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Ubuntu
Ubuntu Touch and Android dual boot on Google Nexus Devices
Canonical released Ubuntu Touchversion for mobile devices while ago, but now Canonical officially support dual boot Ubuntu with popular Google Android. Many developers and enthusiasts have great experience with Ubuntu Touch installed on their smart phone with positive reviews. Ubuntu and Android dual boot is still in early stage of development, but Canonical makes it easy for both Ubuntu and Android…
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Tips – Tricks
How to fix slow performance ubuntu 13.04 running in virtualbox
Having very slow perform when running Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04 in virtualbox? It’s because Ubuntu can’t use graphics card for acceleration, ubuntu uses CPU for rendering graphics trough LLVMpipe. It makes running ubuntu in virualbox really slow. To check if your Ubuntu 12.10 guest is using 3D acceleration /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p You should see something like this Not software rendered: no…
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Uncategorized
Rsync with SSH without prompting for password
rsync is a free software computer program for Unix and Linux like systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate. Install rsync For ubuntu or debian # apt-get install rsync For RHEL/CentOS 4.x or older # up2date rsync For RHEL/CentOS 5.x or newer or Fedora # yum install…
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Security
How to install truecrypt on ubuntu
Trucrypt can create an encrypted volume and a hidden volume within a file. Files can be copied to and from a mounted TrueCrypt volume just like they are copied to/from any normal disk. Install from a ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-astrapi/ppa sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install truecrypt To remove it sudo apt-get install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge ppa:michael-astrapi/ppa Or install…
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Linux Mint
How to upgrade Linux Mint 14 to Linux Mint 15
I’m upgrading my Linux Mint 14 Nadia box to Linux Mint 15 Olivia, here is how i did Change the repositories, replace all “precise” with “quantal” and “maya” with “nadia” sudo sed -i 's/quantal/raring/' /etc/apt/sources.list sudo sed -i 's/nadia/olivia/' /etc/apt/sources.list Update the system sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get upgrade The installing process will ask you if…
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WordPress
How to redirect 404 to homepage in wordpress
Want to redirect 404 error page to your homepage in wordpress? Here is how Login to your wordpress admin page http://website.com/wp-admin/ Go to “Apperarance” -> “Editor” -> 404.php If your theme doesnt have 404.php page, create one under your theme directory wp-content/themes/themename/ Change or create your 404.php code to these <?php header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: ".get_bloginfo('url')); exit(); ?> What…
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Tips – Tricks
How to install mod_rewrite on Ubuntu
mod_rewrite will not be isntalled by default when you install apache web server and php on Ubuntu. To use mod_rewrite on ubuntu you can use the the following command in the terminal # a2enmod rewrite Restart apache2 server # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart you can use the following sample .htaccess file <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}…
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Software
How to update and upgrade with fastest mirror from the command line
If you want to update and upgrade your sources.list file with the fastest servers from the command line in a fresh Ubuntu Server install, it’s quite easy with the GUI, but it doesn’t seem to be a simple way to do it from from the command line. You can us deb mirror to have the best mirror picked for you…
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CentOS
How to install nginx by compiling source
Nginx is an open source, fast, light weight and highly customable web server that is similar to Apache. Unfortunately configuring and setting him up is not that easy compared to Apache. nginx is both web server and reverse proxy server. Modules can not be loaded later via a config file like Apache modules, they must be compiled into the Nginx binary.…
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CentOS
How to install nginx on centos
How can I install Nginx web server On CentOS Linux 6 or Red Hat? Nginx is faster at serving static files and consumes much less memory for concurrent requests because Nginx is event-based it doesn’t need to spawn new processes or threads for each request, so its memory usage is very low. Add nginx yum repository nano /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo add this…