Well I found what I thought was a really handy way of easily mounting an .iso image on your Linux machine. Check this out.. sudo mkdir -p /media/cdrom sudo mount -o loop ~/Desktop/name_of_iso_file.iso /media/cdrom You should now be able to access the .iso file data as if it was a physical CD-ROM 🙂 Hope someone […]
Category: Apps & OS’s
Ok well I have read many articles and a couple of times installed tools like Macbuntu which offer a complete transformation of Ubuntu GUI but I have never been happy with just how flaky these tools can be and how they can screw up your OS so I decided to make some simple graphical changes […]
I recently wanted to syncronise the contents of our backup VPS (for the ZPanel project) that we used to backup all of our servers and services that we use (MySQL databases, websites and SVN data) from multiple servers to a server sitting at my house – just for double protection as our backup VPS is […]
If you would have asked me several years ago what I thought of Apple Mac’s I would have pretty much spat at you, I found them to be a ‘kiddies toy’ that designers used (to be fair at the time it was OS9)Â or maybe I was just blind!??!!!?!?? ….However, since which time I have started […]
Well the last month has been very eventful with regards to the projects that I have been running/involved in…. I have released ZPanel 6.0.0 Alpha1 on Sunday for testing and so far so good so hopefully a full upgrade release will be released as stable very soon as soon as everyone from the ZPanel team […]
In this guide I will be explaining how you can create a PPTP (Point to point tunnelling protocol) VPN using Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS release, this should also work for other versions of Ubuntu Server too! Ok so there are many types of VPN’s (PPTP, L2TP etc. etc.) PPTP is not the most secure type […]
Hi all, Another feature that I needed for my project over at zpanel.co.uk was an SVN server so that other members of my team can download the source code, make changes and upload it back to the master server. So this quick tutorial will show you the basics of how to setup an SVN server […]
This month on my ‘main’ project (ZPanel) I have changed the download mirror network system, previously I wrote a PHP mirror syncronisation web app which would syncronise files to all pulic mirrors but after about 3 years of it being in use and the main repository getting rather full and slowing everything down I have […]
As you can proberbly tell from my other blog posts I really do like Ubuntu although I also admire CentOS/Redhat but for sheer simplicity and non-bloat installation I do like this awesome distrubution. Ok so nowadays more and more people have more than one PC or network device at home and therefore it would be […]
A recently I have been playing around with Ubuntu Server 10.04 and various little projects etc. I thought I’d write a tutorial on how you can create a network accessable or local Ubuntu package repository. For this tutorial I am using Ubuntu 10.04 Server release on an old Compaq Proliant DL320. The sole purpose of […]