Issues with LibreOffice and SMB/CIFS shares

February 6, 2018 Admin Spare 0

Are you having issues when opening documents on a shared drive? Both ODF and DocX document types are effectively archived files which need to expand in order to read their contents and this appears to cause issues when opening such documents across CIFS shared drives. […]

Essential Ubuntu Software

May 20, 2015 scaine 0

A short post to outline the command that I end up issuing to every Ubuntu install I perform. These commands are specific to Ubuntu 16.04, but you can most likely use it on other Debian-based distributions too – just remove any packages that they complain […]

Replicating Computrace Using Reverse SSH Tunnels

August 13, 2014 scaine 0

Background At my work I was recently asked to investigate whether Computrace was available for Linux, specifically Ubuntu, and if so, install it. Having a remote wipe mechanism available is part of our Security Policy. For those of you reading this that haven’t heard of […]

Ubuntu to Android Tethering over Bluetooth

October 28, 2013 scaine 10

I’ve been using my Galaxy Nexus device as a bluetooth internet gateway for my Nexus 7 for a few months now. While Android to Android tethering should rightly be quite straightforward, it may be surprising to learn that the same device can be used as […]

Ubuntu Touch – Early Impressions

September 29, 2013 scaine 2

I recently decided to flash my Nexus 7 from Android to Ubuntu Touch to see how the new mobile O/S is shaping up. I followed this WIKI in order to get it going. Apart from getting no prompt regarding a “host key”, it worked without […]