Fix: “driver being installed is not validated for this computer”
One of our machines threw this error when we tried to install the latest Intel display driver from their website. This happens when your computer manufacturer changes a setting in…
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Install NodeJS on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04
We'll be looking into how to install Node.js on Ubuntu versions 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04. We'll install Node.js with NVM (Node Version Manager). This lets us install any version…
How to install GeoIP module on Ubuntu for NGINX
Today we'll be looking at how to install the GeoIP module on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04 for NGINX. You may come across an error like the following…
Requires: libpcre.so / CentOS 7
Ran into this rather peculiar error recently while installing Varnish Cache on CentOS 7. [crayon-600553d53302c707064163/] The fix turned out to be simple, CentOS 6 was set in the varnish repo…
Mount an NTFS drive on CentOS 7
This tutorial will cover how to mount an NTFS drive on CentOS 7. We'll use the open-source version of the NTFS for Linux driver by Tuxera, NTFS-3G. The Prerequisites To…
Install and Configure ZFS – CentOS 7.6
We'll look at installing and configuring ZFS on CentOS 7.6 today. Why ZFS? [crayon-600553d53370b886161471/] Installation Start off by installing the repo rpm for ZFS, we'll be installing with the kABI-tracking…
Install MySQL / MariaDB on Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu 18.04)
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) let's you do a lot of interesting stuff inside Windows, biggest of which is installing Linux applications. We'll look into installing MariaDB on Ubuntu running…
Install GUI with VNC – CentOS 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7
Running a headless (terminal only) server is great and all but sometimes a GUI helps. We'll be installing GNOME 3.28 on CentOS 7.4. This comes really handy when you want to…
Logging RSYNC output to file
Logging RSYNC output to file can be cumbersome but useful at times. Cumbersome because if you're transferring a large number of files then the log file becomes intelligible but useful in…
Mount exfat partitions on Ubuntu / POP OS 16.04, 18.04 LTS, 19.10
Ubuntu isn't bundled with exFAT read/write support out of the box, scouring the internet revealed we needed to install two packages. [crayon-600553d534598032181493/] This threw a very ugly error [crayon-600553d53459d583613445/] Turns out…