November 2018

Mount that drive

You just got a brand new shiny USB stick for moving things around your devices fast and easy but your NAS or home server does not see the newly plugged in device. In this tutorial, you will learn how to mount it as folder in the linux OS using the console commands.

Find the drive
Run the following command to display the attached disks:

fdisk -l

The output should look similar to this:

The disk is /dev/sdg1 and the format is FAT32.

Create the mount folder
Creating a folder where the USB device to be mounted is imperative so let’s create one:

 mkdir /media/mysub

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Yet another linux desktop

Following up on the RDP tutorial found here , there is yet another Linux flavor available for a smooth desktop experience: Lubuntu (LXDE) . The install process is basically the same with a few minor changes. Make sure to use Ubuntu 16 or 18 as the OS in order to make sure this actually works.

After logging in with Putty via SSH, run the following command to update Ubuntu to the latest stable version:

 apt update && apt -y dist-upgrade

After it is done, install xRDP support with a simple command:

 apt -y install xrdp 

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Also known as the cloud

Definition

A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a virtual server which acts as a dedicated or private server even though it is hosted using virtualization on a physical server which runs several operating systems. It is perceived as private/dedicated because the user has exclusive access and it can run its own operating system instance.

Function

To better understand the concept of a VPS, it can be seen as a virtual machine which is used as a separate server and accessed by a single person instead of a group. It can run its own operating system and have dedicated… read more +

The essential tool

You got to a point where the Linux vps server is ready to serve your content to the world but fail to see how to upload your work from your pc. Don’t worry, the solution is simple. WinSCP is one of the many graphical SSH clients capable of transferring files from a Windows platform to a Linux one. It works over SSH using SFTP on port 22 of the remote machine therefore secure. SFTP or SSH File Transfer Protocol is a secure file transfer protocol which uses encryption , cryptographic hash functions and authenticates both ends of the… read more +

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate using various scenarios, how to change the Administrator password, which is the main administrative account, on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, the enterprise version of Windows 10.

Microsoft Windows 10

Method 1. You know the current Administrator password

If you already know the password, it is pretty easy to change the Administrator password.
-Open the Start Menu;
-Search for Windows Settings;
-After opening a new window with Settings, go to the Accounts tab;
-Search for Sign-in Options, where you will find the Password button;
-After pressing the Password button, you need to enter the New password in the first field… read more +

This tutorial will help users that want to install drivers for their NVIDIA GPU on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS OS.

Step 1 – Clean the system of other Nvidia drivers

Before we start installing the correct driver, we need to clean the system of any previously installed driver that might create software issues.

We can do that by using the following command:

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

Step 2 – Check the latest driver version for our Nvidia GPU

We need to check what version of the latest drivers is our graphic card capable of running.

We can check this by visiting the following page and see… read more +