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Secure Browsing using SSH
It seems like these days wherever you are (coffee shop, airport, burger joint) you can find a wireless hotspot allowing you free access to roam the Internet without much of a problem. However when surfing using these networks the data is send in plain text and is not safe. Using SSH and SOCKS proxy you can easily encrypt all your web browsing traffic and redirect through your home network (or some other trusted computer).
4 commentsMonitor CPU and hard drive temperatures on Ubuntu Linux
Most new computers support ACPI which stands for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. ACPI provides for many functions besides power management, such as thermal management and plug-and-play events. If the fan on your PC is always on this could mean the CPU and hard drive are running hot and this could cause permanant damage to your PC. There are some command line and GUI based utilities that can be used to monitor the CPU and hard drive temperatures.
7 commentsVirtualBox – virtualization alternative to VMWare
My post on Installing VMWare Server (and Windows XP) on Ubuntu gets a lot of hits. There is another open source virtualization software from Sun that I really like – VirtualBox. I personally prefer VirtualBox over VMWare. Installation is a breeze in comparison to VMWare. Binaries are available for a variety of Linux distributions in addition to Windows, OS X, Solaris and openSolaris hosts.
2 commentsConfigure Proxy for Amarok on GNOME
Amarok is an excellent music player that uses some core KDE components (like KDElibs) and can be installed independent of KDE on Ubuntu. One issue with this however is that it does not read the system wide proxy settings from GNOME. The proxy settings under “Settings -> Configure Amarok -> Configure engine” only work for Streaming and hence if you are behind the firewall you cannot access the lyrics service or fetch cover art from the internet. This is easy to fix.
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