Mar
24
Building a Web Developer / Designer PC Using Ubuntu Linux – Revisited
March 24, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 5 Comments
Posted in Applications, Hands On, How To
Recently I posted “Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux” and received a few messages asking what other tools I use. To save me time with answering email messages that essentially contain the same information, and to help the maximum number of readers, I thought it would be a [...]
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 [...]
Jul
17
Installing an Ubuntu Linux Hardy 8.04 LAMP and FFMpeg Server With a GUI – Installation of OpenSSH.
July 17, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 2 Comments
Posted in Hands On, How To
In the last installment, I covered what was done to install LAMP on the server. But remember that we did not install SSH. Why is SSH important? It allows us to remotely connect to the server using tools such as PuTTY, so that we can execute commands, install software, etc. The command is simple: sudo [...]
