Linux Prime Time

Firestarter: A GUi based Firewall for Linux

Ruhaan Ahmed — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:00:26 +0000

The Linux Operating System has a awesome network architecture but for some people who are new to it may just be overwhelmed just by seeing a terminal to configure the network, so what i present to you is a GUI firewall for linux that even allows you to share your internet easily. Its called Firestarter, [...]

SSHMenu: A simple gnome applet to perform a SSH session

Ruhaan Ahmed — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:48:33 +0000

Connecting to multiple computers via a ssh session can be a pain sometimes you have to remember the IP address and or the relevant user name and password but luckily i found a gnome applet that makes the task extremely easy. The applet is called SSHMenu. To install it simply run sudo apt-get install sshmenu sshmenu-gnome Now to [...]

Configure Your Own FTP Server In Linux

Ruhaan Ahmed — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:49:56 +0000

Sharing files whether on the Internet or on your local network is extremely easy these days with a multitude of methods available which are both easy to use and equally good performace wise. But for me personally my preferred method is with the use of the ago old and mature FTP protocol. The reason why [...]

PCMan: An Alternative File Manager For Linux

Ruhaan Ahmed — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:41:29 +0000

I had been mostly using Nautilus as my primary file manager and i was a bit sick to be honest from using it, Nautilus is very basic and a bit heavy file manager. So I was searching for a file manager that was both light weight, had a simple interface and loads of features, Konqueror [...]

Change Boot-up options in Ubuntu

Ruhaan Ahmed — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:55:57 +0000

I was searching the web for a way that i could change the default boot-up screen of Ubuntu, because lets face it Ubuntu’s boot up screen isn’t the most pretty thing. I came across an application called Start-up manager, which not only allows me to change my boot-up screen but allows me to do a [...]

Monitor you computer’s network connection in Linux

Ruhaan Ahmed — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:16:13 +0000

Have you ever wanted to know what your lan card is communicating with or which computer is it transferring more data from, monitoring stuff is really but you would like a way that you could see all of this in a nice and easy manner, that is what i am going to tell you about [...]

Use Amarok as An Alarm Clock

Ruhaan Ahmed — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:32:15 +0000

I have a really hard time getting up in the morning, nothing works for me alarm clock or stuff like that barely even makes me move. What does wake me up is loud music from the stereo. So i went searching around the web to find something that would let me use my Amarok as [...]

Block Internet Access For Specific Users

Ruhaan Ahmed — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:55:56 +0000

You want to protect minors from the dirt on the internet or you don’t want your friends to use your home internet connection, then i am going to show you a simple way you can disable web access for specific users, so the internet is not accessable via their user accounts. First we need to edit [...]

WiFi Drivers in Linux

Ruhaan Ahmed — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:31:01 +0000

The most critised thing about Linux is the limited driver support Linux has for WiFi cards. To face this critisim the Madwifi project was created. Madwifi build custom WiFi drivers for linux and so far they have covered dozens of cards. I had a very strange problem with Ubuntu and many other poplular distros where [...]

Ksensors: An Application To Monitor Your Computer’s Temperature

Ruhaan Ahmed — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:56:02 +0000

There are many reasons for why you would to want to monitor your computers temperature. One might be that you are overclocking your processor and you would like to check if its temperature is stable or not or that the conditions of the room your computer is in are hot and you want to check [...]