This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). Firewall Builder was introduced on this site earlier with articles Getting Started With Firewall Builder, Using Built-in Policy Importer in Firewall Builder, Using Firewall Object in Firewall Builder.
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Granted, Launchpad might not be something newer Ubuntu users or less experienced users consider joining? However, I recently checked out the site and created my account. When I'm ready to create a couple packages, I can upload them to launchpad, where I or anyone in the community can access and use them, from anywhere. Additionally, part of the motivation is to give back to the community. When I started using Linux in earnest, I received a lot of community help, as such, this blog and the future Launchpad packages ar...
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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 replace the Tomboy Notes application I use). In reality, I was surprised at the performance given the lack of hardware resources on this laptop, as such, I knew it could be put to more use.
One thing you'll notice in this...
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This article continues the series of articles on Fireall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). Firewall Builder was introduced on this site earlier with articles Getting Started With Firewall Builder and Using Built-in Policy Importer in Firewall Builder.
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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 Chrome on Windows), besting even Midori by over 200 points. Seriously, what an amazing achievement. I’ll definitely be paying close atten...
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