Due to a few requests from the original post , I decided to look into why people are having trouble with installing ZumoDrive in Ubuntu 11.04. While I don’t use this program anymore, I thought that seeing people were still visiting this site and take the time to comment and ask a question, I would [...]
Lately, there have been more and more closed-source programs that have been available for Linux. Many of these provide pre-compiled binary packages for several distributions. In most cases, this is great. ZumoDrive, for example, provides download links for “Ubuntu 8 or later” which works up to version 9.10. The problem with these pre-compiled packages, though, [...]
During a recent upgrade of my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx install, I noticed that my Volume Control and Mail icon had disappeared. I’m not sure exactly what had caused it just randomly disappear, however, its quite easy to get back. In recent versions of Ubuntu, these icons are all now incorporated into the one applet [...]
In the coming few days, I will be going through the process of setting up a HTPC in my living room using the Zotac Mag HD mini-pc. So, I have been spending a bit of time researching some of the things I wanted to do with it. I had previously just had a laptop connected [...]
If you have administered a GNU/Linux server with SSH access within the past few years, and have regularly checked your system logs, you are no doubt familiar with SSH brute force attacks. Automated scripts running from remote, previously broken into servers, are constantly scouring the Internet looking for new SSH servers with insecure users and [...]
