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Install Claude command line

Reimage your VPS with our Ubuntu 24.04 template. Login to your VPS as root and run: apt update && apt upgrade Then install nodejs & npm with: apt install nodejs npm Now you can install claude-code with: npm install -g … Continue reading

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CentOS Vault

Here’s the site where the old CentOS Linux Distros archive their final repositories. http://archive.kernel.org/centos-vault/

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How to SSH to Older RHEL 6 hosts from modern RHEL 9 hosts

Final command line is: OPENSSL_CONF=~/.ssh/openssl.cnf ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa -o HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-dss -o PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms=+ssh-dss -o PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa -o KexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 -o MACS=+hmac-sha1 -o PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-rsa -o PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa $USER@$HOST Where ~/.ssh/openssl.cnf is: .include /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf[openssl_init]alg_section = evp_properties[evp_properties]rh-allow-sha1-signatures = yes

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More connectivity coming to our Adelaide POP

We’re installing a 2nd fibre link to our Adelaide POP. This link will be through Vocus on physical separate & diverse fibre paths to our Adelaide POP and will allow greater Internet access redundancy & capacity for us in Adelaide. … Continue reading

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CentOS 7 Legacy Repos

To get yum working again in your old CentOS 7 Linux host, over-write your existing CentOS 7 Linux Repositories with the files from the git repo listed, via the following: cd /etc/ ; git clone https://github.com/tkne/centos-7-repo.git yum.repos.d

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Continue to get X11 through sudo use

Execute the following command to retrieve your display and allow X11 clients to connect back to your X11 display that made the SSH connection into the remote host running the X11 client. eg: firefox xauth add $(xauth -f ~YOURUSERNAME/.Xauthority list|tail … Continue reading

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OpenVAS install on CentOS/RHEL 9

Our CentOS 9 Image works with the following to provide a working OpenVAS install. Login to your CentOS 9 VPS & become the root user and run the following commands: dnf upgrade -ydnf -y install wgetdnf config-manager –set-enabled crbdnf install … Continue reading

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Sydney Data Centre increases in costs by 5% every year

’tis the season for multi-national companies to be raising their billing rates to Australians. This time its our Sydney Data Centre, Equinix, increasing their costs to us by 5% from January, as is their contracted right. As per our other … Continue reading

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Windows & cPanel Licensing increases in cost by 10% every year

A note that Microsoft and cPanel increase their licensing costs to us by 10% every year around this time. But because we use Paypal Subscriptions in our web based ordering systems, we can’t pass those cost increases on to our … Continue reading

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It’s expensive to survive fibre outages in Sydney

Today something which we’ve planned against and operated to survive for nearly a decade occurred. At 11am on a Wednesday an Internet link via fibre cable goes down, hard. The linked post from our Operations site details it, but I … Continue reading

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