How To Change Your Firefox Homepage This article is part of a series entitled “Ubuntu Beginners”, which which walks new users through basic Desktop and Command Line usage. This article will detail how to change the default Firefox home page. As outlined in a previous post: Ubuntu 10.04 to Change Default Search Provider, the default search… Read More »
This article is part of a series entitled “Ubuntu Beginners” which walks new users through basic Desktop and Command Line usage. This article will detail how to change and customize your Ubuntu look by managing your themes. This article includes step-by-step instructions as well as screenshots, and is specific only to GNOME. Changing The Theme Ubuntu… Read More »
This article is part of a series entitled “Ubuntu Beginners”, which walks new users through basic Desktop and Command Line usage. This article will detail how to change the Ubuntu screensaver, using the graphical interface. Included below are GNOME, and KDE. Change Screensaver – GNOME Ubuntu’s default screensaver is a blank screen, activated after five… Read More »
How to rename a file in Ubuntu : Ubuntu Beginners This article is part of a series entitled “Ubuntu Beginners”, which walks new users through basic Desktop and Command Line usage. This article will detail how to rename files, using both the graphical interface as well as the command line. Included below are GNOME, KDE… Read More »
On Jan 30, 2010 the Freenode IRC network finally activated SSL support. This is something that many have long been waiting for, and I’m glad to finally see it! I have been an IRC user for some years now, the majority of which has been specific to the Freenode network. Historically all data passed to… Read More »
The following security announcement applies to fuse-utils. If you have fuse-utils installed, please see below for details on the vulnerability and instructions on patching your system: Ronald Volgers discovered that FUSE did not correctly check mount locations. A local attacker, with access to use FUSE, could unmount arbitrary locations, leading to a denial of service.… Read More »
The following security announcement applies to smbfs. If you have smbfs installed, please see below for details on the vulnerability and instructions on patching your system: Ronald Volgers discovered that the mount.cifs utility, when installed as a setuid program, suffered from a race condition when verifying user permissions. A local attacker could trick samba into… Read More »
The following security announcement applies to lintian. If you have lintian installed, please see below for details on the vulnerability and instructions on patching your system: It was discovered that lintian did not correctly validate certain filenames when processing input. If a user or an automated system were tricked into running lintian on a specially… Read More »
Recently I published a short article outlining how to install the latest Firefox Web Browser manually, alongside your existing Firefox installation. In this article I will outline how to install the latest stable Firefox release by making use of the Mozilla Team PPA. This Personal Package Archive (PPA) provides the latest stable releases for Firefox,… Read More »
The following security announcement applies to dhcp-client. If you have dhcp-client installed, please see below for details on the vulnerability and instructions on patching your system: USN-803-1 fixed a vulnerability in Dhcp. Due to an error, the patch to fix the vulnerability was not properly applied on Ubuntu 8.10 and higher. Even with the patch… Read More »