Category: Ubuntu

  • Backing Up Your Minecraft Server in Ubuntu

    Backing Up Your Minecraft Server in Ubuntu

    I wrote an earlier post on how to create a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu. It’s been pretty popular, so this article will describe a very simple way to ensure that you take hourly automated backups of your Minecraft server(s). This is incredibly useful for a number of reasons : Some random punter has griefed your

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  • Getting Humble

    Getting Humble

    Another bundle, and I’m looking forward to this one! Check it out for yourself, before June 11th 2013 when it runs out, but for the lazy, here’s a list of the games you can be playing on Ubuntu right after purchasing this one : Hotline Miami Proteus Little Inferno Awesomenauts Capzied Thomas Was Alone Dear

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  • More Stallman

    More Stallman

    From Wikipedia : Spyware is a software that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge and that may send such information to another entity without the consumer’s consent, or that asserts control over a computer without the consumer’s knowledge. “Spyware” is mostly classified into four types: system monitors, trojans, adware,

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  • Step by Step : Install a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu

    Step by Step : Install a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu

    There are a few guides out there on the internet, but since I run a few Minecraft servers myself, I thought I’d catalogue the process here for prosperity. This guide will deal with installing Minecraft on Ubuntu 12.04, hardening the install a little, then opening up the necessary ports for making your server available on

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  • Let it all out (part #1)

    Sometimes you just have to get it out there, get it off your chest and have a good rant. In no particular order, here’s a tidy list of things that pissed me off in the world of technology recently : This bug, in launchpad, where an issue with bad web servers can cause TLS negotiation

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