VirtualBox – moving virtual disks
Having installed VirtualBox I created a few virtual machines, with 20GB virtual disks each. After all, I’ve got a 1TB hard disk in my computer. When Linux started complaining about running out of disk...
Category: Linux
Virtual machines using VirtualBox
Tapping into all the wonderful tools and languages that make our lives as developers so interesting can throw up some fun (?) challenges. You start installing the latest linter or library, and before you...
Python, CherryPy and Websockets – hosted
To set up websockets on a host can take a few extra steps. The host needs to know what to do with the websocket traffic. It took a few attempts to get a Python/websockets...
Managing the repositories in Linux
Much of Linux’s software is stored in repositories. Your Linux installation has a list of repositories, with the most stable recent packages for your distro and possibly some others. To view, add or delete...
Linux package management – some common operations
For my own benefit (and maybe others), here are some of the common package management operations and how to do it (in Linux Mint and other Linux distros) Update all install software: apt-get update #...
Linux package management: apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, wajig
When you set up your Linux system, you typically grab an image, burn it to DVD, boot the machine off the DVD and follow the instructions. The image will contain the most recent (stable)...
Linux Mint – family tree
Having used Fedora, CentOS and Debian (and a little of Raspbian and Unix) a couple of years ago I swapped over to Linux Mint. Since it is based on the popular Debian and Ubuntu...
DevOps – intro
If I understand it correctly (it looks like the jury is still out), a DevOp is someone who helps developers be more productive by giving them the tools they need. As a freelance developer,...
