Are you new here? Subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So you want to do something nice for your mother on the glorified Mothers Day holiday?  Flowers are always an easy, unthoughtful gift.  Why not step outside the box and create mom something really cool?  Theres an awesome guide on creating a digital […]

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It’s time for the third question in the $25 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway. Chaoslica won week 2 by answering our question most accurately.  To recap, every week we are asking a Linux question.  We want readers to post their answer in the comments section at the bottom of the post.  At the end of week […]

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It’s time for the second question in the $25 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway.  Ben P. and John Stevens won week 1 by answering our question most accurately.  To recap, every week we are asking a Linux question.  We want readers to post their answer in the comments section at the bottom of the post.  At […]

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If you’re looking to get rid of the annoying system beep in Ubuntu, here is how to do it from both the command line, and from the Gnome desktop.
Disable the System Beep from the Command Line
#sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
And then add:
#pc speaker beep
blacklist pcspkr
Save and quit the file:
:wq
Now, remove the pcspkr module:
sudo rmmod pcspkr
Disable the System […]

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Here is a quick Linux tip to block incoming access to port 80 using iptables.
iptables -A INPUT -j DROP -p tcp –destination-port 80 -i eth0
The code above will drop all tcp packets coming into your Linux computer on device eth0 on port 80.  If your Internet connection runs through a device other than eth0, go […]

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Sean Michael Kerner is at Interop in Las Vegas where Microsoft has announced that their new Microsoft System Center Operations Manager allows you to monitor Unix and Linux systems.
Shilmover showed a live demo of Microsoft’s tool actually managing a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and a MySQL database server. To be […]

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Here is a question I’ve been seeing pop up over the past few days:
My Broadcom bcm4306 Wireless card wont work in Ubuntu 8.04.  How do I fix it?
The most common reason is simply because Ubuntu did not enable the restricted driver.  If your Ubuntu 8.04 installation did not enable your Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 Wireless LAN […]

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One of our goals is to provide Linux administrators and users alike a place to quickly learn and develop their Linux skills. In keeping with this goal we are starting a Linux contest. Every week we will ask a Linux question, introduce a problem, or offer a challenge. Readers who want to participate must […]

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Over the past few weeks prior to the Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” release, I was skeptical about Ubuntu fully endorsing and officially supporting Wubi in Ubuntu 8.04. Previously, Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 included Wubi, but unofficially. I’ve tested Wubi on a few different computers, and have had varied results. It works sometimes, […]

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If you haven’t heard the news already, Ubuntu has released Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” for both the Desktop and Server. This is the second Long Term Release of the popular distro.
This release marks some pretty drastic improvements for the fight to bring the Linux desktop to the mainstream audience. Wubi, the Windows based Ubuntu […]

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