Category Archives: Linux

Printing with Linux made easy

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Michael Hampton

Those of us who have been using UNIX based systems since the Dark Ages remember that printing was one of the most annoying, obnoxious, difficult to set up things about the whole thing. Those days are long gone. Today, printing with Linux is even easier than with Windows. Continue reading →

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Migrating from Apache to nginx

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Michael Hampton

Yesterday I changed out the web server software on this server, replacing the venerable Apache with a web server almost nobody’s ever heard of except for, ironically, Russian spammers. Continue reading →

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Encrypted root partitions in Fedora 9

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Michael Hampton

Well, after some two years, we’ve finally gotten encrypted root filesystem support into Fedora. (And it’s been far too long since I’ve updated this site; sorry.) The good news is you’ll be able to set up encryption during the installation … Continue reading →

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Encrypting your root partition on Fedora Core 5 and 6

Posted on September 21, 2006 by Michael Hampton

For a variety of reasons I use Fedora Core 6 as my primary operating system, both at home and on my laptop. And for security reasons, I need to have my filesystem encrypted, so that in the event that my … Continue reading →

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Encrypting your swap partition on Fedora Core

Posted on September 14, 2006 by Michael Hampton

For a variety of reasons I use Fedora Core 5 as my primary operating system, both at home and on my laptop. And for security reasons, I need to have my filesystem encrypted, so that in the event that my … Continue reading →

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Where should you install GRUB?

Posted on January 30, 2006 by Michael Hampton

When you are installing Linux, regardless of which distribution you choose, one question is always the same. How do you boot your system? Continue reading →

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Macromedia Flash Player for Linux

Posted on January 6, 2006 by Michael Hampton

One of the first things you may notice, the first time you use Linux and start up Firefox to get on the Web, is that you aren’t seeing Flash animations. Flash is a technology by Macromedia that’s used to distribute many different types of multimedia. Usually they are cartoons such as Homestar Runner or Invasion of the Gabber Robots, though Flash is used to distribute other kinds of multimedia presentations, as well. For instance, CBS News uses Macromedia Flash to show video news clips on its own and its affiliate stations’ Web sites. If you’re new to Linux and you’re missing those nice Flash movies, this is what you do. Continue reading →

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Firefox users can't access Internet Explorer only web sites?

Posted on January 2, 2006 by Michael Hampton

As a new Linux user, one of the first things you’re likely to discover during your daily Web browsing is a small number of sites which refuse to let you in because you aren’t using Internet Explorer. Today I’m going to show you how you can deal with sites such as this. Continue reading →

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Which Linux?

Posted on December 30, 2005 by Michael Hampton

If you’re considering making the switch to Linux, you almost certainly will have discovered that there are hundreds of Linux distributions, all of which are different from each other in subtle ways.

So how do you figure out which one to use? Continue reading →

Posted in CentOS, Debian, Distributions, Fedora Core, Gentoo, Knoppix, Linux, Red Hat, Ubuntu | 9 Comments

Life with Linux

Posted on December 26, 2005 by Michael Hampton

I first tried out Linux in 1993, long before most people had ever heard of it — or indeed, before most people had Internet connections. I went to Linux full-time in 1995, and have used it almost exclusively as my … Continue reading →

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