Archive for the 'How-To' Category

18th February Comments

Design better Web pages with Firefox extensions

Posted on February 18th, 2008 at 5:45 am

 
If you’ve ever tried to create or edit a Web page, you know that getting the little details just right can sometimes take a long time. Here are a few Firefox extensions you can add to your toolbox that will help you measure images, align objects on your page, and capture colors quickly and easily. [...]

13th February Comments

Five fun ways to use a Linux webcam

Posted on February 13th, 2008 at 5:37 am

 
So you just set up a Linux-compatible webcam. You’ve tested it with Kopete, and you can send images on MSN and Yahoo! Now what? Here are some fun things you can try.
Finally some more uses for webcams outside of porn shots, not that,that is bad but a couple of these sound like fun, Baldy

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12th February Comments

Technology: SSH 101: Secure Shell Basics and X11 Forwarding

Posted on February 12th, 2008 at 8:26 am

Here is a great article and how-to and SSH and Forwarding and since a couple of folks have asked about both I thought I could kill two birds at the same time. Here is the opening from the website;
SSH, or the Secure SHell, is a powerful unix tool that allows you to securely connect to [...]

10th February Comments

A dummies introduction to GNU Screen

Posted on February 10th, 2008 at 5:39 am

 
With graphical user interfaces becoming more and more friendly and easy to use, new users of GNU/Linux and the BSDs can now get their daily work done without having to tinker around (very often) with a terminal. However, many users don’t like to use a GUI for every task, and find that they necessarily need [...]

9th February Comments

Linux-Unix cheat sheets - The ultimate collection

Posted on February 9th, 2008 at 5:31 am

Here ya go folks maybe the most complete collection of Linux cheat sheets on the web. I am sure that you will find one or two that you have not seen yet.
Check out the Page

5th February Comments

An Easy Tutorial on IP Tables and Port Knocking

Posted on February 5th, 2008 at 7:46 am

Do you wish you had access to your home file server without leaving your firewall wide open to attacks? Well today’s your lucky day! While you can implement this on any OS its easiest to do this on Linux. This article will show you how to lock down your firewall and implement a port knocker [...]

5th February Comments

Learning the shell

Posted on February 5th, 2008 at 6:24 am

Why bother?
Why do you need to learn the command line anyway? Well, let me tell you a story. Not long ago we had a problem where I used to work. There was a shared drive on one of our file servers that kept getting full. I won’t mention that this legacy operating system did not [...]

5th February Comments

Get started with GnuPG

Posted on February 5th, 2008 at 6:20 am

GnuPG is an open replacement for PGP Corporation’s PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption tool, and based on the OpenPGP standard. What GnuPG (or GPG for short) does is allow for the encryption and decryption of files using a public/private keypair. It can be used to encrypt regular files or e-mail, in either binary or ASCII [...]

3rd February Comments

What NOT to do with your old computers

Posted on February 3rd, 2008 at 9:49 am

Why not throw away your old obsolete PCs when you can re-purpose them as a file/print server, firewall or some other single-purpose appliance? People have been doing this forever–at least since about 1988, when those old dual-floppy IBM 5150 PCs started getting obsoleted by PCs powered by Intel’s 386-based processors, and businesses were installing Ethernet-driven, [...]

3rd February Comments

Five Firefox Tips You May Not Know About

Posted on February 3rd, 2008 at 9:44 am

The thing I like best about Firefox is that just when you think you know everything there is to know about the browser, something new comes along and surprises you.
I discovered five new Firefox tips today. Maybe these are old hat and you know them already. Or maybe like me, you had no idea these [...]