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How to Enable USB Support in VirtualBox

Published on 1 October , 2012 By bill

Introduction This is a simple tutorial on how to enable USB support in VirtualBox.

How to Turn Off Modal Dialogs in Gnome Shell 3

Published on 10 July , 2012 By bill

Introduction Have you been annoyed by not being able to move your dialogs in Gnome Shell 3? This simple tutorial will show you how to disable the “attach_modal_dialogs” setting.

How to Turn Off Modal Dialogs in Mint 13 Cinnamon

Published on 29 June , 2012 By bill

Introduction Have you been annoyed by not being able to move your dialogs in Mint 13 Cinnamon? This simple tutorial will show you how to disable the “attach_modal_dialogs” setting.

How to Set up SVN with Apache

Published on 15 April , 2012 By bill

Introduction This is a tutorial on how to set up SVN with Apache, create users accounts and also disable anonymous viewing of the project from a web browser.

Setting Up an Ubuntu Server

Published on 21 February , 2012 By bill

Introduction This is tutorial on how to set up an Ubuntu server with apache, mysql, proftpd, webmin, setting up a user account and adding it to the sudoers list.

How to use Linux from Windows

Published on 28 September , 2011 By bill

Introduction There may be times that you may want a bash terminal or other Linux application but you are stuck in Windows. There are some ways around this so you can still access your Linux applications while using Microsoft Windows.

Installing Proftpd with MySQL in Ubuntu Linux

Published on 29 August , 2011 By bill

Introduction Proftpd is a modular FTP server that runs on Linux. One of the proftpd modules is for MySQL and enables users to be stored in the database instead of the system. Users can have a different home directories as they are set per user in the database, different quotas can be set for users [...]

How to Download YouTube Videos in Linux

Published on 28 August , 2011 By bill

There is a python script available that can download YouTube videos as .flv files called youtube-dl.

Installing rTorrent on Ubuntu Linux

Published on 23 June , 2011 By bill

This is my first post blog post I have ever published. Introduction I was at work and noticed there was a torrent that I wanted to download but did not want to download the file to my computer at work. What I had been doing previously on my computer at home which runs Kubuntu is [...]