November, 2007

Hello!

Well I was going to send this in an email but others may be curious as well so I decided to post it here on the forums.  I'm a bit of an audiophile which comes from my previous job in the Navy as a submarine sonar technician.  I basically spent about twelve hours a day, nine months out of the year doing audio analysis.  The backend of the sonar mainframe which had a crazy amount of DSPs and processors handling thousands of channels in real time ran on linux (a topic for another time).  After doing the job for so long I'm kind of picky about sound quality hence my collect

Episode Corrections!!
**correction from episode. DO NOT put a space between <? and php to tell the browser we're in php.** The correct way is
<?php
phpinfor();
?>
Also, try netstat -a | grep mysql instead of apache2... for some reason apache2 does not show up in netstat. I have to investigate why.
Well, I did my best. I didn't have a lot of time this week. Things are pretty crazy this time of year. I kinda liked the blues song at the end of the show though. Maybe I'm delusional :P

**special note: The torrent for the Virtual machine is up. Visit linuxbasement.com for details!**

Show notes:
Big thanks to everyone who signed up on the site. A special thanks to Tristan for helping out in the forums. Lots of good people introduced themselves this week.
Suggestion to be louder, and some say its perfect.

Tutorial is up. More to come.

If you would like to sign up but are visually impared, send an email to chad@chadwollenberg.com and I will manually create your account for you.

**special note: The torrent for the Virtual machine is up. Visit linuxbasement.com for details!**

Show notes:
Big thanks to everyone who signed up on the site. A special thanks to Tristan for helping out in the forums. Lots of good people introduced themselves this week.
Suggestion to be louder, and some say its perfect.

Tutorial is up. More to come.

If you would like to sign up but are visually impared, send an email to chad@chadwollenberg.com and I will manually create your account for you.

Hi Chad, I'm from Wales in the UK. Linux user for about 7-8 years, first dual booting then about 4 years just linux. Using Slack then Redhat then Fedora, but I've tried a lot of other distros, Gentoo, Yoper, Foresight, Debian etc but Fedora keeps drawing me back. Started listening after Chess mentioned your podcast on his.
 Cool podcast, nice sound quality and the topics have all been very interesting :)
Paul-S
 

www.linuxfromscratch.org

Hello, I am a developer from Texas and I have been using Linux since I bought my first copy of TurboLinux at a tradeshow in 1999. I have since drifted from distrobution to distrobution until recently I have pretty much settled on Ubuntu on both the desktop and server. Over the years I have tried quite distrobutions and am currently actively using Red Hat Enterprise, Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora. I currently have quite a hodgepodge of computers in my house and I especially love salvaging old hardware and breathing new life into it with Linux.
 

I am catching up on the first two shows right now and so far I am enjoying it. However the recording is extremely quiet. I am listening to the mp3 feed and I can barely hear it over normal room noise even when I have my laptop speakers and my audio software volume maxed out. Other podcasts I listen to sound plenty loud in the same situation for me.

Hi Chad.  My name is Kris and I live in the State of Michigan.  I'm an Automotive Technition by trade at the moment, but love to tinker with all of my PC's.  I have been using Linux now for nearly 4 years and it is my primary OS.  One of my boxes does duel boot Windows XP, but I only use Windows for Photoshop and for editing videos from my wifes camcorder.  I have a total of 5 computers now that have Linux installed on them.  Two desktop boxes, two laptops (12" Apple ibook G4 and an IBM T23) and my latest toy, Sony's Playstation 3.  My primary Linux d

You should now see a subcribe option at the top of forum threads. If you click on it, you will be emailed any time there is a new post in that thread. Compliments of the Drupal Module subcriptions.

Drupal Customization - Themes, Modules, and Blocks

Now that we have the base of our site set up, it is time to make the site look pretty, and add some functionality. In this tutorial, we set up our default folders for themes and modules, and I'll show you how to enable them, and modify their settings.

Nice and laid back show, awesome touch with the homegrown music too.

Dan from Wisconsin here[the land of deer here too]. I just started listening to podcasts, thanks for mentioning Leo LaPorte(sp?), I used to dig watching him on tech tv. Computers are mostly a hobby for me since the early 90's, PB pentium60->HP pII 450->small shop built me a 850 T-bird for gaming, then I started building my own p4 1.8 @ 2.53, and currently run a p4 2.6c @ 3.12 for the last 5 yrs.

