One year ago, I purchased a VPS from QuickWeb. I found the deal at my one of my favorite sites for cheap hosting: www.lowendbox.com. The deal was:
I ordered …
more ...Installing Open Virtual Machine Tools is a nice alternative to managing and installing the vmware tools package that comes with Vmware's hypervisor products. It allows you to use APT to manage all the dependencies and updates. Module assistant will recompile the kernel modules for you automatically when you update kernels …
more ...Debian uses udev. Udev handles mapping MAC's to the appropriate /dev/eth(X) file. If you copy a Virtual machine, Udev will remember the MAC address of the old NIC. When you copy the machine, the virtual host usually generates a new MAC address for the VM. Udev will assign …
more ...You can find out how much bandwidth your linux machine is using with a simple tool called "bwm-ng". In Debian, install it with
aptitude install bwm-ng
Then, just type 'bwm-ng' in the command line. It will give you something like this:
bwm-ng v0.6 (probing every 5.000s …The path to it is
BEWS_12.5.2213_LINUX-UNIX-MAC-SAP_AGENTS.tar.gz\BEWS_12.5.2213_LINUX-UNIX-MAC-SAP_AGENTS.tar\pkgs\Linux\VRTSralus.tar.gz\VRTSralus.tar\VRTSralus-12.5.2213-0.i386.deb
Unfortunately, the Deb package doesn't specify It's dependencies. You need to manually install the libstdc++5 package.
aptitude …If you install GNOME on Debian and intend to use it as a server, first thing you should do is remove the network-manager and network-manager-gnome packages. This tool can be helpful on a desktop, but since we are tweaking DNS, IP addresses, and perhaps even NIC bonding, the network-manager can …
more ...To create an MP3 audio file in Lenny, you need to install the proper package to encode them. I suggest you add the "debian-multimedia" repository while you are at it. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and add:
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
run
aptitude update
then install …
more ...I like the closed source version of virtualbox. I just do. This is how to install it quickly and simply:
add this to sources.list
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free
run this to get the public key and install it:
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org …As usual, the official Debian wiki has a great writeup on getting the Drivers installed. http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers. Do yourself a favor and read the document. It will give you the full story and not just the regurgitated short version below. I use debian because I like the …
more ...Just install samba server:
apt-get install samba
edit the config:
nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
set security to "share"
security = share
and guest account to nobody
guest account = nobody
then you just need to create your share like this:
[guest share]
comment = a guest share
path = /path/to/files
browseable …