I have been tunneling all of my web traffic over an encrypted SSH connection for some time now. Considering the fact that I travel a lot, I’m very regularly on untrusted, insecure networks. I prefer to secure those connections (web, IM, email, etc) by creating an encrypted SSH connection and pushing the traffic through it.… Read More »
I blogged about openDNS last year, but recently I was reminded about how nice this service is. OpenDNS can do a number of things for your network connection, either residential or commercial. If you’d like to hear more about OpenDNS please visit the OpenDNS site. Using OpenDNS on Ubuntu 8.04 There are two ways to… Read More »
update: I realize the formatting for this post is a bit screwed up. If anyone has any tips on fixing it I’d appreciate it. It looks fine in the editor view, but when I publish it everything gets screwy. Today’s tip is a Gnome Desktop tweak that may be new to some of you. Did… Read More »
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about the Flock Browser, and after checking it out today I thought it was time for an update here at Ubuntu Tutorials. For all of you that are addicted to all of the social networking sites (Digg, Twitter, Facebook, del.icio.us, Flickr, etc) you get an integrated-into-the-browser experience with… Read More »
I’ve been teaching software RAID on RHEL5 for some time now and today I came to the realization that nearly every student I’ve ever taught that is currently using RAID is using hardware RAID. Nobody seems to use software RAID, at least in what I’ve run into. Now, in my mind, the performance difference between… Read More »
I just added a WordPress plugin polling system and I’d really like to hear from all of you regarding what you’d like to see more of at Ubuntu Tutorials. I know there are thousands of you that read the blog, but I only hear from a select few by way of the comments section. Please… Read More »
I ran into some Mozilla Firefox easter eggs this afternoon. Do you have any more that I don’t know about? Visit these addresses in Firefox 3: about:mozilla about:robots Also some other interesting things to find: about:config about:cache about:credits about:license about:buildconfig (Reference to the “warranty” is a warning message and I’m sure its a joke. Refer… Read More »
I covered VNC this afternoon in my Linux system administration course and the question came up on how to secure VNC. You may or may not be aware than VNC is not encrypted by default, which could be a security concern. If you use VNC regularly to connect to other Linux machines you may want… Read More »
Yesterday it was brought to my attention that the Gnome-Do team had released a major update, 0.5! Being completely addicted to Gnome-Do I immediately upgraded to check out the new features. Here is a basic rundown of the new features and, of course, how to upgrade your system! Features After taking a look at the… Read More »
I was discussing the creation and maintenance of an Ubuntu repository mirror in IRC today and realized that I haven’t blogged about how to do that. Its funny sometimes how topics pop up, and something I’ve been using for months never made it onto the blog. In any event, below I’ll outline how to create… Read More »