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Feb
21
How to Regularly Backup Ubuntu Using rsync
February 21, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | Leave a Comment
Posted in How to..., Installation
Right after I wrote How to regularly backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync for my T42 ThinkPad, I ended up installing Ubuntu on it. In the end I was mostly interested in backing it up for the purpose of safely wiping Windows. So much for regularly.
Then something unexpected happened: I started to use my [...]
Feb
21
How to regularly backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync
February 21, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 2 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
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 [...]
