Arch Linux
X2Go on Ubuntu Server 14.04
In a previous post, I talked about my experience using X2Go with XFCE4 and Lubuntu. Here is how it was achieved….. On the Server Here I’m using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but you can install X2Go […]
Arch Linux
Minimal Desktop Environment over SSH
So I wanted to install a Java desktop application and have it publicly available on a server somewhere. Using a light weight desktop environment on one of my cloud servers made sense – provided that […]
Cloud
Rackspace DNS
Log into the Rackspace cloud control panel and click on on the DNS tab at the top of the screen. Then click on Create Domain, fill out the details, and click Create Domain again to […]
Linux
OSMC PPTP Client Configuration
My parents are retired and have a house in France where they live for about three months of the year. Like most people in the UK, they watch a lot of TV and are big […]
Arch Linux
Dependency cycle detected
Occassionally when using Arch Linux, you may come across a warning: dependency cycle detected message when trying to update your system using pacman. Here we simply need to update the nvidia-libgl package…… …and then proceed […]
CentOS 6
Multipule Web Nodes using GlusterFS with CentOS 6.6
Check to see if there are any trusted storage pools already configured. Check you can establish communication from web01 to web02. This will fail if the peer isn’t listen or if the firewall is blocking […]
CentOS 6
Installing GlusterFS on CentOS 6.6
You will need to download the following repository file to the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory before trying to install the glusterfs-server package. It will pull-in a load of dependencies… …Accept the GPG key imports you are alerted […]
Cloud
Install NewRelic Server Monitoring Agent on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
NewRelic is a real-time monitoring tool that has a number of useful plugins. Here I am installing the server monitoring agent to keep track of my servers health. To install the server monitoring agent, first […]
CentOS 6
Rackspace Cloud Monitoring Agent
The Rackspace cloud monitoring agent allows you to monitor CPU, memory, filesystem usage and system processes. It does this by collecting information about the system and pushing it out to Rackspace Cloud Monitoring web services, […]
Arch Linux
Installing Popcorn Time on Arch Linux
I was looking for a Showbox equivalent that I could easily install on my Arch Linux desktop, when I came across Popcorn Time. Like Showbox, this program is a free and similar to the likes […]