Today a friend got mad at me. He barely can even call me his friend it seems! He is upset at my lack of key understanding, and so he should be. It is kind of funny that we allow things to control our lives and not even understand the very basic stuff about how they work. It would be like…
Category: Ubuntu
Is Gmail Safe to use ‘Just for Business’?
No. Google is *not* safe to use ‘just for business’, I confirmed clearly today. About seven or eight years ago when I moved my whole life over from proprietary operating systems to Ubuntu, I was still using services like Gmail, Google search engine, Twitter, and a few other ‘services’ like these every day within the Ubuntu environment. Thankfully, I had…
How to Flash Cyanogen Mod on Nexus 4 Using Ubuntu
If you ended up on my first tutorial showing how to get ‘android back’ I did post that too hastily and forgot that Cyanogen mod is a much, much safer version of android because it doesn’t connect to the mothership of Google. If you have been running Ubuntu on the Nexus 4 and been challenged and need a temporary solution…
How to Flash Back to Android from Ubuntu Phone
UPDATE: This tutorial below will flash you back under the nasty tracking eyes of Google/Alphabet. You will get the google play store and all the ‘fun’ but you will also get spied on and ultimately regret it. I have since updated my tutorial/solution to this: How to Flash Cyanogen Mod on Nexus 4 Using Ubuntu There is no play store…
How to Fix Owncloud Maintenance Mode Message Ubuntu Server
Did and upgrade to your Ubuntu packages and owncloud is mucked up? Same. So I blogged this because it happens all the time and I always forget how to do it quickly. Hope this helps you, too: Access your server via terminal (ssh in) move to your owncloud directory. Mine is default and if yours is too copying and pasting…
Everything You Need to Know about Ubuntu Phone
My friend sent me this link to a great page that summarizes most of the key things you need to know about the Ubuntu Phone. As mentioned in my previous article, we are quickly moving to convergence and in order to make sure we get there safely, ubuntu is the *only* option. The great news for all of you who…
The Race to Convergence: Or is it a Marathon?
This article started out kind of exciting. It explained how Ubuntu was about to show, on a large commercial scale the unveiling of convergence of multiple devices. For those who don’t know what convergence is, it’s the ability for multiple devices to converge into one user experience – without the need for multiple processors and hard drives. For a company…
How to Flash from Cyanogen Mod to Ubuntu on Nexus 4
Normally in the past, it was very easy for me to flash from android to Ubuntu for phone. I just used the usual ubuntu tutorial and it worked. Then, somewhere in the middle I switched to Cyanogen mod (android) as the ‘lesser of two evils’ while I was waiting for bluetooth to improve. I heard today that everything is working…
How to View Multiple Page Fax with Ubuntu
I got a fax recently as a .tif image file and when I went to open it on the world’s best operating system ubuntu, and it wouldn’t view anything except page 1! I thought there was a bug with the operating system but it turned out that they actually had, built right into ubuntu a viewer designed specifically to handle…
How to Make Telegram Desktop Auto Start on Ubuntu 14.04
You want your Telegram app to start when you turn on your computer each time? Ok, here’s how you do it. First, review the first three steps on this blog I did here. Now, simply take note of the location of where I tracked down this Telegram Desktop app. —then click through some other telegram folder and then do the…