Dec
6
How to Wipe a Hard Drive – Reader Questions
December 6, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 2 Comments
Posted in Q & A
Becky asked: “…I am running Ubuntu Linux. I want to wipe my hard drive. How do i do that?…” I’m assuming that you don’t have another computer you can plug that hard drive in? Additionally, you cannot wipe a hard drive if you have no OS to run the software. And finally, I assume by [...]
Dec
6
How to Check MD5SUM of Downloads – Reader Questions
December 6, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 5 Comments
Posted in Q & A
Steve emailed asking: “…because all the DVDs I was burning were useless. Thanks for helping with that, only thing, how do I check the md5sum stuff? Should there be a separate file showing what it is? Where do I find what it’s supposed to be? Thanks for…” This is a common occurrence, we download a [...]
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 [...]
Dec
3
What About Linux?
December 3, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 4 Comments
Posted in Editorials
It’s been a while since I “seriously” posted on this blog, as I’ve been super busy. One of the things I do in my work is custom build desktop computers and servers for clients. There’s been a sudden demand for new desktop systems. While talking to clients, they’ve all danced around the issue of having [...]
Dec
1
Faster Internet With an Old Laptop – Revisited
December 1, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in 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, [...]
