If Skype is already installed then update is there for you in Update Manager. If you don’t have Skype then enabled Canonical Partners channel.
After updating open Software Center and search for and install ‘Skype’ package.
Adblock Plus is good if you need to block undesirable website elements to appear on web pages while you are surfing the internet. Subscribe a free filter service and add undesirable website elements to the block list with just a single click.
Use sudo apt-get install xul-ext-adblock-plus command to install this app from your Linuc terminal.
Visit Firefox >> Tools >> Add-ons >> Get Add-ons >> Search All Add-ons >> AdBlock Plus to add Addblock extension to your Firefox web web browser.
Linux 3.5 has been released on 21 Jul 2012.
This release includes support for metadata checksums in ext4, userspace probes for performance profiling with tools like Systemtap or perf, a sandboxing mechanism that allows to filters syscalls, a new network queue management algorithm designed to fight bufferbloat, support for checkpointing and restoring TCP connections, support for TCP Early Retransmit (RFC 5827), support for Android-style opportunistic suspend, btrfs I/O failure statistics, and SCSI over Firewire and USB. Many small features and new drivers and fixes are also available.
Read More: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.5
Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser: http://blog.canonical.com/2012/07/19/introducing-ubuntu-web-apps-setting-the-web-free-of-the-browser/
Sometimes you need IP address to solve some problems with your internet connection. May be you don’t know that you have two IP addresses:
Finding your internal IP address:
Finding your external internet IP address:
For browsing files on a server you need to connect to that particular server/network share. After connecting to server/network share present on your local machine or in any external device you can easily download-upload and share different files with different users on your local network.
Browsing files over the network:
If you are connecting to an Internet server or in-case the machine you are looking for is not visible then you can manually connect to a server. Follow these steps:
Details on server types are listed here:
Servers on internet usually use domain name
Computers on your local area network use the machine’s numeric IP address.
If any othe machine is running Ubuntu use machine’s internal IP address. Otherwise, check the help on that computer.
This will show you the files on the server. Now you are free to browse those files and folders easily.
Today Dell announced its re-entry in Linux based laptops. These laptops would be coming pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux and the good thing is that there is no dual boot of Windows which increases the speed of your machine and you work in the best operating system. If you require dual booting then you would have to buy Windows version laptop and install Linux manually. The configuration of XPS13 Laptop has 4GB of RAM with Intel Core i7 processor and 256GB solid state hard drive.
Rsync is the directory backup and transfer tool for Linux. Installed as default in Ubuntu. It can provide any type of backup, and options are extensive.
GRsync is a GTK-based GUI for Rsync. Install this by following command:
sudo apt-get install grsync
Bacula is the most widely-used GTK-based open source (GPL-licensed) network backup utility that is used in both server and desktop installations. A catalogue of backups can be maintained using MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite. For more info see the Ubuntu documentation. Both text-based and GUI frontends are available. Install the MySQL version:
sudo apt-get install bacula
SBackup is a common backup and restore utility for the GTK-desktop. Install using following command:
sudo apt-get install sbackup
You can connect your multiple machines for sharing multimedia files through a centralized web server. In this tutorial you will learn how to set up Firefly Media Server on Ubuntu Server.
Firefly Media Server (formerly mt-daapd) is an free and open-source media server or daemon for the Roku SoundBridge and iTunes. It serves media files using Roku Server Protocol (RSP) and Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP).
Since we are installing on a Ubuntu Server, the installation is simple:
Open configuration file and look for this line:
mp3_dir = /home/media/music
In this line you need to change to reflect the directory from where you will serve your media.
Here I created a new sub-directory in /opt called music. Perform this action by this command:
sudo mkdir /opt/media
Now make that directory DAAP server readable by using this command:
sudo chmod ug+r -R /opt/media
Other than this there are many more options available in the configuration file like server name, password protection, port, extensions, codec types and many more. Few options are described below:
Complete configuration file, go ahead and move your media files into the directory and start the server using this command:
sudo /etc/init.d/mt-daap start
With this running server you can fire up a DAAP enabled client, just like iTunes or Songbird. DAAP server installation is good for small internal network where you can share multimedia files. It requires a running Linux server.
EtherApe is a graphical utility that allows you to see in real-time where connections are being made on your network, or between your network or computer and the Internet. If you are experiencing unexpected network activity on your computer or LAN and wish to see where the activity is occurring. Both “local” user and “root user” installations are created; in general you must use the root user installation to see all your network traffic.
sudo apt-get install etherape
Features:
- Menu
- System
- System Settings
- Login Manager
- Convenience
- Check Enable Auto-Login
- Check Lock session
- Preselect User => Specified => Choose Primary User
