Ubuntu is a linux distro based on Debian. I’ve used it for a lot of years, and still use it. Sometimes love it, sometimes hate it.
That’s right. I did this and forgot about it, and was wondering why my laptop freezes after running a single IntelliJ, Chrome with 20 open tabs, docker desktop with 4 running containers and maybe a single nodejs process. I thought it would be a good idea to minimize swap space Read more…
I’m a long time user of Ubuntu, and still can’t remember some simple tasks…like how to create a launcher icon on Ubuntu. Keeping a cheat sheet here, so I won’t forget next time Jetbrains pushes an update. Btw this works for any kind of launcher, not just IntelliJ… Step 1: Read more…
Setting up a local https website without certificate warnings was a frustrating task for me, so creating this blog post as a cheatsheet for the future… You can check out the video at the end of the blog post, where I go step by step for setting up a secure Read more…
Earlier today I got a cold sweat moment after I accidentally ran a sudo rm /etc/group. I just wanted to edit a line, not to delete an entire file! Good thing is that system occasionally backs up files in /etc folder. If there’s group there’s also an older group- file. Read more…
It wasn’t an easy task for me, so posting a solution here: The Easy Part Install latest network-manager l2tp package: At the time of writing it was 1.20.4, useful resource is github repo – https://github.com/nm-l2tp/NetworkManager-l2tp. I suggest you go through reported issues and Wiki for Known Issues. Go to Settings Read more…
When I need access to the files on the local network I usually go for SSH or Samba. SSH Destination machine Destination host has to have SSH package installed, in order to accept SSH connections: sudo apt update sudo apt install openssh-server Local machine Authenticate to destination machine and access Read more…
Recommended installs sudo apt update -yq && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt install nginx fail2ban htop supervisor screen iptables-persistent mc -y nginx – reverse proxy fail2ban – scans logs, bans failed password attempts htop – pretty process viewer supervisor– monitors and controls applications screen – manage persistent virtual Read more…
Screen is a persistent virtual terminal manager, useful when working on a remote server. More info here. sudo su apt update && apt install screen Commonly used commands screen -S <screen_name> – create new screen screen -ls – list all screens screen -x <screen_name> – attach to screen session screen Read more…
Install apache utils sudo apt-get install apache2-utils Add user sudo htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/.htpasswd foobar Enter password when prompted. Edit nginx configuration for your site in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/: server { listen 80; server_name .example.com; # globally set basic auth for server name auth_basic “Restricted”; #For Basic Auth auth_basic_user_file Read more…