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A nice little freeware tool (without ads) to scan a range of IP’s is Angry IP Scanner: http://angryip.org/ It shows you which IP’s are active as well as the associated…

I spent ages trying to figure out why our VoIP base station could not connect to the external PBX through Pfsense, only to find out that Pfsense works quite happily…

LAMP simply stands for Linux Apache MySQL PHP This tutorial will not cover the installation of Linux, instead we will cover the following: Install Apache Install MySQL Install PHP Step…

From time to time you may require urgent access to the internet and you don’t have your credit card handy / you’re broke / or you just like getting things…

From time to time it is handy to be able to treat a remote file system as though it were mounted locally. This is particularly useful if you have a…

To display the disk space available / used for each partition in Linux, execute the following command in your terminal: df -h The -h option lists the results in MB…

Simply run the following three commands in your terminal: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer You will be asked to accept the terms and conditions, and…

Simply run the following three commands in your terminal: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer You will be asked to accept the terms and conditions, and…

This guide will explain how to create a database in MySQL, add a new user to MySQL, and grant permissions on that database for the new user. Login to MySQL…

Install phpMyAdmin by executing the following command in your terminal: sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin You will be prompted with a number of questions through the installation process: Select apache2 as…