Tag Archives: Ubuntu

Preserving UTF-8 filenames from Windows to Linux

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Sigurd

On occasion I access (Ubuntu) Linux servers from Windows using Putty and WinSCP. In order to preserve UTF-8 filenames, some snakeoil is required.

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Setting up SCP/SFTP chroot access to Ubuntu/x64 server

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Sigurd

scponly provides a mechanism to enable secure file-access to a server, with marked improvement over FTP. scponly can be setup in a) normal mode, whereby the user can see the whole of the file-system of the server, or b) in … Continue reading →

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Feisty (2.6.20-16-generic kernel) boot failure

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Sigurd

In applying the latest Feisty Fawn updates to one of my laptops I ran into a problem with the bootup hanging shortly after starting. The usual snakeoil of ‘acpi=off pci=noacpi’ appended to the boot command line failed to make any … Continue reading →

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