Recently you may have seen this topic on Tombuntu’s blog, but if you missed it here is an outline of how to enable the advanced permissions dialog in the Nautilus file manager. Activating the Advanced Permissions Dialog in Nautilus Activating (or deactivating) the advanced permissions dialog can be done by way of a single command. … Read More »
You’ve been seeing a lot of virtualization specific posts recently here at Ubuntu Tutorials. I’ve been tinkering with a number of virtualization options, namely VMware Server, Virtualbox and now KVM with Virt-Manager. I’m not going to go into comparing the three in this post, but I will say that KVM is the only solution that… Read More »
Installing VMware Tools on virtualized guests gives you a much more enjoyable experience within your virtual environment. Screen resolution, mouse behaviour, etc will be improved for your virtual sessions after installing these additional tools. Installing these tools within Ubuntu 8.04 virtualized guests is fairly simple, just follow along below. Installing VMware Tools The first requirement,… Read More »
Today I needed to setup a couple of virtual machines for a client and realized that I had removed my installation of VMware Server. Off I went to the VMware download page and what did I find? A day-old release of VMware Server 1.0.6! I figured you’d all appreciate an updated blog post on how… Read More »
I was just setting up Evolution again and went through the steps of setting up my personal account and my Ubuntu account. I’ve heard some people run into problems doing this considering the Ubuntu account, on the incoming side, is bound to your default address in Launchpad, but you still need to send mail out. … Read More »
I’m sure many of you have heard by this point that there is a reported vulnerability in openSSL and openSSH. The basis of this is that they keys that are generated when you use these tools (ie; installing openssh-server, etc) are generated in a weak manner and can be prone to simple brute force attacking.… Read More »
I was looking at some of the most popular posts on my blog, as reported by my awstats installation, and I noticed that one of the most popular is a post outlining common keyboard shortcuts for Compiz-Fusion on Ubuntu 7.10. Apparently everybody loves their eye-candy! I thought, now that Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy” is released, I’d… Read More »
Just the other day we were having a discussion on using the root shell in Ubuntu. Now, remember, the root user account is disabled with no assigned password on a default Ubuntu system so administrative tasks need to be done using the sudo command. For nearly all of the administration you would need sudo will… Read More »
I’ve been hearing more and more recent requests (at OpenWeek -chat and in blog comments) regarding a request for a GUI on top of ufw. I wanted to take a second and outline more clearly what ufw is, which will likely stop these requests. I think its just a simple matter of not truly understand… Read More »
UPDATE: This tutorial has been updated for VMware Server 1.0.6. See the updated instructions here, at How To Install VMware Server 1.0.6 on Ubuntu 8.04. Now that most of the modern world has upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 I’ve begun to see comments regarding VMware Server no longer working. You may have used my previous article,… Read More »