Dec

4

Adding a Terminal Hot Key Shortcut – Reader Questions

December 4, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 2 Comments
Posted in How to...

Janice emailed asking:
“…and lots of your posts show us how to do things in a terminal. Each time I have to go to Applications / Accessories / Terminal, isn’t there a faster way, like some key combination or something?…”
In Ubuntu (for that matter pretty much all Linux distros), you can set up “hot keys” to [...]

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, I [...]

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 [...]

Jul

2

Installing Epiphany Webkit with Flash Capability

July 2, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 5 Comments
Posted in How to..., Installation

I read an interesting post comparing the different browsers and how they compare (in terms of performance) with each other. The conclusion of the post Linux Browser Shootout with Peacekeeper, suggested that Epiphany-Webkit was the best. From their web site:
“…Epiphany-WebKit absolutely blitzes the Peacekeeper and annihilates all of its competition (even Safari 4 and Google [...]

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 [...]

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