I thought of writing some witty script that would tell you I’ve become a year older, but I thought I’d just do it in english. Yes, today I turn twenty-eight years old.. wow. Also, and even better news, is today is also my two-year wedding anniversary. Best two years ever and even better to come.… Read More »
UPDATE: Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” This tutorial has Jeff Schroeder and Aaron Toponce to thank for their tips and prodding to try VirtualBox again. Thanks guys… now if one of us can just document simpler proper network bridging we’d be in good shape! I’ve previously written on how to install VMware Server… Read More »
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Release Candidate for version 7.10 of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Gobuntu, and Xubuntu codenamed “Gutsy Gibbon”. The Release Candidate includes installable live Desktop CDs, server images, alternate text-mode installation CDs, and an upgrade wizard for users of the current stable release. We consider this release candidate to be… Read More »
Previously I outlined how to install Ubuntu over the network using a netboot install CD or USB image. This tutorial takes it a step further and allows you to boot your machine from the network environment and select from a list of what you would like to install. This comes to the same end result… Read More »
After posting my previous tutorial on Manually Installing Firefox I noticed that the Katapult Launcher in Kubuntu was not aware of my newly installed application. Apparently you need to refresh Katapult before it’ll see the changes. For those of you that use Katapult this little trick might be handy.. and for those of you that… Read More »
So I’ve spent the last few evenings building a local Ubuntu repository mirror for localized network installations. While installing a machine today I noticed a new option within the partitioner. Encryption! The installer now lets you select partitions to be installed as encrypted, and also a guided partitioner that will create encrypted LVM partitions. I’ve… Read More »
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. For… Read More »
I spent some time this week figuring out the requirements for installing Ubuntu locally over the network. Ubuntu has netboot installers which are more than happy to go find a public repository mirror for you, but how about installing over the LAN using the contents of the CD as the repository? Well, if you’re interested… Read More »
Well I am a bit pleasantly surprised to say that I’m very much enjoying my time in KDE right now. There are some bugs, as is to be expected, but for the most part I’m continuing to be very productive and I’m learning a lot. I think some of you were right to mention that… Read More »
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 is a… Read More »