Well its the end of another year and this blog has been through some ups and downs. I wanted to put together a quick post outlining the top ten most popular tutorials of late. Many of you have showed your support by submitting tutorials to Digg and leaving comments. I thank [...]
I’ve been reflecting this past week on what we have (and haven’t) yet accomplished this year with open source and free software. I think we have made some great strides but we also have a long road ahead of us and it will continue to take hard work from all of us. In reflecting [...]
Based on some recent requests over at Daniel Robitaille’s blog he outlined a few tips on how to manually keep up to date with Firefox. Now, Ubuntu normally is pretty quick on keeping critical system parts up-to-date but for those of you that want a little more manual control here are some steps.
(I don’t [...]
Most of you have probably at least heard of “grub” but may not be completely familiar with it. What it does or how to make it work for you is quite another story for most people. I’d like to outline a few minor tweaks that anyone can make to grub to update their [...]
You might remember my previous post about how to actually use the Create Document option on your desktops right-click menu. Today I’ll go over how to create custom scripts to launch from that same panel. This can go for any frequently used program, custom scripts that you’ve written, etc. This tutorial is [...]
One of the first things I setup long ago when I first switched to Ubuntu was a streaming media server. I decided early on to just dive in and see what I could (and couldn’t) do. I had an extra machine lying around so I thought I would give it a try and [...]
Many of you might be familiar with my previous posts concerning the Flock browser. I had completely switched to Flock until Firefox 2 released and I’m still back and forth quite a bit. For those that haven’t seen my previous posts on installing Flock you might want to see these:
Flock on Ubuntu
Install Flash 9 Beta [...]
Back when I was a windows user it was a constant struggle to keep ahead of the horde of viruses and malware dead-set on exterminating my computing existence. I tried many programs, from McAfee to Symantec, from FreeAVG to Avast! There are dozens of options available for the windows crowd. Luckily, as Linux users it [...]
I have been using Skype for the past few months to take advantage of the promotion they had of “free calls to the US & Canada until 2007″. It has been nice to use a free phone service while my cell-phone battery has been dead. Starting Jan 1, 2007 however Skype will begin charging $14.95 [...]
Just a quick note to wish everyone a Happy Holiday (for those on this side of the planet, belated to the rest of you). We’ve had a great year and made some amazing strides in Open Source and Free Software, especially Ubuntu. It has been quite a ride!
I hope we can continue making the same [...]
