One of the first things I do every time I set up a server is increase the timeout on the SSH timeout to a much higher value. Nothing more annoying than when you go to refill your drink only to return to a dead session. Increasing the timeout is quite simple: On the server execute […]
Category: Linux
The chronicles of Ubuntu
One of the things I found annoying with Gnome is that any time I access one of my Fat32/NTFS partitions it ends up placing an icon on the desktop until I reboot. Since I do most of my programming in a transparent shell I like to keep my desktop clean. After doing a bit of […]
Although I no longer install FTP servers on any of my Linux servers, as I favour the user of SFTP, I wanted to update my instructions for the newest version of Ubuntu Server. I’m sure these instructions are very similar for most distributions, but I thought I’d specifically target Ubuntu 9.04 Server since that is what […]