Jul
5
Installing a Web Server on Your Old Laptop
July 5, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in 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
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 [...]
Jun
20
Converting VMware Images to VirtualBox – A Simple Method
June 20, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 6 Comments
Posted in Editorials
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 [...]
Jun
17
Using Built-in Policy Installer in Firewall Builder
June 17, 2009 | By: Vadim Kurland | Leave a Comment
Posted in How To
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 and Using Built-in Policy Importer [...]
Jun
16
Installing ATI R128 – Reader Questions
June 16, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 3 Comments
Posted in Q & A
“Danny”, one of our readers asks: “I have a ati r128 graphics driver. I dont see the driver in hardware drivers at all. The driver is a inf file. I dont know how to install it. Please help me!” I don’t have much information provided in the question (more information is always helpful and allows [...]
