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Installing Amazon’s MP3 downloader on Ubuntu 10.04

Posted on October 21, 2010 by billy

Thanks to google and a few websites I managed to get Amazon’s MP3 downloader to work on my linux workstation at home. It looks like Amazon’s Amazon MP3 application requires libboost 1.34, which is older than the version now included … 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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Configuring a static IP address on Lucid Lynx

Posted on May 14, 2010 by billy

I didn’t know this, but seemingly you have to remove the network manager  before you set up a static Ethernet IP on Lucid Lynx. Remove Network Manager. sudo apt-get remove network-manager Then follow the instructions here. References: Ubuntuguide.com

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