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Clonning CentOS 6.2 in VirtualBox

ePlus — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:51:52 +0000

Step 1 Install, update & configure your new CentOS installation. I wanted to install the Virtualbox Guest Additions and I recommend that you do the same due to the extra drivers and extensions it installs as it will make it …

Ubuntu Mediawiki Move LocalSettings.php Fix

ePlus — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:24:53 +0000

If you have just installed Mediawiki from its .deb package and you get the below message: Then all you have to do is move the the LocationSettings.php file: Refresh the page and it should all work nicely!

Auto Mount SMB/CIFS Shares Ubuntu 11.10

ePlus — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:21:17 +0000

If you are always accessing network shares from your Linux desktop you might find it easier to have those shares automatically mounted at login. This can be achieved like so on a Ubuntu installation: Step 1 First we’ll add our …

Update Ubuntu 11.10 to Kernel 3.2

ePlus — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:40:56 +0000

So you want to take advantage of the new features the new version of Kernel 3.2 has to offer? Fear not, simply copy and paste the below commands and you’ll be good to go! Some of the main features along …

Romanian Sopcast TV Channels

ePlus — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:17:31 +0000

I am always finding myself searching for Romanian Sopcast TV channels. Here is a list of some of the popular Romanian channels, plus some others: TVR 1 sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/60706/ TVR 2 sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/80620/ ACASA sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/80555/ ANTENA 1 sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/72565/ ANTENA 1HQ sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/80625/ ANTENA …

Windows XP SP3 & 7 SP1 Disabling Safe Services

ePlus — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:25:59 +0000

I frequently have to tweak and optimize the operating systems that I work with. And one of the things that I do as part of my check list is to disabled unnecessary services that are safe to do so which …

Xubuntu 11.10 & USB Headset Workaround

ePlus — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:31:19 +0000

So you got yourself Xubuntu 11.10 installed and now want to Skype with your USB headset. Great, so you plug in your headset into the USB port, start Skype call a friend (or the test call bot) and BAM – …

Xubuntu 11.10 & Redshift Howto

ePlus — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:43:59 +0000

Following on from my previous rant/workaround in getting your USB headset to work, it is time to save our eyes by configuring “Redshift. As the developer puts it: Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. …

Scheduling sFTP Transfers with PSFTP

ePlus — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:37:03 +0000

Recently I was asked by a client to implement some sort of system that will establish a sFTP connection to a remote server and download the desired data. Initially I was like, yeah easy, get a sFTP FOSS client, configure …

OpenVPN Access Server ESXi 4.1 Installation Guide

ePlus — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:16:38 +0000

In the this tutorial we will be going through deploying a OpenVPN Access Server (AS) from scratch in a VMWare ESXi 4.1 environment. This should be perfect for a home VPN server (due to licence limitations of a maximum of …