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    31 December, 2017 Blog

    Proxmox: Shrinking disk of an LVM backed container

    First, shut down the container and ensure it’s not running. List out the LVM logical volumes: Choose the disk you

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    19 August, 2016 Blog

    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

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    15 August, 2016 Blog

    SOLVED – “mount error(13): Permission denied” when doing cifs mount on LXC container (Proxmox)

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

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    12 September, 2013 Blog

    Changing the outgoing SMTP (sending) IP address in Postfix

    This is far easier than I thought it’d be. I had to change it to get around some blacklisting my

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    1 August, 2013 Blog

    How to use Kernel GPIO interrupts on the Raspberry Pi

    Presumably everyone knows what the Raspberry Pi is, by now, so I’ll not start there. You may or may not

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    14 March, 2013 Blog

    How to get a status update out of a running dd process on Linux

    With dd running in a terminal, open a new terminal to the server and send the USR1 signal to the

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    26 March, 2012 Blog

    How to securely copy data over SSH

    This is a really useful tip, and it has infinite uses in a *nix environment. You can pipe data over

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    7 February, 2012 Blog

    Quick Fix: Filesystem notification initialization error — contact your mail administrator (check for configuration errors with the FAM/Gamin library)

    This error can be seen in your mail client and is often caused by Courier. If you are the system

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    31 December, 2011 Blog

    Raspberry Pi – $25 computer with a huge amount of potential

    I’ve just stumbled across the Raspberry Pi (RasPi) and have spent the past 3 hours contently reading about it and

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    21 December, 2011 Blog

    Using ImageMagick to create thumbnails for the web

    You can use ImageMagick’s convert tool to resize images on the command line in a Linux, BSD or Windows environment.

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