by Richard W | Jan 7, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux
If you’re currently Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, it may be time to upgrade to the next version because support for it will end January 27 of this year. What Canonical (the parent company of Ubuntu) is saying is that as of January 27, no further security...
by Richard W | Jan 5, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Not very long ago if you had asked a seasoned Linux user how to mount partitions in Ubuntu, they would’ve told you to use the fstab file in the /etc/ directory. It seemed like this was the only way to mount partitions in Linux systems, including Ubuntu. Well,...
by Richard W | Jan 4, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Web, Wordpress
I have been using PNG images on this blog since the beginning. The only reason most images on this blog are PNGs is because I use Microsoft Live Writer to write and Microsoft Paint to crop and resize my images. The default file extension Paint uses to save images is...
by Richard W | Jan 2, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web, Wordpress
If you’re running a WordPress blog on a Nginx webserver, you should also enable FastCGI caching module. Nginx webserver is fast. When you combine Nginx and FastCGI caching module, you’ll greatly improve the performance of your web application, including a...
by Richard W | Jan 2, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows
For new users just starting out with Ubuntu who have some knowledge of Microsoft Windows, one question keeps coming up in most Ubuntu forums online. One of our readers asked us the same questions few days ago. What is Windows Disk Management Equivalent in Ubuntu? For...
