I’ve been an Ubuntu fan since 2009 now. As soon as I met Ubuntu it was game over for all my desktops, laptops, netbooks, home media servers, etc. There was no competitor who could make a new or existing machine run so quickly and reliably, and without the pain of viruses and continual financial investments to keep it up to…
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How to Back up and Move from One Email Server to Another
My goal: Move my email safely from one email service provider to another (IMAP). I was surprised that it wasn’t that easy to find a simple step by step tutorial out there to do this. I hope this tutorial will help someone. If your email account is old, this process may take quite a bit of time, so please allow…
How to Make a Brother Printer and Scanner Work in Ubuntu
EDIT 2020-06-19 Long time no edit! My instructions below still mostly work it seems (which is bad on Brother for not making this more simple – fail, fail fail) I wanted to add a quick note for 18.04 generation Ubuntu friends to consider as you are working through my nasty old messy post below: First, if you are installing a…
Are You a Victim of Abusive and Addictive Technology?
An article was forwarded to me this week by someone I know who believes strongly in the importance of ethical technology. He is heavily involved in the Ubuntu project and we all share a desire to see a paradigm shift in the role of technology in our lives from that of a harmful consumable to a helpful benefit. If you…
Pronouncing Ubuntu Correctly Matters.
Mr. Joey Sneddon, I don’t know you and I’m sure you are a really nice guy (you seem nice in some youtube videos) and that you mean well and probably think you are helping Ubuntu, however, you published this article called how to pronounce Ubuntu which I think is damaging to the Ubuntu project. I’m not sure if you read…
Do All Tech Writers Suffer from Fear and Creative Paralysis?
Today I was reading a recent article on Forbes website by a supposed ‘contributor’ named Federico Guerrini. Forbes, as you may know, is a popular place for people to go to try to get ‘informed’. His article followed perfectly a kind of template that these ‘tech writers’ for popular media use when discussing Ubuntu. The format, and you may have…
SIP VOIP Clients for Ubuntu for PBX for Business
So you have a business and you also want to build that business on Ubuntu. You have this annoying need for the old school ‘phone’ and maybe even the older-school ‘fax’. Your team is all over the place and you want it to appear as if you are a big, professional organization. The answer is simple – Voice Over Internet…
How to Back Up SuiteCRM using Ubuntu
I discovered SuiteCRM by means of searching through my web host’s cpanel softaculous thing – that thing that allows one click installs of ‘apps’ for your server. Over time, I became a heavy believer in and user of SuiteCRM. Eventually, I installed an instance for my company on my shared host and the company started using it more and more.…
How to Do Let’s Encrypt in Cpanel with Shared Hosting
Did Green Geeks (www.greengeeks.com) not want to help you get Let’s Encrypt working in your Cpanel even though it works in cpanel? You aren’t alone. But we can take matter into our own hands, you know. The tutorial I’m going to share is awesome. It’s pretty much what I based everything on and of course my experience of just making…
How to Make Self Signed SSL Certificate Work in CPanel
Tutorial Assumptions you have a website domain you have shared hosting using cPanel you are using a computer running Ubuntu This isn’t a perfect solution if you have a public facing website, but if you have a private website for yourself, your friends, your business, etc, this will be ‘better than nothing’ and at least give you encryption for your…