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!!!
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Ubuntu released its latest iteration couple days ago if I’m not mistaken, and it’s known as Ubuntu 12.10. Ubuntu 12.10 is nice and all, but I’ve noticed that its default desktop graphical user interface which is Unity is super sluggish for older hardware and virtual machine. With that being said, if you have a newer computer hardware and better graphic card, Unity on Ubuntu 12.10 should be very responsive, and you won’t have a bad experience at all. Anyhow, since I’m going to use Ubuntu 12.10 in a virtual environment for some time to come, this is why I had installed another desktop graphical user interface which is known as KDE for Ubuntu 12.10. With KDE desktop graphical user interface, things should be zippier on Ubuntu 12.10 when Ubuntu runs on a virtual machine. Anyhow, I have made a video on showing whoever wants to know how to install KDE desktop graphical user interface on Ubuntu 12.10, and you can check this video out 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!!!
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!!!
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Hi guys. Some people prefer to not have to intervene at all with the update and upgrade processes of their Ubuntu system, because they rather have the system to be automatically updated and upgraded itself and just logged the progresses to a log file, in silence. Of course, there are other people who prefer to have Ubuntu asks them for permission to upgrade through graphical user interface, and this is fine too. Nonetheless, I like the former idea better. Therefore, if you want to have Ubuntu automatically updates and upgrades itself without making a single fuss, then you should watch this video. For your information, in this video, I will use aptitude command line instead of apt-get command line to allow Ubuntu system to be up to date. How come? Well, let just say I prefer aptitude package manager over apt-get package manager. Nonetheless, you can just switch out the aptitude commands for apt-get commands, and you will still be able to achieve the same goal. Enjoy this educational video!!!
Sometimes, conveniency is the problem. So, the question is how do I disable automatic login for Linux Mint 13? When I tried to disable automatic login for Linux Mint 13 through graphical user interface and it failed to do just that. I scratched my head. Looked around the web and some Linux users suggested that I could totally edit the mdm.conf file. This was what I did and it worked. Here is how:
Open up a terminal
Do [sudo -i] and type in your sudo password (i.e., a user who has the authorization to become administrator through sudo command). By the way, do not use the square brackets in your command line as they’re there for clarity only.
Type in the command [cp -p -a /etc/mdm/mdm.conf /etc/mdm/mdm.conf-old]. What this command does is to create a copy of the file you about to edit. By doing this, you can recover the file when you completely mess up the original file. It’s a security measure that all Linux users should practice when editing an important file.
Type in the command [vim.tiny /etc/mdm/mdm.conf].
Hit letter [i] on the keyboard to enter editing mode.
Find the line which says AutomaticLoginEnable=true, and change the true part to false. It should look like this AutomaticLoginEnable=false. Make sure you know how to use vim.tiny OK? If not, try to edit the mdm.conf file with nano editor instead.
Also, find the line which says TimedLoginEnable=true, and change the true part to false. It should look like this afterward, TimedLoginEnable=false.
As you’re using vim.tiny editor, to save the new change of mdm.conf file, you must hit [Esc] key first, type in a colon second (i.e., [:]), type in [wq] right after the colon, and then hit enter key to save and exit the mdm.conf file. It should look like this [:wq].
Type [exit] and hit enter key in the terminal to exit root.
Type [exit] and hit the enter key again to exit the terminal altogether.
