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This guide will step you through the steps to install the VMWare tools onto a Linux machine. In some cases, open-vm-tools may already be installed as a default package in your distribution. Below are some example installation commands. If you are running a non graphical/server operating system, use the server examples. If you are running …
During the installation of Ubuntu, it will try and automatically obtain an IP address using DHCP. While that may be fine for most users, if you are wanting to set up a server, the chances are you will want it to always have the same IP address. There are two options for ensuring you get/use …
When you need to access network devices located on a different network segment than the one you are on, you need to have a route set up so the networking stack knows how to get to the other network segment. This generally just points to your main gateway, but you may want to set up …
Converting png images to jpg is extremely simple using linux. The examples below will show you how to install ImageMagick, which is the software that actually does the conversion, and what commands to run to actually do the conversion. The installation process outlined below is specific for Ubuntu / systems that use the apt package …
SSH allows for both password based authentication, as well as public key authentication. Public key authentication is generally regarded as being more secure, as it isn’t as prone to brute force login attempts (if you disable password based authentication). The private key can also have a passphrase associated with it, which makes public key authentication …
When you need to access networks located on a different network segment, you need to have a route set up so the PC knows how to get to the other network segment. This generally just points to your main gateway, but you may want to set up additional static routes, where you don’t want the …
The MHDDFS package (known as the Multi-hdd FUSE filesystem) provides a method of joining a number of filesystems, of varying size, to appear as one large volume. The benefit of using this over something like lvm, is that if one of the hard drives dies, you only loose the data on that specific hard drive. …
The ext4 filesystem is known as the forth extended filesystem, and is the default file system on many Linux distributions. To Format a partition with the ext4 filesystem run the following command: $ sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1 Replace sdc1 with the relevent disk and partition that you want to format. In this example, the disk is …
The Wget application is a non-interactive tool to download data from a server using either the HTTP, HTTPS or FTP protocols. This article will focus on the HTTP and HTTPS protocols, as the user agent value has no relevance with the FTP protocol. There will be times when you need to download a web page, …
The Curl application is a tool to transfer data from a server using a number of different protocols. The main protocols that are generally used are HTTP and HTTPS. There will be times when you need to download a web page, emulating a different browser. Some web sites may output different html code depending on …