by Richard W | Mar 2, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Automatically installing security updates in Ubuntu has its benefits and risks. There’s always a risk updating or installing patches without supervision, however, not installing security patches quickly leaves your systems vulnerable to malicious tools and the bad...
by Richard W | Mar 1, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
The first maintenance release of Linux Kernel 3.8 series has just been released and this brief tutorial is going to show you how to easily upgrade the current kernel in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal to 3.8.1. The release fixes some bugs including, a driver core module...
by Richard W | Mar 1, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows
VirtualBox has just been updated to version 4.2.8 for Windows, Mac and Linux systems, including Ubuntu. This maintenance release fixes many bugs, including one that crashes a guest machine with huge amount of guest RAM on VT-x hosts and another that corrupts data...
by Richard W | Feb 28, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Before developing applications for Android devices in Ubuntu, you’ll need sets of tools and packages called Android SDK and/or ADT (Android Developer Tools). These tools provide you the API libraries necessary to build, test, debug apps for Android. This brief...
by Richard W | Feb 28, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Here’s a cool tip for webmasters who’s trying to figure out issues after updating or installing packages in Fedora, CentOS or Red Hat Linux systems. Basically any Linux system that uses the yum package manager may be able to use this. This tip allows you to view a...
by Richard W | Feb 27, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
If you’re looking for yet another simple program that will help you convert multiple media formats like MP3, MP4, WMA, WMV and Flac into other formats when using Ubuntu, then you may want to take a look at FF Multi Converter. This graphical application enables you to...
