Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
I have two Ubuntu servers at home that I use for ThemBid.com development testing. I needed to be able to access both through SSH. The problem is that both machines are listening to the default SSH port 22 by default. Following are the steps necessary to access both via SSH.
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
I use my laptop quite often because of the need to travel fairly often. I have not made the switch to Ubuntu on my laptop because of one critical reason: My Internal Verizon Internet card! Since I spend allot of my time hacking ThemBid.com, I need to be connected wherever ...
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
Goals
Create a local testing environment for ThemBid.com development in Ubuntu
Use XAMPP
Access from inside VMware for IE testing
Access directories locally without the files needing to be under the root htdocs directory
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Sunday, June 24th, 2007
OK, I am guilty. Instead of just saying Linux, I have been using Ubuntu everywhere in my articles. It's as if I ran a global find and replace. I remember doing the same thing back in my Gentoo days...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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