Blocking websites using the hosts file

Let’s say you want to block certain websites. Maybe to keep your kids off of myspace, for security reasons, or to block advertising from being loaded. You can do this by means of your hosts file. By modifying that little file, you can keep certain websites from being accessed from your computer. Here’s how to [...]

How to set up Dial Up internet on Ubuntu 7.10 & 8.04 linux

This stumped me for a LONG time. I had Ubuntu for a month or so before I got DSL service. I was too much of a noob to compile a driver for my old internal dial up modem. Here’s how I finally made dial up work.