My main computer at home acts as a file and media server for the whole house, so it’s pretty much turned on all the time. There are times when I’m away from home that I want to remotely access or download a file from my home computer. My home internet service uses a dynamic IP …
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I’m in the midst of trying out a new host for tuxtweaks.com. I’ve moved to a new provider and moved up from shared hosting to a VPS package. I think I’m posting this from the new server and the rest of the world should see it as the new nameservers propagate to the domain name …
Continue reading Moving to a new hostI’ve been having problems with my optical drive on my Kubuntu 12.04 machine. Certain applications couldn’t find the CD/DVD drive because they look for specific device names in /dev. My SATA optical drive would show up as /dev/sr0, however the normal symlinks to cdrom, cdrw, dvd, dvdrw were not there. I would go to the …
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