Lots has been written about SSH on Linux machines, but all too often it is written in technical jargon that confuses what is actually a very simple and infinitely useful technology. Here is a idiots guide to getting started with SSH in 2 minutes.
What is SSH and why should I know about it?
SSH stands for Secure SHell and gives a robust and secure way to control another computer (including servers) remotely.
You know how you can control your Linux box through the terminal command line? Well, ...
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Updated your computer to the latest version of Ubuntu, just to find it freezing or running so slowly that it is almost unusable? Well, read on and we'll have you running back up to speed in a couple of minutes...
The Problem.
I was visiting my parents home over Christmas when my Dad asked me to have a look at the computer which he said he had updated and was now running at a speed he described as "Soul Destroying". As this was a low end computer just used for emails and internet and had been happily running...
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'Tis the season to be jolly, apparently, so what could be better than gathering the family around and decorating your Linux system with a bit of Christmas cheer!
In this article we'll take 2 minutes to transform your Ubuntu box to an enchanted winder wonderland (or at the very least, stop it from looking like Scrooge's desktop).
Linux Christmas Wallpaper
Here's my favourite Christmas wallpaper for Ubuntu. Little Tux is dressed up as Santa and the presents have Ubuntu themed wrapping. It wa...
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I recently saw a comment on this blog, from Neville, where he was having trouble getting FTP to operate as expected on his web server. Needless to say, this could be the result of several configuration issues. Suffice to say, I figured one thing I could do to help all of you reading this post, is simply to print out (below) the steps I took to install my last web dev/design Ubuntu box. Hopefully, there will be some goodies for most of you... I installed the following on Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS.
Here's what I did to get...
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"Chokri" commented on the post "Installing an Ubuntu Linux Hardy 8.04 LAMP and FFMpeg Server With a GUI – LAMP installation with cgi-bin", asking:
"...I have trouble while installing ffmpeg-php, I downloaded the tar file but while executing the make command, I obtain stop, what to do?..."
Well, it's been a while since I played with fmpeg-php on Ubuntu 8.04, I've since (about a year ago, if I remember correctly) installed a 9.04 based Ubuntu LAMP server. I use that server as a local development server f...
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This post begins the first (an introduction) in a series of several posts, discussing the benefits that Ubuntu Linux provides to business owners. Naturally, by default, I'll be touching on several open source applications and server packages throughout the series. Hopefully I can also dispel some of the myth and uncertainty, for business owners who have never used Ubuntu before.
The idea for this series was borne out of the excessive questions from clients in my work life. Some have made the switch to Ubuntu, many a...
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I recently installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) and set up access to (DNS-321) my network shares using smbfs; as in the post "Sharing the Same Files Between Two PC’s". Shortly afterwards, when rebooting, shutting down, etc. I received this error message:
ACPID: Exiting
NM_SYSTEM_SETTING: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: Devices removed (UDI: /org/freedesktop/hal/devices/net_00_30_1B_BE_38_3D)
CIFS VFS: Server not responding
CIFS VFS: No response f...
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I recently (finally) upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 (I've always had issues with x.10 releases for some reason). Until the upgrade I wanted to remain with the LTS track, but (it seems) less developers are supporting it, hence the move. I've performed excessive numbers of installs of Ubuntu and various applications on test boxes, but they (obviously) were not my primary system, it's important to note this, as ordinarily I did not notice a small annoyance regarding Num Lock. On my updated primary system, I ...
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Janice emailed asking:
"...and lots of your posts show us how to do things in a terminal. Each time I have to go to Applications / Accessories / Terminal, isn't there a faster way, like some key combination or something?..."
In Ubuntu (for that matter pretty much all Linux distros), you can set up "hot keys" to execute functions. In your case we're going to set up a hot key for opening the Terminal in Ubuntu 8.04LTS. This way, you can access Terminal much faster!
Ubuntu a...
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Here's the scenario:
Box #1: Ubuntu Linux 8.04LTS
Box #2: Windows XP SP3
Box #3: Remote storage (NAS) DLink DNS-321
Linux and Windows both need read and write access to the remote files stored on the DNS-321 backup unit. This way there is only one set of files and directories to manage, that both computers will share. In other words the data stored on the backup unit (NAS) is common to both computers on the network.
Some time ago, I wrote a post o...
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