I was tearing away this morning configuring something in the shell. My wife peaks over my shoulder and says “How do you do that?!” I have a nice laugh and there was born an idea for my next post. This post outlines some basic shell shortcuts. note: these use the default shell bindings, based on… Read More »
There was some discussion the other day in #ubuntu-us about some people having issues using the default repository for fetching updates. I mentioned that they might want to use a local repository mirror instead. I’m lucky enough to have an ISP that mirrors Ubuntu repositories (Xmission ftw!!). You may not be so lucky, but there… Read More »
If you’ve followed this blog over the last six months you probably know I’ve been developing a little piece of software that facilitates in installing (and MUCH more!) the Folding @ Home distributed computing project on Linux machines. I’ve had a great lot of fun writing and developing this software, and based on the number… Read More »
While the /tmp folder is not a place to store files long-term, occasionally you want to keep things a little longer than the next time you reboot, which is the default on Ubuntu systems. I know a time or two I’ve downloaded something to /tmp during testing, rebooted after making changes and then lost the… Read More »
Someone asked me today how Ubuntu was working on the EeePC. It’s working great! I thought I might share some of my experiences so far, after a bit more use. If you are interested in installing Ubuntu 7.10 on your EeePC head on over to the Ubuntu Community Wiki and find out how! Travel This… Read More »
UPDATE: As it has been pointed out in the comments, all of the core repositories are enabled in Ubuntu 7.10. This post will only apply to users still on 6.10 and earlier. It has been quite some time since I’ve outlined adding and customizing your repository setup on Ubuntu. I figure it’s time for a… Read More »
I just realized that I no longer have the blog license published in the footer like I did in my previous theme. For that reason I have created a page outlining the license restrictions for use with these tutorials. Basically, the contents of this blog are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution… Read More »
Last nite I sat down and configured AWStats on my Ubuntu 7.10 server. I had previously been using statcounter, a free stat service, but I had noticed that it was one of the causes of slowdown on my page loads. Having to access an external site and javascript wasn’t helping. I also run the server… Read More »
In a continued effort to keep this site online all the time I’m looking for some help in tuning apache2. Earlier today we ran into some serious performance issues based on what I had it tuned to, which caused 3/4 of the total swap to be used. NOT a good idea. In the meantime I… Read More »
I was parsing through some of the logs on my new server tonite and I saw some unsuccessful ssh connection on ipv6. I thought I would mention quickly how you can disable listening on ipv6. ListenAddress The /etc/ssh/sshd_config file configures how your ssh daemon should run. By default it is likely listening on 0.0.0.0 (all… Read More »