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Facing Archive Canonical Repository Issues? Here's Your IPv6 Solution!

Understanding the IPv6 Connection Hurdle

When updating the repositories, I found a recurring issue: the system's reluctance to connect through IPv6 on archive.canonical.com. This not only led to extended wait times but also culminated in a frustrating connection error. Disabling IPv6 seems like the go-to remedy, but it's akin to using a sledgehammer to crack a nut

Prioritizing IPv4: The Seamless Workaround

By tweaking a few settings, it's possible to give precedence to IPv4 over IPv6, ensuring smoother updates without sacrificing the benefits of either protocol.

Most VPS hosting providers use default English OS templates for virtual machines, lacking Russian language support. This can be problematic if you need to edit documents with Russian characters on an English Ubuntu setup.

A similar situation can arise during automated Ubuntu installations, such as in VMWare Workstation.

In the world of websites, one aspect that often gets overlooked but is critically important is website backup. Ensuring that you have reliable backup procedures in place can be a lifesaver in case of unexpected issues, such as server crashes, data corruption, or security breaches. In this comprehensive guide, we will walk you through the entire process of creating backups for your website and transferring them to a safe location. We'll cover both the technical aspects and practical steps, making it easy for even beginners to follow along.

Are you an Ubuntu user looking to up your game in terms of screen recording and game streaming? In this comprehensive guide, we'll walk you through the steps to harness the full potential of your Ubuntu system for both screen recording and live game streaming. We'll explore how to use OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) to achieve professional-quality streams and recordings. Let's dive in!

If you have Ubuntu OS on your home computer, then you may not need the logon with password. If computer is always at home, this is not particularly necessary, and usually entering passwrod when system turns on or goes out from sleep mode is pretty boring. Below I'll show you how to turn off password enterance on computer with Ubuntu when it turns on.

I have the keyboard - Logitech G510s. I've spent a lot of time to find out drivers for it for Ubuntu operating system. Actually it works well in Ubuntu, but it is unable to create macros, change LED colors and on LCD there is always G510s lit on the screen. At the same time media buttons works normaly out of the box.

Overall, during search for drivers, or how can it be called... The programm to controll display, colors and macros, I tried several different programms, and only one is working perfectly.

On Ubuntu, for example if was enabled autologin, may occure situation that annoyng window will appear - Enter password to unlock your login keyring. Usually it appears when you start Chrome browser, save network folder password and so on. In this article I'll show you how to get rid of that window.

In this article I will show you how you can configure Apache for multiple sites could work on single IP address. This can be done very simple by adding virtual hosts to Apache.

I faced a problem - if there is a virtualization system KVM on ubuntu installed, then when host is turning off or rebooting, if it has working vms on it, the process of turning off is too slow. I've find out that this happens because of two things - the first is - when host is turning off virtual machines are comming to suspend state, and that process takes a long time. And second - there are too big timeouts for turning off - 5 minutes to each VM, and host can turn off only one vm at same time.

In this article I will show you how you can change suspend to power off, and how to decrease timeouts for turn off.

Sometime there are situations when you need to access remote Linux filesystem from Windows based computer, but you cannot install samba or ftp. And make an access to filesystem root folder with samba or ftp as you know not a good idea because it is unsecure. For that case you can use a little utility called WinSCP.