Edit 151224: I had accidentally selected ‘ics’ format instead of caldav. Sorry about that. Now it works! — Getting your calendar off other people’s servers should be a priority. It’s bad enough that you’re being tracked unwillingly but throwing your daily calendar out there to be viewed is borderline twisted. I needed a solution where the sync was happening on…
Category: Tutorial
Why Setup and How to Setup PGP Encryption on Your Email
Preface If you don’t have encryption on at least your email, you might as well send the information on a postcard for the world to see. If you don’t like the idea of the content of your email being put onto a postcard then you need to set up PGP as today’s best solution. Is it amazingly easy? No. Like…
How to Migrate Thunderbird Lightning Calendar to Owncloud
I will expand this tutorial soon but I was able to figure it out from this. Bug me if I haven’t updated this and clarified the details since this tutorial is not clear in a few ways http://flailingmonkey.com/moving-contacts-calendar-google/
detailed ubuntu ddclient and namecheap tutorial
I just wanted to log this great website that I found which offers a great copy and paste ddclient setup. It’s much better than the out-of-the-box setup that comes with the software. Thanks very much for this tutorial! detailed ubuntu ddclient and namecheap tutorial It was also interesting to learn that Namecheap simply uses a service called ‘freedns’ apparently…. good…
Getting an Ubuntu Server Up and Running from Start to Finish: 14.04
All I wanted to do was turn an unused computer into a web host in my house so I could run wordpress on my own domain/website. I knew Ubuntu is the best so that was my plan. There are a lot of tutorials out there but I found it to be fragmented all over the world wide webs. This post…
How to Completely Remove Unsafe Microsoft Windows and Replace with Safe Ubuntu
So you have a Microsoft Windows computer. You finally realize that the reason you have no hair on your head is because you pulled it all out at your computer. It is full of viruses, malware, and a host of other programs attempting in vain to stop these from making their home on your machine. Also, you heard the news…
Getting Started with Retroshare on Ubuntu: The Secure Communications Hub
Retroshare is awesome. It’s secure. It’s simple (once you get rolling) and it’s highly useful. I found getting the initial few friends in was a ‘little’ tricky without a familiarization tour so here is a video I made to help folks out. I sent it to my mom so we’ll know how effective it is shortly, we hope…
PGP (Yeah, You Know Me): and How to Set Up New Key
PGP encryption on your email is not only awesome but it’s now mandatory if you care even the slightest about your personal privacy. If you don’t care about your personal privacy, I invite you to strip naked and dance in front of your living room window towards the street with your blinds open at night…. unless you look like me…
How to Easily Take Website Pages to Go with Built in Ubuntu Features
Want to read an article later and not use your data plan? Going somewhere and want to look at a website page without worrying about an internet connection? Can’t seem to find the time to read an article in the near future but worry the article might be gone when you get around to reading it? If you are using…