Category Archives: Linux

Browser showing Latin IDN url (chrome/opera)

Browser showing Latin IDN url  (chrome/opera) If your browser showing latin IDN url (latin alphabet translation) of urls in the address bar this can be fixed using the notes below. One of my more recent projects has been to get delegated the Georgian alphabet IDN. This has now been achieved and we are preparing for… Read More »

Download Youtube video – CentOS (Linux), Windows, Mac

Download Youtube video – CentOS At some time or another everyone has wanted to download Youtube video to have locally. From Linux (or Windows or Mac) this is a fairly simple task thanks to youtube-dl !! Easy installation, fast, flexible Installation of youtube-dl To install the latest youtube-dl, check the latest url from their site… Read More »

Samba Share – Installing SAMBA on CentOS 6 – Shared and Network Storage

Installing SAMBA on CentOS 6 – Map Network Drive, Shared Storage, Network Storage Samba is a Linux tool which enables a Windows (or other Linux) user, to mount a remote drive from a Linux Server onto their Windows machine, creating you a local samba share mount point. There are various uses for this, maybe you… Read More »

Managed Hosting Services – CentOS Linux

Managed Hosting Services – CentOS Linux It is common knowledge that Linux Hosting provides far greater performance for less CPU compared to any Windows Hosting. This makes it a much more cost effective solution for companies wanting to put their websites live. The major stumbling block is many users lack of experience or nervousness of… Read More »

Plex Media Server – Review, Uses, Functionality, Installation for your personal media library

Plex Media Server – Review, Uses, Functionality, Installation for your personal media library Something that caught my eye recently was Plex Media Server. I was looking for a solution that gave me a few tools including – 1) Central storage of my media files without the need to ‘sync’ the data to my local device… Read More »

Install Gdrive Google Drive Linux Client – Upload/Download/Share a file

Whilst browsing around the net a few weeks ago I came across a tool that just grabbed my attention. On the face of it I wasnt sure how useful this would be, but I showed it to one of my clients just in case he found some business function where he could use it.

Anyway last week he came back to me as he wanted to share a file with multiple people so this tool seemed ideal to be able to do it.