The most popular post on my blog is how to set up the Ubuntu Server firewall via ufw, the Uncomplicated Firewall. I recommend UFW for any standard server, but you might want to move to something more advanced to expand your firewall knowledge, to set up a network gateway, router, or firewall, or to conform [...]
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When I decided that I wanted an easy way to sync files with my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx server, I thought that Canonical’s home-grown solution, Ubuntu One, would be the best option. To my surprise, I learned that Ubuntu One is not supported on the server; it requires a GUI to work.
Fortunately, it is possible [...]
Today I learned a different way to configure the firewall on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Server: the ufw command. UFW stands for “Uncomplicated FireWall,” and it’s just that. It provides a simpler interface to add or remove firewall rules to iptables, the default Linux firewall. It’s installed on Ubuntu Server by default (and has [...]
Transmission-daemon does not automatically remove completed torrents. I created a script to do so, and I run it via a cron job (under my own user ID) on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Server.
This script uses command line utility transmission-remote (which is installed when you install the transmission-daemon package) to check on the progress of [...]
TVNamer is a Python application that will automatically renames TV episode files to a clean, consistent, and useful format. If you rip your DVDs, or download torrents (for shame!) on your server, you might find the “tvnamer” Python script very useful. I am running this on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx server right now, and [...]
When I read posts on LifeHacker and Gizmodo sometimes, I figure that everybody else in the world is downloading TV episodes via BitTorrent, and doing it using RSS feeds and an automated process. That can’t possibly be true, but I figured that if other people do this, I should be able to figure out how, [...]
Note (10/04/2010): I updated these instructions as part of my media server rebuild project. The new version is clearer and provides a cleaner install.
This article explains how to install, configure, and run Transmission on a headless Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) server. Transmission, specifically transmission-daemon, is a BitTorrent client that can be accessed via a web [...]
I don’t have anything to add that hasn’t already been said about Dropbox, but I have to say that it is great, and that I recommend it to everybody. Dropbox is the easiest way I’ve found to share files between my home computers (Mac and Linux) and my work PC (Windows XP).
Dropbox gives you a [...]
