How to configure FreeNAS with automatic config backups and a retention policy.

My current favorite wireless access point until pfSense gets the much needed wireless support.

So, I am trying to restore a Newznab installation by importing in all my NZBs from my previous installation. Except during the import, all your NZBs need to be unzipped/decompressed and not in a ".nzb.gz" format.   Well I needed to figure out a way to unzip the compressed NZBs into their existing directories and also removing the original compressed NZB (mainly, to save hard drive space). Thankfully after a little research I was able to put together the following command that would accomplish this.

I spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out how to get Newznab behind a Apache reverse proxy. Unlike SABnzbd, Sickbeard, CouchPotato and Headphones there was no web_root, url_base or http_root for Newznab to use with a reverse proxy. Just with my luck too, there is very little documentation available online on this subject.

Today I was trying to install Oracle Java 7 (aka 1.7) on a Ubuntu Server 12.10 and was greeted by this lovely error, admin@ubuntuserver:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found

The following script can be used to uninstall all versions of Java on a computer.   Please note: Script was found here:

Had one of those brain fart moments where I needed to delete a directory with all it's contents and couldn't for the life of me remember the command.

Ran across this problem/feature "The following packages have been kept back:" when trying to update some of my Ubuntu servers. Typically this means there is some kind of dependency issue(s) with the listed packages. For me I had the package "open-vm-tools" installed and it was causing a dependency conflict with...

If you have every had a server online for some time. You've probably updated it a couple of times and maybe noticed that the old kernels stay loaded in /boot partition. Well eventually you will run out of space in your /boot partition and need to clear out those old...

For those Debian / Ubuntu fans out there that need to rebuild a missing or deleted configuration file without purging the package. Use the following command with just replacing PACKAGENAME with the name of the package you want to rebuild the config files for.   [crayon attributes] sudo apt-get -o...