by Richard W | Mar 3, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Regularly updating your computers with security patches and installing security programs to protect yourself are good habits to keep when using Ubuntu. To make sure your information and your computer are safe and secure, you must take these basic precautions. One area...
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...
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...
