Debian/Ubuntu – Simple trick to free memory

To free up some memory claimed by pagefile, dentries and inodes. Pagefile is virtual memory. Dentries and inodes are used for your hard drive files. This should…

Debian – Basic LAMP

Setup a basic LAMP, enables you to host cool web applications. LAMP is Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP (guess Perl or Python should qualify as well). I…

Debian – Install MySQL with remote root access

A few simple steps to install MySQL with remote root access on a Debian system.  Out of the box, as default, the root user can only log…

Debian Static IP how to

Debian Static IP Debian Static IP. If you need to change your IP from Dynamic (DHCP) to static, I have presented a method here for doing it….

Raspberry – Wifi on DHCP with WPA2 (AWus036H)

Raspberry Wifi Getting the Raspberry pi up and running on your wifi router has a lot of practical uses. One of the ups, is that there is…

apt-get behind a corporate proxy

You might need a username and password if the proxy is not anonymous. Here is how to connect to both types of proxies for using apt-get. Remember…

Debian – Change hostname, domain or FQDN permanently

Change hostname, domain or FQDN permanently Change hostname, domain or FQDN permanently. Setting the hostname with the hostname command will reset after a reboot. To make it…

Hello world!

This is the new soltveit.org. All servers have been formated and installed from scratch. The articles will be posted again when they are ready. The new infrastructure…