Archive for January 7th, 2011
Ubuntu only showing 800 x 600 resolution in VirtualBox
If you have installed Ubuntu in VirtualBox and 800 x 600 is the max resolution, Start Ubuntu (VirtualBox). Click on add Guest Additions. The CD ROM on the Ubuntu desktop will say Guest Additions. Right click and open. Double click on autorun.sh. Click on Run. Wait for the process to finish. Restart. Adjust your resolution.
After running the additions, right click and unmount the icon on the desktop. Then use the virtualbox menu to mount the CD as your drive letter.
Depending on your computer you may have to modify the file -xorg.conf if the above solution does not work.
Editing this file could cause issues with your computer!
Open Terminal and type-
gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Add the following information Replacing any Section with Screen…(do not copy and past this…make sure you type it)
Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Device “Generic Video Card”
Monitor “Generic Monitor”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Modes “1280×800″ “1024×768″ “800×600″
EndSubSection
EndSection
Save the file under the /etc/x11 folders as xorg.conf
If Ubuntu fails to start and a terminal interface (No GUI) request a login, login using your username and password.
type sudo nano /etc/x11/xorg.conf
Enter the information above (Section Information). Use the Ctrl-X to exit. Save the file in the etc/x11 folder as xorg.conf. Reboot.
Test your hard drive speed with Ubuntu’s Disk Utility
Want to Benchmark your hard drive with Ubuntu? Click on Administration, Disk Utility, select your hard disk and click on Benchmark. Select Read or Read/Write.
Ubuntu Cleanup
There is an excellent article on Ubuntu Genius on how to clean Ubuntu’s Unused Linux Kernel Headers, Images and Modules. While I have been using Linux, Unix and every operating system you can imagine for years, I had no idea this command could do this for Ubuntu- then again, who would - excellent article -
(Run in a terminal window) – Be sure to read the article and paste the recommended code from his article.
Ubuntu Tweak also offers many other cleaning options
Android Leap Frogs Apple in Mobile OS Market Share | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Android Leap Frogs Apple in Mobile OS Market Share | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.
Android has been gaining steam in the mobile market recently, and new data from comScore says it has surpassed Apple to become the number two operating system in the U.S.
New Botnet Found
New Botnet Found. by ShareThis at PCMag.com
Characteristics of the campaign and botnet are described as:
- Large scale Spam campaigns sending out e-mails with links
- New malicious domains that are fast flux! (TTL of 0 and name servers that frequently update IPs)
- Links are to several hacked websites hosting HTML pages that refresh to new malicious domains
- Links are also directly to new malicious domains
- Malicious domains hosting links to fake flash player and refreshes to exploit pages
- Malware installs that begin beaching to several hosts over HTTP (what we dubbed HTTP2p with Waledac)
- Malware that’s been updated to look a bit more like legitimate than past variants
- A very buggy network that is not often available (upstream devices not available)
- Changing/Updated binaries
Apple Patches Serious Bug in Software Update
Apple Patches Serious Bug in Software Update.
It doesn’t matter what OS you have, you have to get updates to prevent being compromised.
