Jun

29

Installing Compass on Ubuntu

June 29, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 6 Comments
Posted in How to...

One thing I particularly enjoy are tools that make my work simpler. I was reading a post on Smashing Magazine about “35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design” that mentioned Compass. It’s a a real stylesheet framework. As such it’s of great benefit to web developers and designers who have some coding skills. What particularly attracted [...]

Jun

25

Using Built-In Revision Control in Firewall Builder

June 25, 2009 | By: Vadim Kurland | Leave a Comment
Posted in How to...

This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). Firewall Builder was introduced earlier with the article Getting Started With Firewall Builder. The series continued with articles on built-in [...]

Jun

20

20 Useful, Common Linux (Ubuntu) Commands for New Users

June 20, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 7 Comments
Posted in How to...

I recently was asked by a new Ubuntu user (also involved in web, graphic design, etc.), what some of the more common day to day commands I use are. Many of these commands can increase productivity, etc. by making things (for me at least), easier to do. My system desktop has a transparent terminal integrated [...]

Jun

20

Converting VMware Images to VirtualBox – A Simple Method

June 20, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 6 Comments
Posted in News

When I need to run a Windows based application on my trusty Ubuntu Hardy box, I don’t use Wine. Don’t get me wrong, it’s just that I don’t want to have to manage the Wine environment and prefer to have Windows and it’s associated applications tucked away in it’s own virtual system. This way if [...]

Jun

18

Making Your Ubuntu System Read Out Loud

June 18, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 3 Comments
Posted in Experiences

I had an interesting morning playing with my Ubuntu (Hardy – 8.04) system. I just created a nice new desktop, with super effects and graphics and wondered if there’s not a way to create a more customized “ear candy” environment (since I’ve already covered the eye candy aspect). I discovered that Ubuntu (and most likely [...]

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