Nathan “Flutebox” Lee and Beardyman @ Google, London

Posted by soapy | Entertainment | Thursday 27 November 2008 4:01 pm

The UK’s premier beatboxers performing live at the Google offices in London.

Howto: Use, setup, and Take advantage of the New Ubuntu Uncomplicated Firewall UFW

Posted by soapy | Linux Tutorials | Friday 14 November 2008 4:16 pm

Here is an overview on howto use ufw the Uncomplicated Firewall:

Lets turn UFW on:
sudo ufw enable

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Enable and Disable Ubuntu Root Password

Posted by soapy | Linux Tutorials | Thursday 13 November 2008 6:26 pm

Ubuntu is one of the few Linux distributions out there that will not enable the root account.If you want to do something with root permission on the console you have to type sudo before the command.

sudo” means superuser do. “sudo” will prompt for “Password:”. Please specify user password

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Create Users And Change Passwords With A Bash Script

Posted by soapy | Linux Tutorials | Wednesday 15 October 2008 1:07 pm

These two scripts are very important for the system admin who regularly works with mail servers and somehow forgets to backup his system username and password! Let’s say somehow we lost the usernames and passwords of the mail server. In this case the admin has to manually create all the users and then change the passwords for all the users. Tedious job. Let’s make our life easier.
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