How to set up your own VPN using WireGuard on Ubuntu 21.10

So, you want to forward all your traffic through a cloud server, including your DNS? This is a great way to protect your traffic when using insecure WiFi. WireGuard performs very well. This also has the side benefit of bypassing AT&T Wireless’s transparent HTTP proxy, which has performance issues. Read on. Install and Configure WireGuard Read more about How to set up your own VPN using WireGuard on Ubuntu 21.10[…]

How to hide sponsored items and ranged prices when searching eBay

I finally stumbled across someone who has solved an issue I’ve grappling with for a while. Bogus ranged prices listings, and sponsored products messing up my searches when I sort by lowest price first. They created a posted some bookmarklets here: berserkerplanet.altervis… Thank you so much! Saving bookmarklets to your browser:Drag and Drop chosen bookmarklet Read more about How to hide sponsored items and ranged prices when searching eBay[…]

How To Create Infinite Windows Cloud Desktops for Your Nonprofit with BoXenLinux®

Running Windows allows you to easily access proprietary closed source vertical market software. Using  an Azure Nvidia Tesla virtual machine lets you run graphic intensive programs in the cloud. For instance 2D and 3D CAD Drafting, Video, and 3D educational tools. Even 3D games! O_O Coupled with BoXenLinux, and a decent Internet connection you can dramatically reduce Read more about How To Create Infinite Windows Cloud Desktops for Your Nonprofit with BoXenLinux®[…]

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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][…]

Toshiba Portege 750/780 Internal Microphone broken Ubuntu Wily 15.10 [SOLVED]

wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/… 5) Internal microphone 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06) The internal microphone does not work after a default install. Append the line “options snd-hda-intel model=dell-s14” to file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, reboot and adjust the mixer levels. Thanks to lidex on UbuntuForums: ubuntuforums.org/showthr…  

Using LTSP on Ubuntu 15.10 wily [Solved]

LTSP does not work out of the box on Ubuntu 15.10 wily with –arch AMD64 or i386 & thinclient or fatclient. You will get this error: chroot: can’t execute ‘/usr/bin/test’: Exec format error overlayfs: missing ‘workdir’ mount: mounting overlayfs on /root failed: Invalid argument mount: mounting /dev/ on /root/dev/failed: No such file or directory No Read more about Using LTSP on Ubuntu 15.10 wily [Solved][…]

Using epoptes on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily LTSP [Solved]

Epoptes does not work out of the box! I get this error with socat 1.7.3.0: /usr/sbin/epoptes-client * Epoptes-client connecting to server:789… 2016/03/17 17:15:10 socat[3057] E certificate is valid but its commonName does not match hostname Here is an excerpt from man: Since version 1.7.3.0 socat checks the peer certificate for match with the <host> parameter Read more about Using epoptes on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily LTSP [Solved][…]