Hi, I'm Shawn. I've enjoyed the first couple episodes of your show and really like the format. I'm fairly new to Linux (6 months on Kubuntu) so I really enjoy shows like yours that point me down so many different avenues to explore. Keep them coming!

As a designer I also LOVE Photoshop CS2 and Dreamweaver and like you, want desperately to see it ported to Linux. I just don't have time to learn GIMP as much as I would like to.
 
Anyway, Have you tried putting it on Linux with WINE? That is my next project. Just curious if you have had luck with it?

Hello there!
My name is Phil... Relatively new Linux user who has discovered that computing can be fun again. I guess after MS took over the world I had lost my passion for it. I am old(er) school from days gone by. My first comp was a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 and my FAVORITE was my Commodore Amiga 500.

Max Inflixion here from outside of Detroit, Michigan in the US.
Linux user for almost 3 years now, but like many others still am tethered to Windows on at least one machine.  I have to VPN thru work, and am working on doing so thru a virtual machine, but it really slows things down.
Currently run Ubuntu 7.10 on an AMD x2 4200 desktop, Ubuntu 7.10 on a P4 laptop, SLAX thru Qemu on my thumbdrive, and Nokia Tablet os2007 on my Nokia n800.
The other three machines in the house run Windows for the family.
 
 

Just to introduce myself, my name is Anthony. I found this podcast by way of Chess over at Linux Reality. I've been listening to LR since the very beginning. I do not work in the computer field; for me it's just a hobby. I do collect computers though. As family members upgrade, they all toss their old boxes to me. This gives me lots of toys to play with. I enjoy installing different distros, setting up servers, etc. I'm still in the transition from Windows to Linux as my primary OS.

Customizing your Drupal site.

With your fresh Drupal installation now on your localhost, you should begin to customize it.
Click on customize and configure, or Administer in the main menu.
You should see a big red error message saying, "One or more problems were deteted with your Drupal installation. Check the status report for more information."

My name is Chris Maggs and I'm from the Rhondda vallys in South Wales (UK)
I was a Fedora user but have since changed to Debian 4.0 as I wanted to have some .deb experience for a planned LPI next year. I have been using Linux for about 18 months but have meddled now and then since 2001.
I'm into Web Design, Comics and horror films. I also like tattoos (http://www.tuxtorials.com/tattoos)
 
Chris

Hello from cookingout.
I'm just a old county boy that gets excited when someone calls me a Nerd or a Geeek (notice the 3 e's).  I have been running Linux for 3-4 years now.  I presently run Ubuntu (dual booting with XP) on 3 desktops and 1 laptop.  My kids love Linux and I have converted many friends and even my dad to Linux over the past year.  I work in Industrial Electronics and therefore am forced to keep Windows on my work PCs mainly for the PLC software.  I do, however, secretly run Linux with VMWare on my shared work laptop.

Welcome to the Installing Drupal Tutorial. This tutorial assumes that you have already installed LAMP on your Linux Desktop in some way shape or form. I will be using Ubuntu Gutsy, and I've already removed the apache2-default/ folder from my /var/www folder on my LAMP install by moving to the directory:

cd /var/www

and doing:

sudo rm -r apache2-default/

In the real wold I'm Brandon.  I'm in the US Navy and I work with computers, primarily security.
I use a number of systems.  I have a windows system for games, a Mac for media, and my linux machine for just about everything else.  I use Ubuntu currently and though I want to like Fedora there are little things that keep turning me off of the distro.  I use virtual machines all the time for everything from servers to virtual labs.

So there it is, a long rambling episode. I hope the directions on Drupal were not too discombobulated. I'll get the tutorial up on it later this week. You can also check out the install tutorial over at lullabot.
http://www.lullabot.com/videocast/install-local-web-server-ubuntu
Lets say that I had a few beers by the time I did the song at the end. At least I've proven I don't mind making an ass of myself :)

I've posted once, but this is to make my introdution formal.
 
I've been using Linux for about 3 years. I currently have 3 linux boxes. One is a dual boot XP and Kubuntu, another is a dual boot XP and PCLinuxOS and the third is a seven year old  PCLinuxOS. That one ran Win98. I'm getting a LAMP server running on the Kubuntu box and really looling forward to getting into this with Chad.