The Tripplite OmniVS 1500XL is a great home/SOHO USB UPS that is expandable with external battery packs. But, the NUT support on Debian-based linux distros is no bueno. They support…
Category: Ubuntu
I wanted to play with Logstalgia (https://github.com/acaudwell/Logstalgia) a little so I found an older Apache log file back in Jan 2013 from my website when I was fortunate to get…
Fan-Control-Daemon has been working great for months on my MacBook Pro 8,2 running Ubuntu 13.04 natively but found it getting hotter and hotter all the time. So, I recompiled FCD…
I just had the experience of installing Ubuntu Server 13.04 on a new HP DL320e Gen8 server and it was not as easy as it should have been. It’s kind…
The wiki entry on the Spamassassin wiki for the simple setup with Postfix is almost there. I recently setup my 12.04 Ubuntu server with Spamassassin with Postfix and everything is…
Update 2013-03-29: Caused some chaos with debconf. I have modified the sets a little to fix it. If you need to move off Perl 5.14 which is the current distro…
First off, if you are trying to get VMware Workstation 9.x to run on a non-supported system or one that really hasn’t even been formally released yet like Ubuntu 13.04…
I’m running Ubuntu 13.04 and burning through the daily updates and hit the latest kernel down the proposed repo and ran it only to kill my wireless on my Macbook…
Recently, I did something really stupid and damaged my whole dpkg system. It was pretty bad. I did an “apt-get purge” with a pattern and wildcard and thought it was…
Once you start using f.lux on some of your devices, you miss it when you don’t have it everywhere. If you are running Ubuntu 13.04 right now, you can’t easily…