by Richard W | Sep 29, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
For new users who just starting with Ubuntu and wanting to know about the root account, here’s a brief post that gives you a little insight about the root account and how / why to use it. You see, every Ubuntu edition comes with a root account. The root account...
by Richard W | Sep 25, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
For new users who are just starting with Ubuntu, here’s some information that may help you if you want to use webcam in Ubuntu. You see, Ubuntu aims to support the vast majority of webcam right out of the box. Most webcam manufacturers don’t provide drivers for for...
by Richard W | Sep 23, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Few days ago we showed you how to change your home folder in Ubuntu so that only authorized users may see your content. We said that the adduser utility creates user’s directories in such a way that make them world readable. This means that any all users who have...
by Richard W | Sep 22, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Here’s a simple tip that shows you how to change Ubuntu logon screen background with custom images. Ubuntu logon screen is ok and maybe better than most Linux distributions, but if you want to show custom images like ones that remind you of special places and things,...
by Richard W | Sep 21, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Security
By design, when you add a new user to Ubuntu , the adduser utility creates a brand new home directory for the account usually in the /home/ followed by the username. The default profile for all new users are modeled after the content in /etc/skel directory. One thing...
by Richard W | Sep 20, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Web, Wordpress
Part of our blogging series that helps new users and newbies how to setup and manage an online blog, this post is going to show you how to add Google Analytics tracking code to your sites to track user’s activities on your blog. Adding tracking code allows you to...
by Richard W | Sep 18, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Web, Wordpress
This post is part our new blogging series that helps new users and newbies setup and manage online blogs or websites. We started this because some of our readers had asked us to write simple-to-understand tutorials about blogging and managing online blogs. This post...
by Richard W | Sep 18, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
For new users and newbies who are just starting out with Ubuntu, managing users and groups can be challenging especially since the old users and group management tool doesn’t come with Ubuntu anymore. In prior versions of Ubuntu, one could easily manage users and...
by Richard W | Sep 18, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Web, Wordpress
As part of our blogging series that help new users how to manage and maintain an online blog, this brief tutorial is going to show you how to easily backup and restore WordPress databases via CPanel. This post is aimed at new users and newbies who are just starting...
by Richard W | Sep 17, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Windows
Some users have complained lately with how Windows 8 handles some file types. For example, users at my company who are running Windows 8 may find opening jpeg and png attachments with Photo apps annoying. When you try to open images attached to emails using Windows 8,...
