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Technical difficulties with the Ubuntu Forums
The Ubuntu forums is having some technical difficulties resulting in a number of intermittent problems including a slow response time, proxy errors, and at times problems in posting or duplicate posts. A minority of posts will experience a significant lag … Continue reading
Zen Koans
I have been using display-dhammapada for some time now but I have always wanted a similar program for zen koans. I came across a perl module on CPAN , “Zen Koans” and it was a nice start. From there I … Continue reading
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Debian Squeeze as an OpenZV Template
OpenVZ is used for Virtualization and is both light weight (minimal software on the host, guests have small footprints on the hard drive, and minimal use of RAM) and fast (native speed). Although I have been using Ubuntu as an … Continue reading
Improve Firefox Speed
I know, there are many web pages and blogs about doing just this, but I wanted to list my preferences. First, I suggest you minimize your Extensions. In general it seems as you add Extensions speed drops. Second use some … Continue reading
Prevent DOS with iptables
After a recent conversation on the Ubuntu Forums I wanted to post an example of using iptables. Of course there are several types of DOS attacks , in this post I will demonstrating the use if iptables to limit the … Continue reading
Speed up Privoxy
Just a quick tip on Privoxy and improving performance (speed). Privoxy is a popular proxy server that can both increase privacy and block unwanted advertisements and pop-ups (although I still use NoScript ). Many people complain that Privoxy is slow. … Continue reading
Ubuntu 10.10 OpenVZ Templates
OpenVZ is used for Virtualization and is both light weight (minimal software on the host, guests have small footprints on the hard drive, and minimal use of RAM) and fast (native speed). I know there are some fans of Openvz … Continue reading
Testing Planet Ubuntu 5
This is a test page. My blog stopped feeding to the Planet Ubuntu. Edit: It Works !!!
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How to improve resolution in KVM
Once again I found myself trying to “fix” something that has been bothering me for some time – the Resolution in KVM guests is sometimes poor, as low as 800×600. As it turns out, one can increase the resolution of … Continue reading
How to use UFW in OpenVZ templates
I was looking at iptables / UFW in openvz templates and was able to work through some of the problems with UFW. In this blog I will outline how to get ufw working. The issues with UFW and OpenVZ guests … Continue reading
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