At some point you may switch to a different OS and that OS might not include Gnome. If that is the case, then Nautilus is probably not the file manager either. I ran into this recently while running Xubuntu on one of my systems. After googling around for a few, I came across another great … Read more
I have been playing around and trying different meda players in Linux. It had been quite some time since I had used Audacious and I was quickly growing tired of Amarok2’s missing features. One of the most obvious features that is missing is the equalizer, really? After installing Audacious (sudo apt-get install audacious) and enabling … Read more
One of our readers just sent me the following info. If you are using DD-WRT with the effected version be sure to patch/resolve this. Follow this link. *Update* You can test your router and see if you are vulnerable by entering this into your browser: http://routeripaddress/cgi-bin/;reboot –Himuraken
So I finally created a Twitter account and started checking it out. I quickly noticed that below everyone’s tweets, was the application or place that they were tweeting from. I noticed that a lot of people with using TweetDeck. So I headed over to their download page and clicked on the big yellow “Download now, … Read more
Virtualization Lab: Part 2 – Concepts and Terminology Welcome to part two of my Virtualization Lab series. If you haven’t read part one, I would recommend reading it first. In this post I want to go over the concepts and terms that are used so frequently. Understanding the gist of virtualization will help lay a … Read more
So the other day I was making my usual password changing rounds on my accounts and devices. One of the things that I do change regularly is my password for DD-WRT. Somehow I changed it and could no longer access the device. Alas, I did have SSH enabled and it let me log in using … Read more
Open Source StorageThe online debate over Open Source storage options is fast and furious. The two common names that keep popping up are FreeNAS and Openfiler. Do a Twitter search for either and you will have an afternoon full of reading.I evaluated Openfiler (see April 7 post for Openfiler info) and have not looked back. … Read more
I have been a user of Dropbox for about six months now and think that it is a great service. I have it installed and running on five systems, all of which run Ubuntu. When Jaunty Jackelope was released a week ago, I decided to upgrade all of my Ubuntu boxes. While the upgrade went … Read more