The first home server I set up was built using parts from multiple old computers. I threw in two HDD’s for my first RAID setup, then installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The main purpose for my server is to host a file…

Recently I’ve been trying out the open source editor Light Table. It has a lot of great features, my favorite being inline evaluation. The editor will run a single line of code and display the value at the end! It’s super customizable and…

I’m currently working on setting up a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 and I like to have a clean login menu with no extra options. In a previous post I showed how to disable the guest account and remote login in Ubuntu 13.04…

In a case-sensitive system like Linux, I prefer naming my directories with all lowercase and underscores. This is kind of difficult when the default user directories are all uppercase (Documents, Pictures, etc.). Here’s a quick tutorial on how to change…

For a long time my favorite Terminal program has been Guake. It is “a drop-down terminal for GNOME Desktop Environment.” It is always available and hidden when not in use. Simply press a button and it pops out from top…