Feb

11

Google Earth and Chrome – Reader Questions

February 11, 2010 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | Leave a Comment
Posted in Q & A - Ubuntu

Ruud emailed asking, “How do I install Chrome and Google Earth? I’ve tried using apt-get, but the packages are not found. I am using Ubuntu 8.04″ For Ubuntu 8.04 users, please try the instructions below. (I’m not in front of a Hardy, 8.04, box right now, so please comment below if you find I’ve made [...]

Dec

1

Faster Internet With an Old Laptop – Revisited

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

One of my earlier posts, Faster Internet With an Old Laptop – Ubuntu and Squid, discussed how to install Squid and Webmin on an old laptop. The premise being that having a proxy server on the network helped speed up web browsing (because of the caching capabilities), reduced external bandwidth usage, etc. In that post, [...]

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

20

Converting VMware Images to VirtualBox – A Simple Method

June 20, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 6 Comments
Posted in News

When I need to run a Windows based application on my trusty Ubuntu Hardy box, I don’t use Wine. Don’t get me wrong, it’s just that I don’t want to have to manage the Wine environment and prefer to have Windows and it’s associated applications tucked away in it’s own virtual system. This way if [...]

Jun

16

Installing ATI R128 – Reader Questions

June 16, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 3 Comments
Posted in Q & A - Ubuntu

“Danny”, one of our readers asks: “I have a ati r128 graphics driver. I dont see the driver in hardware drivers at all. The driver is a inf file. I dont know how to install it. Please help me!” I don’t have much information provided in the question (more information is always helpful and allows [...]

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