Recently, I had to connect to a Windows VPN server from my Ubuntu laptop to help someone troubleshoot an application. So I thought to do a tutorial on how to setup a VPN client from Ubuntu to Windows: XP for this talk.

Sometime ago, I wrote a tutorial for setting up a VPN server on Windows XP Professional. This is the VPN server the Ubuntu VPN client will be connecting to. You might want to set up a server first.

Luckily, Ubuntu ships with a straightforward and easy process.

1) Click System

The following tutorial details how to install and configure ScribeFire for updating and editing your Joomla powered website.

ScribeFire is a web browser extension that, as of this writing can run on Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. Check out http://www.scribefire.com/ to install ScribeFire on your browser. You might need to restart your browser afterwards.

Now, to setup ScribeFire for Joomla,

1) On your Tools menu click ScribeFire to launch ScribeFire,

2) click Add to add a new blog

I am still trying to feel at home with Ubuntu 10.04 and one of my achievements so far is to setup a blogging client for Joomla.

At first, I had used the Synaptic Package Manager to install BloGTK, however it wouldn't launch / start from Applications >> Internet BloGTK. Searching around the web, I found a solution. A blogger, by name Balau, in his post titled BloGTK installation on Ubuntu 10.04 had experienced the same issue(BloGTK won't start after installation).

sources:

Thank God its Friday folks, another week has ended.

Good news: I've finally migrated to Ubuntu.
tokunbo@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
tokunbo@ubuntu:~$

Todays post is courtesy of Scribefire, and heres how my laptop desktop looks like

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The following is a tutorial on how to enable clean URLs on a localhost(test server) installation of Drupal-6 with WampServer.

Drupal version: 6-19
WampServer version: 2.0
Operating System: Windows XP, SP2

I have a Wamp install, where I have several Joomla and Wordpress installations, so I might as well assume that I am on a shared server scenario. By default Drupal-6 will install on your Wamp Test Server with Clean URLs Disabled (turned off).

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With Clean URLs disabled, these are examples of

I visited a friend at the computer village in Ikeja Lagos a week ago. My laptop had been behaving very funny for about 2-days, so I took it to his shop for a checkup. When I got there, he was busy "brushing" a board of another laptop; "brushing", I mean, scrubing the board's surface with a toothbrush.

We exchanged greetings, he told me to take a seat, that he'll be ready for me in about 5-minutes. Meanwhile, he talked about the problem with the piece of hardware he was working on. He told me

With 2010 rolling to a close, I took a stock of this year's major events yesterday. As far as my online life is concerned, my unfortunate experience with Web4Africa was major. I thought I was in good hands, I mean, Naija to Naija; but unfortunately, it was a pot of soup. I have since shined my eyes - Nigerian style, and moved on and up; formerly at http://nairabytes.wordpress.com/ and now on a hosted server running Joomla!.

One day is for the thief, one day is for the owner, but how I wish I

I stumbled across the article titled: Africa needs a culture of science yesterday. While the title is so true, the content is more. And after reading the article, I thought of writing this post, at least just to bring things a little closer to home.

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The first step towards a Nigerian culture of science is to make science relevant to the average Nigerian, resident in Nigeria.

Ask the average Nigerian child what

I use blogdesk for a couple of my blogging activities. It is light in weight, not too complicated to use and can get things done quickly, so I thought why not just put up a post about installing it rather than mentioning "installation" over and over again in my future posts.

Download Blogdesk from here: http://www.blogdesk.org/en/download.htm, double-click to install:

install blogdesk1

install blogdesk2

install blogdesk3

install blogdesk4

install blogdesk5

install blogdesk6

install blogdesk7

install blogdesk8-1

install blogdesk9

Now, your Blogdesk installation is ready to roll.

The above is only a default installation of BlogDesk without any

You are welcome to the new home of NairaBytes.net This is our first post, and how best to start than with a tutorial.

There are many blogging clients out there and I personally like Blogdesk because its free, neat, light-weight and extremely simple. Blogdesk can be downloaded here. The following is how I setup mywebjournal.net so that it can be updated using Blogdesk.

1) I would assume you have an installation of blogdesk, if you don't, download and install it first.

2) Log in to your Joomla