Mar

16

Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux

March 16, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 11 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to..., Linux Projects - Hands On

For those of you who follow my other blog, you’ll know that my last Windows PC had a major failure again. You can read some of the specifics in the “When Disaster Strikes – Again” post. At that point I decided to install Ubuntu (effectively removing Windows based PC’s from the network). In some ways [...]

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 [...]

Mar

24

Building a Web Developer / Designer PC Using Ubuntu Linux – Revisited

March 24, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 5 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to..., Linux Projects - Hands On

Recently I posted “Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux” and received a few messages asking what other tools I use. To save me time with answering email messages that essentially contain the same information, and to help the maximum number of readers, I thought it would be a [...]

Jul

5

Installing a Web Server on Your Old Laptop

July 5, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in Linux Projects - Hands On

In an earlier post to this series, I talked about converting an old ancient IBM Thinkpad T22 Laptop into a proxy server (using Squid). While this did substantially improve my web surfing speed, it occurred to me that the laptop could be put to more use. One example is to install MediaWiki on it (to [...]

Jun

2

Faster Internet With an Old Laptop – Ubuntu and Squid

June 2, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 12 Comments
Posted in Linux Projects - Hands On

I’ve posted more than once about tips we can complete to improve our web surfing. This morning I was cleaning out some old hardware (to take to the recycling centre) when I happened upon one of the last old laptops I had. It’s an older IBM Thinkpad T22, Type 2647 with 256MB of RAM and [...]

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