Recent Posts Tagged With 'ubuntu'

• Say Goodbye to McAfee, FOREVER!

  Posted on Friday January 16th, 2009 at 09:05 in vista, ubuntu, virus

  Since I work in the IT business, I get the following questions on an almost daily basis:"What virus software would you recommend for my home computer?"Now I know exactly how the weather guy feels when they get asked: "What's the weather going to be...

• Ubuntu on a Laptop and Wireless Internet

  Posted on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 18:18 in ubuntu, 8.10, wireless laptops

  One of the most frustrating things about running Ubuntu, or for that matter, any Linux based operating system on an older laptop is the fact that many wireless cards simply will not work.This is because many of the companies that make these cards th...

• Ubuntu Linux Google Chrome

  Posted on Friday January 2nd, 2009 at 08:57 in ubuntu, chrome

  I still have a laptop that my wife uses that has Windows XP. She needs it for some online classes that she is using. I decided to give Google Chrome a try so I went ahead and installed it on her laptop. I liked what I saw. Chrome is a new browse...

• CentOS, Java, and RPM Hell

  Posted on Friday December 26th, 2008 at 08:15 in ubuntu, centos

  I was trying to use a Java application within my web browser on a CentOS box I set up, and was a little disappointed to see that the folks over at Redhat still have not figured out how to make the act of simply surfing the Internet with a PC using Li...

• PC Equals Windows. NOT!

  Posted on Saturday December 20th, 2008 at 11:24 in ubuntu, mark shuttleworth

  We have all seen them. The Mac vs. PC ads that Apple uses for their main advertising campaign. Apple has poured millions into the ad campaign, and why not? It has been hugely successful for them and the commercials are funny.The Mac ads mock Micros...

• Ubuntu Setting Its Sights on College Students?

  Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 20:32 in ubuntu, canonical

  I has been a little while since I visited the Ubuntu website. Usually, I make a visit or two once or twice a month, but sine Ubuntu 8.10 was released, I have just been having fun using my recycled and old PC to some productive work. Plus, I am thin...

• Christmas Music on Ubuntu Rhythmbox

  Posted on Monday December 8th, 2008 at 14:01 in ubuntu, tips and tricks

  I have been learning to use Rythmbox's Radio Station a little more, and found that it is pretty easy to get all of Sky.fm's radio station feeds integrated with Rhythmbox. I added the Christmas Music stream offered by Sky.fm and it was very easy to d...

• Running Linux on a Slow Computer

  Posted on Friday December 5th, 2008 at 23:17 in ubuntu, 8.10, old pc

  I use a pretty old computer to keep this blog up to date. Some of you may be surprised to hear that it is a Dell L667r sporting a 667 Mhz processor with 320 MB of RAM. Yep, that's it! Everything works great on this old beast. The only 'upgrade' I...

• Agent.BTZ Virus infecting Military Computers

  Posted on Thursday December 4th, 2008 at 19:59 in ubuntu, virus

  Another virus is making headlines, and it is being passed around the old fashioned way with the modern day equivalent of floppy drives. I remember years ago there was a lot of hand wringing by "security experts" about floppy disks. Back then, virus...

• Speed Up Ubuntu Boot Time

  Posted on Monday December 1st, 2008 at 19:38 in ubuntu, tips and tricks, boot

  Here is a simple way to speed up the boot time of your Ubuntu system. It involves recreating the readahead profile. Readahead is a daemon that runs in Ubuntu that loads a set if files into page cache that accelerates the first time of loading of pr...

• Partition and MBR Restore Using TestDisk

  Posted on Saturday November 29th, 2008 at 14:50 in ubuntu, recovery

  After a little poking around with my Windoze PC, the one that would not boot, I decided that either the partition table, or the Master Boot Record (MBR) were somehow corrupted. The machine would boot using other disk drives, so the motherboard was ...

• Using Ubuntu to Recover Data from an XP Drive

  Posted on Friday November 28th, 2008 at 21:45 in ubuntu, recovery, tips and tricks

  I have several PCs in my house. One of them, a Microsoft Windows XP stopped booting for me. I was not sure if the motherboard went bad or the disk drive. This PC had a lot of files on it that were important for my wife and her on line studies. Un...

• Ubuntu vs. Centos

  Posted on Friday November 21st, 2008 at 20:40 in ubuntu, centos

  I have been using Ubuntu at home for my desktop, while at work, it has mainly been Redhat.In recent years, we have not had to build systems at our site, since they were sent to us pre-loaded with the OS, or we just install a CD, run a script, and the...

• Ubuntu Everyday PC

  Posted on Wednesday October 29th, 2008 at 22:35 in ubuntu, xubuntu

  This is going to be a diary about my daily use of the Ubuntu Operating system as my main household PC. Actually, I am running it on several of my machines, plus a version called xubuntu on one of my older boxes. Since Ubuntu 8.10 is due to be releas...