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Creating an Opensource Network Gateway in Linux Ubuntu – Part 1

March 29, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in How to..., Installation, Linux Projects - Hands On

I was reading a story on Digg this morning, about an 11 year old child who was functioning as the network manager for some private school’s network. Within the comments was a post that referred to “Untangle” and why the school chose not to use it. The commenter suggested that the individual probably didn’t know [...]

Mar

28

How to Install VMware in Ubuntu Linux

March 28, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in How to..., Installation, Linux Projects - Hands On

Over the week I received a couple messages asking about VMware installations. While I’m sure there are all sorts of tutorials about this, I thought (since I received questions) that a quick “How to” guide would be helpful to some of you.
What is VMware? It’s a virtual environment that lets you install “guest” operating systems. [...]

Mar

27

Automatic FTP Backup System – A Very Simple Solution

March 27, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 6 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to...

Earlier last week I was reading some posts in a web hosting forum “Site Backup – Virtual Private Servers (VPS)”, within the post a forum member was trying to facilitate an automated backup system for his important files. In this case they were web based files.
There were some excellent solutions presented, such as Rsync, etc. [...]

Mar

24

BluRay and HDDVD in Ubuntu Linux

March 24, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 2 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to..., Installation, News

Hello everyone! I’m back from the Easter break and found this little gem in my email. It outlines how to play BlueRay and HD DVD in Ubuntu Linux.
In a nutshell it covers the need for mplayer and ffmpeg as well as DumpHD and the required hardware. I’ve not tried this yet (I don’t have an [...]

Mar

22

Do You Get the Firefox is Running Error?

March 22, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 4 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to...

One more quick post for the Easter holiday (here in Canada). I’ve started getting that annoying
“Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.”
error message again, and was looking for a quick fix (as I’d been logging into terminal [...]

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