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Ubuntu: Enable the Icons in the System Menu

contributed by Rob Rogers on September 4, 2010 under Linux

If you have a need for continuity in your operating system, then you will notice that the System menu contains no icons like the Applications and Places menus. Here’s how to enable the icons so that the System menu looks like the others.

Ubuntu 10.04/10.10: Restore the Keyboard Command for Killing the X Server

contributed by Rob Rogers on September 3, 2010 under Linux

In older versions of Ubuntu, the key sequence of Ctrl+Alt+Backspace for stopping the X server was enabled by default. Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 have this disabled by default. Here’s how to restore the keyboard command.

Ubuntu: How to Mount an iPhone or iPod Touch as an External Drive

contributed by Rob Rogers on October 14, 2009 under Linux

If you are an Ubuntu user, your iPhone (or iPod Touch) can be used as an emergency external drive. You can also easily access and download images.This can be accomplished without having to jailbreak your phone (or media player).

Create a Linux software RAID array

contributed by Al Banks on February 12, 2009 under Linux

This recipe is a spin-off from my blog entry on building an inexpensive storage server, if you want more commentary, see my blog.

Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

contributed by Rob Rogers on November 24, 2008 under Linux

Dual booting your machine sounds like a complicated task, but if you want to run both Windows and Ubuntu, it is a piece of cake. In a short amount of time with minimum effort you can be set up to boot into either OS on your computer.

Ubuntu : Enable NTFS read/write options (accessing XP and Vista drives)

contributed by Jimmy Selix on September 22, 2008 under Linux

This recipe explains how to enable NTFS read/write options in Ubuntu and in turn allows one to read/write to any XP or Vista partitions one may have. This will be shown using Terminal to install. Applies to Ubuntu 7.04 and up (Gutsy Gibbon, Feisty Fawn, Hardy Heron)

Defend Your Web Server Against Distributed Denial of Services (DDos) Attacks

contributed by qmchenry on July 8, 2008 under Linux security

In computer security, it quickly becomes apparent that preventing computer attacks is much more challenging than attacking computers. A good example of an easy technique to prevent a website from functioning is a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack in which a number of compromised computers around the internet make web (or other protocol) requests on some poor server. If the web page requested is one that requires lots of server-side processing, the resulting load from the combined requests prevents the web server from responding to legitimate requests, thus denying the service. As Tech-Recipes.com was subjected to such an attack recently, we felt it might be beneficial to others if we described the steps we took in our response.

Ubuntu: Creating a repository using APTonCD

contributed by incursor on April 7, 2008 under Linux

Having a repository of packages you’ve downloaded using apt is good for when you need all of your favorite applications in a flash. Here’s how:

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