Looking for an easy way to encrypt and protect your sensitive data stored on your external thumb drive in Ubuntu? Well, this brief tutorial is going to show you how to easily do it in Ubuntu, including 12.04. When your …
Here is one question that has been around for as long has Linux has been around: Do Linux users need antivirus software? There are two answers from two different camps. One group says, Linux OS doesn’t need antivirus as it …
Looking for ways to protect your sensitive files in Ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04? This brief tutorial is going to show you how to install one package that will provide that service to you. This utility called ecryptfs-utils, will create an …
This brief tutorial shows you how to quickly enable Unix-style permissions in Ubuntu 11.10. It’s not something that’s everyone should do or enable, but it’s nice to have it. It lets you set permissions based on the original Unix permission …
Recently I have had some requests from friends and family members to get rid of viruses and spyware from infected Windows computers. Interestingly, most of the problem PCs have been Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7. It seems like Linux …
This brief tutorial shows you how to encrypt your external thumb drives in Ubuntu 11.10. We have covered this topic on this blog before, and showed you many tools that allow you to encrypt USB drives. So, this tutorial is …
DansGuardian is an open source web content filter which currently runs on Linux systems, including Ubuntu. It allows you to filter content on web pages based on phrases, text and URL. When configured correctly, it will block inappropriate content as …
Updating your system with the latest software is a good practice, however, not everyone can keep up with this routine. In fact in Windows systems, automatic update is turned on by default.
This brief tutorial will show you how to …
Last week we showed you how to automatically backup your data to SkyDrive in Ubuntu. This tutorial is the Windows version of what you saw last week. If you remember, we told you that Microsoft offers a free 25GB of …
How would you like to use the free 25GB online hard drive that Microsoft provides to automatically backup your data in Ubuntu ? Many online storage providers will give you free storage, but just few or no one will give …
Beginning with Ubuntu Natty, most parental control tools that worked in previous versions no longer function correctly. So finding a nice application that will control the behavior or restrict kids browsing habits online is getting difficult in Ubuntu.
If you …
Want to quickly encrypt USB flash drives in Ubuntu? This brief tutorial shows you how to use TrueCrypt to encrypt external drives so that when they go missing, your information won’t end up in the wrong hands.
When you encrypt …
Looking to get rid of your old and unused computers without putting your sensitive information at risk? A good and sensible thing to do before giving your old computers to someone other than a family member or close friend is …
Looking for an easy way to make a file or folder undeletable in Ubuntu? This simple tutorial shows you how to change a file or folder attributes so that it cannot be removed or deleted, even by the root user. …