Phil Lavin’s Articles at Phil’s Blog, Page 6

Configuring the permissions of a Samba share

Samba share permissions can be a bit fiddly. The user and group IDs which own the file on the Samba

When trying to do a command like this on a system running inside an LXC container on Proxmox: Linux

I picked up a HPE ProLiant Gen8 G1610T with the intention of turning it into a Virtual Machine host to run a

There exists a bug in the FreeBSD VirtIO network drivers that massively degrades network throughput on a pfSense server. VirtIO

This Windows pre-boot execution environment ISO can be used on encrypted HP drives to recover the data or fix the

After dropping my iPhone 5c a fair few times and, oddly, not breaking the screen… the home button stopped working.

It is a right faff to get the relevant linux-headers-* package for your Kernel version on a Raspberry Pi. I

This is a low cost 3G Dongle, often found O2 branded. It supports GSM voice calls and can work with

The OBi 110 provides an FXO port to connect to an analogue telephone line (PSTN). Once it is connected, you

The OBi110, as with most ATAs, comes configured for the US. For those of us on the other side of