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How to regularly backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync

February 21, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 3 Comments
Posted in How to..., Installation

Back in September I revived my Mini-ITX box to serve as a backup server. I set up BackupPC, ran it once, it seemed to work, and then ignored it for weeks. When I checked back, it hadn’t run successfully since. Ugh, I want backups to just work!
A few nights ago I decided to try again, [...]

Feb

21

How to Play Most Restricted Media Formats in Ubuntu

February 21, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 3 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to..., Installation

Ubuntu strives to make all software that meets the licensing terms in the Ubuntu License Policy available. However patent and copyright restrictions complicate free operating systems distributing software to support proprietary formats.
Ubuntu’s commitment to only include completely free software by default means that proprietary media formats are not configured ‘out of the box’.
Ubuntu can play [...]

Feb

20

Ubuntu LAMP Server With Torrentflux In VMware

February 20, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in How to..., Installation, Linux Projects - Hands On

This tutorial is meant for Linux newbies who want to try and build a Ubuntu Server box as a web server and torrent client. It is a step by step instruction on how to do this in VMWare on Windows XP to get the feel of it. I wrote this after, being a Linux newbie [...]

Feb

20

How to Display Linux VPS Memory Usage

February 20, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in Experiences, How to...

In my experience, the hardest thing to work around when using a VPS for hosting is limited memory. It’s definitely a challenge to try and tune a database, web server, and application server for load under the constraints of a VPS plan (typically 512 MB or less of RAM). The best solution I came-up with [...]

Feb

19

You Can Switch to Linux! – MaximumPC

February 19, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | Leave a Comment
Posted in Applications, How to..., Installation

I’ve written about Linux in Maximum PC quite a bit over the last three years. You see, I’m intrigued by the prospect of a free, open operating system, one that’s available for everyone to use and modify to suit their own purposes. Rather than a monolithic operating system vendor telling me that I’m not allowed [...]

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