Archive for June, 2007
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
I have tried many different approaches when networking based on advice from others and ideas that I have read. Finally I have found the best way to approach the following business networking scenarios: You are at some networking event and you are making contact for the first time with some ...
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
When I develop for ThemBid.com I often work remotely. When I was using Windows XP I would use UltraVNC to access my desktop remotely, then when I "upgraded" to Vista I did not take to the time to do that, instead I used the built in Remote Desktop feature. Now ...
Posted in Ubuntu | 37 Comments »
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
Isaac's article about running PHP4 and PHP5 in Ubuntu side by side without CGI made it to the front page of Lxer.com.
Posted in ThemBid.com News | No Comments »
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
I read this book by Napoleon Hill some time ago called "Success Through a Postive Mental Attitude". It spoke of 17 success principles that I re-read every day and apply to our Web 2.0 startup. In this article I will list those seventeen principles with a brief explanation on how ...
Posted in Strategy | 3 Comments »
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Now that the Vista to Ubuntu switch is complete and I have had some time to use Ubuntu in a productive environment... I can say that I love Ubunutu (I have had experience with Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse, QNX and Debian in the past)! Even running Windows XP under VMware ...
Posted in Ubuntu | 11 Comments »
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Being at a networking event last night reminded me of this. The very first time we attended the New Member Welcome Event at the Greater Riverside Chamber of Commerce, I met a very nice lady who owned her own business. As we were talking, she got more and ...
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Friday, June 22nd, 2007
I was just settling in at the fancy new Starbucks near my house to finish up my final article regarding my switch from Vista to Ubuntu when I notice a quote about ubuntu on my Starbucks cup. The word Ubuntu was even italicized... Is it a sign...or do I have ...
Posted in Ubuntu | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
I run Ubuntu, Feisty Fawn 7.04 as my host with Windows XP Professional as the guest. When I go to full screen in VMware I would get each monitor displaying the same thing. What I wanted to do was get the display to stretch across the two monitors. Here is ...
Posted in Ubuntu | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
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Application Migration
Now that Ubuntu is up and running and configured the way I like, its time to get the applications installed. Following is a list of all the applications that I replaced from my Windows environment with notes on how to get ...
Posted in Ubuntu | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
When we chose Symfony to implement ThemBid.com, PHP 5 was needed but we only had PHP 4 installed in our Ubuntu hosting servers. We couldn't just migrate everyone to PHP 5 since some of client's applications were incompatible with PHP 5. Some tutorials were found online explaining how ...
Posted in Technical, Ubuntu | 6 Comments »