http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu A blog covering the Ubuntu Linux distro for you and your wallet. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:49:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently had to reinstall one of my servers. It was a pain. I didn't have the partitions correct, so I lost my web install, and I hate how Ubuntu does not let us put /etc on a separate partition because of init. I struggled for a while with being ... http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu/ssh-denied-even-though-the-keys-are-authorized/ 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 ... http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu/upgrade-from-gutsy-to-hardy/ I recently established my network to use SSH connections. My three Ubuntu systems I discovered were using weak keys that had been generated using the flawed packages. If you haven't been paying attention, Canonical issued USN-612-1 on 5/13/2008. If you're using keys that have been generated since September 2006, it's ... http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu/the-openssl-vulnerability/ I have been struggling for some time with finding a way of properly managing my network, from a easy to use, fast interface. I'm pretty much set in stone that a web solution was what I was looking for. I found it in a tool called Webmin. You can download ... http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu/webmin-is-my-new-favorite-admin-ninja-tool/ Having been a long time user of 4DOS in my pre-win95 days, I had developed some batch files and/or aliases that I were quite handy in that environment. Switching to another operating system that's more flexible with the command line, I've re-implemented some of those batch files and aliases. Here's ... http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu/my-useful-in-folder-script/ There's been many updates to KDE4, and while spending another day with KDE4 yesterday, I was relieved to find many of the segfaults and KDE crash errors had been resolved. I was disappointed to not be able to find any way of saving my session for KDE4, other than it ... http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu/updates-for-kde4-reveal-fewer-crashes-and-the-same-big-problems/ It's officially released, the Beta that is. Get your copy from : http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/8.04 http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu/kubuntu-804-beta-hardy-heron-is-now-available/ It has been a month since I last wrote about Kubuntu, and there have been some promising updates. First, the update to Hardy Alpha 6 puts us one milestone closer to the first beta release.  While today is supposed to be the Beta Release, I'm still awaiting for an announcement ... http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu/kubuntu-update-hardy-alpha-6/ I recently made the mistake of auto-selecting the wrong action when I inserted a new blank DVD while at the same time telling it to not prompt me again. It really caused havoc when creating multiple copies in k3b. Fortunately the IRC channel was very helpful and NickPresta answered my ... http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu/changing-autoaction-for-media-types-in-kde/ I've recently learned that many issues related to suspend and hibernate are directly related to the video drivers. Even when not using the restricted drivers, often laptops still don't correct handle suspend, hibernate, and resumes for both. I've written about my problems with suspend and hibernate in the past, and ... http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu/fix-for-problems-with-suspend-and-hibernate/