If you don’t know what Tor is, here’s a summary from the Tor homepage:
Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that […]
nixCraft published a perl script that automatically checks your hard drive capacity and emails you when your disk space is running out. Many people and businesses use a dedicated Linux computer to backup their data on a regular basis using cron (”man cron” if you don’t know what it is). This is really […]
Finally, there is an easy way to install your graphics card in Linux. Envy is a program written in python that will do the following:
1) detect the model of your graphic card (ATI and Nvidia cards are supported)
2) download the right version of the proprietary driver for your ATI or Nvidia card from ATI […]
It was a little difficult coming up with a title for this post, and “Review process hierarchy using the terminal” was the best I could come up with. I recently learned about a very helpful terminal command known as pstree. Open a terminal and type the following command:
pstree
You will then be greeted with […]
Debian Admin has a very detailed guide demonstrating how to setup vsftpd. vsftpd is an ftp client that self-proclaims, “[vsftpd is] probably the most secure and fastest FTP server for UNIX-like systems.” The guide at Debain Admin is relatively simple, however it only demonstrates the process using the terminal (no screenshots). If […]
The Ubuntu Geek gives very detailed instructions on how to install and setup Songbird. In case you are unaware, Songbird is an open-source media player that is built using the Mozilla framework. It is very robust and it is one of my favorite media players for Linux (second only to Amarok). The […]
TVease sells pre-built and totally configured MythTV set top boxes for an extremely reasonable price (in my opinion). TVease uses MythTV built on top of Ubuntu Linux. The set top boxes look really slick. The only drawback I can find with TVease is that they do not (yet) offer a high definition […]
Today I installed a second operating system to my laptop and I was surprised that Ubuntu did not automatically add the new operating system to GRUB. The solution is simple. To add another operating system to grub type the following into the terminal:
gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Scroll all the way to the bottom of the […]
One common complaint across many Linux distributions is that the suspend and/or hibernate features either don’t work or don’t work correctly. Linux.com offers a script that will help in the process of suspending and/or hibernating your laptop in Linux. Copy and paste the script offered at Linux.com into the following directory:
/usr/local/sbin/suspend.sh
Then make the […]
You can move your metacity buttons to the left side of the window (Mac style) very easily. I will show you how to do this in GNOME. The first step is to open gconf-editor. You can do this by typing gconf-editor into a terminal. Once gconf-editor is open, go to Apps >> Metacity >> […]
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