Overview A key part of using VirtualBox is knowing that there is technology like the "VirtualBox Guest Additions". What this is, are libraries and drivers that tell the hosted operating system, th...

Overview Suppose you want to play around with Linux and maybe you've heard people talking about Ubuntu. But you don't have an extra computer laying around to try it, and you certainly don't want t...

Overview There are several scenarios where you might run a server. In cases like cloud providers (e.g. Digital Ocean, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, etc) - you typically just choose an OS option, an...

Overview There are several scenarios where you might run a server. In cases like cloud providers (e.g. Digital Ocean, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, etc) - you typically just choose an OS option, an...

Overview It's important to keep your servers patched to the latest, stable version of software. Patching often is risky; patching rarely is risky. There will always be risk. However, Linux patchin...

Overview PLEASE NOTE: This only applies to older, non-M1 Apple hardware. If you attempt this on an M1 device, you'll get an error during installation that only amd64 processors are supported. ...

Overview Ideally, when you create new servers, you want to turn OFF SSH password authentication and only allow SSH key logins. This eliminates the possiblity of bad-actors trying to brute-force th...

Overview If you have ProxMox for a hypervisor, then you are used to creating Virtual Machines by allocating a new machine, attaching the installation media of an operating systems, and then manual...

Overview If you are using a Jekyll website to create your own GitHub Pages website where your site is hosted on USERNAME.github.io for free, here's an interesting tip for creating blocks of intere...

Overview I almost exclusively use Ubuntu Server as my operating system of choice for everything. This is because there is broad support, it's super-stable, there is lots of engagement where people...