Category: Debian/Ubuntu
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How to find the Ubuntu Netboot ISO in 2024
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In the world of Ubuntu installations, the Netboot ISO, also known as the
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How to fix: UFW blocking Internet access on devices connected to Proxy with WireGuard
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Ever tried combining a transparent proxy with a WireGuard VPN client, aiming to secure all local traffic through a remote VPS, only to find that enabling UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) breaks Internet connectivity? If you’ve found yourself in this situation, you’re not alone. This article unpacks the complexities and offers a simple solution, often overlooked in UFW’s default settings.
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How to fix: No Internet access from WireGuard client and inability to ping server's IP
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Have you ever set up a WireGuard VPN on a local machine and a remote VPS, only to find out that the local machine can’t access the Internet, even though the VPS can? On top of that, neither can ping each other’s IPs? It’s a frustrating issue, but the good news is that the fix is actually quite simple. This article will guide you through the surprisingly easy solution to this irritating problem, which turns out to be a minor setting misconfiguration.
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Securing your home server: Obtaining an SSL certificate for servers not exposed to the Internet
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You’ve set up a nifty home server, perfect for hosting your internal dashboards, file storage, or even your personal blog. There’s just one hiccup—your server isn’t accessible from the Internet. How then do you secure it with an SSL certificate? Fear not! I’ve found myself in a similar situation, and I’ve got a surefire solution for you. In this article, we’ll explore how to use Certbot and the DNS challenge method to get an SSL certificate for a home server that’s not publicly accessible.
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How to properly install Certbot and Certbot-DNS-Cloudflare on Ubuntu and similar OSs
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In the era of cybersecurity, SSL certificates serve as the cornerstone of web security, ensuring encrypted communication between servers and clients. Certbot simplifies this by automating the acquisition and deployment of SSL certificates, while its plugin, Certbot-DNS-Cloudflare, streamlines the DNS validation process for domains managed through Cloudflare. From this article, you will learn how to properly install Certbot and the Certbot-DNS-Cloudflare plugin on Ubuntu and similar operating systems.
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How to update YouTube-DL to latest version
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YouTube-DL is a fantastic CLI (command-line interface) tool for your daily life and/or work that allows you to download video/audio from YouTube.com and other video hosting websites. I thought that it is updated in the same way as all other parts of the system; using the
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Upgrading the SVN working copy to new version
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Today I upgraded the Subversion on my computer from 1.6 to 1.7 version. Subversion version 1.7 has a new repository structure and requires to upgrade all existing working copies.
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Antivirus on a Linux machine
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How to, on a Linux machine, using the ClamAV, detect malicious code (trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats).
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SSL Certificate automatically by a BASH script
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To quickly and easily create a self-signed SSL certificate for Web servers Apache and Nginx I wrote a little script in “BASH”.
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Secure copying files via SSH
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How to, from the terminal, securely transfer data between a local host and a remote host or between two remote hosts.
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Convert many disk image formats to ISO9660 from Terminal
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There are many formats of disk images which is not possible to mount with standard Linux tools. But, with “Iat” tool, we can convert it to ISO format and then mount it with
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Find and delete the zero size files and empty directories
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How to, in the terminal, using the
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Find and remove duplicate files from the terminal
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If you have a lot of media files (photo, music etc), then most likely you also have a lot of duplicate files. In this article I’ll show you how to find and remove duplicate files, from the terminal, by using
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Setup Wi-Fi Adapter and Configure Wireless Interface
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I’ll show an example of how to configure a connection to a wireless network from the console of the Debian system by using Wi-Fi Adapter “ASUS USB-N10 Nano” (
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Connect Raspberry Pi to the WiFi network
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By default the Raspberry Pi uses DHCP to configure its network interfaces, including, on the model B, the built-in ethernet port. In this post I’ll cover how you can set up your Raspberry Pi to automatically connect to your wireless network and obtain a static IP or configure WPA2 using wpa_supplicant. All you need is a WiFi dongle.
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How to fix: ping: unknown host ***.com
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How to fix the issue if you see the message about the host is unknown when attempting to ping a domain name.
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How to fix: Host key verification failed
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When attempting to connect using SSH, the connection may be automatically rejected with the following error:
Host key verification failed
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AFP and Bonjour under Linux
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For quite some time I use my Linux machine as a file and backup server (Mac File Server and Time Machine Volume) for all Mac’s in my network which is accessible from the Finder in Mac OS X.
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BASH aliases
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You can create shortened commands by using aliases. Aliases are very convenient to use for frequently used commands.
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Recursively replace spaces with underscores in file and directory names
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A safe solution to recursively replace spaces with underscores in file and directory names starting from the current directory.
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Creating public/private key authentication for SSH
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If you use ssh to connect to the remote host, one way to ensure the security of the connection is the use of public/private SSH key, because password is not passed across the network and the system is resistant to attacks by “brute force”.
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Clean Linux
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The junk gobbles up our disk space and drags down our Linux machine. From this article you will learn how to clean up junk files and thereby speed up your Linux machine by using the terminal app.
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The graphics in the console Ubuntu
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In the version of Ubuntu 7.10 and above - framebuffer is turned off by default. To enable it we will conduct described below.
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