I might not be very good at explaining things in an impromptu manner, but hopefully within the video right after the break I do somewhat OK in showing you how to install a web server on Linux. Also, I explain how to use the web server in a basic sense. For the bonus, I also show you how to install MySQL’s web administrative interface PHPMyAdmin. At the end of the video, I demonstrate how to install WordPress just to prove to you that you can really host a web application on your brand new web server. Please enjoy the video tutorial right after the break!
Can Ubuntu 12.10 replace Windows 7? Obviously, we have Windows 8 now. Nonetheless, some people are still preferring Windows 7 over Windows 8. Ubuntu 12.10 is a good comparison to Windows 7, and so it might be a good alternative for Windows 7. I’ve found a great video on YouTube which goes through various popular Windows 7 tasks on Ubuntu 12.10, to see if Ubuntu 12.10 can replace Windows 7 or not. Enjoy!!!
English: Symbolic link diagram (original file in grey, link in light blue). Italiano: Schema di collegamento simbolico (in grigio il file originale, in azzurro il collegamento). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
When using Linux, you can use symbolic link to create shortcut for the data that you want to work with. Using symbolic link as shortcut is quite convenient, because you can access some data that might reside in a location that is many many levels deep within a parent directory. Besides being convenient, symbolic link does have other advantages too. One of such advantages is to protect the original data from being deleted by accident when a user delete the parent directory where the symbolic link is currently residing in. Anyhow, you can know a lot more about symbolic link and how to use it through watching the video right after the break. Enjoy!!!
Installing APF firewall from source on Ubuntu 12.04 Server is possible, but you still have to tweak it somehow to allow it to start on boot and to work correctly with Ubuntu 12.04 server. Luckily, Ubuntu 12.04 does come with aptitude package manager, and we can use this package manger to install APF firewall easily. Unfortunately, you still need to do some tweaking before APF firewall can work smoothly. Nonetheless, it’s like choosing which poison you want to down with, because either choice is going to be cumbersome. There is one more disadvantage of using aptitude package manager to install APF firewall is that the package manager aptitude might not carry the latest version of APF firewall. Nonetheless, when updating APF firewall with aptitude package manager, it’s much easier such as doing aptitude update and aptitude safe-upgrade. Anyhow, let us assume that you pick the poison of installing APF firewall with aptitude package manager, then this video might just be the remedy for you. Enjoy!!!
Seen “Tears Of Steel” on Gizmodo first, couldn’t resist to embed it here on Essayboard. This short film reconfirms the power of Open Source software. Open Source software such as Apache, MySQL, Ubuntu, CentOS, and various others do make big differences for many computer users around the world. This time, Open Source Blender software is under the spotlight. Short film “Tears Of Steel” was a Blender project and realized by group of people who used crowd-funding power to make it happened. Although the project wasn’t anywhere near Hollywood budget, but the short film shines with Open Source Blender software. Watching short film like this does inspire me to take a look at Blender again. Blender is free to download and use! Anyhow, enough with my gibberish, you should check out the the short film “Tears of Steel” right after the break. You can read the official description of the video on YouTube. To go directly to YouTube to watch the video, just click on the YouTube logo which appears on the bottom right of the video.
Afterthought: This is why PC isn’t dead, because as now the only way to create beautiful work such as “Tears of Steel” has to be on PC still. Will this change? Don’t know, but PC is still here. With PC, normal people (i.e., not the professionals) have the power to be inspired. So, tablet and smartphone form factors are only going to make PC even more popular; these small form factors define the obvious differences between on-the-go devices and powerful stationary devices. Anyhow, be inspired and long live the PC! I won’t say this if one day a small sugar cube like form factor can transform into full sized hologram PC…
I use Ubuntu 12.04 from time to time, but I often forget that Ubuntu 12.04 does have a really cool feature known as Search Videos. Search Videos feature actually resides within Ubuntu Dash Home. Recently, I often toy around with this particular feature, and I think it’s a really cool feature for Ubuntu. Cool enough that I had made a video to ramble on about it.
In my opinion, Google as a current leader in web search business has a lot to worry about Ubuntu Dash Home’s Search Videos feature, because this particular feature on Ubuntu can actually be a model for other operating systems to implement unique search implementations. When more operating systems begin to implement unique search implementations, Google web search dominance might not be so dominant if people begin to see that unique search implementations can actually yield better unique search results right on the desktop. For an example, within Ubuntu Dash Home, when Linux users use Search Videos feature, they don’t really have to be bothered by irrelevant search results of other implementation types such as article search implementation type. To put this in another way, we can say that Linux users won’t have to worry about clicking on links that will lead them to anything else (e.g., articles, websites, etc…) but just video/movie web links when they’re using unique search implementations on a desktop.
In addition to yielding results of web links, Ubuntu Dash Home’s Search Videos feature implements the implementation of allowing Linux users to search for videos and movies that reside locally (i.e., videos and movies that can be found within the computer itself). Web search engines such as Google cannot do the same in this regard. With that being said, major search companies such as Google can totally roll out desktop app that allows computer users to use unique search implementations.
At the moment, it seems there is a drawback of using Ubuntu 12.04 Dash Home’s Search Videos feature. The drawback I’m talking about is how you can’t actually add your own video sources. This limits the amount of videos that can be presented within the Search Videos feature’s result at any one time. Nonetheless, I guess this limitation can also be a good thing, because reckless Linux users won’t be able to add malicious video sources to their desktop. It will be a nightmare for desktop security and computer security in general if malicious video sources spread viruses and malware. So, I guess in the end, it’s still about the choosing of security over usability or vice versa. Anyhow, if you’re curious about Ubuntu Dash Home’s Search Videos implementation, why not check out the video that I had made about Ubuntu Dash Home’s Search Videos feature right after the break. Enjoy!!!
