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How to use duplicity to backup directly to a Google cloud storage bucket to achieve time machine like incremental backups on Ubuntu 15.10 wily
from: http://askubuntu.com/questions/164984/backup-with-duplicity-on-google-cloud-storage https://github.com/boto/boto apt-get install pip pip install boto gsutil config -a duplicity local_dir gs://yourbucket
How to mount an additional persistant storage disk to a Google Cloud compute engine running Ubuntu 15.10 wily
From: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/persistent-disks#create_disk sudo mkfs.ext4 -F -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0,discard /dev/disk/by-id/google-example-disk echo ‘/dev/disk/by-id/google-example-disk /mnt/example-disk ext4 discard,defaults 1 1’ | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
How to fix the “device or resource busy’ error when trying to mount your Google Drive on your headless google cloud compute engine server running Ubuntu 15.10 wily [SOLVED]
I wanted to mount my Google drive onto my Google Cloud compute engine running Ubuntu 15.10 wily. I also have my Google Cloud storage bucket mounted using gcsfuse. I tried all sorts of manual ways to validate the API keys the below is the only way that worked. The solution was to install lxdm, x2go, Read more about How to fix the “device or resource busy’ error when trying to mount your Google Drive on your headless google cloud compute engine server running Ubuntu 15.10 wily [SOLVED][…]
How to install X2Go server on Ubuntu 15.10 wily for the fastest remote desktop
add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable apt-get update sudo apt-get install x2goserver
How to securely copy your SSH key file to a remote host for secure passwordless login on Ubuntu 15.10 wily.
On remote host Enable passwords authentication in remote host: /etc/ssh/sshd_config service ssh restart On local host ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 ssh-copy-id <username>@<host> Then on remote host disable password authentication and restart ssh
How to test if Turbo Boost or any other frequency scaling is working using turbostat on Ubuntu 15.10 wily
http://askubuntu.com/questions/43764/how-do-i-get-turbo-boost-working Try installing turbostat (from the linux-tools package) and run sudo apt-get install linux-tools sudo modprobe msr ; sudo turbostat In a different terminal run stress -c 1
How to change the startup loading screen back to Ubuntu in Ubuntu 15.10 wily
sudo update-alternatives –config default.plymouth sudo update-initramfs -u
How to convert a Virtualbox VDI image file to a Vmware VMDK image file using Ubuntu 15.10 wily
From: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualbox-convert.html VBoxManage clonehd source.vdi target.vmdk –format VMDK
Howto create a Windows 10 or 7 bootable USB flash drive using Linux (Ubuntu 16.04 xenial or 16.10 yakkety)
UEFI compatible 1. Make variables so you can copy and paste the following code. Replace the following with your actual name, path, and device id. export USBNAME=WIN10AMD64 export USBMNT=/media/$USER/$USBNAME export USBDEV=/dev/sdd 2. Format and partition USB drive. (Only needed if your SD card is not VFAT (FAT32) already) sudo fdisk $USBDEV n –> enter –> Read more about Howto create a Windows 10 or 7 bootable USB flash drive using Linux (Ubuntu 16.04 xenial or 16.10 yakkety)[…]
How I proved AT&T was not giving me the internet speed I was paying for/
All steps from: http://www.att.com/speedtest/optimizeyourconnection/ have been followed. Speed Test Topography Tests were performed at least 3 times a day for a week. What I’m paying for: 3.00Mb/s down 0.512Mb/s up. Note: That’s Megabits per second (Mbps or Mb/s). One megabyte 8 megabits, and one megabyte is 1025 kilobyte. Converted into kilobytes per second would (What Read more about How I proved AT&T was not giving me the internet speed I was paying for/[…]
How to boot an iMac 2008 with faulty Nvidia geforce 8800 GS video card.
And reset the admin password while at it. This will allow you to use the machine using software rendering so you can retrieve your data. Boot into sing user mode: Option(or Windows key)-S Type fsck -fy Type mount -uw / mkdir /drivers move NV* GeForce* AMDRadeon* ATIRadeon* /drivers/ cd /var/db pwd #List all files. The l Read more about How to boot an iMac 2008 with faulty Nvidia geforce 8800 GS video card.[…]