Category Archives: Rich

How to install FTB Infinity Minecraft Server & its Mod Packs on Linux

Posted on August 23, 2015 by richard

Feed The Beast (FTB) is a popular Minecraft Mod Pack Distribution that bundles many Minecraft Mod Packs into its single install. The FTB Client for Windows is installed and run by clicking the .EXE link at FTB Install page and … Continue reading →

Posted in Network Presence, Rich | Tagged , , | Comments Off on How to install FTB Infinity Minecraft Server & its Mod Packs on Linux

Bashism: Convert the case of a variable

Posted on June 24, 2015 by richard

Following on with more Bash version 4 Shell coding notes, here’s a way (as always with Bash, there’s so many ways to do anything) to ensure a variable is all lowercase characters (or all uppercase): a=Hello echo ${a,,} hello You … Continue reading →

Posted in Network Presence, Rich | Tagged , | Comments Off on Bashism: Convert the case of a variable

Some Bash-isms

Posted on June 18, 2015 by richard

Being a “code daily” type of open-source SysAdmin/Operations Manager, I’ll post here a ‘tricks & tips’ that I’ve found useful when using and programming in the Bash Shell. This one notes how to replace a Bash variable name with another … Continue reading →

Posted in Network Presence, Rich | Tagged , | Comments Off on Some Bash-isms

Good news for our growth in the US, bad news for our Canberra POP

Posted on November 19, 2014 by richard

Bad news out of the way first: Our long running but never very popular Canberra POP is going to go offline later this week. This is not caused by Network Presence nor any decision of mine, rather there is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Network Presence, Rich | Tagged , | Comments Off on Good news for our growth in the US, bad news for our Canberra POP

Installing & configuring Cacti for 1 Minute 64bit Graphing

Posted on August 13, 2014 by richard

The “Interface – Traffic (bit/sec…)” Cacti Graph Templates need to be edited to set this “Upper Limit” value (confirmed that ‘0’ works fine here) and save that change, for each of the bit/sec Traffic Graph Templates you use (“Interface – … Continue reading →

Posted in Network Presence, Rich | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Installing & configuring Cacti for 1 Minute 64bit Graphing

Next version of our VPS Management tools coming soon

Posted on May 28, 2014 by richard

In the last quarter of 2013 we moved from test through to production v2.x of our web-based VPS Management pages and tools, and now during the middle months of 2014 we’re preparing to do the same for v3.x of that … Continue reading →

Posted in Network Presence, Rich, Sales | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Howto: Move Steam to another drive

Posted on May 2, 2014 by richard

Steam on PCs installs by default to C:\Steam and you can fill that drive with the big sized games nowadays, but I’ve found that it’s very easy (in Windows 7/Vista) to move Steam to another drive and setup a Windows … Continue reading →

Posted in Rich | Comments Off on Howto: Move Steam to another drive

Need “Follow the Sun” Linux/Open-Source Support & Project Personnel?

Posted on November 13, 2013 by richard

Network Presence has highly-skilled and competent tele-workers on deck between 9am to 9pm Sydney, Australia time each and every day, who are able to take on either deep (Level 2 or Level 3) Support or Project based Linux and Open-Source … Continue reading →

Posted in Network Presence, Rich, Sales | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Need “Follow the Sun” Linux/Open-Source Support & Project Personnel?

Apache Tomcat Administration Training Course for 3 days from Monday August 19th 2013

Posted on August 6, 2013 by richard

We’ve confirmed the date for the next Tomcat Administration Training Course that I present via Network Presence here in Adelaide during the week starting August 19th. Both Tomcat 6 and the latest Tomcat 7 will be covered, with many course … Continue reading →

Posted in Network Presence, Rich, Sales | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Some Shell Shortcuts

Posted on May 24, 2013 by richard

The following describes some common and useful “Shell” (/bin/sh) or “Bash” (/bin/bash) Unix and Linux command-line ‘shell’ key based shortcuts for commands or actions: a) CTRL-a brings the cursor to the start of the current line and CTRL-e puts it … Continue reading →

Posted in Network Presence, Rich | Tagged | Comments Off on Some Shell Shortcuts