Debootstrap gives us a simple and consistent way to cleanly setup machines by installing packages directly into a file system directly from the repos. These have the flexibility of being used across many different kind of machines. Create Directory Structure Here we are just creating the directories into which we…
Linux-KVM: Ubuntu 12.04 with Openvswitch
UPDATE: October 29, 2012 This article doesn’t work on Ubuntu 12.10, to use Ubuntu 12.10 please refer to my new article here. Openvswitch is a better way of managing your virtual networking stacks for KVM and Xen. This can be used instead of the bridge-utils package, and has the ability…
Gnome3: Disable Hot Corners
I sincerely hate Hot Corners in Gnome3. This article will walk you through disabling them, because you probably hate them as much as I do (you’re here right)… So firstly what are hot corners, and why do I hate them? Hot corners is the upper left hand corner of your…
Securing SSH with Publicly Accessible Servers
Just about every IT environment has some sort of remotely managed environment which requires that they have SSH open to the Internet. Perhaps this is a VPS, dedicated server, or colocation. Regardless of your reason, the fact is that there is just some times where you need to have SSH…
Mass Extraction and Creation of Tarballs
I have been working on creating a bunch of debootstrap images lately, and I ended up doing a whole bunch of work creating tarballs and did it wrong. So I took the time to sort out an easy way to fix them all with two commands. The Core of My…