Recently I was tasked with doing a bunch of documentation work here at the office, and I decided to put together a wiki for the job. After a few hours of editing directly into the browser I was about to blow my brains out. I quickly decided that if I’m going to be working [...]
In my attempts to performance tune the blog I’ve been looking at alternate web servers, primarily lighttpd. One of the initial issues that I had with an attempted migration was that of enabling php. With Apache php had been simple, but lighttpd needed a bit more.
To install a php fastcgi enabled web server using [...]
I just recently started using DropBox on Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” and leftyfb in IRC pointed out to me a nifty little trick with .htaccess files. If you’ve been using DropBox I’m sure you’ve seen or made use of the Public folder and sharing files. You may have also noticed that the DropBox Public links [...]
I got an email this morning from a thankful reader who had taken the time to generate a true FF/IE7 search plugin for Ubuntu Tutorials. After chatting about it a bit we took it one step further and added code to automagically add the search plugin to the browser of those that are interested.
If you [...]
Today I finally replaced my out-of-date streaming music server with something a little more recent. I had long been using gnump3d, and even wrote up a tutorial on it some time ago. Development on the project has pretty much died off completely and even though it has worked great for nearly three years I felt [...]
I do apologize again for some of the recent downtime on the blog. I’ve been researching tuning options all evening to try to bring the memory consumption lower. I did also add an additionl 256M RAM to the machine hoping that will help. Thanks for the patience during this bumpy ride.
I wanted [...]
update: This article has been updated for Ubuntu 8.04. See the latest instructions here.
It was recently pointed out to me on one of our local mailing lists that my previous tutorial on installing Adobe’s Acrobat reader for Firefox no longer worked. It seems that those packages have been pulled from the repository since that [...]
So I’ve decided that Konqueror is just not the web browser that some people want it to be. Call me spoiled / ruined for having spent so much time on Firefox, but I just can’t use it to be as productive as I want to be so I’ve installed Firefox on my Kubuntu installation. [...]
This post is not so much a tutorial as my own notes on restricting access with .htaccess files and apache. As has been the case with many of my previous tutorials, the basis is writing the steps down so I can refer to them later. Turns out making notes public on a blog [...]
This post is in response Aaron Toponce’s “Ultimate Firefox Extension List“. I thought I would take a few minutes and make a list of the extensions I use and find that I’d prefer not to live without. On the one hand I do think they make me more productive. On the other hand I feel [...]
