Jokosher is a great multi-track audio recording tool for Linux. It’s not quite ProTools, but it’s really easy to use, and has some great effects available. I’ve seen it described as GarageBand for Linux. The effects aren’t installed with the Jokosher package, so if you want the effects, just run this command to add them.
sudo apt-get install blop caps cmt fil-plugins mcp-plugins omins swh-plugins tap-plugins vcf

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Printing to PDF isn’t setup by default in Gutsy, but it’s easy to implement. Just follow this guide.

Ubuntu 7.10 actually comes with some pretty good security practices already set up for you. For example, the root account is locked and no network services are enabled by default. If you’re planning on making your Ubuntu system publicly accessible, here are some things to consider before you forward a port or public IP address.

If you run an ssh server on your Ubuntu system, and allow password based authentication, then you’ll want to install DenyHosts. It watches the log files and blocks the IP address of those who fail to authenticate too many time. As always, while this article is Ubuntu oriented, the same basic procedure works on other distros.

The first step to blocking the baddies with DenyHosts is installation.

sudo apt-get install denyhosts

Once you get it installed, there is a bit to adjust in the configuration file.

After reading this article at HappyLinuxGuy’s Happy Linux Thoughts page, I thought I might share with you a way to recover password on a *nix system. The commands and screenshots here will be Ubuntu oriented, but this basic process should work for any distro.

After a friend gave me a new laptop, I quickly installed Ubuntu on it, and though I knew it was pretty good about hardware detection, I expected to have to fight to get WiFi and Bluetooth to work, but since it detected everything at install, I decided to try to use it to manage the info on my LG VX8300 wireless phone over Bluetooth. Come to find out, as with most things in Ubuntu, it’s not that hard!

Here’s how to do it.

Firefox can be setup to highlight the entire address bar. Here’s how:
Open Firefox and type this in the address bar: about:config
Use the filter to find: browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll
Set the value to True or Enabled.
Once you restart Firefox, you’re ready to go.