Posted in Linux

What is the UUID of my disks?

On cloud machines, you cannot always guarantee the device names when you mount “external disks” onto your VM after an…

Posted in MariaDB / MySQL

MariaDB Error: 1364 Field ‘display_name’ doesn’t have default value

Spent too much time over the bank holiday weekend looking for a solution to this problem. It had appeared after…

Posted in Cloud Distributions IT Linux Ubuntu 16.04 Unix

Ubuntu Remote Desktop Box

Install X-Windows apt install –no-install-recommends xubuntu-desktop This will take a few minutes. Once this is done install xrdp, which will…

Posted in LVM

Increase SAN LUN filesystem on the fly no reboot centos

I have a CloudServer with 3 disks /dev/sda -> / 30G /dev/sdb -> /vm 100G –> /dev/vmvg /dev/sdc -> /media…

Posted in Linux

Want to downsample all of your mp3s so they all fit on your phone?

If you install lame and mp3info into your Mint (or Debian) Linux box, the following code will help you downsample…

Posted in Linux

Format an SD-Card with Fat32 (for mobiles) on Mint Linux

Use the following command substituting your device name mkfs.vfat -F32 -v /dev/mmcblk0 You should get an output something like this…

Posted in Linux Unix

Tidying your .mp3 Music Stash

If you have a bunch of non .mp3/.m4a files in your music stash and you just want to delete them…

Posted in Linux SSH

Ensure that your SSH connections don’t die if you leave them open

Edit your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and add the following to the server’s configuration … ClientAliveInterval 120 ClientAliveCountMax 240 … restart your…

Posted in Evolution

Create an automatic signature in evolution

Create A Signature Evolution > Edit > Preferences > Composer Preferences > Signature tab. Click Add, edit your signature then…

Posted in Android LinuxMint Smart Phones Uncategorized

Get your OnePlus 5 to work with your Linux Mint laptop

Ensure you have the coorect software installed sudo apt-get install libmtp-dev mtpfs Before plugging in your device list your usb…