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Jokosher Effects

Posted by ubuntology

Jokosher is a great multi-track audio recording tool for Linux. It’s not quite ProTools, but it’s really easy to use, and has some great effects available. I’ve seen it described as GarageBand for Linux. The effects aren’t installed with the Jokosher package, so if you want the effects, just run this command to add them.
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Malicious Command Warning

Posted by ubuntology

From the Ubuntu Forum:
ATTENTION ALL USERS: Malicious Commands

I’d like to take a moment of your time to discuss a recent disturbing trend the staff has been noticing on the forums, and also take this as an opportunity to raise awareness of this situation through education.
We’ve recently had an increase in the […]

Posting Slows

Posted by ubuntology

Yeah, so I haven’t been posting much lately. Wanna know why? It’s because Ubuntu is so ridiculously easy to use that I haven’t made any major discoveries in a really long time.
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PDF Printer in Gutsy

Posted by ubuntology

Printing to PDF isn’t setup by default in Gutsy, but it’s easy to implement. Just follow this guide.

You’ll need the cups-pdf package, so run this command to install it if you don’t have it.
sudo apt-get install cups-pdf

Open the Printer Configuration window.

Click New Printer.

Select Print into PDF File, then click Forward.

Select Generic, then click Forward.

Select Generic […]

Securing Ubuntu

Posted by ubuntology

Ubuntu 7.10 actually comes with some pretty good security practices already set up for you. For example, the root account is locked and no network services are enabled by default. If you’re planning on making your Ubuntu system publicly accessible, here are some things to consider before you forward a port or public IP address.

If […]

Block SSH Login Attempts On Ubuntu

Posted by ubuntology

If you run an ssh server on your Ubuntu system, and allow password based authentication, then you’ll want to install DenyHosts. It watches the log files and blocks the IP address of those who fail to authenticate too many time. As always, while this article is Ubuntu oriented, the same basic procedure works on other […]

Recover A Password in Linux

Posted by ubuntology

After reading this article at HappyLinuxGuy’s Happy Linux Thoughts page, I thought I might share with you a way to recover password on a *nix system. The commands and screenshots here will be Ubuntu oriented, but this basic process should work for any distro.
When you create an account on a Linux system, the password isn’t […]

Ubuntu Bloggers Of The World, Unite!

Posted by ubuntology

Though I have a bit more than ten years of experience with Linux, I’ve only been using Ubuntu for less than a week, so I was a bit surprised when I was contacted today by Matthew East of the Ubuntu Documentation Project. He had this to say:
Hi,
I’m writing on behalf of the Ubuntu documentation team. […]

Access Your Phone Via Bluetooth With Ubuntu Gutsy

Posted by ubuntology

After a friend gave me a new laptop, I quickly installed Ubuntu on it, and though I knew it was pretty good about hardware detection, I expected to have to fight to get WiFi and Bluetooth to work, but since it detected everything at install, I decided to try to use it to manage the […]

Ubuntu Certificate of Authenticity

Posted by ubuntology

Found this on the Ubuntu Forum and thought it was worthy of sharing. The person who created it (MenZa on Ubuntu Forum) released it under GPL, so feel free to copy, edit or distribute it. Vector art available here: http://menza.org/upload/ubuntucert.svg

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