Plex is probably best invention after sliced bread.. Its simple enough to install it on basically any appliance or os. Here is the short description of how to install Plex on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon vi /etc/apt/sources.list add
Installing drupal with commons on Ubuntu
This has basically been killing me the last few days, so here I share my experience to save you some time. Please follow these steps sudo tasksel install lamp-server (type down the password for your mysql installation) sudo apt-get
Find out the size of a directory in linux
Sometimes you might want to find out what is eating all space in a certain drive. One way is to do a find for files larger than a specific size: Syntax for RedHat / CentOS / Fedora Linux find {/path/to/directory/} -type
Add a swap to EC2 micro instance!
Those 640MB RAM in a micro instance will not get you far.. but sometimes for the sake of testing – you might want to enable swap. Here is a fast how to create a swap as a file.. sudo
Migrating a HDD to a smaller SSD disk (Ubuntu) or any other flavour
From time to time, you get to the point that you might have to migrate your root/boot disk to another disk – sometimes a smaller disk even. There are many ways of doing this. I recently found out that
Migrating Your Ubuntu Machine to a SSD Drive(same size / larger disk)
To start migrating your system from one drive to the other, perform the following steps: boot your machine using the live CD / USB stick; enable the “universe” repositories on Ubuntu and install gddrescue: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install
How to cleanup hidden deviced (NIC’s) after a p2v migration..
After you have converted a Windows server to a virtual machine, some redundant hardware devices may not be removed in the process. I have seen this commonly with network devices. When setting the IP in a VM you may get
GPO cleanup – after a P2V conversion/migration
Sometimes, after a conversion of a physical server you might see random errors in the event viewer. Even worse sometimes the RPC service goes to defunc state (running but doesnt accept connections). One way to make sure the errors
Installing Couchpotato on Ubuntu
This is something that I used recently and I guess more people are interested in how it is done.. Using GIT is probably the best way: Install GIT with apt-get install git-core cd’ to the folder of your choosing. Run git clone https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer.git
Active Directory and Account Lockouts..
I thought I start of this blog with adding helpful scripts and tips I get to use. Here is the first and a very helpful tool from MS Run LockoutStatus.exe. Enter the username and find out which of your DCs