Archive for the ‘Tips & Tricks’ Category

SOCKS Proxying With Tor

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 by \m/ike

For those wishing to not use their own machines and to keep their identity as anonymous as can be while proxying on Ubuntu, Tor is a nice solution. Read more…

Using a Remote SSH Shell as a SOCKS Proxy

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 by \m/ike

Campus firewall got you down? Looking for a speedier (but less anonymous) alternative to Tor? SSH is a magical thing indeed. Read more…

Managing Startup Services in the Terminal

Friday, May 16th, 2008 by \m/ike

Install a neat new package from apt only to watch in horror as it starts up a (possibly) unnecessary service along with it? “Doodoo! I only wanted to use the standalone cli version of that!”, you yell. Look no further friend. Read more…

Slow Down That Noisy CD/DVD Drive

Monday, May 12th, 2008 by \m/ike

Ever been watching a DVD or streaming a video file and been uber distracted by your 4 year old drive’s rattle? Slow it down once and for all! Read more…

Selecting The Fastest Repository Mirror

Friday, May 9th, 2008 by \m/ike

Do you dread new release time like the plague? Does the thought of downloading at 534 bytes/sec really irritate you? Say hello to a rarely talked about feature of Synaptic. Read more…