sudo gedit /etc/hosts sudo gedit /etc/hostname

Last Friday I received a letter from the Philippine National Police, straight from its headquarters, in behalf of the Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Team, of which it is a member. In effect, the letter warned me about using unlicensed software and the consequences of such, and to "conduct all necessary software license checks in order to determine [...]

The creators of the most popular Linux distro, Ubuntu, have just released version 8.10 named Intrepid Ibex. The previous version is known as Hardy Heron. Ever since I boldly changed my laptop’s OS from Windows to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, I discovered the wonderful amazing world of Linux and open-source software. Changing my OS was, [...]

I finally took the plunge into Linux, particularly the Ubuntu distro. Blame it on Microsoft. My laptop was running on Windows XP and was getting sluggish. Programs took forever to load, I kept on having Internet connection issues and I had to always check for ‘badware’ even when I had the latest and updated anti-virus [...]