If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0

In a previous post I showed you how to setup a basic Squid Proxy with Ubuntu 10.04. This morning I setup a the same solution but with the Debian Lenny distro. The reason for this post is due to the fact that the syntax is a little different, so I’ll keep this one short and sweet.
Read more

I decided to take it upon myself to setup a Squid Cache Proxy using the latest Ubuntu distro (10.04, at time of writing). If you are following this then you can be up and running in under 5 minutes . It’s the finer details that will consume your time but that obviously depends on the scenario that you’re setting this in. Once the basic settings are set then I’ll briefly show you how to customise the Error Pages .
Read more

I just started looking into ustream.tv recently and I was interested in using my laptop to stream from but I had no such luck. When I got the screen that was supposed to show my local camera is merely blank

The fix was easier than I thought but was hard to discover, anyway here is how.
Read more

I was trying to run my web browser (Iceweasel) on my netbook as root through the Konsole but came across the following:

Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 KeyError: error cannot open display: 0:0

The fix is simple, just follow the steps below.
Read more

No need to keep loading up ‘System Monitor’ to terminate a stalled application / process when you can just as easily, if not quicker, terminate it from the konsole .
Read more

Update after update and I never even thought twice about it but hey! Cleaning up the old kernels is easy but I would recommend manually editing the grub menu.lst rather than allow the removal process to do it .
Read more