Category: Ubuntu
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Find my external IP from terminal – Quick & Dirty
I asked myself, how do I find my external IP from terminal in Ubuntu? The interwebs provided me with this quick and dirty, hot tippy: curl ifconfig.me shanx Interwebs 🙂
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Creating an Ubuntu Server with Webmin – Easy Peasy
Install Ubuntu Server: For detailed instructions on performing the base install, just head over to the ubuntu forums. They’re very informative, well presented, and easy to read. If you have any problems, comment below and I’ll see if I can be of any help. Once Ubuntu Server has been installed, login and do an apt-get…
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Deny Hosts – Installation and Overview (Paranoid Much? o.O)
Deny Hosts Overview In setting up an ubuntu server, one of the first packages I install is denyhosts. This daemon monitors access attempts to your server and blacklists ip’s whose access has been denied based on variables you determine in the config file. The config file allows you to, among other things, block based on…
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How to get flash working in Ubuntu 11.10
I haven’t investigated Chromium yet, but for Firefox, go to Tools>addons and search for flash-aid. It determines which flash to use based on your OS version. Worked a treat! Flash now works in Ubuntu 11.10 in my Firefox browser.
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Finding PCs on a linux network
Just installed Kubuntu on my Work PC, Server is linux, dev server is linux, 3 other PCs are different versions of Windows. sudo nmap -O ipaddress/24 This will list all ips alive and their ports and guess the OS. there is a version of Nmap available for Windows, having not used it though, I cannot…