Hello. After installing Raspbian (on the Raspberry website there are all the necessary guides), the first things to do are: enable ssh: sudo raspi-config navigate to the “SSH” option under “Advanced options” and enable it (it’s not necessary but it might be useful for remote access). Change the default username and password (respectively “pi” and “raspberry”): enable the root user with: sudo passwd root log out from the pi user, log in as root and give these commands (new_user = your new username): ...

Hello. I bought a Raspberry Pi 2 and started configuring it. For this reason, I decided to collect all the material used and report it here in case of a new configuration. All links to the guides will be inserted here. Let’s begin: After installing Raspbian Remove unnecessary software Force 1080p resolution Install LogMeIn Hamachi Installing No-Ip Install Chromium Install Squid Configure blacklist for Squid Mount NTFS hard drive Share folders with a Samba server Install SquidGuard Let’s install a Torrent client, Transmission Print server, Cups Bye! ...

Are you having problems checking the email provided by TopHost via clients like Outlook, Thunderbird, or from other email accounts like Gmail or Yahoo? Thanks to the user “ Luciano De Franco” on the official Google products forum, here’s the solution: _These are the steps to take:__1) Go to the website http://www.visualroute.it/strumenti/dnslookup.asp__2) Enter the POP Server address, i.e., mail.yourdomain.xx__3) Click the “resolve” button and copy the generated IP (the 4 numbers separated by dots, called “addresses”)_4) Enter the IP directly in place of the POP Server in Google’s configuration utility__At this point, you’ll need to re-enter the password for your mailbox (if you don’t remember it, reset it from cPanel) and everything will work again!!! ...

Hello. It was a project I had in mind for several years, but every time I started it, it never ended up the way I wanted: a home VPN through the services offered by Windows. The main problem was neither configuring a dynamic DNS (I had that for ages) nor the configuration of the VPN itself, but being able to reach it from outside (it works perfectly within the same network): in the countless guides I read about it, no one specified that the router must support VPN passthrough. ...

Hello. I recently got an Acer Aspire One 150 ZG5, a simple 9" netbook. Since the 8GB¹ SSD hard drive doesn’t work very well, I wanted to install everything on an SD card and boot from there. While browsing the web, I found mentions suggesting to update the BIOS to the latest version, 3309 ( Drivers & Utilities). As you might have noticed, after extracting the archive, you’re supposed to run a small program and perform the update while the system is running. ...

Need to navigate a remote folder via shell? Well, as you’ve noticed, it’s not possible to do this without mounting the folder somewhere. To do this, you need smbfs (which, from what I’ve found online, is a file system or, better, a “mountable” SMB). To install it, open a terminal and type: sudo apt-get install smbfs After that, you’ll need to create a folder where you’ll mount the remote folder; this can be in any location you prefer (I put it on the “Desktop”) and you can create it however you want (via GUI or with a simple “mkdir”). ...

I wanted to try Windows 7 on my “grandpa computer” (it’s six years old this month) equipped with an ATI Radeon 9200. Having already installed it elsewhere, I preferred to postpone the search for drivers until after installation; good decision because the only drivers it couldn’t find were those for the video card and the secondary sound card (well, I already knew this and in fact I had them already prepared). ...

Network Manager is an excellent wireless/wired/VPN/Dial-up network manager, but it doesn’t always work well. A worthy replacement is Wicd. To install it, you can follow the instructions on the Ubuntu Wiki, but on Lucid Lynx, when it tries to uninstall the Network Manager packages (“network-manager” and “network-manager-gnome”), it fails. You might say “Who cares? I’ll leave them there and start Wicd!”. Why? In my case, they conflicted with each other and Wicd couldn’t connect. ...