All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘Ubuntu’

HowTo: Ubuntu as a Time Machine Volume

Posted Jan 4 2010 by Oli in , with 3 Comments

Have you ever wished you could use Apple’s Time Machine service over a network? Since I’ve got almost 2TB of storage on my Linux (Ubuntu 9.10) server, I certainly did – but unfortunately Apple only lets you use physically attached USB or Firewire drives, or their own network-attached “Time Capsule”. Well, it turns out theres a solution for us Linux …

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Ubuntu | Remote Desktop Without A Monitor

Posted Jan 3 2010 by Oli in  with 22 Comments

Ubuntu 9.10 makes a great OS for a home server, but if you’re not comfortable using terminal commands to setup and administer your box you may quickly run into a problem with the Desktop Edition of Ubuntu…

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Ubuntu as a Home Server

Posted Mar 31 2009 by Oli in , , with 4 Comments

For quite some time now I’ve toyed with the idea of setting up a home server. Actually, I’ve setup plenty of home servers over the years but since I moved house I just lost interest. I had a perfectly good NAS, so there seemed little point … In the past I’ve downloaded numerous Linux distros, installed them on some small …

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