Ubuntu Linux

How to create VLAN in Ubuntu Linux

If you use Ubuntu Linux as a router, you may need to create VLAN (virtual LAN) interfaces in Ubuntu to divide your LAN. It is common in network infrastructures to use VLAN.

This post is intended to show you how to create VLAN  in Ubuntu Linux operating system. I am using Ubuntu 12.10 but it should be applicable for all Ubuntu versions. Simply follow the steps below:

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How to scan documents with your Mac OS X

I have MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and our office has HP Photosmart 2610 as a printing and scanning office documents.

Unlike Microsoft’s Windows operating system, Apple OS X operating system comes with the drivers for most known printers / scanners such as HP-branded printers. In my case, the HP Photosmart 2600 all-in-one printer series.

Dropbox in Linux Mint

Install Dropbox on Linux Mint 14 Nadia

If you would like to make your documents synchronized across multiples devices such as desktops, laptops, tablets, and any other mobile devices, Dropbox is a must have application installed in your devices.

Dropbox is a file hosting service which offers cloud storage, online backup, file synchronization and file sharing. You can collaborate one or more files / folders with your friends, colleagues, families to do the same project, for example.

Linux Mint

Install Oracle Java SE 7 in Linux Mint 14

By default, Linux Mint 14 comes with pre-installed OpenJDK 1.7 for its Java Runtime Environment and there is no official Oracle Java SE in the package manager. So in some cases if you want to install Oracle Java SE 7 in Linux Mint, you can follow this tutorial. At the time of this writing, the latest version of Oracle Java SE is Java SE 7 Update 10.