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Upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

I have admittedly put it off for way too long. The recent OpenSSL Vulnerability with weak keys prompted me to change that on one of my systems. I was forced to use dist-upgrade when OpenSSL would not update, leaving me to continuously recreating weak keys. While I normally update packages using the command line, I [...]

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Making the Shell Play “nice”

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Being a big fan of the shell, I make it work hard for me. Often times the commands I’ll issue through the shell are greedy and eat CPU cycles like candy. Sometimes those commands might take several minutes to complete, and I want my CPU’s priority to be focused on other things (like letting me [...]

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Force Quit Feature

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

In Ubuntu, it sometimes happens where a program locks up, and using the X or close button just doesn’t do anything. I frequently encounter this when k3b has a crashed burn. I’ve seen a few ways of closing it, but nothing as convenient as the close button. Several have suggested going to terminal and typing [...]

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VMWare Server on Ubuntu

Sunday, April 29, 2007

One of my most critical requirements of the new operating system was an operational VMWare Server application. My wife and I share a network, and the flexibility of a VMWare Server was very appealing.
Our network consists of two computers, a P4 3.0Ghz Celeron with 1GB of RAM and an AMD Turion 64 laptop with 1GB of [...]

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I switched to Ubuntu Edgy Eft

Thursday, April 26, 2007

In a search for a viable free operating system, I encountered a Linux distro with a lot of support. You may have heard of Ubuntu. It’s been growing in popularity over the past couple of years. This blog will be a discussion of the switch and everything else I can relate to Ubuntu.

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