Ivan's Corner

Category: Linux

  • Proxmox Setup – First Steps

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    Before continuing below, please note that I have zero execerience with Proxmox and did everything googling and so on, therefore I do not pretend anything – this is more or less my own notes made public. One of the first thing I did after the installation was to put some iso’s in: /var/lib/vz/template/iso Where they…

  • Barebone home VMWare / Proxmox / Virtualization

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    My First Steps With Proxmox   Last night I started installing Proxmox (Version: 3.3-a06c9f73-2) on my new barebone home server: Motherboard – Supermicro A1SRM-2758F-O RAM – KVR16LSE11/8 – 2x8gb kit PSU – Corsair CX Series 430 Watt Case – Carbide Series® Air 240 High Airflow HDD/SSD – Crucial Mx110 256gb USB to Boot From –…

  • Thank you Zentyal

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    Thank you Zentyal for saving me from (two days of testing) all other beautiful, however, not working under hyper-v release like my favorite pfsense, ipcop, untangle and so on. Please Microsoft, give them a driver, but for now Zentyal is working flawessly on my Hyper-V!

  • Skype/pulseaudio fix Mint 16

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    Today I tried a skype call on my truthful AAO which recently got mint 16 and I was frustrated by the sound crackling/distortion. It’s not just a problem with Skype, I believe it’s a problem with, you’ve guessed it, PulseAudio. Workaround? Indeed there is. Disabling PulseAudio’s Glitch Free Audio seems to have solved the crackling…

  • DDWRT Wan Port is not working

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    If you, like me have TP-Link WR1043ND with DDWRT on it and after assigning a wan port to switch realized that it’s not working just go to: Administration, Commands and paste the code below in the text field: swconfig dev rtl8366rb vlan 1 set ports ‘0 1 2 3 4 5t’ stopservice lan startservice lan…

  • TWRP on nexus 5

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    Was bored today and went to http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/205 and quickly flashed it, working flawlessly as expected. Installation methods are described on the page, the app install method didn’t worked for me.    

  • Turn off touchpad when typing = priceless

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    I was pissed by the touchpad of my AAOne (running great under Linux Mint 16 “Petra” Xfce) until I found syndaemon = priceless. -d starts it as daemon (running on background) -i sets the time, default is 2 seconds. Found here, thank you Husse!

  • Release/Renew IP in linux

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    I was wondering how this works in Linux and found these two methods (in terminal, considering that eth0 is the desired interface): sudo ifconfig eth0 down sudo ifconfig eth0 up or use sudo dhclient eth0 Found here.  

  • Add existing user to sudoers

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    If our user is not created add it with sudo useradd -m username (m creates home for it) then set password with passwd username then sudo usermod -a -G sudo username (-a to append a group, -G is for needed group itself, in our example sudo, could be any group) groups username will show the…

  • Katkiss on Asus TF101

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    Just installed Katkiss on my wife TF101 and gave a breath of fresh air to it, thank you very much Timduru