SSH Shared Key Auth
There are many guides on doing this, I’m just dropping it here as quick reminder to myself. On server1… $ ssh-keygen -t rsa $ chmod 700 ~/.ssh $ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa Copy to server2; then on server2… $ cat id_rsa.pub…
Running Google Music Manager under Ubuntu Linux
Update – A native linux Google Music Manager was released on 22nd July 2011, which means you don’t have to run it under Wine now. Makes this post obsolete but I’ll keep it up for posterity. You got an invite…
Video Test 720p
Here’s a video test from my new mobile. It’s a Samsung Galaxy S2, and it’s the nuts. This is only 720p but it does 1080p too.
Google Social Circle Results
I didn’t know Google did this, but I hope this acts as a warning to my friends not to watch the so-called movie, Skyline.
Google hl=chr Language Setting
Just came across annoying bug in Firefox Sync (probably related to previously using Foxmarks and Chrome sync), which resulted in constantly getting the Google homepage in Cherokee language, even at google.co.uk. Its because somewhere along the line, it set the…
Linux – Recursively Deleting Selected Files
Writing it up here because I keep having to do it and can never remember how: find . -name *.txt -exec rm -rf {} ;
Virtualbox, Ubuntu Host, Windows XP Guest
Ran into a problem after running a Windows XP guest in Virtualbox, where I was unable to access some of the shares on a Virtualbox Share, giving me the helpful message “the request is not supported”. This share was working…
Split Tunnel VPN Connection – Ubuntu
Followed a great quick article on split tunnelling my VPN connection here. What this means is normal network access (printers/internet/storage) still routes through your usual gateway, while your corporate IP resources route via the VPN. The only addition I had…
Ubuntu – Hiding Users on Login Screen
I needed to hide users from GDM login as I have users set up which are for FTP/SFTP only. The login screen only shows UID’s (User IDs) greater than 1000, so you just need to change the UID for each…
XBMC on Ubuntu
Making this my hotlist of stuff that I need to remember when I’ve upgraded too much and killed my server again. This applies to xbmc live 9.10 installed to hard disk. Updated for 10.4 rebuild on non-live. Set up static…
Stalk Me
Who said I was hard to find!?