Mar
17
Quick Fix for the ‘Size Mismatch’ When Updating Ubuntu Linux
March 17, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 2 Comments
Posted in How To
This is just a short “quick fix” post. For those who need it, here’s a quick fix when you get an error message like this: “W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc1d_0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu7.2_amd64.deb Size mismatch” It’s an error I received when the auto update feature was working in Ubuntu Linux. I double checked my sources.list file, but it [...]
Mar
16
Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux
March 16, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 13 Comments
Posted in Applications, Hands On, How To
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 [...]
Mar
13
Quick Fix: Black Desktop Background and Lost Icons
March 13, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 24 Comments
Posted in How To
Just a short post for any of you that encounter the same issue I just did. I booted up this morning (Ubuntu Linux 8.04 – Hardy) and logged in, no problem. But my desktop background image (the wallpaper) had disappeared, along with my desktop icons. Also, the desktop background was all black. Rebooting did not [...]
Mar
9
Getting Started with Firewall Builder
March 9, 2009 | By: Vadim Kurland | 4 Comments
Posted in Hands On, How To
This guide presents an introduction to Firewall Builder. Firewall Builder (also known as fwbuilder), is a GUI firewall configuration and management tool that supports iptables (netfilter), ipfilter, pf, ipfw, Cisco PIX (FWSM, ASA) and Cisco routers extended access lists. Both professional network administrators and hobbyists managing firewalls with policies more complex that is allowed by [...]
Feb
22
Update Gimp in Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 – The Fast Way
February 22, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 7 Comments
Posted in How To
I recently reinstalled Ubuntu Linux (8.04 – Hardy Heron) and wanted to update my version of Gimp to the latest. Unfortunately ‘sudo aptitude install gimp’ in a terminal simply does not do the trick. Why? Because the latest version is not in the repositories. Hopefully this short post will help some of you avoid a [...]
