Ubuntu Quick Tip: Missing Minimize and Maximize Window Buttons?

May 1, 2008 in Linux, Ubuntu, windows

Hello out there in admin land!
It is I, El Di Pablo here to bring you a quick Ubuntu tip for the week. I haven’t written on aTa in a while due to my hectic schedule, but I am sure you have seen me milling about the comments quite a bit.
Anyhoo, so there I am last [...]

Access your Tivo’s hidden webserver! Download, strip and rip. Part One.

March 24, 2008 in Free, How To, Linux, Video, computer tips, data backup, hack

After figuring out I could edit Blogger blog posts from my mobile I decided to see what I could do with my TiVo while I am away. I went online and did some research. I found this tid-bit from Dave Zatz (Sling Media) and gave it a shot.Allow me to bring you kids up to [...]

What are some good network monitoring tools?

February 19, 2008 in Linux, networking, review

I would like to monitor event logs on multiple windows machines – maybe ping them every so often?
I used to use something called Emon but it seems pretty outdated. I looked at bigBrother but it seems too expensive.
Do you have a solution?
Have you heard of VMWare??
If you are game then keep on [...]

What a Dream Come True! DreamLinux that is!

October 20, 2007 in Linux, Ubuntu

I mentioned in a recent post that I recently aquired an older Pentium III laptop with only 384MB of RAM. It really isn’t fast enough to run Windows XP without trimming the fat.I originally was going to put Xubuntu on it, because Xubuntu is designed to be more light weight than regular Ubuntu, because [...]

Question: How can I install Skype on Ubuntu – if its possible?

July 16, 2007 in Linux, Ubuntu, feisty fawn, messenger, skype, voip

Little Lisa writes in from chicago that her boyfriend has been trying without any success to install Skype on her Ubuntu instalation. Can we help her out? I think we can! I just hope we dont imasculate her man when he comes home to see she has done it with out his help!

After some Google [...]

Linux Tip O’ The Minute: Net Renderer (Works for Mac too) See what your site would look like in IE without IE

June 20, 2007 in Free, Linux, Web Design, apple, mac, review

For all you Linux gurus that detest the big bad Micro$oft and would never let any type of windows software on your machine, there is a way to easily preview your latest web creation as PC users will on Internet Explorer 7, IE6, and IE5. Just enter your URL and NetRenderer will spit back at [...]

Penguin’s Rule

June 20, 2007 in Linux, Mozilla, Open Source, OpenOffice, Ubuntu

Time for some technical blogging.
Today’s topic….Linux.
Some of you may have heard of Linux. Here’s what it is in a nutshell….An operating system for a computer, not unlike Windows of Mac. But there is a difference…it can be free!
There are a lot of fun things with Linux and a lot of distributions that are [...]