard shortcuts in XFCE (Ctrl+F5 and Ctrl+Alt+T)
Old habits die hard, or something like that 🙂 Cloning one of my Ubuntu Desktop set-ups to a VirtualBox environment, I switched to using XFCE4 for my desktop (“xubuntu”). This …
How the NSA could save billions of dollars
How you save the NSA and other similarly inclined organization billions of dollars in hardware using only a decent operating system: tail -f /dev/person/to/track #unix #linux #surveillance #privacy
wget segfault | wget segmentation fault
We mirror the Webmin website to bring it somewhat closer to Sweden, and recently I had to move the hosted mirror to another of our servers running Debian 8. All …
Using Shared Resources from your Linux workstation in your RemoteDesktop (RDP) environment and Windows Server
If you, like me, are using Ubuntu – or similar – for your daily stuff and need to connect to a Windows Server by using RemoteDesktop (RDP) / TerminalServer, you …
rsyslogd eats CPU on OpenVZ
All of a sudden, rsyslogd on an Ubuntu installation running under OpenVZ is using 100% CPU. One alternative is to replace rsyslogd for syslog-ng, but if you want to “fix” …
When Gimp 2.8 gets confused about Single-Window Mode
Using Gimp 2.8 and Single-Window Mode under Ubuntu 12.04.LTS + Gnome, I ran into somewhat of a snag today. No matter what I did, I could not get the tool …
Linus Torvalds
Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it 😉 (Linus Torvalds)