Finding Files from Ubuntu Commandline
This is a basic entry on how to search for files in Linux, and more specifically how to find a software package that a file belongs too.
Archive | Linux
fail2ban, block hack attempts automatically
If you have a server out there it’s getting attacked. Sooner or later somebody will be able to break into your system if you don’t keep on top of security.
SSH is what most Linux admin’s use to manage their systems. I hated looking at all these hack/bot type attempts to login to my systems so [...]
Rackspace Hosting Review
I’ve recently started using Rackspace for personal use. For the Linux user this ROCKS!! But if you need a Windows systems your SOL for now.
First of all “It’s cheap!!”. This has to be the cheapest commercial (employs more than one guy in a basement) service I’ve used. You can get a base system for about [...]
Leaving PHP for a new love; Python over Perl and Ruby
Ok, it’s a corny title. But I had a new project that was primarily a commandline (CLI) application, but also had GUI components. I also needed this to be able to work in Linux and Windows. PHP just doesn’t do the trick for these kind of things.
I’ve got about 8 years of LAMP type programming [...]
Free VMWare like virtualization with VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a free GPL virtual machine system that is comparable to VMWare. The interface and usage will be familar to VMWare. Initial look at performance seems comparable.
According to their website “VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer
for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is
now the only professional-quality virtualization solution [...]
Scribefire, killer blog writting tool for Firefox
For my first blog post ever on blogspot I decided to try the ScribFire Firefox add-on.
Overall
I’ve been looking for a Blog service and tool that I could use from
Linux and Windows that would allow me to get my thoughts out in a
minimum amount of technical effort. There are, of course tons of tools
out there. But [...]
