Setting up a firewall in Ubuntu
By far the most popular and easy to setup firewall for Ubuntu is UFW, which stands for the 'Uncomplicated FireWall'.…
Ubuntu 14.04 and up: Rename a volume group containing root
When checking my cloned Ubuntu 14.04 LTS VM, I noticed that it still contained the volume group name from the…
Setting up a static IP address or Wifi on Raspberry PI 2 B
Eth0 static IP address configuration On the latest version of Raspbian (in my case, Raspbian GNU/Linux 8), you should not use /etc/network/interfaces…
HP Universal Printer PCL 6 driver cannot read printer capabilities
This bug I encountered last week. While writing a system to define printers and TCP/IP ports in bulk on Windows…
Gmail as relayhost for Postfix
I just installed a new Ubuntu 13.04 server and thought I'd look into using gmail as relayhost for Postfix instead…
Managing Windows features from the command line with RSAT
Note: An update of this article for Windows 10 can be found here One of the more useful Windows features…
Weird error on Windows 7 with RUNAS.EXE with locally defined user
The other day, I noticed something strange with Windows 7's runas.exe command. When I specify a local user, a local…
Merging videos with mencoder
In this article, I present an easy way to merge all video files in a directory using the Open Source…
Sharing Clementine song status in Empathy
Found this handy python script for sharing Clementine song status in Empathy..... regrettably it did not work on my Ubuntu…
CMD.EXE: About Variables
In this article I will give some extra information on the usage of CMD.EXE variables in batch files. These variables…