The first step to creating a bootable CentOS USB disk is to insert the flash disk on which you'd like to install CentOS. Next, determine the mount point of the…
Create CentOS 7 install disk on Ubuntu
Cross platform IP scanner
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…
Allow VoIP phone system through Pfsense
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…
Install LAMP stack Ubuntu 14.04 / 14.10
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…
Get free Internet Wifi hotspot – Tunneling HTTP over DNS
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…
Mount remote file system over SSH
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…
Show disk space Linux terminal
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…
Install Oracle Java 8 on Ubuntu 16.04
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…
Git – Linking local repo to remote repo and pushing for the first time
After struggling with this for quite some time (why, im not sure :), I finally was able to create a remote repo (on bitbucket), and then create a local repo…
Export graph from LibreOffice Calc as image
Although LibreOffice Calc at this stage doesn’t support exporting graphs or charts as images (currently only as pdf), you are still able to get this right. Here’s how: Copy your…









