Aug

8

The Best 10 Minute, Effective Desktop Firewall Installation for Ubuntu Linux

August 8, 2007 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | Leave a Comment
Posted in Applications, How to..., Installation, Linux Projects - Hands On

I had an interesting conversation yesterday about keeping your computer safe on the Internet. One of the issues raised was that Ubuntu was not as safe as Windows, because there was no Firewall software like Zonealarm; and instead Linux Ubuntu users had to install a separate physical firewall. “That is just not true!” Although [...]

Aug

4

My Hard Drive Failed! – Easy, Fast, Simple Ubuntu Package Recovery.

August 4, 2007 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | Leave a Comment
Posted in How to...

A couple of days ago I turned my PC on and the BIOS failed to auto-detect my hard drive. Assuming it was just a boot-up mistake, I rebooted the system – I got the same result. Suffice it to say, it did not take to long to realize that my hard drive had failed!
I even [...]

Aug

3

Speed Up Your Internet Connection in Ubuntu Linux – Part 2

August 3, 2007 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 2 Comments
Posted in How to...

Readers have been asking me for a bit more background information about the issues in part one, this results in a far more technical article (follow up) than ever intended. And I hope the technical gurus among us can correct any errors here. As requested, here is more background to the settings…
To clarify the [...]

Aug

1

The Best Ubuntu Linux Repository List

August 1, 2007 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 14 Comments
Posted in How to..., Installation

If, like me, you enjoy tweaking and playing with your Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) installation then check out the download (zipped text file). It contains pretty much all the software repositories for Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) that are available to enhance the “apt-get install” command. Obviously, if you plan on continuing to upgrade your distribution as new [...]

Jul

28

Speed Up Web Browsing by Caching DNS to Your Hard Drive in Ubuntu.

July 28, 2007 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 19 Comments
Posted in How to...

I was sent a web link today that contained a great article about how to speed up web browsing by locally caching DNS name resolution results using dnsmasq. That article is great and it is here: Local DNS Cache for Faster Browsing. I like it because it is equally simple to do and works, but [...]

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