Category: System administration

  • Menginstal Driver Printer Laser Brother HL-1211W pada Ubuntu 16.04

    Pada artikel ini saya akan berbagi mudahnya instalasi driver printer laser Brother HL-1211W pada Linux. Brother adalah salah satu merek yang setia mendukung Linux. Sepengetahuan saya, Brother menyediakan driver Linux untuk hampir semua model, baik kelas bawah maupun kelas atas. Berbeda dengan merek printer lain yang kadang hanya menyediakan driver Windows untuk model-model kelas bawah. Ini…

  • Updating My Laptop to Ubuntu 16.04

    Updating My Laptop to Ubuntu 16.04

    The UEFI/BIOS Confusion Yesterday I have updated my Ubuntu from 15.10 to 16.04 Xenial Xerus. I decided to do clean install and overwrite the old installation instead of make use of the available upgrade option. One particular difference when installing Xenial is that it warned me about UEFI. I’ve never see that warning on previous releases.…

  • Cara Upgrade ownCloud pada Ubuntu Server

    Sinkronisasi ala Dropbox Pada artikel kali ini, saya akan berbagi cerita sedikit tentang ownCloud. Apa itu ownCloud? ownCloud adalah perangkat lunak yang memungkinkan setiap orang untuk membuat layanan sinkronisasi file semacam Dropbox. Saya menggunakan ownCloud agar file-file di Ubuntu dan Windows senantiasa sinkron. Update = main tenis Satu hal yang kurang saya sukai dari ownCloud adalah…

  • VMWare Workstation Player does not run on Ubuntu 15.10

    Recently I upgraded my Ubuntu to 15.10 Wily Werewolf. One problem I had  was that  VMWare Workstation Player 12 did not run normally. Running from Unity and terminal would result the same. Strange, it just exited with no clue: no window, no error messages, no nothing. At first I thought this was caused by the…

  • Memanfaatkan fitur backup data pada Ubuntu

    Backup data seharusnya bukan copy-paste Backup data adalah hal yang wajib dilakukan oleh setiap pengguna komputer. Namun banyak orang yang melakukan backup data dengan cara menyalin (copy-paste) file-filenya secara manual ke harddisk eksternal. Copy-paste manual ini sekilas terlihat cepat padahal bikin ribet di kemudian hari. Bayangkan misalnya Anda mau membackup direktori Documents yang berukuran 12…

  • Epson L210: a great multifunction printer for Linux

    My friend Robbi put his Epson L210 printer in our office for use by other lecturers. For those who don’t know, Epson L210 and other L series printers is a line of economical inkjet printers. They are popular here in Indonesia due to their low operational cost and durability. I remember a few years back…

  • Disabling Unity Keyboard Shortcuts Overlay

    Recently I’ve been using Windows 8 as a virtual machine on top of Ubuntu 14.10. One thing that bugs me is the Windows Logo Key, or known as Super Key in the *nix community. In Windows 8, we frequently need to press the key to go back and forth between the Desktop and the Start…

  • Migrating From Linux Mint to Debian with Encrypted Home

    Debian has long been attracting me, so I finally decided to replace Linux Mint Maya running on my good old Acer laptop with Debian Wheezy. However, a problem stumbled the migration process: my home directory was encrypted. Unlike Ubuntu or Linux Maya, the encryption support was not built in the Debian installation process, so this…