Category Archives: Computing Tips

IT Tips and tricks that I will occasionally use while doing my job. Why?
Because i’m happy to share and it will also help me remembering things.

Donated to Google Analytics Plugin

Posted on July 25, 2010 by billy

I’ve just donated $10 for the Google Analytics Plugin, one of the better plugins for WordPress in my opinion and well worth the cash.

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Security enhancing your Ubuntu LAMP with Apparmor

Posted on July 9, 2010 by billy

sudo aa-genprof apache2 When you see the following message Would you like to enable access to the profile repository? (E)nable Repository / (D)isable Repository / Ask Me (L)ater Select E for enable. You’ll see the following message Writing updated profile … Continue reading →

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Installing free2ban on Ubuntu

Posted on June 9, 2010 by billy

First thing to do is install it from the repository, I’m making the assumption that you are already connected to the internet. sudo apt-get install fail2ban The default configuration is configured in the file /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf it’s suggested at the top … Continue reading →

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Installing FreeNX on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04

Posted on June 3, 2010 by billy

I foundit pretty easy to do, the hard part was finding consistent instructions, so I blogged it to make sure I didn’t forget. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freenx-team sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install freenx-server You can download and install the nxclient … Continue reading →

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Installing and setting up ntpd under Ubuntu

Posted on May 17, 2010 by billy

Install NTP on your home server sudo apt-get install ntp Bare in mind that I’m in the UK so I’m obviously I’m going to choose NTP servers that are geographically close to me. After reading a fair bit about configuring … Continue reading →

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