Linux Networking Tips
. . . from the TechRepublic 10 Things Blog. Several of these are pretty important!
. . . from the TechRepublic 10 Things Blog. Several of these are pretty important!
I’ve been missing TweetDeck on my main office system, which uses Ubuntu Linux, ever since Twitter bought it and eliminated Adobe Air. I was suspicious of the stability of Air, but I liked TweetDeck, and it worked. I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t think of the solution myself, but rather found it here–TweetDeck for…
I’ve recently reorganized my use of virtual servers for my company’s web sites, which led to me having one site that does not use a control panel, and just has one website on it. Oddly, even though I’d read up on how to redirect www to non-www and have the SSL certificate handle the result,…
While I started working online with a 300 baud modem and later operated a bulletin board at the same speed (eventually adding 1200 and then-oh joy!-2400!), I’m relatively new to Linux, and wasn’t even aware that w3m was available. Linux Magazine has a brief writeup on it, and I was amazed at how well it…
A very nice post at Linux Magazine explains the benefits of Aptitude and the basics of how to use it. Aptitude takes the apt-get command and provides a menu driven system. This is one of those nifty old menu systems that runs in your terminal window. Enjoy!
Since I have a project to provide free computers to those who cannot afford them (I’ll be creating a page about this soon), and since I use a version of Linux to accomplish my mission, I’m always on the lookout for better desktops for Linux. I haven’t tried this yet, and will report when I…
Back in July I commented on installing Bible Desktop. Since Bible study is such a major part of my life, both professionally and personally, having some usable Bible software available is an important part of being able to make Linux work for me. I’ve now upgraded to version 1.0.7 and I see considerable improvement in…
(Note: Page author Henry Neufeld is compensated for sales made through links on this page.)