Installing OpenVPN on Centos 8

Install git if it is not already installed Use git to download the road warrior script Then cd into the downloaded directory and run Then select the IP address that your router has givien you and it is a good idea to make your IP address static, if you don’t and your router assigns you […]

After Installing Linux Issues

My system is a Lenovo Thinkpad E585 with Ryzen 5 2500u & Vega 8 graphics 1. Videos not playing in firefox or chromium After trying to install multiple libraries including ffmpeg etc. Installing VLC Player actually got it to work

Installing Cockpit on Centos 7

Cockpit is a web based console for your server. You can create, manage, or delete virtual machine remotely with a nice GUI. Also you can view logs, system load, networking usage, etc. A lot of nice and useful information about your server. My server runs Centos 7 if your using a different flavor of Linux […]

Linux: Setting up a non-sudoer user to run certain commands with sudo

How to give a non-sudoer user the ability to run certain commands as root. Example a Web admin who needs the ability to restart or reload the web server service but wont be able to run any other commands as root. Run: sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/<name_of_file_you_want> the -f switch is to create/specify a new sudoers […]

Raspberry PI First Time Set Up

Hello World,If you have not heard of a Raspberry PI (RPI) you should check them out. For around $30-$40 its worth the experience even if you don’t have knowledge of how to set up a RPI it is quite easy. For those who don’t hopefully this will help.Prerequisites:1. Raspberry PI 3 B+ (you can choose […]

Shell Environment

Make things easier for your Shell environment. Anything you have to repeat why do it over and over again when you can simply it. To make an alias for your current shell environment (the alias(environment variable) will be no longer be available if you close that shell) In the command line session you enter: $ […]

Samsung Odyssey + (Plus) Firmware update issue

Seems like the Samsung Odyssey has had issues getting the firmware to update. Here are my troubleshooting notes as I finally got it to update. #1 (I believe this was what did it) Go to your task bar and close out any GPU software, I have the NVIDIA 1070I so I closed out the NVIDIA […]

Fedora on Ryzen 5 and Vega 8 install issue (Lenovo E585 and others)

UPDATE: LENOVO HAS RELEASED A BIOS UPDATE THAT CORRECTS THE NOAPIC ISSUE RELEASED AUGUST 20TH Revision : 01 ——————————————————————————– Software name BIOS Update CD (ISO image file for bootable CD) Support model ThinkPad E485 ThinkPad E585 Operating Systems Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit Refer to marketing materials to find out what computer models support which Operating […]

Centos 7 SSH with Google Authentication

Step by step for setting up Google Authenticator for Centos 7 remote SSH. A great tool for extra security for your new Server, Lab, Raspberry PI, etc. First – Update # yum update Second – Install Google Authentication Might need this Repo (Repository) if you do not already have it: $ sudo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm […]

KVM – Easily Create KVM Scripts

If you have a great time typing out all the commands to start a VM via the CLI this is an easy way to make it a little simpler. Instead of typing this out each time you want to make a VM on the CLI virt-install \ –virt-type=kvm \ –name centos-server \ –ram 2048 \ […]