Anyone who wants anonymity when browsing the net has probably used TOR at some point. Although anonymity in Tor has been proven to be broken with the help of flash applications or javascript scripts (if memory serves me right) it is still useful to have if you use something like NoScript to block scripts and flash applications.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TOR has a good tutorial on getting started on ubuntu which seems to be a pain in the ass, unlike the windows installation.
Have fun!
Pingdom.com is a company that makes a living by monitoring websites and alerting you of downtimes and other events. There is a paid service (with a trial) but in addition there is a one website free account option that people might be interested in.
For those who do not like changing those massive “it is all Greek to me!” configuration files of Apache the fear not!
Gui tools are here to make our lifes easier at the end of the day, especially at the end of a long day! I came across yet another tool which looks good (although i haven’t tested it myself yet) but i thought i would share it with you:
Have a look at it and give me some feedback if you can!
By the way there are 2 versions, a free and a paid one, use the free one, it should do the basics! 
Can anyone explain to me why Ubuntu doesn’t like kvm switches that use a scroll lock key combination to switch from one workstation to another? For that matter can anyone explain to me why Ubuntu / gnome doesn’t like scroll lock? Not sure if this is a gnome specific issue or an Ubuntu issue but someone should have fixed this by now. There are forums mentioning this from back in 2004.
Anyway my quick workaround for kvm switches which don’t support Num lock X 2 is to simulate it from the command line.
xset led on
xset led off
The above will simulate a scroll lock on and off action, repeat until you are switched
Alternatively you can switch terminals (correct terminology?) and use scroll lock normally.
Control + Alt + F1 will take you to the console, then use scroll lock X2 to switch. When back do a Control + Alt + F7 to return to the gnome console.
The mission: find a solution that can restrict FireFox from accessing pages other than ones we specify on a white list.
The solution: the ProCon Latte FireFox extension
This extension will let you do things like filter pages based on the words that appear on a page (e.g. no pages that include the word “bunkers”), restrict pages you can access based on what is included in a white-list you specify and more! Best of all it lets you hide it, make it uninstallable and password protected to help you protect it from users wanting to tamper with it! (don’t think in terms of strongly encrypted data files et cetera, this is to keep your kids away!)
I hope you find it useful!