Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category

Accessing a Network of Ubuntu Servers Remotely

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.

Yes, I’m Still Using Vista :(

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 ...

Create a Local Development Environment using XAMPP in Ubuntu/Linux

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

Ubuntu vs Linux

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...

How to Access Your Ubuntu Remotely

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 ...

Ubuntu: The Switch (6 of 6) - Conclusion

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 ...

Starbucks and Ubuntu

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 ...

Dual Monitors with VMWare - Ubuntu Host and Windows Guest

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 ...

Ubuntu: The Switch (5 of 6) - Application Migration

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Previous Entries See the end of this post. 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 ...

How To Run PHP 4 and 5 in Ubuntu Without CGI

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 ...