Apr 23 2013

Install/Recover Grub2 from Linux Live CD/USB.

Recover/Reinstall/Repair Grub2 from a Linux Live Distribution (either via USB Stick or CD) is not a difficult procedure, and can be useful after the installation of another OS in the same Hard-Disk or simply id Grub Loader doesn’t work anymore.
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Jan 16 2013

VMWare Tools v4 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server.

Install VMWare Tools can be tricky, all informations found OnLine (including VMWare’s website) can be considerated not fully complete or specific for Ubuntu Distribution.

This simple procedure describes how to install VMWare Tools v4 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server.

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Dec 27 2012

Piping TAR datastream over SSH

Use of TAR command over SSH sessions, a good facility to transfer archives securely.

The GNU version of the tar archiving utility (and other old version of tar) can be use through network over ssh session.
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Dec 17 2012

Client-IP-Detector: a new WordPress Widget to show Client IP.

A new simple IP detector widget for WordPress (named client-ip-detector) to show if user is connecting with IPv6 or IPv4 has born and has been written by me.

Using this Plugin, IPv4 Address will be marked in RED while IPv6 ones will me marked in GREEN (this feature has to be enabled in the widget admin panel), to remember the reached availability limits of v4 Protocols.

Statistics on IPv6 and IPv4 usage (percentage) are available and can be printed-out.

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