Posts with tag Linux

I'm running my rusty old ThinkPad T430s Laptop as (quite capable) homelab VM host under Linux/KVM running playground VMs. And because I'm accessing this machine only remotely over RDP I don't have use for the internal laptop display. After looking around what is the best way to turn the internal laptop display off I've settled for a simple solution using the linux command vbetool. For this to work please ensure that no display manager (like GDM, LightDM) is running after...

When working on data science problems you'll probably come in touch with the well known statistical software package R. While R, due to its long history, is an extremely versatile & powerful system for almost any analytical task, it's not known for its user-friendliness and can sometimes be challenging to setup locally. RStudio is a very usable frontend which can be installed and used on different platforms (Linux, Windows, MacOS) locally. This works mostly well but offers some potential downsides...

To be able to develop with Node.js or to deploy Node.js application on a server there has to be a Node.js runtime installed on the server. While Node.js is available in the Debian package repository, it's not the most current version. Let's install Node.js in a more current version from an external apt repository. For this we'll use the apt repository from Nodesource which is also recommended by nodejs.org itself. In this case we'll install Node.js in the version 12....

Creating & keeping backups of your data is essential and often not done because of the hassle associated with it. Using the powerful & easy command line tool HashBackup you can create encrypted local and remote backups in different storage destinations like WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2. Remote storage backups protect you against the loss of the local backup data due to hardware failure or an on-site disaster. HashBackup can write to different remote storage destinations. In this article we...

You want to host your own blog or a website for your personal project, but you don't want to use shared hosting? Host your website on an own Virtual Private Server (VPS). You can use any of the many cloud service providers (like AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Linode, digitalocean) to spin up a VPS which will serve your content. This content could be dynamically created by a content management system (CMS, like WordPress) or as static HTML files...