A shy step towards the Gnome desktop environment
A lot of people love Gnome. It hasn’t clicked with me so far, but probably I did not give it a proper chance. It’s time to do that.
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Virtualmin on Ubuntu – add support for newer php versions
The latest versions of php come with big performance improvements. However, a downside is that older code might have unexpected behaviour – as the improvement list is quite long.
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From Windows Home to Ubuntu Desktop
For a couple of years now, I have been using Docker for development. It is an amazing tool which highly improves the developer’s job. However, it does not make very good friends with Windows Home, which was the OEM operating…
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Saving your Windows 10 license
For quite some time now, I have been postponing the switch to some flavour of Linux on my laptop, due the the fact that it came with an OEM license. OEM stands for “original equipment manufacturer” and OEM License is…
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Building your `programming helper` pet server with docker, on ubuntu
Nowadays there are quite many tools out there to help the process of developing apps. To easily manage them, I decided to go with a docker-compose approach on a VPS running ubuntu.
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Setting `docker-compose` on fresh Ubuntu 18.04 install
In an effort for setting development tools in the most economical way (and also learn stuff about as much as possible), I am now trying to install docker-compose on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 instance. At the end, an nginx is…
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Hosting websites on my own VPS
This is actually an ongoing project. It started as a necessity, but with time and hosting services getting cheaper and cheaper, it advanced with curiosity. I learnt about Linux, with users and groups, services, servers, package managers. I also made…
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Ubuntu/Webmin Jailkit error: “Perl. Can’t locate Config/IniFiles.pm”
On my development server, while trying to access Jailkit Jail Manager in Webmin, I stumbled upon the error above: “Perl. Can’t locate Config; (and some more details). Obviously, Jailkit was not working.
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Add your SSH key to your Ubuntu server
Using SSH keys is the recommended way of accessing your server, as far as security goes.
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Virtualmin hosting on Ubuntu 16.04 x64
The following commands and ideas are useful in creating an Ubuntu hosting server using Virtualmin as a main administration interface. As obvious, Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions. And lately Virtualmin has done some big steps towards…
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Setting up Jenkins on Ubuntu dedicated server
As a developer, often you are blocked by repetitive tasks that need be done. This is something that can become frustrating, but luckly we have some tools to help. In the following lines we will talk about Jenkins, an automation…
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Downloading your Ubuntu droplet. Or the data in it.
I have recently put in some hours for organising my two existing droplets – actually combining them into a single one. After a lot of cleanup, backing up and moving stuff – when everything seemed done and they were ready…
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