Recursively Moving Files
Sometimes you have a lot of little files in many subdirectories, and you want to move them all into one folder. Here's how at the command line.
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Computer control your Tempurpedic Ergo bed frame
I recently got an old man's bed. You know, the kind with hydraulics to raise or lower the head or foot of the bed. It connects to wifi, so I decided to poke it a bit.
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Ubuntu 16.04 PXE Installs Fail Because it Mangles the Squashfs Path
Trying to set up a network install of Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial? Good luck with that. Looks like a PXE breaking bug has crept in at the last minute.
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Porting Old Titles to Linux Isn't The Answer
Why would I want to play a 5 year old game on Linux? What good is Office 2000 to me? You can't justify saying there is no market by pointing at how few people buy age old crap. Let's stop this nonsense.
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BQ Aquaris M10 Unboxing And review
My BQ Ubuntu tablet just arrived from Spain. Here's a first look at it's Linuxy tablety desktopy goodness. "The coolest worst of both worlds you can buy."
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Bulk Converting M4B files to MP3 with Chapters
Playing an audiobook in your car can be painful if it's all one file. Here's a way to split those files into multiple chapters and convert to MP3 in the process.
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Detecting And Stopping Cryptolocker Type Viruses
Cryptolocker type viruses can encrypt everything on your network shares. Here's how to detect a zero-day infection that gets past your antivirus and onto your Samba shares.
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Installing the Latest Java 8 In Ubuntu
It's important to make sure you always have the latest Java installed. Most of the time the PPA installer just doesn't work anymore. Here's how to do it manually.
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Controlling Multiple Linux Servers Simultaneously
ClusterSSH let's you do some amazing things as an administrator. If you have more than two or three Linux machines to manage, you should give it a try.
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Configuring OpenLDAP replication with OLCSyncrepl
Having just one OpenLDAP server is asking for trouble. Running more than one with replication will save you hours of trouble if one of the servers dies for any reason.
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