Jan
15
Building a Business Network Using Ubuntu – Introduction
January 15, 2010 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 7 Comments
Posted in How To
This post begins the first (an introduction) in a series of several posts, discussing the benefits that Ubuntu Linux provides to business owners. Naturally, by default, I’ll be touching on several open source applications and server packages throughout the series. Hopefully I can also dispel some of the myth and uncertainty, for business owners who [...]
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
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, [...]
