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Remote desktop server XRDP on Linux Mint, Ubuntu
Posted on February 9, 2015 28 Comments
If you’d like to access your Linux desktop over the network from anywhere in the world, or just want to share your computer’s resources on the LAN by giving all users accounts on your computer, you can set up a remote desktop server. It is quite easy to do so, and the best part is […]
A failed experiment with GlusterFS
Posted on July 18, 2014 9 Comments
GlusterFS is a clustered file system that can be used when you want to share the content across different machines which can be accomplished by NFS as well. But the difference is, NFS failover is hard. In GlusterFS, you can add two servers known as bricks in Gluster’s terminology on which your volume can be […]
Load balancing with Linux Virtual Server via Tunnelling
Posted on June 27, 2014 2 Comments
A post after almost a year. But finally I have something new to post. Linux Virtual Server is commonly employed for load balancing between multiple servers. The load balancer and real servers share a common IP address called virtual IP. There are three methods for using LVS – Direct Routing, NAT and Tunnelling. The first […]
Redmine on Apache 2.4 using uWSGI
Posted on August 30, 2013 Leave a Comment
If you haven’t worked with uWSGI yet for setting up applications of different kinds – let me tell you it’s a Swiss knife. It supports applications written in Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl and recently Java and Go too. One tool to run a lot of stuff – that means life is easier if you’re on […]
The move from Linux to FreeBSD
Posted on June 7, 2013 74 Comments
About 2 months ago, I had a spare VPS at my host, Hetzner. So I decided to play with FreeBSD which was being offered for Hetzner servers and VPSes.That’s how the whole thing started. I didn’t have much problems getting the concepts because it belongs to *nix family of OSes and I have been a […]
Nginx and Metalog
Posted on April 13, 2013 Leave a Comment
Metalog is an easily configurable system logger daemon which can be substituted for standard syslogd and klogd. It has one limitation though, that you cannot log to remote machines. It’s very easy to configure Nginx to use Syslog (Metalog, in my case). All you need to do is compile nginx with this syslog plugin. If […]
A handy timezone converter for all Linux users
Posted on March 1, 2013 Leave a Comment
Linux has a in built timezone converter and I have been using various web services ever since. Timezone is controlled by the TZ environment variable and you can set it to the desired timezone before executing a command, which will make the command think that you are in that particular timezone. Here’s how to use […]
Configuring Roboto font in Linux
Posted on February 24, 2013 13 Comments
Roboto font comes from Android and Google designed it really well. It looks awesome on desktops and laptops. But getting it working as a default system font in Linux is quite a task because the font package of Roboto available has multiple font forms declaring same type of text style. The standard Roboto package consists […]
NFS cannot allocate memory and No such file or directory errors
Posted on January 29, 2013 5 Comments
NFS cannot allocate memory seems to be common issue a lot of people face while mounting NFSv4 shares, as revealed from search results on Google. Even I faced it when trying to mount a NFS share exported from my desktop on my Raspberry Pi. It didn’t give the error on the Pi, though. I discovered […]
Routing for multiple ISP links on Linux
Posted on January 3, 2013 3 Comments
Many of us have multiple ISP uplinks for different reasons like reliability, download limit, etc. but there is no clear guide [at least, I couldn’t find any] on routing for multiple links. I came across the same problem — I got a new fiber connection, but it is a capped one and I have a […]
