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, [...]
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
29
Installing Compass on Ubuntu
June 29, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 6 Comments
Posted in How To
One thing I particularly enjoy are tools that make my work simpler. I was reading a post on Smashing Magazine about “35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design” that mentioned Compass. It’s a a real stylesheet framework. As such it’s of great benefit to web developers and designers who have some coding skills. What particularly attracted [...]
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 [...]
