Tips for Fedora 28 on Digital Ocean
I'm moving again, from an Ubuntu 16.04 droplet with a rather complex deployment (in Brexit-land) to Docker containers on a Fedora 28 droplet (in Europe-land). These are some tips I…
Solus Linux (and Windows) on Dell XPS 13 – 9360 Kaby Lake
Time to put Linux on my XPS 13. Pick a distro, any distro. Historically I'm an Arch Linux user and what is not to like about a rolling distribution with…
Arch Linux – dual boot install via VirtualBox
So I've replaced all the hard drives in my desktop. I have 8x SATA ports and 4x SSD drives. Only 4 of the ports are 6 Gb/s on this board…
Installing Arch Linux on a USB Key for UEFI systems
Task: Install Arch on a UEFI bootable USB drive or SD card so that it can be used on machines that have we don't have the luxury of changing the…
Moving from Arch Linux to FreeBSD..
..and from a local web-server to a cloud based virtual machine. So I've been running this site on an old Dell D400 laptop for a while. Arch Linux has been…
FreeBSD, the good, the not so good, the next step
So about a week into using FreeBSD I have to say I really like it. I went from "current" which is a stupid name for a future cutting edge version…
Arch Linux: moving from php5 to php7
So as per usual I issued a pacman -Syu, then did a reboot to check everything is as it should be and well it wasn't. Apache was no longer…
Arch Linux: Rolling distro fun
Arch Linux is great, change is great, except when you don't know what has changed and why. Case in point, my home server is up 100+ days, I update and…
Mongo – Illegal Instruction
I decided to do a few simple things yesterday, when I ran into this scenario [root@arch ~]# mongod Illegal instruction (core dumped) I had intended to do the following Download…
ddclient
So ddclient can be confusing if you never used it before. I'm still figuring it out. Seemed pretty easy at first, create your ddclient.conf file, run ddclient in a shell…